Cool Online Casinos and Poker Rooms
Published: Friday, October 07, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
COOL ONLINE CASINOS
Online-Casinos.com has previously reported on the choice of Playtech as software
provider for the online casino website owned by the English football club West
Ham United, and following the recent launch we visited the very professional
looking and easy to use casino site this week.
Branded Hammers Casino (the club's nickname according to the site blurb)the
new venture is not the first online casino launch by a football club - Manchester
United claim that one. Nevertheless, this is a quality operation with over 70
games powered by one of the top industry names, Playtech and including progressives
with a current potential win value of GBP 500 000.
As one might expect, the Antigua-licensed site offers fully contactable round-the-clock
Support and a VIP loyalty program. The financial side is handled out of St.
Kitts by IFUND INTERPAY and offers facilities from Click2Pay, ODF, Neteller
standard and Instacash, Moneybookers, Switch, Delta and others, using GBP, Dollars
and Euro currencies. For the bonus hungry there are a range of offers with various
conditions, including a welcome bonus of up to GBP 200.
Taking a spin...
UK-Roulette.co.uk is a pretty cool site targeted on the growing British online
casino gambling market and sporting an impressive range of around 80 of RTG's
latest games. Neteller, Moneybookers, Delta/ Switch, Eco and Click 2 Pay are
all listed as financial options and the operation banks through the reputable
NatWest organisation in London, with financial matters channeled through AquaPay.
The licensing is Kahnawake and among the several bonuses on offer is a 100 percent
signup maxed at GBP 100 and conditional on a x 20 D+B W/T.
Playtech poker release
Latest member of Playtech's iPoker network is Titan Poker, an attractive site
that can be played in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. There are
a number of bonuses on offer including a generous "send-a-friend"
at $75 and a 100 percent signup maxed at $500. The site is well presented and
has plenty of content such as weekly $1000 freerolls, and a series of jackpots
that go as high as $25 000 in sit and go games as well as tournaments. Three
games are on offer - Texas Hold Em, Omaha and Omaha Hi Lo, Full 24/7 Support
is available and there is a wide choice of financial options. The iPoints loyalty
program is promised soon.
Everything's bigger in Texas
New Real Time Gaming powered arrival is Best Texas Casino, which carries the
popular RTG gambling software versions of 18 Video pokers, 16 card and table
games and 23 online slots that include 9 progressives. The site is rather plain
but workmanlike and offers fully contactable 24/7 Support and a good range of
financial options through BIMS Worldwide Ltd. Look out for the large list of
excluded countries (these guys are taking no chances) and before taking bonuses
like the $750 sign-up make sure you read the complex T&Cs very carefully.
It's been awhile....
Since we saw a new Grand Virtual operation, so Golden Lounge Casino will be
welcome for the devotees of this aging gambling software suite. The site is
competent if unspectacular, but all the facilities of round-the-clock Support,
18 language options and an average range of financial instruments are available.
Grand Virtual has been around for years and is a Canadian company that was acquired
by the Taiwan Giga Media group over a year ago.
Going Dutch...
Is the well established and fast growing Vegas Partners Lounge which now boasts
a stable of almost ten gambling operations, The group has launched a Dutch language
site to cater for the many online gamblers in that country, and it can be found
at NL.Sun
Vegas.com, powered by Microgaming.
One for the live gambling fans:
Casino
Web Cam has added another "live-over-the-Internet" gambling site
owned by a group of Toronto business people to it's stable of over 16 licensees
with the arrival of Live Palace.com, which streams live gambling with real croupiers
from studios in Costa Rica. The website is attractive and easy to use, and offers
live Support together with a good range of financing choices through Secure
Processing Ltd in the United Kingdom. Watch out for that 48 hour suspended withdrawal
clause in the T&Cs.
Recently arrived poker sites...
Include Fair Poker (iPoker network from Playtech) VC Poker (Tribeca Tables software)
Green Tie Poker (Excapsa network) Purple Lounge (Microgaming and Prima network)
Two no-download operations that are going after the MacIntosh user market are
MacPoker Player and B2B Poker, both using Java technology on proprietary suites.
Expekt has dropped the Prima Poker network in favour of Tain software.
And in mobile-land there's plenty of activity, too:
Look out for Aspinalls Mobile Online - a Phantom Fiber powered mobile arm of
the famous land and online casino company, and a new mobile casino service from
Sportech-owned BetDirect using a combo of Boss Media and Mfuse technology. Sportech
operates Littlewoods and has extensive iTV interests. Finally, the UK-based
Cellectivity Ltd techno team are working with Party Gaming's Starluck
Casino on a mobile offering.
