Miscellaneous Online Casino Gambling News
Published: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
MISCELLANEOUS ONLINE CASINO GAMBLING NEWS
Net Entertainment's Casino Domain, a long established and successful online casino with a sound reputation, closed on December 13 as a consequence of the UIGEA.
The Sunny Group appears to be adopting a dual platform approach in the wake of the UIGEA, with Casino Fortune and Mapau casinos switching to what is believed to be Cytech software, leaving Goldengate on the Playtech platform. Players have been receiving advisories from the group which appear to confirm that this approach is based on US/non-US player location. The new platform has both Flash and download games. Sunny has been offering certain players up to $500 in matchplay bonusing to convert.
Common e-wallet and compatibility with over 340 types of handset are major selling points in the latest 888.com venture into the mobile gambling sector using wap.888.com. The Gibraltar based online gambling operator 888.com claims it is setting the standard, and raising the bar, on what experts are calling 'the next frontier of online gaming' - casino games available on mobile phones. The company announced its entry to the mobile gaming sector recently, presumably using software developed by in-house company Random-Logic.
Everest casino has upgraded its blackjack software. The casino is owned by Ultra Internet Media and powered by Grand Virtual-GigaMedia.
RTG-powered Cirrus Casino is reportedly under new management headed by Allison Porter.
Sportsbook.com has undergone a major revamp following its seperation from Sportingbet, and now hosts sportbetting, horseracing, casino and poker on a very impressive site. We think the software must have been *inherited* - it looks like that from the failed World Gaming.
Playboy Casino is advising that it will be opening soon.
The Boss Media powered Maharajah Club.com has launched a new sportsbook partnered by Interactive Gaming Holdings (IGH) in a presumably white label agreement targeted on the SE Asian market and specialising in cricket.
Tain and Tribeca Tables, encompassing a wide range of well established online gambling companies on their respective client lists, merged but this was followed shortly by the purchase of selected Tribeca assets and properties by Playtech in a $75 million deal.
The new owners of the troubled Black Widow/ Grand Bay/ Sterling House group of Playtech powered online casinos is the Norwegian publicly listed company Playsafe.no (Playsafe Holding AS). The company holds a Curacao licence. This was followed by some interesting moves that saw the casinos banning US players but referring them to RTG-powered Breakaway and Sci Fi Casinos operated by Inversiones Yokoama S.A., Costa Rica, a 100 percent subsidiary of SFC-Casino Billing, Roseville Holdings Ltd, Nicosia, Cyprus..
Party Gaming bought Gamebookers (see Online-Casinos.com & InfoPowa report) and is reportedly re-branding it as "PartyBet" although checks this date still show the old branding with a PG overlay.
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia, working with Playsphere plans to open a state government site at alc.ca that will offer lottery tickers, sports betting and games of chance.
Mansion group is using Cyberarts software.
32Red is offering live dealer games.
King Soloman's Bingo has joined the fifteen other brands using Globalcom software.
With the shutdown and delisting of Fairground Holdings, its $68.8 million purchase Spin Palace group has been sold back to the original owners, Seahouses Holdings Ltd in a deal worth GBP 11 090 000 (see InfoPowa reports)
Cryptologic is moving its head office to Ireland in January. CEO Lewis Rose is reportedly unable to relocate for family reasons.
In September English Harbour added a $800 000 bonus featured slot titled Fat Cat from in-house developer Vegas Technology.
Gala Coral has obtained an Alderney licence for poker/casino/sportsbook/bingo with a view to future online gambling operations, taking the number of licensees on Alderney's books to over 20.
Golden Palace advised US players that it had launched Golden Casino on the Odds On software platform, together with a supporting affiliate program called Best Casino Partner (registered October 19)
MGS-powered and recently launched Grand Monaco Casino was sold by Grand Gaming Group in Gibraltar (possibly as a consequence of the UIGEA) to the Playshare group, where it joins PokerShare and CasinoShare.
Bodog acquired the US facing operations of Betcorp (see Online-Casinos.com & InfoPowa reports) BetWWTS, Thunderbolt Casino, Oasis Casino and BetHoldEm Poker were involved in the agreement.
Reports from players suggest that the Sunny Group may be using a dual platform strategy involving the old Cytech software in addition to its Playtech software. Casino Reality powers the group's live dealer offering. The new software apparently downloads from www.glasseye.net.
BetByInternet changed from World Gaming (now under administration) software to BLR Caribbean Technologies out of Costa Rica, a Java games and software developer. Some time ago the company hinted that it would launch PokerByInternet, which seems to be operational off the home site.
BetRoyal is back with RTG after departing Playtech - the speculation is that this was due to the UIGEA.
Playtech-powered Racetrack Casino has closed, and the url now re-directs to sister site City Club Casino.
Boss Media-powered Sports Cafe Casino and poker room closed abruptly during the latter part of October.
Sports Interaction switched from Playtech to Microgaming in October.
Main Street group switched from Playtech back to RTG late October.
It appears that the formerly Playtech-powered Magic 21.com is closed - the domain is up for sale at $3 000.
