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A New Year for Online Casinos

The online casino business was pretty fast paced in 2005.  The business saw everything imaginable, from brand new software technology changing the market to the first online casinos announcing IPO’s.  As exciting as the year was, most people really only have one question on their mind, “what is next?”  Fans and investors alike are dying to see what the online casinos will cook up for 2006.  Imaginations run wild; it could be cutting edge gambling software or premier internet technology that completely transforms the public’s perception of playing at online casinos.  

Online casinos have done all they can in the past few years to beef up the excitement and interactive elements of their virtual casinos.  Casino software downloads have been refashioned over and over again to improve their fun factor.  Players, thanks to Flash and Java, are now able to get a taste of the casino games without downloading and installing programs onto their computers. The Best Monopoly Casino Slots At AmazonSlots  There are a number of players who can now play blackjack or poker on the go as mobile casino games appeared on hand held computers.  Mobile technology has given players the freedom to bring their favorite casinos with them wherever they may go.  Playtech has recently launched new slot machines and online casino games to their gambling software.

Hopefully, online casino fans can expect the same amount of excitement and revolution in 2006.  One thing is for sure, the online casino market is a tough place.  Casinos are always competing for patrons, this is why online entertainment continues to increase it presence in society at extremely affordable prices.  Stiff competition puts pressure on the latest technology to provide newer and better features to casino software; then we, the consumer, gets to bask in all of the benefits that surface from the technological “arms race”.  We are keeping our fingers crossed that all of those benefits will persist in 2006.  

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Slot Machine Police

Florida Recruits Slot Machine Police

Florida – Broward County is preparing to introduce thousands slot machines to the region.  And, like rats to cheese, the slot machines are expected to lure local organized crime mobs, cheats, and swindlers.  They will all come to Broward County’s four pari-mutuels for the same purpose, to bank millions of dollars by exploiting any security flaw that may expose the county’s new slot machines to vulnerability.  

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement now has the responsibility of ensuring that the slot machines bare no such vulnerabilities of which to speak.  

For the first time in the agency’s history, the FDLE has opened an office for the express purpose of policing slot machines.  Slot machine revenue from Broward County’s four pari-mutuels will generate millions of dollars for the state and it is up to the FDLE to protect that income.  

In preparation for Gulfstream Park’s presentation of 500 slot machines this October, the FDLE’s Gaming Enforcement Team will set up shop at the Hallandale Beach pari-mutuel.  The Gaming Enforcement Team will spread all 39 of their employees throughout the areas four pari-mutuels.  Every pari-mutuel employee associated with the new slot machines, from owners to janitors, will be subject to a comprehensive background check courtesy of the new FDLE team.  

Special agent in charge of FDLE’s Miami Regional Operations Center, Amos Rojas Jr., admits the new responsibilities will require some on-the-job experience, “Our challenge is that it is such a new initiative for us…Until we are actually on top of the horse and riding it, we don’t know how it’s going to ride.”  

Tom Giardina warns, “Any time there’s fresh blood, people are going to be drawn to it.”  But, as far as he can tell, the state agency appears ready for all of the headaches inherent to racetrack casinos (often referred to as “racinos”).  Giardina is the New Jersey slots specialist that provided the FDLE with a detailed slot machine seminar.  

FDLE agents are convinced that, more so than their on-site presence, in order to protect the slot machines from criminal elements, background checks will be invaluable.   Michael Mann, the FDLE’s Assistant Special Agent in Charge, say, “We’ve learned from other jurisdictions that organized crime and people who shouldn’t be in the gaming industry attempt to be a part of it.” He continued, “We want to make sure that everyone has a ‘squeaky-clean’ record.” Mann oversees the entire Gaming Enforcement Team. Background checks will include financial, criminal, and previous employment checks.  The state Department of Business and Professional Regulation will then use this information to determine the approval of licenses.  

Florida has quite an investment in Broward’s new slot machines and it is up to the FDLE to protect that investment.  Roja’s says that Florida collects half of every dollar earned from the slot machines as tax.  Annual projections are huge as soon as all four racinos are operating slot machines.  With machines at Gulfstream, Pompano Park Harness Track, Mardi Gras Racetrack & Gaming Center in Hallandale Beach, and Dania Jai-Alai, Florida schools will receive an estimated $209 million dollars in the 2007-2008 fiscal year.  

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Everest Shoots...GOOAALL!

Everest Casino is just one of Ultra Internet Casino’s world class gambling sites.  Now Everest Casino presents a new online slots game dedicated to the world’s game, soccer or, more widely know as, football.  

The name of the new slots game is GOOAALL!  An appropriate title for any tribute to soccer.  Everything a soccer fan could want is to be found in this new slots experience.  Set in a stadium backdrop, players will experience the electricity of the sport’s notorious fanatics, stars performing eye popping bicycle kicks, and the tense drama of classic shootouts.  

Let’s not forget, GOOAALL! is a slots game, so it also has almost all the features a slot machine fanatic could desire.  Online casino guests can look forward to:

-         An instant jackpot of $112,500. -         Gambling Games that allow players to double and quadruple up their winnings. -         Prize Multipliers like Wild Symbols and Free Spins. -         Bonus Games are featured as shootouts where players could win as many as 135,000 coins.

Everest Casino Property Manager, Eduardo Santos, explains reasons why his casino is so excited to feature the new slots game, “Football is arguably the most popular sport in the world. Free Spins At Amazon Slots For MonopolyCasino So it made sense for us to choose a sports theme that would have universal appeal.  Plus with the World Cup coming up in June, we knew football fever would be skyrocketing in countries all over Europe, Asia, and the Americas.”

Since their establishment in 1997, UIM has made an effort to be as universal as their slot games selection.  Their casinos sites are translated into Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, English, and French.  UIM entertains over 200 countries around the world.  

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Slot News

Slots Proponents Commit to Rewrites

Three groups are being made to rewrite their slot machine legalization proposals.  This past Wednesday the attorney general informed them that the language used in their original proposal was not par with state requirements.   In order to get the proposals on the ballot, the wording would have to be redrafted.  

Attorney General Jim Petro wrote his grievances with the proposal in a letters addressed to the groups.  Problems include the lack of mention in proposal summaries of slots parlors possibly operating 24 hours a day, or the inability of local government to control their operations.  

The slot machine legalization groups are facing an August 9th deadline of collecting 322,899 signatures of registered voters required to get the proposal on the November 7th ballot.  Petro is allowing the groups to submit a new draft of their summaries.

Before groups can seek out any signatures for their petitions, they must receive Petro’s approval of “fair and truthful” ballot language.  Currently none of the summaries clearly inform petitions signers that local government would have absolutely no power over the hours of operations of tracks and slot machine parlors.  

Petro elaborated in his letter, “This provision overrides the home rule and other regulatory authority of local officials to control the operations of businesses located within their jurisdictions.”

One of the proposals is dedicated to allowing Ohio’s seven racetracks to offer slot machines.  The other two proposals are aimed at establishing a free-standing slots parlor in Cincinnati and two more in Cleveland.  Portions of the wagered money at the tracks and parlors would be invested into college scholarships.  

Learn and Earn are one of the groups lobbying for slots parlors in Cincinnati and Cleveland as well as slot machines in the state’s racetracks.   Spokesperson David Hopcraft says of the rewrites, “I think it can be addressed in a timely fashion.”

Both the Learn and Earn proposal and the proposal put forth by the Greater Cleveland Partnership would give voters in slot machine communities the right to vote on the acceptance of additional casino games after four years.  

There are more limitations on the submission from Penn National Gaming.  Slot machines would be limited to racetracks and they do not currently have a provision that reserves the right to expand gambling.  Penn National Gaming own Agrosy casino and Raceway Park.  Penn National is based in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.  

Eric Schippers, the Penn National spokesperson, speaks optimistically of the rewrites as well, "We certainly plan to refile and will move very swiftly."

Outside of the rewriting hassle, it could be an up hill battle for the gambling proponents.  Gambling expansion proposals for Ohio were decisively defeated twice in the 1990s.  Gambling expansion opponents include current governor Bob Taft, Senator Mike DeWine, Senator George Voinovich, as well as the three leading gubernatorial candidates, including Petro himself.

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