tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:12:37 +0000http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/online_casino_news.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)Blogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-654584117338472868Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:09:00 +00002008-07-22T21:22:45.056+01:00Moneybookers, according to the about us page, is "...a leading international online payment system and electronic money issuer authorised under UK and EU law and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the UK." The location in a credible jurisdiction and regulation by an accountable governmental body is important as it gives vital protection to its customers under UK law; amongst http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/moneybookers-potential-breach-of-uk-law.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-1554587874632652902Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:26:00 +00002008-07-21T16:26:56.589+01:00A new set of Real Time Gaming casinos has recently appeared: Planet 7 Casino Goldstream Casino Pharaohs Gold Casino Lucky Palm Casino Catseye Casino Ringmaster Casino Royal Ace Casino Captain Jack Casino However, these casinos are not new at all; they are, in fact, the casinos of the Crystal Palace group, under the ownership of the now deceased Warren Cloud, renamed by the new owner. To add http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/virtual-casino-rebranding-of-warren_7405.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-5702711659907334500Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:44:00 +00002008-07-21T16:28:29.057+01:00Captain Jack Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/captain-jack-casino-avoid-this-latest.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-2036667537203782030Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:43:00 +00002008-07-21T16:29:13.205+01:00Royal Ace Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/royal-ace-casino-avoid-this-latest.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-674723027201461077Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:41:00 +00002008-07-21T16:29:57.878+01:00Ringmaster Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/ringmaster-casino-avoid-this-latest.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-2179365956728181613Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:40:00 +00002008-07-21T16:30:36.801+01:00Catseye Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/catseye-casino-avoid-this-latest-member.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-7757790727826587159Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:39:00 +00002008-07-21T16:31:13.988+01:00Lucky Palm Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/lucky-palm-casino-avoid-this-latest.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-874626219400199130Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:00 +00002008-07-21T16:31:53.733+01:00Pharaohs Gold Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/pharaohs-gold-casino-avoid-this-latest.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-3291448420538889607Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:35:00 +00002008-07-21T16:32:33.531+01:00Goldstream Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/goldstream-casino-avoid-this-latest.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-4060916939028768547Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:20:00 +00002008-07-21T16:33:11.769+01:00Planet 7 Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group - see my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/07/plantet-7-casino-avoid-this-latest.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-4809907586745112134Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:45:00 +00002008-07-14T20:22:57.665+01:00Betfair Casino, the Malta-based casino branch of the UK Betfair sports exchange, has recently been subject to player complaints of bonus funds confiscation. For the first case, see the Betfair bonus funds confiscation discussion at Casinomeister: After receiving the sign up bonus, fulfilling the terms and requesting payment, the player in question received the following communication from http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/06/betfair-bonus-funds-confiscation.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-3772245517748585950Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:30:00 +00002008-06-02T18:30:02.099+01:00The Malta Lotteries And Gaming Authority is the governmental body whose job it is to oversee and regulate all gambling operations located in Malta. The 2004 Remote Gaming Legislation lays out the requirements, and it includes the following heartening clause: The Authority may order the suspension or cancellation of a license if...the license holder has failed to meet commitments to players http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/06/malta-lotteries-and-gaming-authority.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-2624324017511060039Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:42:00 +00002008-06-25T23:43:59.373+01:00The Gambling Industry Association was started in mid 2007 with the aim of gathering together all participants in the online gambling industry - online casinos, casino affiliates and players - in one place for convenient networking and problem-solving. Their mission statement reads: We aim to bring together the gambling industry stakeholders, one and all, and to create an environment of http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/04/gambling-industry-association_18.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-77448923183762123Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:42:00 +00002008-03-04T19:42:11.509ZPromotion text Screenshot of terms Interwetten response Analysis of response Maltese law On the 3rd and 10th of February 2008, Interwetten sportsbook and casino ran what looked like a very good promotion on their non-download casino which uses software supplied by Chartwell. The relevant text went thuswise: Sunday Cashback Madness How it works: For every EUR 100,00 you lose at the http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/03/interwetten-confiscation-of-more-than.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-8948186346068812050Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:20:00 +00002008-02-07T22:46:33.790ZLucky Ace Casino, a white label casino of the 888.com brand and regulated by the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority, has generated an avalanche of player complaints on the back of large scale confiscation of winnings. Lucky Ace Casino was launched in January 2008 - see news items Another white label for 888.com and Kamay and 888 launch online poker and casino sites, from the Casinomeister news http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/02/lucky-ace-casino-winnings-stolen-in.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-7008901922735045433Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:23:00 +00002008-02-24T23:42:19.788ZFor anyone unfamiliar with this matter: Absolute Poker, servers located, like many rogue operations, within the Mohawk Kahnawake territory, was caught in a cheating scandal in which hackers were able to read opponents' hole cards and gain an insurmountable advantage. The matter was commented on at length in the Two Plus Two poker forums. The Kahnawake Gambling Commission, who were looking to http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2008/01/kahanwake-gambling-commission-whitewash.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-5823493253123048391Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:12:00 +00002008-01-17T14:49:37.089ZI came across HippoJo Casino, a relatively new Real Time Gaming operation, from Brian Cullingworth's Infopowa news report Hippo Jo Launches With RTG software thread, in the forum at Casinomeister: Also, see the Casinomeister HippoJo launch news entry in the April news section. These reports contain some pretty upbeat language: Experienced Aussie online gambling know-how is behind this http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2007/07/hippojo-casino-payments-have-stopped.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-3334589431450994295Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:02:00 +00002007-06-22T18:37:38.399+01:00Microgaming All Aces video poker has been added to HPG. Games with house edges under 0.1% are few an far between, but with perfect play this is one of them. Familiarise yourself with the play strategy, because although All Aces is a Jacks Or Better variant, there are sufficient differences between the two paytables to make the application of Jacks Or Better strategy very much sub-optimal. Withhttp://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2007/06/microgaming-all-aces-video-poker-added.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-3507160789655483232Tue, 29 May 2007 11:31:00 +00002007-05-29T12:51:29.090+01:00In late May 2007, in the Prime Casino remove my money from Neteller thread at Casinomeister, a player reported having a winnings' withdrawal, originally paid into his Neteller account two weeks previously from new Microgaming operation Prime Casino, reversed out of his Neteller account, by Neteller, and returned to the casino. 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On March 3rd 2005, a post from Lou Fabiano, owner of Casino Affiliate Programs, essentially a trade association of online casino affiliates, appeared on the forum offering up for sale a database of 100,000 players, provided by a casino: Guys I am http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2007/03/casino-affiliate-programme-owner-lou.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-9041949266187308247Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:05:00 +00002008-06-29T21:59:54.447+01:00***UPDATE JUNE 2008: Issues of potentially bogus bonus funds confiscation on the part of Betfair have recently come to my attention, revolving around the apparent use of auto-click robot play. The claims are currently unsubstantiated by Betfair, as are additional claims by Betfair about apparent "bonus abuse". For further details, see my Betfair bonus confiscation issue article. I no longer http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2007/02/betfair-zero-lounge.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-116976973501313592Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:01:00 +00002007-02-02T20:24:24.384ZI spent the latter part of yesterday, 24th January 2007, at the International Casino Exhibition at Earl's Court in London, the annual and premier occasion in the UK for gambling operations of all shapes and sizes to advertise their wares. I met with one of the senior managers from Microgaming, for the purpose of discussing the possibility of reopening an apparently closed case of player http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2007/01/ice-2007-brief-visit.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-116846073714878520Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:12:00 +00002007-01-10T21:48:09.563ZReal Time Gaming have at the eleventh hour cancelled their planned attendance at the International Casino Exhibition taking place from 23rd to 25th January this year at the Earls Court Exhibition centre in London, UK. There has been no word from RTG, and an ATE spokesman had the following to say in response to an inquiry: Clarion ATE can confirm that RTG will not be exhibiting at ICEi 2007 buthttp://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2007/01/real-time-gaming-rtg-cancel-their.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12902097.post-116031807417258842Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:23:00 +00002006-10-09T14:48:46.856+01:00Crystal Palace Casino, under the management of Warren Cloud (more recently known as "Oliver Curran" and with the previous pseudonyms "Donald Fortune" and "Richard Brooks"), has been the source of many, many complaints over the few years it's been in business, while Cloud / Curran / Fortune / Brooks himself has an extremely chequered history in the online gambling business, starting with the http://www.hundredpercentgambling.com/2006/10/crystal-palace-casino-warren-cloud.htmnoreply@blogger.com (100% Gambler)