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USA Online Casinos - Another Blunder by the Sky Bingo

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:43:37 +0000

Nowadays, responsibility is what matters the most in the online casino gambling industry. It is also part of the UK’s strategy that is used in solving the industry problems. All of the gambling companies, which want to be respected on the market, have to implement standards of socially responsible behavior. Nevertheless, such agencies like the Gambling Commission and the Advertising Standards Authority still have a lot of work to do, if they want to promote the “responsible gaming” in the gambling market.

The task is not as easy as many people think, because gambling institutions continue to act as they want. Just take the latest blunder at Sky Bingo. The company has already made several violations in the past, but the latest one made the other online casinos shake their heads in dismay over Sky Bingo. This time it was not about the promotion, but the way in which it was offered. The advertisement was as follows: “You could pay off your credit cards with our fib new promo.” The problem about this tagline is that it totally breaks the ASA’s codes on advertising for online gambling casinos. The advertisement clearly suggests the players to gamble at the online casino in order to get rid of their financial problems. And this is very wrong of the Sky Bingo, especially now, when the global industry face a huge crisis.

The advertising regulations are essential for the online casino gambling, because they control the actions of the gambling companies. These kinds of regulations discourage the casino operators from taking advantage of the problem and addicted players. Sky Bingo has definitely felt the results of the strong reaction to the promo. However, in this kind of situations, only resolute actions by the upper level management would help.

Norway’s Attempt on Blocking the Online Casinos

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:42:37 +0000

The regulations that have been recently proposed in Norway seem to be much the same as the US’ UIGEA. Therefore, the idea of changing the laws of Norway’s gambling market caused strong protests in Europe. For some time Norway belongs to the group of countries where the gambling issue is the main subject of public discussions. Along with several other countries, Norway does not want to accept the EU policies, which demand all EU-members to provide free trade of goods and services in European Union. Instead, Norway wants to sustain the country’s monopolies, or block the problem sectors of the gambling industry.

Meanwhile, the Remote Gaming Association (RGA), which loudly objected the all kinds of UIGEA-like regulations, comes off the headlines. As for the Norway, they want to block their market with a ban on financial and banking transactions. Everybody, who is concerned about the EU gambling industry, remains alerted after the Norwegian parliament passed the UIGEA-like regulations.

The RGA and European Surveillance Agency have immediately filed a formal complaint to the Nordic UIGEA. The situation on the gambling market in the European Union is unstable, because neither the European Court of Justice nor the agency has introduced a high ruling on the problem. Although Norway continues to introduce the UIGEA-like legislation, in order to sustain their gambling monopoly, their actions will surely be stopped by the European Union.

Do Not Cross With Ireland

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:41:13 +0000

Up to now none of the countries dominated the world’s casino poker gambling industry. But after the Ladbrokes Poker Million tournament, which took place last week in London, this situation has changed. Although the participants of the tournament came from many different countries, it was Ireland that unexpectedly overrun the final table. Lately, thanks to very good betting offers, this country has really improved its position on the gambling market. The liberalization of the Irish market has also largely contributed to this progress, and motivated many gifted Irish players to enter the game.

This year’s Poker Millions were organized and hosted by the Ladbrokes, who encouraged people from all over the world to enter their tournament, and win one million dollar award. As for the Ladbrokes, in the past they were only a very popular land-based casino, but now, by opening an online casino and entering the poker gambling industry, they have largely extended their offer. The past several years were very good for this company, because the number of serious poker players has visibly increased.

Currently they are one of the most respected companies on the market.
The top prize of the Poker Million tournament was won by Marty Smyth. However, in order to enjoy the award, he had to beat several serious Irish poker players, who fought to the very end. Other gamblers at the final table were as follows: Kevin Allen (UK), Ciaran O’Learyy, Eoghan O’Dea, Svein Petter Nielsen (Norway) and Liam Flood.