While most online casinos including the Microgaming online casinos have been forced to close their doors for American players this week, RomeCasino.com has confirmed that it will continue to serve US players and is increasing its support staff to accommodate a flood of new players that have been blocked by their former favorite casinos. Rome Partners, the popular online casino’s affiliate program, has been extremely busy with inquiries from webmasters that are scrambling to reroute their US traffic now blocked by their previous partners.

“Our affiliates want to convert their US traffic and they want to be paid for the life of their client,” comments Josh Cartu of Rome Casino. “And that is what we give them.” In celebration of the decisions made by company executives, RomeCasino.com has launched a new $1000 New Player Bonus. The popular 200% deposit bonuses will remain as one of the most successful promotions the company has to offer. A number of the casinos players are taking advantage of RomeCasino’s new “Gladiator Referral” program that gives a player 15% of their friends’ deposits.”

The online casino industry was recently shocked by the news that Microgaming casino software decided to block US customers from gambling on all of their partner websites. Many feel that the move was made as a response to the recent announcement that the Bush administration will finalize the UIEGA regulations on the law passed in 2006. This may make it tougher for players to deposit and will force banks to reject transactions that they feel are online gambling related.

It has been claimed by some that the Kentucky courts directly targeted the company and their associated white labels, forcing company officials to block off Americans. It is unknown how long this will last but experts predict more companies to exit the market and focus more on European traffic. Many companies will remain in the US market and choose to adapt to the ever changing landscape.

It was recently announced by Jadestone Networks, the Nordic based owner and operator of the multiplayer skill games network GamArena that Nordic game operator Paf will be one of a limited number of launch partners for DiceArena, its new multiplayer games offering coming to market this quarter. The game DiceArena has been labeled as both a serious competitor and an attractive complement to online poker. The game consists of a range of multiplayer dice games, including brand new games and old favorites, aimed at a broad audience of existing, lapsed and latent online gamblers. DiceArena is built on a next generation technical platform and will hit the market with exciting games and inviting community features available for its players.

Paf will launch on the DiceArena network this quarter as one of the first wave partners. Primarily targeting Scandinavia, and later also its additional markets, it will boost the momentum of the launch with a multi-channel marketing campaign that includes both TV and online components.

Tomas Nilsson, Business Manager, and Poker, Games & Dice at Paf said: “We’ve enjoyed working with many Jadestone products over the years, but DiceArena is the most exciting concept we’ve seen yet. We believe that our customers will respond very well to the inviting design and the immediate appeal of the games. This is like poker for the rest of us - with a smile. The design matches our target groups and aligns very well with our brand.”

“Paf has been an important partner for Jadestone since we got started in this business,” said Robert Henrysson, CEO of Jadestone. “We’re very happy to see them as one of the first out of the gate with DiceArena and extremely pleased with the strong marketing muscle they bring to the launch.” The DiceArena suite of games has been in development at Jadestone for almost two years. With a number of high profile network partners lined up for DiceArena games, it’s one of the biggest new product introductions in Jadestone’s history.

A first-time gambler from Devon is celebrating her good luck this week after she won a sum that exceeds £46,000 at her local bingo venue. The winner who is a resident of Newton Abbot had no idea she would scoop the jackpot when invited to a Gala Bingo hall in Torquay by a friend.

After deciding to take up her friend’s offer, the newcomer was shocked to win £46,874.19 on the venue’s High 5 game. She described the win as “unbelievable”, particularly as it came during her first ever game of bingo. “You always hear about these big wins but you never think it’ll happen to you,” the 53-year-old added.

Assistant manager at Gala Bingo Torquay Wilma Stamp added: “We are constantly hearing about the credit crunch so it’s nice to have something like this happen in our community.” Last month, an unidentified mother and daughter scooped over £42,000 at a Gala Bingo venue in Fife, Scotland.

In other wins a retired London bus driver who’s a bingo fan from Margate has won £60,000 on ITV1’s late-night gaming show. The winner, scooped the cash several weeks ago during an episode of Bingo Night Live, which allows viewers to play along with the numbers game at home.

For a short while, the winner was made to wait to discover whether any other player had also hit the jackpot, a period he described as “like waiting outside the maternity room”. He added: “I wore the carpet out pacing the room. I just couldn’t believe I’d won.” He was relieved to find that he was the only one to win the prize.

The online gaming site, William Hill Bingo has announced today that for the first time will be stepping in to world of television program advertising with the announcement that it will be sponsoring the brand-new daily ITV gameshow Spin Star. The sponsorship deal will start on Monday 10th November, when the Spin Star show is launched, and it is a 6 week deal comprising of various length bumpers at the start and end of the show and in and out of advertisement breaks. The theme of the bumpers supports the bingo community feel that sits with bingo and the show encapsulates the slots games that sits within William Hill’s Bingo site.

The Las Vegas style show will appeal to a similar demographic to William Hills popular Bingo site and the excitement of the game reflects the William Hill Bingo Thrill catchline used in the programme bumpers. Following on from the success of their recent month long television advert campaign, the sponsorship of the daily Spin Star show is an excellent fit for William Hill Bingo.

“We’re very pleased to have the opportunity to sponsor Spin Star. It’s an incredibly lively and entertaining show with plenty of surprises and excitement, as we always offer on our website” said Hills’ spokesperson Lili Huang. “We are aiming to solidify our bingo image and increase national recognition, and sponsoring Spin Star is a perfect opportunity for us.”

Spin Star is a brand new game show hosted by popular former Coronation Street star Bradley Walsh. The main stage will be dominated by an enormous Las Vegas-style slot machine which contains questions and cash prizes and the contestants can build up a prize pot of hundreds of thousands of pounds to win at the end of the show.

The sponsorship is not the first mass marketing campaign that William Hill Bingo have been involved in. Following the national TV campaign in summer, William Hill have just finished another TV campaign which focused on their supports of Breast Cancer Care through the Pink Ribbon games. This activity was enhanced by the re-design of the website which saw increased functionality, new games and more visible promotions.

The online casino, PartyCasino has announced its promotions for the month of November. The casino will be hosting a fantastic promotion in November, with each player guaranteed to receive either cash prizes, or some of their money back. The casino is guaranteeing a payout to every player, whether the player wins or the house wins! Not only that, but special prizes are available for those who win over the entire seven-day period.

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A couple from York claimed a Powerball jackpot worth $30.2 million cash from the Oct. 29 drawing. The couple had the single-winning jackpot ticket that matched all five white balls, 20-30-37-50-52, and the red Powerball, 33, to win the Oct. 29 jackpot, which grew over seven drawings to an annuity value of $58.6 million. The couple elected to take the $30,207,012.05 cash prize, less 25 percent federal withholding.

The wife had been playing her own Powerball numbers, but realized she forgot to take the list with her when she went to purchase her tickets for the Oct. 29 drawing. While the winning jackpot ticket was a quick pick, four of her five regularly played numbers were drawn Oct. 29. She purchased the winning ticket at Bookland, 2114 S. Queen St., in York. The gift shop will receive a $100,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

The winners presented the winning ticket for validation today at Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County. After examining the ticket and executing propriety security measures, Lottery officials confirmed that it was the jackpot-winning ticket from the Oct. 29 Powerball drawing. This is the third jackpot-winning Powerball ticket sold in Pennsylvania in the past two months and the second jackpot-winning Powerball ticket sold in Pennsylvania in October. On Oct. 4, 22 postal workers from Delaware County won a $10.2 million Powerball jackpot.

The winners are the 12th Pennsylvania Lottery Powerball jackpot winners since the state joined the multi-jurisdictional game in June 2002. Powerball tickets are sold in 31 participating jurisdictions — 29 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.

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An unidentified player has become richer by the sum of £125,000 after gambling on the talent of a 13-year-old Hamilton after he saw him go-karting. This was not for the first time that the player who’s a resident of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, has won on Formula One’s new biggest star.

The middle-aged player won £40,000 last season when he collected on a £200 wager at 200-1 that Hamilton would win his first race before he was 23. The extra £125,000 comes from a bet of £100 at 500-1 that Hamilton would win the championship before his 25th birthday as well as a £50 bet at odds of 1,500-1 for the double.

The Ladbrokes customer - whose son used to go-kart against Hamilton - placed the bet on May 13 1998. He said: “I’ve known Lewis from his early days and it was easy to see he had an obvious driving ability coupled with a fantastic attitude to racing. I told Lewis’ father Anthony and he was shocked and chuffed he wasn’t the only one to have faith and confidence in Lewis.”

The player said that he would buy a Tag Heuer watch, engraved on the back with Hamilton’s signature as well as a family holiday to Cuba - where his wife would like to swim with dolphins - and a Mercedes SLK with his winnings.

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