These days it’s all about the online casinos. Players are exchanging plane tickets and hotel reservations for a first class seat on their couch, choosing instead to pump that extra dough back into their accounts. Surely though the true Vegas action is sorely missed for many avid gamblers.

Now, thanks to online casino Planet 23, three lucky players will get the chance to go on a Las Vegas vacation. The package includes round-trip airfare for any U.S. or Canadian players from any location, accommodations in a 5-star hotel located on the strip and $500 in spending money.

So how do you get in on this contest? Just a couple of easy steps and so online casino playing and you’re on your way! Join Planet23.com and deposit a minimum of $50 to receive their fantastic 200% bonus. Next’s, play away on the selected games and the players with the highest number of wagers within a single month are eligible to win!

And if you are still looking for more out of your online casino that’s not all Planet 23 is offering! They’ve got a whole host of great promotions for both regulars and new players including instant cash bonuses, jackpots, re-deposit bonuses and more all while playing your favourite online casinos games like craps, roulette, Baccarat, Pai Gow and even Mahjong, Sic Bo, Casino War and more!

Buzzluck is a new breed of online casino. They call themselves the first super casino and offer players a unique online gambling experience in their virtual lobby, live video hosts, great online casino and much, much more.

And of course, as a super casino, you’ve got to keep your reputation up by creating innovative, attention getting promotions which is why Buzzluck have created an incredible, new contest that players will be sure to be falling over to win.

On top of their already impressive line-up of bonuses, which includes a welcome bonus of $750 as well as an extra hidden $1,000 lying around the lobby lounge and another $1,200 through their Live Lounge Giveaway, Buzzluck has created a VIP contest and draw for a trip for two to LA.

The fantastic prize will include airfare and limo services to Buzzluck’s studios and a trip to a party at the Playboy Mansion! Even more impressive is that while the lucky winner is at the studio they will have the chance to be immortalized on Buzzluck’s website as one of the virtual casino guests in the lobby!

Buzzluck CEO Alex Czajkowski said Buzzluck’s unique video-streamed host and huge, international core audience who love to come back to the Live Lounge makes Buzzluck one of the most entertaining and compelling online casinos to visit! And with such an incredible prize up for grabs, it’s sure to draw even more ‘ooh’s and aah’s’!

It was just recently announced by leading Poker magazine Bluff Europe, that Europe’s largest poker festival, Poker In The Park, will be coming back to London for a third year.

Poker in the Park is a free poker festival with live tournaments (also free!), lectures, autograph sessions, discounted merchandise and lots more! Check out some of the free clinics to help improve your skill, or check out the latest poker technology and gadget.

The third annual Poker in the Park will return to London’s Leicester Square Park between August 13th and 14th. This year’s event will most likely exceed last years over 10,000 visitors, making it the largest poker festival in Europe.

Michael Caselli, Editor-In-Chief for Bluff Europe said that Poker in the Park brings is a great opportunity to bring together poker enthusiasts from all over the UK and allows them the chance to meet their heroes and play poker with a huge array of skill levels, from all different backgrounds for free.

Last year’s lineup included poker greats like Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, Neil Channing, Ian Frazer and more. Stay tuned for this year’s lineup as Bluff Europe has promised even more big names will be attending.

For all things poker check out Bluff Europe’s online portal at BluffEurope.com where you can find the latest news on the best online casinos and poker rooms, get up-to-date reviews, news, take advantage of the forum and chat with other enthusiasts, read and even watch interview excerpts from Bluff Europe!

PartyGaming is a brand for online casinos and online gambling that is known almost everywhere in the world. The online casino group is feeling a bit of the pain as its competitors continue to pick up customers from the US market while there are clear laws that forbid the competitors to do so.

Although there are laws currently in place that forbid US citizens to participate in online gambling many online gambling companies still continue to process and accept payments from players that are obviously based out of the US.

PartyGaming was a big player in the industry in the US previously and will continue to be so once online gambling is regulated within the US and all rules are in place to have the company operate on a legal basis within all the states in the country.

While laws continue to be discussed and processes are reviewed PartyGaming competitors are scavenging to pick up any clients, members and players that they possibly can so that once Party is back in the scene they can have a bit of a stronger grasp on those players that they have had in the time that PartyGaming was missing in the action.

PartyGaming is only one of the many online casino companies that is anxiously awaiting the change from the US government in policies and all these companies are also expecting a lucrative downfall once the changes take place.

The US public is also looking forward to the changes as they have not been able to make deposits or play at some of their favorite online casinos for a very long time!

The iPhone seems to be the most intuitive phone around these days. With several new applications launching on what seems to be like a daily basis, people just can’t get enough. The iPhone is playing a particularly interesting role with online casinos these days as well.

Since online casinos created mobile online casinos iPhone users have been downloading software and visiting the online casinos, other than this, iPhone now has an application that can count cards in blackjack- since the launch of this app the online casinos have noticed quite an increase in membership base. While there is no direct tie between the events it seems fair to say that one has something to do with the other.

And while online casinos are happy to have these users join their membership base, they have yet to report whether or not their latest payouts have increased due to the card counting software on these phones that people are using.

Online casinos are quite happy to have their usage increase by large amounts and are accepting players with open arms. The true tell will not be until the winnings are reported.

Another item that is in question is whether the online casinos use a multi desk system or they reshuffle a deck of cards after every hand that is played. If the deck is reshuffled after every hand dealt then the card counting app renders itself useless and the casino has a full advantage of getting extra players and playing by exactly the same rules without suffering any losses.

There are all types of players at online casinos. There are those that work from home, those that take a break at the office, those that play in the evenings, some that play in the mornings, on weekends and at all sorts of hours throughout the day. Those players used to all have one thing in common, the players were all over the age of 21 or at least of the age where gambling was permitted in the country of their origin.

Online casinos are seeing a growing number of players that in the younger demographic especially of those that is currently college students in the US. There are many reasons why these players want to play online. Some players play for fun, some play to win some extra money for some spending cash during college times and other just play because they can’t yet play at a land based casino.

Either way you look at it, the number of younger players is on the rise at both online casinos and land based casinos. The US is rumored to be considering changing the legal age of gambling all together from the age of 21 to three years earlier being the nice age of 18!

This is great news for both the players and the online casinos as it will open doors for a whole new group of people altogether. US residents are allowed to work at the age 16 so by the age of 18 they should be able to make a decision on how they can spend their money responsibly.

The news and information service provider, Online Gambling Insider recently announced that they have added a new list of bonuses and other promotional offers that will only be available from their online casino information website. The company explains that their goal is to offer new and exclusive bonuses and offering to the people that visit their site that they are unlikely to find anywhere else on the web.

If you are a player that is interested in getting these deals then you must visit the site directly and click on the links in order to be able to access the deals that are associated with the promotional codes that are imbedded in the link for each individual online casino referral site.

There are many online casino affiliate sites that make it much easier for people looking to find an online casino with a great bonus offering. These sites get a referral for making the connection between the individual and the online casino but what is even better is that by accessing these sites people that were going to become members anyway get an added bonus and an opportunity to get a better deal from the online casino that they choose to visit.

It is a good idea to check around for what is available because there are some unbelievable deals out there from affiliate sites online. Online casinos count on these sites for a lot of their business so they often offer these sites much better deals than they can offer a member on an individual basis.

Many pieces of technology are much smarter and faster than the human mind these days. One of those things just happens to be a little hand held PDA called the iPhone. The newest phenomenon with the iPhone has been random applications that can be added to the handset in order to entertain the individual user. Applications range from those that have games to those that turn the phone into a ruler to those that count cards at a casino. The last is the one that is creating the problems for online casinos.

The land based casinos across the US have already banned the iPhone at most gambling establishments. The card counting software is so high-tech that even the cameras in the casino cannot detect what is going on so the casinos had to ban the device altogether. Unfortunately, the online casinos cannot do the same as there is no way for an online casino host to tell whether someone is using an iPhone or anything else for that matter on the other end of the computer screen.

Since the new iPhone application has surfaced to the mainstream market membership in online casinos has increased and the number of those playing blackjack has increased as well. Card counting while not illegal is a way that players turn the odds of blackjack in favor of themselves versus the standard which is in favor of the casino.

Online casinos must now put their heads together and think of the next steps that they can take in order to stop these offenders from taking them for everything that they could possibly be worth. There is no word yet on what the outcome of this maybe and what the results will bring.

With easier access being the name of the game for everything in the world today, people are turning out to be quite accepting of the transition to online casinos on their mobile devices. Since the launch of online casinos on the mobile phones and networks more and more people are creating accounts and in order to sign up and play at their favorite online casino on their handheld devices and mobile phones.

The launch of online casinos started previously last year but is only becoming stronger now as the technology and support is become more and more advance with respect to being able to offer fast reaction times for players and a great user interface all around.

Many online casinos are moving in this direction and are launching separate arms of the online casino networks in order to allow their members and new members’ access from their mobiles. There have been a few major issues with online casinos and the mobile networks. One of those issues has been that the online casinos tend to work better or at all on technology that has been created more recently such as newer phones from the last year or so versus phones that were made in the years past.

The pattern seems to be that those that use the online casino on their mobile devices are also those that tend to have the newer technology so, thus far access has not been a very major problem. However, if online casinos become more popular on the handheld device many people would need to upgrade their technology to get a new phone.

While gambling on slots is never a sure guarantee of bringing home the big money it sure makes for a great story when online casino announce big winners such as the winner that took home over $10,000 from an online casino slot game this past weekend.

One lucky US player hit the progressive jackpot on a video slot gamed called Crazy Dragon which is a popular slot game available at online casinos that are have software and are powered by Online casino software provider real time gaming.

The online casino software company licenses online casino that make the online gambling experience available to US players and makes it possible for the players to participate on jackpots that they cannot play in at other online casino websites.

Real Time Gaming provides software to many online casinos on the web and there has currently been many new online casinos that have been switching to the Real Time Gaming network due to the acceptance of US players and how much market share the US players actually make up.

The online casino software provider also has two progressive jackpots that are currently over the one million dollar mark and growing just as you read this.

The only way to win is to join an online casino that is powered by Real Time Gaming and become a member. The game that won this winner the jackpot was a standard 3 reel slot game that has a bonus game and a winning jackpot combination of three dragons that roar once the jackpot is triggered.