60% Fright Night!

Suite332‘s bonus for existing players — running now through November 2, 2007 – is scary! Depositing players will get a 60% bonus on their daily purchases up to $1500 each day. Their ThrillX Software offers the traditional casino games like slots, craps, blackjack, and roulette, as well as some unique slot machines that you won’t find at any other online gambling hall. There is no download required to play at Suite332, either, so check them out today!

Below is the email from Frank, the Suite332 manager, about the 60% Fright Night offer.

3 Days Only! Our Scariest Bonus Yet!

This Halloween, until Friday, ALL our players are eligible for a 60% deposit bonus on their daily purchases – up to $1500/Day! It just can’t get any Scarier! Simply deposit between this Wednesday, October 31st at 12:01AM Eastern Standard Time and Friday, November 2nd 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time to be eligible!

To redeem your bonus, please send an email to service@suite332.com after you make your deposit at Suite332.com. Your bonus will be credited shortly! Daily bonus period is counted using Eastern Standard Time from 12:01am 11:59pm.

Your initial wagering on your deposit prior to bonus crediting will be counted!

Wagering requirements on the bonus are the regular 20X Deposit + Bonus amount (Virtual Suite) and 40X Deposit + Bonus amount (Live Suite). Please take the time to read our bonus redemption conditions (Last updated August 20th) at http://www.suite332.com/bonusPolicies.aspx. This promotion cannot be combined with other Suite332.com bonus offers.

Thanks again for checking-in at Suite332!

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America Bingo Has It All!

This really is a good deal — America Bingo offers $30 FREE to play bingo, keno, blackjack, slots, pull tabs, and more! What more could you ask for? Since America Bingo accepts players from around the world — including the United States — everyone is welcome to take advantage of this offer. Credit card deposits are fast, safe, and secure, and what’s more is that everyone gets a 100% bonus on their initial deposit PLUS a 10% bonus on subsequent deposits made in their first 90 days.

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Great Weekend for Sports

Here’s what I have my eye on this weekend. head on over to Intertops to check out the lines.

  • Saturday
    • ALCS Game 6: Cleveland Indians at Boston Red Sox. Shilling goes for the Sox, and is looking to rebound from his poor start earlier in the series. He looked awesome against the Angles, but the Indians seems to have him figured out. Can he take the Sox to a deciding Game 7? Or will the Indians take the series and face off against the streaking Colorado Rockies in the World Series?
    • UFC 77 – Hostile Territory: Cincinnati Ohio native Jorge Gurgel takes on Alvin Robinson in a featured bout. Gurgel is looking to revenge an earlier defeat at the hands on Robinson. And then there is the main event, featuring Rich Franklin taking on UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva. Should be a great evening of Ultimate Fighting!
  • Sunday
    • Tampa Bay @ Detroit and Chicago @ Philadelphia look to be two of the more evenly-matched games on the Week 7 NFL schedule. I’m picking both of the home teams in these two games.
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Oxford University Gambling Survey

If you would like to contribute to mankind’s knowledge — or at least contribute a data point to this survey :) — check out the Oxford University Gambling Survey. I took the survey in about 15 minutes, and it covered a wide range of areas directly and indirectly related to online gambling.

As a thank you, people who complete the survey will be entered in a drawing for a 80GB video iPod (they are giving away six).

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BLACKLISTED: Mayagaming Casino, Poker, and Sportsbook

Playing for real money at online gaming sites carries a certain amount of risk. Some sites are less than honest, and you may find a handful that do not pay up when you are owed money. Unfortunately, I have found just such a site — Mayagaming — and it has today earned the right to be the inaugural entry into The Online Casino Gambling Directory Blacklist.

Mayagaming operates a Casino, Poker, and Sportsbook. This outfit owes me over $250 USD; I have been trying to collect this money since July 2007, and repeated emails go unanswered. Chats with their live help support staff refer me to the same email addresses that I sent my emails to in the first place.

It is surprising to me that this site will not pay up, since I had been playing at Mayagaming since the beginning of the year, and was paid money owed to me in June 2007 with very little hassle. I wonder what happened? I invite a representative from Mayagaming to fill me in.

Put simply, do not play at the Mayagaming properties. There are plenty of other casinos, poker rooms, and sportsbooks out there.

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Step-by-Step for $30 Free at America Bingo

A few days ago, I posted about America Bingo and it’s $30 Free offer. Here’s how to get it.

  1. Go to America Bingo.
  2. On the top right, in the New Players Register Here area, enter your desired username, your email address, and a password. Confirm the password and click the Submit button.
  3. Your account will be created immediately and you’ll be logged in. You’ll also receive a confirmation email with subject AmericaBingo New Member Notification.
  4. The $30 free bucks are available for you to play with in the FREE GAME
    ROOM
    . To access the free game room, go to Game Selection then scroll down
    until you see the icon Free Bingo. Click on it and the free game will
    load in a new window. Your $30 free bucks will show in your account and
    you can use them to purchase cards in the free room only.

That’s all there is to it! Click on over to America Bingo and have fun!

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Thoughts on the UIGEA Enforcement Guidelines Draft

On October 1, the United States Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve jointly published a draft of the guidelines to enforce the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006. Published late — they were due this summer — the 52-page document:

  • proposes rules to implement the UIGEA
  • designates and defines payment systems to be regulated
  • requires participants in designated payment systems to establish policies and procedures reasonably designed to identify and block or otherwise prevent or prohibit transactions in connection with unlawful Internet gambling
  • exempts certain participants in designated payment systems
  • describes the types of policies and procedures that non-exempt participants in each type of designated payment system may adopt in order to comply with the Act
  • includes examples of policies and procedures
  • does not specify which gambling activities or transactions are legal or illegal, deferring instead to underlying State and Federal gambling laws

Comments are due by December 12, 2007, and can be submitted in writing or electronically. Once the rules are finalized, the draft calls for the rules to go into effect six months after that date (although this could change based on the commenters, like the banking industry).

I’ve read this draft, and wanted to share some thoughts.

  • Individual gamblers are not targeted by the UIGEA. From page 7:

The proposed regulatory definition clarifies that an end-user customer of a financial transaction provider is not included in the definition of “participant”, unless the customer is also a financial transaction provider otherwise participating in the designated payment system on its own behalf.

  • The draft makes it clear that it will be difficult to monitor certain popular payment systems. This suggest to me that payment via these methods — particularly via check, in my opinion — will rise in popularity once these rules go into effect. From page 13:

While other systems, such as the card systems, have developed merchant category and transaction codes that identify the business line of the payee (e.g., the gambling business) and how the transfer was initiated (such as via the internet), so that the systems are able to identify and block certain types of payments in real time, the ACH systems, check collection systems, and wire transfer systems do not use such codes.

  • The draft suggests that some payment systems will, for the most part, be exempt from having to follow the rules. This is good news for US gamblers, and suggests to me that the UIGEA will only make it more difficult for US gamblers to gamble, but will fall well short of putting an end to all internet gambling by US citizens. From page 13-14:

As a result, the preliminary view of the Agencies is that it is not reasonably practical for the exempted participants in ACH systems, check collection systems, and wire transfer systems … to identify and block, or otherwise prevent or prohibit, restricted transactions under the Act.

  • Something that is troubling to me is that if a person blocks payment for the reasons in the draft (see excerpt below), then that person is not liable for any adverse results that may occur to the person that had the transaction blocked. I can imagine a scenario where a person has a legitimate transaction blocked, and that person is subsequently charged non-payment / bounced checks fees. That person would have no grounds to collect these fees from the person that blocked the legitimate transaction! From page 18:

Section 5 also imports the Act’s liability provisions, which state that a person that identifies and blocks, prevents, prohibits, or otherwise fails to honor a transaction is not liable to any party for such action if (i) the transaction is a restricted transaction; (ii) such person reasonably believes the transaction to be a restricted transaction; or (iii) the person is a participant in a designated payment system and prevented the transaction in reliance on the policies and procedures of the designated payment system in an effort to comply with the regulation.

  • Another thing that is interesting to me is the use of the term “reasonably designed” throughout the draft. This is just asking for these rules and regulations to wind up in court, because what is reasonable to one person may not be seen as reasonable to another person (or to the government). In my opinion, we’ll see a court challenge shortly after the rules go into effect that will further delay the complete implementation of the rules to enforce the UIGEA. It’ll be years before this is all sorted out.
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Over $500 FREE for US Players

I was just reviewing all of the sites at The Online Casino Gambling Directory. Did you know that as of this writing, there are over 35 sites that offer more than $500 in FREE money to they their games? You can play poker, video poker, bingo, pull tabs, slots, and variety of Las Vegas-style casino games.

If anyone would like to try to download, install, and claim all of these offers, I would love to hear about your experiences — and whether or not you win! You can contact me at robertmedl@theonlinecasinogamblingdirectory.com.

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RSS Feed of This Blog

Did you know that you can easily view updates to this blog? I mean, you wouldn’t want to miss the best online gaming bonus offers and the best online poker FREE chip offers, would you?

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Duplicate Poker is a Blast!

I’ve mentioned Duplicate Poker on my blog in the past, but I’ve been playing this more and more in the past week. I am telling you, it is a blast to play. Put simply, you try to get more chips than the players at other tables in your same seat who are getting the same cards and same boards as you!

Duplicate Poker involves play of Pot Limit and No Limit Texas Hold’em under the general rules governing that game with four exceptions.

  • First, there are always two or more tables of players, with the same number of players seated at each table.
  • Second, an identically shuffled deck of cards is used at each table for each hand played so that players in the same seat position at each table receive the same hole cards and the common cards are the same at each table.
  • Third, every player begins each hand with the same number of playing chips, regardless of how he/she may have done in any previous hand.
  • Fourth, the winner of each hand is determined based on the number of chips he or she has at the end of the game as compared with those held by all players in the same seat at the other tables.

Determining winners by comparing the results achieved by the players playing identical hands eliminates the luck of the draw element normally associated with poker so that skill is what determines who wins, not whether you got good cards or bad cards. Every hand can win if it is well played.

There is an interactive tutorial at their website that I recommend highly! And, here’s their current offer to get you started:

Get $5 FREE + a 100% bonus on initial deposits between $25 and $100!

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