PLAY65 BACKGAMMON RULES THE SKILL GAMES!

 If you’re not familiar with the popular online backgammon site, namely Play65, you should! Why? Well, it just won the Silver Award in the Top Skill Game category at the 2007 Readers’ Choice Awards of the gaming publication Gambling Online Magazine. This means that thousands of players from around the world have named Play65 as one of the top skill gaming sites in the whole industry. Moreover, by simply winning this award, Play65 puts itself on the top of the world’s online gaming sites. Moreover, Play65, known as the largest backgammon room online, has also received some other good critics, approval to its growing popularity among skill gamers around the world and recognition for the quality of its online backgammon software.It has been reported that the backgammon site has accumulated over 5 million registered members, within less than 4 years. That’s a whole large city! In addition, the site was named the 2nd skill game website by thousands of readers worldwide.In response to the winning, Idan Avishai, marketing director of SkillEmpire and the owner and operator of Play65, said: “we are very proud of our winning… 2007 has been a great year for us: we’ve passed the 20K online players barrier, acquired more than 2.5M new players and added new community features. We expect 2008 to be a great year as well, and we guarantee to improve our backgammon platform for the benefit of our players”. Today, Play65 features free backgammon software at more than 17 languages, including French, German, Greek, Chinese, Danish, Dutch and more. You should also know that it has recently launched a new version of the backgammon site in Portuguese to targets enraged backgammon players in Brazil and Portugal. Overall, the 3D backgammon software also looks pretty cool! It comes in 17 different languages for online playing with lots of backgammon games and tournaments, plus, it follows the online social networking trend, offering a chat platform.It is not only easy and fast downloading, but features some unexpectedly good 3D graphics, as well as realistic sound of dice roll! You can play65 against friends or other people from all around the world and tease them in the same time, via the chat room. It definitely rules!Powered by: www.casinodiario.com  

DUTCH SENATE SAYS “NO!” TO HOLLAND CASINO PLAN

I don’t know about you, but when I think of Dutch the first thing that comes to my mind are cheese, windmills, wooden shoes, and silly flower bulbs! I didn’t say anything about Amsterdam, space cookies and pot, did I?

The Dutch parliament voted down a bill that would have given online casino operator Holland Casino the green light to open a gambling Web site on a trails basis.

Apparently, Holland Casino was to be granted exclusive license to open up an online casino. It seems that the plan had been approved by a lower house of the Dutch Parliament two years ago. But it was the upper house that refused to bite the cheese this time. Consequently, the Dutch Senate vetoed the proposed online Holland Casino plan by a vote of 35-37. Auch!

But, maybe that’s a good thing after all, as the passage of the bill would have allowed Holland’s gambling monopoly. They probably just though there are already too many types of ‘cheese’ in the online industry, so, it wouldn’t have been fair to give Holland Casino the chance to wear the Rochford label.

However, if this bill had passed it would have protected the Dutch gamblers, which are estimated at about 400,000.  No to mention it would have allowed competition with big international companies operating gambling sites, such as PartyGaming, Bwin and Sportingbet.

The final vote has disappointed CryptoLogic as well, as it worked to develop the Holland Casino site. According to winneronline.com, the online gaming company was prepared for this: “While advocates of safe, secure and regulated e-gaming are disappointed with the Dutch decision, CryptoLogic never places all its bets on one table. That’s why this decision will have no material impact on our business. We recognized the challenge in Holland early and prepared our business by accelerating other revenue-generating initiatives,” Crypto CEO, Brian Hadfield, stated.

There are some other countries in Europe that have been reluctant to open up online gambling among which Germany and France. They official representatives said that the major concern regards gambling addiction and the state betting monopolies losing revenue.

Nevertheless, the European Commission has warned Holland for its gambling laws. Along with Greece, Holland was issued a final warning in February by the EU that action would be taken against it for restricting competition.

Overall, the Dutch should work on hold on the sex industry and to combat the exploitation of prostitution, not to mention they should take a closer look at those coffee shops, which are serving more than fortune cookies to underage kids.

So, if the Dutch famous brothels were officially banned, but they have been allowed to operate under lax conditions and exercise their competition, should we expect the same to happen to the online gaming industry?

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PLAY BACKGAMMON MASTERS’ IN BULGARIAN!

Finally, their taking advantage of their online leading position! BackgammonMasters has proudly announces the launching of a Blackjack and Poker Software in Bulgarian, their native language.

 

Apparently, using a single download, all the players can have instant access to the BackgammonMasters Game Lobby, in 14 different languages. You can play in French, German, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Danish, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and now Bulgarian!

 

Switching from one language to any of the other 14 languages offered, it’s not hard at all. The players simply log in to the All-in-One Game Lobby and then click on the country flag representing their desired language, as easy as taking a candy from a baby. Notably, the online backgammon website receives transactions in USD, Euros, GBP and Canadian Dollars and more important, there is no extra fee charged for currency conversion. Meanwhile, BackgammonMasters support is only available in English, but we’re sure they’re going to work on that as well.

Notably, the multi-language game platform includes lots of popular games such as: Poker, Backgammon, 21 Blackjack and Perudo. It’s a really good thing they’re making the software available in so many languages, as the online gaming industry is constantly growing in all parts of the world. Using the latest features in social networking structure, the BackgammonMasters has attracted one of the largest community networks of players online at any particular time. Besides using their skills and intelligence, they get to compete in real gaming tournaments, but most of all, they are given the opportunity to exercise their social muscle, interacting via real-time chat and simultaneously participating in their popular online games. Therefore, they are not winning only money, but also friends and respect in a newly structured online ‘gang’.

 

Nevertheless, one of the best advantages offered by the BackgammonMasters game tables is that players of all levels can find a seat at any of the tables, no matter gaming profile or status. And with each language that’s being added to their portfolio, the players find they are surrounded by a truly multi-national pool of game enthusiasts, looking for a table to join. Besides, the company announced some future language additions, such as Dutch and Russian with many others to follow in the near future.

Overall, the fellas from BackgammonMasters do not lose time at all! They just popped out a LIVE Customer Support service, which provides players with top-level assistance from a live operator at the simple click of a button. Of course, this feature was first launched in English, but they promise it will later be available in many other languages. Bulgarians, you may be the next lucky ones!

Which reminds me, there this backgammon version, where the goal is to be the first player to bear off all of your checkers…I just wonder if BackgammonMasters uses the same catchy strategy on their competitors? Probably…

 

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PUREPLAY POKER GATHERS 30,000 PLAYERS!

It’s true! Fun online play poker gathers many people around the world. If you know when to stop, this game is not burdened with any expectations and fear to lose anything. Known as the first and probably the largest U.S.-compliant play-for-cash online poker destination, PurePlay has just announced its intentions to organize the first-ever tournament to award a free seat to the World Series of Poker.

As expected, there were more than 30,000 players who gladly wrestled for a $10,000 deluxe seat at the poker championship. The event is said to be held in Las Vegas, this July. Moreover, it has been reported that such an enthusiastic feedback has encouraged PurePlay to kick off a second qualifying tourney. In addition, PurePlay felt this is the right way to motivate its faithful players, therefore it also announced they will be giving away even more seats in the monthly tournaments, leading up to the main event.

Since I am sure you all want to know who the winner of PurePlay’s first WSOP -qualifying tournament is, I should tell you his name is Gregory Jacob Kremer of Sun City West, Ariz. Apparently, he is not unaware of the field, as has been a PurePlay member for about two years.

According to a recent press release, a jollier and richer Kremer stated: ”It’s amazing to win a seat to play for millions of dollars without risking any of my own money! Now I can test my poker skills against the world’s best in competition at the highest level. 

PurePlay CEO, Jason Kellerman was also glad about the results: ”Our first tournament in March was by far the biggest, most competitive event we’ve ever hosted. We’re looking forward to even bigger turnouts in April, May and June. Then our winners are off to Vegas.” We are also expecting these ‘turnouts’ he’s been telling us about.

Furthermore, after winning a sack full of money and a little bit more respect, Kellerman invited poker players everywhere to enter PurePlay’s monthly tournaments for the coveted WSOP seats. Unlike other poker sites, PurePlay require no buy ins, deposits or fees of any kind. Consequently, qualifiers run continuously on a daily basis, 24/7.

However, the couch potato poker addicts will also be able to catch an eye on the championship event in Las Vegas, as it is to be aired on ESPN. Notably, back in 2006, lots of players earned a record amount of prize money, estimated at more than $100 million. The top winner took home no less than $12 million, surpassing the combined payouts of Wimbledon, The Masters and the Kentucky Derby.

Overall, Silicon Valley-founded online poker rooms and tournaments offer cash prizes to both play-for-free members and subscribers who pay a low monthly fee. As for the subscriber benefits, they  include access to cash tournaments with over $150,000 in monthly prizes, as well as live chat customer support, no ads during game play, and an individual performance ratings as a bonus, that enable players to compete with others at the same skill level.

Until now, the San Francisco-based company has awarded over $3 million and today is the fastest growing legal online cash poker destination with over 1,000,000 players. So, are you one of them?

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