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The players need to register for the promotion before wagering. Once they do this they will be eligible for all the daily prizes. They need not register again and again. After registration they can wager on any of the casino games offered by Virgin Casino between December 12 and December 23. They will collect the loyalty points, known as V* Points, in the normal manner. For every 1 V* Point they earn they will be given one ticket for the daily draw. To qualify for the daily prize players have to wager on that day. Therefore the more the players wager at Virgin Casino the more V* Points they will earn and the more tickets they will get for the lucky draws. This will increase their chances for winning the fabulous prizes offered. To provide a kick start to the player Virgin Casino will offer 1000 V* Points to the player who has registered and earned his first V* Point. This means 1000 tickets for the lucky draw.

The latest promotion at Casino Tropez is ‘Tis the Season to See Green’. The promotion says that Christmas comes early to Casino Tropez and advises players to log in, deposit and start collecting their Christmas presents. The presents are in the form of a 25% casino bonus on all deposits without any upper limit, which is wholly appropriate in this season of giving.

Only those players at Casino Tropez who have received this offer by e-mail are eligible for the gambling bonuses. Therefore players who have not given their correct e-mail addresses to Casino Tropez will not be able to avail of this fantastic offer. This highlights the importance of having a current and valid e-mail address registered with online casinos.

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Casino Tropez also points out that the game of the season is the progressive jackpot online slot Beach Life. It says, “Warm up this winter by taking a spin at the Beach Life slot machine!” The progressive jackpot at Beach Life has recently breached the $4 million mark and is rising steadily. If some lucky player at Casino Tropez hit the jackpot this Christmas he will really see green this season.

Slots Galore is a recently launched online casino that is fast gaining popularity because of the tournaments that it offers. In December Slots Galore online casino is hosting daily pot pool tournaments. For every day of the week the tournament is played on a different but exciting slot game. Players who have not yet participated in these events still have two weeks to do so.

Each tournament starts at midday and runs for 24 hours till noon the next day. The buy in is only $2 and the rebuy fee is $2 as well. The prize pool is shared by the top 40 players on the leader board, with the first place winner getting 30% of the pot prize pool. At the bottom rung 20 players share 10% of the prize pool. The pot is expected to run to a few thousand dollars.

The designated the designated online slot game for Mondays is Princess Jewels. Online tournament players find this game attractive for two reasons. It has a wheel of fortune type bonus game that gives players three rounds to win bonus payouts. The highest fixed jackpot pays out 10,000 coins for aligning five Princess symbols in an enabled payline. On Tuesdays players can play on Mermaids Quest with its symbols fashioned like characters from a Disney movie. This slot game also has a fixed jackpot of 10,000 coins.

The midweek slot games for Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays are Cool Bananas, Eastern Dragon and Fat Cat. Cool Bananas has a King Kong theme, though with a comic touch. Because the highest coin denomination is $10, Cool Bananas provides opportunities for players who have a lot of catching up to do in order to break in to the paying positions on the leader board. Eastern Dragon is a Chinese themed slot with a free spins feature that offers 15 free spins at tripled payouts.

The weekend begins with the Magic Monkey online slot game on Saturdays. The monkey is a magician and the symbols include crystal balls, spell books and magic potions. Players can enjoy some cool audio and animations while they try to maximize their chip balance. The best is reserved for Sundays. The daily online tournament will be played on the online slot game What’s Your Sign. This game has signs of the zodiac as symbols. The attractions for tournament players are the 10,000 coin fixed jackpot, $10 maximum coin size and spin the wheel bonus round.

As reported by The Press of Atlantic City: “AC Coin & Slot will now be competing with the giants of the reel and online gambling world.

“The family-owned online slot manufacturer has restructured its long-time partnership with slots giant International Gaming Technology, finally getting the freedom to sell its own slot machines to online casinos all over the globe.

“‘The biggest question we have gotten from our customers over the last 10 years is, ‘Why can’t we buy your slot machines?’ said Jason Seelig, AC Coin’s executive vice president of corporate sales. ‘Well, now they can.’

“However, this new-found independence for the Seelig family comes with the challenge of positioning Pleasantville-based AC Coin to compete with the big boys of the slots industry, including IGT.

“Mac Seelig, family patriarch and company president, flashed a confident smile and shrugged his shoulders to suggest he wasn’t scared. He noted the company is already looking at casino markets in Australia, Macau and South Africa for growth…”

As reported by The Press of Atlantic City: “Smoke swirled around Barbara DePierro’s head as she used one hand to puff on a cigarette and the other to play a slot machine at Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort.

“DePierro, a New Yorker, settles into her cigarettes-and-slots routine whenever she comes to Atlantic City and dreads the thought that her casino gambling pleasures may someday be interrupted by a best internet casino smoking ban.

“‘I like it the way it is now. If they banned smoking in Atlantic City, I would go to the Indian reservation casinos in Connecticut just to smoke,’ DePierro vowed as her husband, James, nodded his head in agreement.

“A year after Atlantic City delayed a total smoking ban at the request of the powerful gaming industry, city officials are again debating whether the casinos should go smoke-free. City Council backed away from a ban last year amid warnings that smokers would take their business elsewhere, further depressing casino earnings in the soft economy.

“But council members also promised then to revisit the issue in a year. Just as it was on Oct. 8, 2008 - when it voted 5-4 to scrap the smoking ban - council remains divided…”

Whilst Congressman Barney Frank, the Poker Players Alliance, Kentucky politicians and various horseracing bodies have received widespread and well deserved plaudits for persuading the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to postpone the implementation of the UIGEA, it turns out that US casino gambling financial institutions also played a key role.

The already overworked US financial system is charged with the burden of enforcing the UIGEA, an obligation on which it has expressed concerns at Congressional hearings on the issue, protesting that the lack of precision in the regulations and definitions of illegal internet gambling present major problems in its enforcement.

Reporting on the issue this week, CreditCards notes that the legislation requires banks and credit card networks to navigate “a thicket of confusing and often contradictory definitions and rules.” Among other things, it never got around to defining the term internet gambling.

CreditCards.com quotes from the official statement of the Fed and the Treasury announcing the postponement and naming among the submissions it had considered Wells Fargo, the American Bankers Association, the Credit Union National Association and a wide range of groups associated with the gambling industry.

“The agencies acknowledge some of the challenges regulated entities are experiencing with the act’s definition of ‘unlawful Internet gambling,” the joint statement by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department admitted. “Moreover …, several members of Congress have indicated interest in revising the Act.

“The agencies are thus persuaded that a limited extension of the compliance date for regulated entities is appropriate,” the statement said.

Some Republican lawmakers, however, were less pleased.

“Simply delaying the compliance date serves no interest except that of the Internet gambling enterprises that have long evaded American gambling laws and will continue to do so until effective enforcement is in place,” Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said in a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.