February 28th, 2009 by admin
March Madness has been billed as the largest ever online slots tournament. It offers a prize pool of $250,000. The tournament starts on Sunday the 1st of March and will run till the 1st of April. The game on which this tournament will be played is one of the most popular online slot games from the suite of Vegas Technology - The Reel Deal.
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Though the tournament was announced a month back, the complete details have been posted at the participating online casinos only recently. The lion’s share of the prize pool, $100,000, will be paid to the winner. There will be one 2nd prize of $25,000; one 3rd prize of $15,000 and one 4th prize of $10,000. From the 5th prize onwards there will be multiple winners. The 5th prize of $2,500 will go to two winners; the 6th prize of $1,000 will go to ten winners; the 7th prize of $500 will go to ten winners; the 8th prize of $250 will go to twenty winners; the 9th prize of $100 will go to fifty winners; the 10th prize of $50 will go to 150 winners; the 11th prize of $25 will go to 250 winners and the 12th prize of $10 will go to 5,625 winners. There will be a total of over 6,000 players who receive prizes. And over 5,500 players will have recovered their entry fee of $10. In fact 280 players are being given free entries to the March Madness through freeroll qualifiers. 260 of those have already booked their places in the March Madness. 10 will be selected on the 27th of February and 10 on the 28th of February. The qualifying freeroll for the 27th of February is Magic Monkey and that for the 28th of February is Funky Chunky.
March Madness is being hosted by the English Harbour Group of online casinos. The English Harbour group launched its first online casino in 1997. They are the oldest and most reputed group powered by Vegas Technology. Though the group boasts of six excellent brands, Millionaire Casino, Super Slots Casino and VIP Slots Casino are especially recommended by Casino Advisor. The Reel Deal slot is extremely popular because it is based on the TV series Deal or No Deal, which offered fabulous prizes. In the United Kingdom the game show was immortalized by host Noel Edmonds. The Reel Deal slot game very realistically replicates the excitement of the television series.
Though March Madness is being touted as the largest slots tournament, slot fans will recall the World Series of Slots last year that had a prize pool of $500,000, double that of March Madness. The World Series of Slots was hosted by the Jackpot factory group and did wonders for its brands. Now English Harbour is hoping to repeat the same magic with March Madness.
February 18th, 2009 by admin
Bodog is an online gambling portal that was founded in 1994 by Calvin Ayre. It offers gambling products like poker, casino, sports betting and horse racing. Bodog Casino is powered by Real Time Gaming. Its North American site is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.
From the 12th of February to the 12th of March Bodog Casino is holding a Baccarat online tournament. Baccarat is a game made popular by James Bond. The secret agent played in the swankiest of casinos always dressed to immaculate perfection. However to play baccarat at Bodog Casino one need not dress to kill. The promo header says, “In fact, you don’t have to dress at all”. Players have to be valid members of Bodog Casino in order to participate.
The rules are very simple. Players have to play as many hands of baccarat as possible. For each hand that ends in a tie players will be awarded 1 Point. To get more points players have to get more tied hands. To get more tied hands players have to play more hands. The player with the most Points will win. A tied hand is one in which the player and the banker have hands of identical value. Cards from Ace to Nine have their face values. Tens, Jacks, Queens and Kings have zero value. A hand is valued by adding the card values and then dropping the tens digit from the sum. The highest possible hand value is 9 and the lowest possible hand value is 0.
The tournament runs through four weeks. On the Friday of each week prizes of a $100 casino chip each will be awarded to the top five players in the leader board. The number of Points won in the preceding week will decide the leader board standings. There will also be a Grand Prize of a $1,000 casino chip. This will be awarded to the player with the highest number of points in the entire promotion period. The Grand Prize will not be subject to any rollover requirements. In all prizes worth $3,000 are being awarded in this baccarat tournament.
The baccarat leader board is titled “Who’s the King of Swank?” There are already ten names in this week’s leader board. James of Branson heads the list with 244 Points. Hence there is plenty of catching up to do, but it is not too late. Baccarat hands play very fast and ties are not as infrequent as one may think. Those who are not members of Bodog Casino will have to join first. The procedure is extremely simple and takes no time at all. And new players are entitled to a 10% sign up bonus as well.
February 6th, 2009 by admin
“February is all about table games” says the header at VIP Casino. This month VIP Casino is offering tournaments in online craps and online baccarat, which is definitely a rare if not unheard of event in online gaming. Most online casinos do offer tournaments because they are very popular. Some online casinos offer tournaments as regular daily fare, whereas other offer online tournaments as a part of special promotions. Whatever the case may be an overwhelming majority of tournaments are offered on online slot games. The next most popular casino games for tournaments are blackjack and video poker. And on the odd occasion there is an online roulette tournament. Therefore craps and baccarat tournaments are bound to be very interesting.
The online craps tournament has already commenced on the 1st of February. It will run till the 14th of February. The entry fee for the tournament is only $10, which is another reason why the tournament will be attractive. The total guaranteed prize pool for the tournament will be $1,000. This will be distributed as follows. The winner will get $500, the first runner up will get $250 and those in the third to the seventh places will get $50 each. The online baccarat tournament will start on the 14th of February and will run till the 28th of February. The entry fee and the prizes will be the same as in the earlier tournament.
Each tournament can be played at any time during the tournament period. In order to do so players will have to select “Game menu” from the left hand menu in the software; then select “Tournaments”; then select the tournament name and finally click on the “Sign up now” button and select yes. The tournament fee would automatically be deducted from the player’s balance. All players will automatically be allocated $1,000 worth of chips. The players will be given 30 minutes to play during which they should try to increase their balance to the maximum possible extent. The great aspect about these tournaments at VIP Casino is that players need not use their 30 minutes at one go. They can exit from the tournament if they are feeling unlucky and log in later to continue from where they left off. If players feel that they have a winning balance before the 30 minutes are over they can even forfeit the balance time. A continuously updated leader board is provided so that players can check where they stand. Players can enter each tournament only once. The balance at the end of the 30 minute play is play money and cannot be cashed. The prizes will automatically be credited to the winners’ accounts.
February 5th, 2009 by admin
Millionaire Casino is offering a mega slots tournament in March 2009, which is being billed as March Madness. The tournament will commence on the 1st of March and run for a whole month till the 1st of April. The tournament will be played on the Vegas Technology online slot game The Reel Deal. The tournament offers a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000. This is really amazing considering that the entry fee is only $10. Players can also re-buy for $10. All players will start the tournament with a credit of $300.
This is only a part of the good news. Players at Millionaire Casino can enter the March Madness online slot tournament for free by winning the qualifier events that are being held in February. The qualifiers will be held daily from the 1st of February to the 28th of February. Each qualifier will be played on a different Vegas Technology online slot game. The qualifiers are freerolls, which means that there is no entry fee, but for a re-buy players will have to shell out $2. The starting stake is $100. The top ten winners of each qualifier get free entry to the March Madness and a chance to win a share of its huge prize pool.
Millionaire Casino is powered by software from Vegas Technology. Established in 2001, it is a brand of the popular English Harbour Group. The online casino is licensed by the reputed gaming jurisdiction of Antigua and Barbuda and audited for fairness by the independent expert Dr. Eliot Jacobson. American players are accepted.
Apart from the qualifiers to March Madness there are a number of other online tournaments scheduled for February. The other big money slots tournaments are Mardis Gras, Valentine’s Day and Beat the Blues. All these tournaments have an entry fee of $10. Mardis Gras will be held between the 18th and the 25th of February, will be played on the online slot game Fat Cat and will have a prize pool of $25,000. Valentine’s Day will be held between the 11th and the 15th of February, will be played on the Valentine themed online slot game Cupid’s Arrow and will have a prize pool of $20,000. Beat the Blues will be held between the 4th and the 11th of February, will be played on the online slot game Winter Wonderland and will have a prize pool of $15,000. There are also online casino tournaments in blackjack and video poker.
February 4th, 2009 by admin
Online casino tournaments are the strength of Golden Casino. The February schedule includes all the popular events. The center pieces as usual are the Weekend Madness Tournaments. However this month Golden Casino has provided a twist.
The Weekend Madness Tournaments run from Fridays to Tuesdays. They offer a guaranteed prize pool of $30,000. They have an entry fee of $20 with a re-buy of $20 and a starting chip stake of 325 credits. Each weekend a different popular online slot game is allotted. The first, third and fourth weekends follow this format. The online slots are Cherry Blossoms, Magic Carpet and Coral Cash respectively.
The twist is in the second week. This is because Golden Casino is offering a special online tournament on the occasion of St. Valentines Day. The tournament has been given a special name – The Valentines Week Long tournament. It will start on Friday the 13th of February and run through Valentines Day on the 14th of February till the 20th of February. To encourage maximum participation from the love smitten members of Golden Casino the entry fee has been kept at only $0.99. This is virtually as good as a freeroll. The re-buy will be $25 and the starting stack will be 100 credits. The best news is that the guaranteed prize pool has been raised to $75,000 for this special occasion. There is one more piece of good news. The online slot chosen for this game is Cupids Arrow.
Cupids Arrow is a Valentine themed online slot from Vegas Technology. It is in the 5 reel 20 payline format. The reels have a background of a lovely pink color and the payline numbers are set in small multi colored hearts. The symbols on the reels add to the romantic ambience. The symbols are cupid, the couple, the kiss, the heart, the 14th February, The Valentine Day card and gifts like teddy bear, roses and diamond ring. The bonus game is also linked to this theme. The player has to select one gift item from each row trying to reach the top row with a solitary gift. Each gift item has a heart with a bonus amount displayed in it. The total numbers credits accumulated get added to the winnings. However, the bonus game can end in an unfortunate manner. Someone who has not found love can get a busted heart and has to leave the bonus game with zero credits.
Golden Casino now offers a new “Add to Calendar” feature. Next to each tournament listing is a calendar icon. Players wanting to participate in a tournament need to click the icon next to it and they will be automatically reminded when the tournament commences. Golden Casino is powered by Vegas Technology and licensed by Curacao Internet Gaming Association. It is highly rated by CasinoAdvisor.
February 3rd, 2009 by admin
Members of the online casino, InterCasino, avidly look forward to the beginning of the month so that they can check out the new online tournaments that will be offered. Normally Cryptologic casinos are not that popular for online tournaments but InterCasino is an exception.
The first tournament offered at InterCasino is the Classic Casino Solitaire Tournament. It runs from the first of the month till the twelfth. The game is the popular card game Solitaire in which the players move the dealt cards to the appropriate stacks. The prize pool is $500. The top eight winners will share the prize pool as follows. The player in the first place gets $250; the player in the second place gets $100 and the players in the third to the eighth places get $25 each. The players start with $500 worth of tournament chips.
In February 2009 the thirteenth falls on a Friday. This is evocative of the series of Horror movies titled Friday the Thirteenth. InterCasino has used the occasion to label is second tournament as the Frightmare Tournament. The tournament will begin on Friday the 13th and run till the 20th of February. The games appropriately chosen for this tournament are the popular Frightmare series of online slots developed by Cryptologic. The slot games are Vampire Bats, Witches and Warlocks and Zone of the Zombies. To make the event more realistic the pool prize has been set to $666, the sign of the devil. The top ten players will share this prize as follows. The player in the first place gets $350; the player in the second place gets $116 and the players in the third to the tenth places get $25 each. The starting stack has also been set to $666 so there is plenty of devilish business in this tournament.
The European Roulette Tournament runs from the 21st to the 28th of February. This tournament is identical to the first tournament, except that it is played on European Roulette.
Participation in the online tournaments at InterCasino is very simple. Players will have to log on to the ‘Tournament’ from the ‘Games’ menu in the casino software. On signing up the entry fee of $10 is automatically deducted from the players’ balance. All players begin the tournaments with the same credit of tournament chips. They get up to 30 minutes to try and increase their balance as much as they can. The winners are the players with the highest balance after 30 minutes of play. A leader board is displayed that shows the current rankings of the players. Each player can participate in the tournaments only once. The balance left with the players at the end of their playing time is not cashable.
