Recent Developments in the Gaming Industry
Online gaming industry taking a turn this year, where too?
Past few days were very exciting for the gaming industry, both the online gaming and traditional land based gaming.
On September 11th., Harras group, the US based gambling giant announced they have closed a contract with online casino operator 888 , to open their online casino activity for the UK market with the 888 platform. Executives who firmed this deal did not want to mention any numbers, but were talking about “millions of dollars”. Harras and Ceasers casinos will be involved in the online casino deal and they will be most probably branded under these names.
Yesterday, a supreme court at Lisbon , Portugal, has disagreed with BWin’s claim and decide that online sporting bet sites, should be legalized under government ownership, this is order to prevent fraud.
Looking at the bigger scope of the industry, we assume, the land base gaming companies and internet casinos will soon be merged into bilateral projects as each side has the means and power to bring a largest outcome of a mutual project than , each of the sides trying to take one another part of the cake.
Looking at the online gaming arena, legalities and legislation issues should be a very active role in the industry, up coming quarterly reports show a lot merges between operators, and larger deals between software providers and land based gaming tycoons.
Lower profits due to the global economy, and thus, a lower side at stock prices and profits, are the big “headache” of land based casino and sporting book companies, they too, are in the goal of getting themselves into the online arena , and as fast as possible.
Recently buyout of a Playtech owned firm by William Hill based in the UK, shows this trend in the global arena.
Horse Racing Betting is Drawing Gamblers in
Horse racing has been by far the oldest betting sports in the history of betting.
Special big events such as the Breeders Cup Challenge are bringing in more and more gamblers into the horse racing arena. Gamblers which have not yet been familiar with Horse racking , or, did not place any bets at horse racing bookies, are more and more exposed to this field.
Recent reports by Online Sports Bookie SBC.com show a large increase in gamblers of the horse racing sector. Gamblers usually will follow the big races over the TV (Some cases there is a live broadcast by ESPN or similar online sites) and will place a bet for both favorite horse or an odds based bet.
SBC.com claim to enlarge number of online sports horse race betting, by a average of 4% annually, acting so for the last 3 quarterly report, in effect bets accumulated into $2.3 million, estimates.
This large increase In interest for gambler vary from few reasons, so say SBC specialist.
“Being as the economy at right now, people like to buy an opportunity, lottery tickets and similar gambling does not have any sense , in terms of odds, so usually a gambler would like to enjoy the action by really feeling and having the full excitement, horse race betting can offer .
More over, there is some increase in TV rating by 2% higher, in terms of TV viewers interested in horse races. This has direct effects with the betting they potentially place with us”.
Some big horse race bookies offer up to 60% bonus on each first deposit , actually claiming to take stakes real high.
“The average profile of a horse race gambler would be higher in terms of age, income and education when it’s directly compared with casino or poker players”.
This year, numbers are climbing up and it seems that horse racing betting takes a real turn to a bigger league if it’s own.
Fresh Bonuses Offered at Online Casinos
During the last decade online casino become a big industry over the internet and the gambling arena split to online casino and offline casino. The big difference between this two similar products is the way winning numbers being generated for each casino game, it means that if in real life we hope the roulette ball will hit the number we choose, in online casino the random number generator will determine the winning number on each casino game.
It is the most significant component at online casino, the part that make online casino feels like a real base casino and also make the winning numbers random as much as possible to imitate the odds of the casino games at base casino in Las Vegas or any other casino gambling center.
Casino promotion is very strong field among the entire casino hotel in Las Vegas Atlantic City or any gambling resort in the United States. In most place it is a whole marketing department who in charge on the casino offers bonuses packages and more but online casino need to have an automatic system who know to calculate on real time the odd and the payout percentage in order to create online casino event or bonus, the best example for that is the slot machine online, in every casino online, there are more than few slots jackpot with a “progressive ticker” that counts the cumulative prize amount on real time, this part of the online casino connect only to the random number generator who responsible not just on drawing the winning numbers, it also calculates odds and payout, so everything need to be synchronize to one data base in order to keep entertain the casino players online with recent online casino bonuses promotions and events.
In general, the casino industry online and offline is a very fast moving industry, very competitive that need to recreate itself very often and make the customers happy with the most advanced and rewarding incentives that increase the casino experience to the maximum.
Wink Bingo Improving Gamers Experience
Wink Bingo is a respected online bingo hall that has been around for a long time. It seems that Wink bingo has been really moving forward with its design, software and gamers experience. The most updated piece of information in Wink Bingo is their special offers in 2009, including free cash which isn’t a common thing among online bingo rooms. Joining Wink Bingo you can play for free and win real cash.
Their design it seems to be the most updated design out there at the moment showing flash and other fun things to look at when visiting the site. The developing community in the UK area is becoming bigger every day and there is a big reason around it while UK region is showing growth in 2009 in the number of players that decided to wager online at bingo sites. It surely not a surprise considering bingo sites are now giving away things that would never be offered at a land base bingo hall.
Attracting the crowed at online bingo halls is not difficult with the new technologies web developers are able to use combining with the cheap “rent” used for a site, it becomes an easy task. Wink have take it to a whole different level in 2009 and decided to become a leading bingo brand.
The plans for 2010 are looking good with more exciting games, better graphics and more free money and give always. Considering the low risk taken by bingo sites the results could be unbelievable while 1 person can start the whole operation and build a huge company out of it.
There are many stories behind bingo sites and web sites in general building huge from nothing.
A New poker Trend: Becoming a Professional Online Poker Player
Poker online and poker as a game become a mainstream fashion few years ago therefore the popularity of the poke game raise dramatically over the past few years. What makes the poker game so unique and different from other gambling games? Mathematical and statistic experts will answer that poker game involves a lot of thinking, strategy and calculates odd in a very fast and efficient way. If this assumption is true what will be the percentage of luck at poker game? We also research this issue and the result are very surprising, A straight forward calculation will give us a result of 60%-70% thinking and strategy and around 30% luck.
The most interesting evidence in our study, was the fact that attitude is a major thing in playing poker and effect your poker play in a very high percentage, a very recent research and “Missouri college for behavioral psychology”, discover that people functional problems under pressure are the same people who cannot hide stress situation that every poker player going through every session, therefore the way you act, move, talk, body language and the rest external parameters weighting a heavy load in the equation of being professional and successful poker player.
Professional online poker player – advantages:
- Online environment gives the freedom to play poker online from every spot on the world.
- Hi risk profession but also high profits when earning.
- It is not 100% luck.
- Free poker tournaments, allow to win large amount money with no investment.
- World recognition that pays off.
The research got a big turn when online poker was started to be explore and many parameters that were discussed above are not relevant to online poker because the obvious reason that online poker players cannot see each other body and faces so it is all mechanic poker game that played online with Images who represent the real poker players but if the subject is to be at the professional league of poker players, online poker is must.
Most of the professional poker players we interviewed playing online poker and offline poker, when an example to playing poker online was asked to see in action, the results were amazing to find out the each poker player play with 5-10 poker tables at the same time and that the way of making living for some people around the world.
Illegal Casinos Report of 2009
It is a long last debate weather online casino is legal or not, but in U.S.A any casino online activity considered to be a law breaker and a federal offence. It all happened three years ago when the US bill pass and big companies like “Playtech” and others that the USA market was around 90% of their entire activity, had to pull out from the USA market and try to shift the business to different regions mainly in Europe but also other non USA countries.
This act in law cause the online casinos industry to shrink and many people lost their jobs and the entire momentum of this field stopped almost to zero, is it smart thing for the USA government to do? The answer is not straight and more and more opinion were heard during this article, but a simple economic sense leading to creative thought of acting the opposite and legalize online casino back in the USA and our numbers show that this kind of act and additional ruling and taxation can help the American economic crisis and maybe even more than that by creating many new jobs and generate more revenues.
The major conflict is the fact that Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos and all the other land base casino in the united states see online casinos as a treat of their business and a fact that damage the yearly income of every casino, this disturbing fact making the legalize process even more complicate and more creative solution need to be offered.
Major economic analysts claim that a collaboration from the land base casino and sharing online casino business together can be a whole new level of revenue coming into the American government every year, the interest of the big land base casino will be the same because those casinos will operate online as well, how weird is that MGM casino online is not exist, it is a chance that soon or later somebody in the American business will take initiative and make this venture legal and successful.
