Not everyone has a positive opinion of the gambling industry. Recent events such as the Betfair controversy certainly don’t help. Any time someone is caught embezzling from his employer to pay for his gambling habit, that doesn’t help, either. It’s true that there are some people gambling who should stay away from casinos. And it’s true that sometimes companies behave improperly, whether they are a bank, retail store, phone company, car dealership or casino. It’s part of human nature. While some people exhibit the bad side of human nature, an awful lot of people exhibit the good side. Likewise,

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The 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event winners bracelet which Peter Eastgate put up for auction in aid of charity last week finally sold for $147,500. The top bidder from 116 offers had set the final price, raising a significant amount for Eastgate’s chosen charity UNICEF.

Internet gambler Dinesh Enoka Abeysuriya (29), described by his lawyer as a “lonely and depressed” Sri Lankan on an Australian work visa, has pleaded guilty to embezzling a Queensland charity out of A$1.5 million.

The Brisbane Times reports that Abeysuriya was a finance clerk working for the Blue Care aged care health charity when the offences occurred. Between March 2009 and April 2010 he is alleged to have fraudulently channelled the money to his own accounts, disguised as payments to Blue Care creditors.

Evidence was given to the Brisbane District Court that he spent most of the cash on Centrebet, a sports gambling website, which colleagues noticed he accessed at work.

Abeysuriya was exposed when a bank clerk noted the large amounts of money flowing into his bank account, and he absconded back to Sri Lanka when his crimes were discovered.

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In an attack on the British Columbia Provincial Government based on the failure of the online gambling site, Playnow.com which launched in July 2010, an NDP opposition politician this week claimed to have documentary evidence that the failure was due to a rushed contract.

The NDP says documents show the Provincial Government rushed plans to launch the site despite concerns about the software developer’s proposal. The Playnow.com site was shutdown in a matter of hours after the launch and the reason was cited as “a computer crash due to too many users”.

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Any illusions that the state of Kentucky’s lawyers may have had that online gambling giants like Party Gaming will quietly roll over to tenuous claims aimed at recouping funds lost by state residents were dispelled last week when Party Gaming filed a powerful counter argument.

The state, already mired in unlikely court actions to seize international domain names belonging to internet gambling companies had earlier this year brought an action seeking to recoup funds lost by state residents at major internet gambling sites like Full Tilt Poker owners Pocket Kings.

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Privately held, Las Vegas based Majestic Star Casino LLC has filed suit in the Las Vegas Federal court against three companies operating businesses in Panama, Associated Press reports.

Fitzgeralds casinos, owners of the Majestic Star Casino, claim that the companies operate a site with the same name but use a .net address instead of the casino’s .com address.

Majestic Star lawyers claim the name is too similar and drives users to an online gambling site.

Online casinos like to hold promotions and give away bonuses in order to encourage people to join their site and play there often. It makes sense and pretty much every casino does it. While most are good deals, the money being offered as match bonuses or cash-back bonuses tends to blend together. Since I write about promotions so often, it takes a lot to grab my attention. That’s why I like it when casinos offer unusual or odd promotions.

My favorite promotions of the past have to be when InterCasino was giving away free trips into space and when Golden Tiger Casino gave away real Bengal tigers. Yes, I mean the real animal, which is one of the most dangerous animals on the planet. I

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Microgaming has maintained its momentum of four new releases every month with a November package that includes four new, multi-featured video slots. Medieval bandits, new technology, quad bikes and a reel gem feature in the latest releases.

Microgaming introduces a new interactive feature in the new game Retro Reels which enables players to wager more by re-spinning a selected reel in order to generate improved combinations of winning symbols.

This 5 reel, 20 pay-line slot combines state-of-the-art slots technology and the innovative interactive feature Re-Spin with the simplicity and appeal of yesteryear in its clean, straightforward graphics and ease of use.

The Lucky 7′s, bars and fruit symbols will be immediately familiar to players, whilst the introduction of Re-Spin adds a fresh interactive dimension to the game.

Winning through to the free spins bonus can be the gateway to significant rewards.

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For the past couple of years, lawmakers opposed to online gambling have pointed to the dangers associated with the leisure activity of playing online poker. Earlier this year, these lawmakers worst fears were realized, only the woman was not gambling online, she was playing legal online games.

Alexandra Tobias, a twenty-two year old mother, was accused of killing her three month old son back in January after the baby’s continual crying interrupted Tobias’ game of FarmVille on Facebook. The woman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and now faces life in prison.

“This tragedy is an example of how the government should not be micro-managing the online gambling issue,” said Gaming Analyst Steve Schwartz.

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