May 4 – Mansion Casino promises an eventful May with loads of new promotions.

In addition to their 100% up to $200 new player sign up offer, the casino has not also added a special reload bonus, available every Tuesday. Available on a Tuesday only, the bonus will be valid for a player’s first deposit of the day, when making the required minimum deposit between 00:01 and 23:59 (GMT). The bonus ranges between $400 or $750 depending on the player’s VIP level. This is a 25% match bonus.

Tournament fans are being looked after in May with the $10,000 slots tournament running between 5 May and 13 May.

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More is being learned about the alleged double suicide of online gambling portal website owner Kenneth Weitzner and his wife Jackie. 

Sources close to the investigation reveal to Gambling911.com that the deaths were a combination of overdosing with pills (believed to be Valium) and carbon monoxide.   All the windows and doors of an apartment above the couple’s garage where the bodies were found had been sealed off with tape.  A charcoal grill was used, resulting in the carbon monoxide poisoning.

"(Ken) was severely burned on the upper right thigh and genital area from where he re-lit the grill with lighter fluid," our source tells us.

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Oasis of the Seas, billed as the world’s largest ship, is set to host an ocean-bound poker cruise.  Ladbrokes, the UK’s biggest bookmaker, will host the cruise. 

The fourth annual poker fest at sea will kick off Jan. 22, 2011 upon the 5,400-passenger vessel.

The seven-night voyage to the Western Caribbean, out of Fort Lauderdale, will include stops in Falmouth, Jamaica; Cozumel, Mexico; and Labadee, Royal Caribbean’s private beach destination in Haiti.

Ocean of the Sea is part of the Royal Caribbean family.

Gambling911.com Staff 

Realex Payments is based in Dublin and, in ten years, the business has amassed an impressive roster of clients, including: Aer Lingus, Vodaphone, Aviva, and Accor. They can now add 32Red to the list.

Speaking about the deal, Realex Payments CEO and founder Colm Lyon said “As we grow our gaming portfolio it is important that we secure partnerships with respected operators, such as 32Red. To be selected by 32Red ahead of others demonstrates our leadership and ability to deliver service led bespoke payment solutions’’.

Like any online casino, the ability for players to credit their accounts is the bottom line.

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South America apparently features in the plans of the Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin, which is expanding its traditional European markets and plans a presence in as many as four South American countries over the next two years.

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Industry observers have for some time been predicting that major media companies will become a growing and influential force in the online gambling industry, and it certainly appears from recent deals between Internet betting firms and major newspapers and television stations that this coming about.

This week alone the attractions of a liberated French online gambling milieu have seen Ladbrokes team with Channel CANAL+ and Bwin revitalise its partnership with L’Equipe sports news publications, and in the latest development the French online gambling group Mangas Gaming has announced a collaborative deal with France’s second most popular television network through the Metropole 6 Group.

Mangas subsidiaries include Everest Poker, Expekt, Bet-at-home and Betclic, and the 4 year agreement calls for Everest and Betclic to present their betting services on M6′s network of websites, and sponsor poker and sports content across M6′s nine digital channels.

Of course, all of this activity is subject to the betting companies achieving licensing status with French regulator ARJEL once it starts the licensing process.

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Joe Sebok, Scott Huff and cast & crew deliver another must-see episode of Poker2Nite on Versus this Wednesday night at 11pm EDT – expect the pick of the headlines this week in poker to take center stage.

UB.net’s popular poker news television series continues on Wednesday, April 7th  at 11pm EDT on the Versus Network. Episode six of Poker2Nite presents the week that was, plus what’s hot and what’s not in the world of online and live poker across the globe. The Poker2Nite line-up for the post holiday weekend installment serves up special guests Dr. Jerry Buss of L.A.

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Leading Curacao-licensed online poker room CakerPoker.com has announced that it is set to increase the minimum buy-in for its no-limit hold’em games from 20 big blinds to 30.

The change will take effect from April 8 with CakePoker.com stating that its new policy will help to minimise short-stack play in order to increase fun and competitiveness on the site.

For players who enjoy playing short-stack games, CakePoker.com announced that it would continue to offer tables with low-stake games for 20 big blinds.

“We realise that the issue of ‘short-stacking’ is a contentious one,” said Lee Jones, Card Room Manager for CakePoker.com.

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The UK Gambling Commission has commenced a review under section 116 of the Gambling Act 2005 and, under section 118 of the Act, has decided to suspend that part of Operating Licence number 000-002604-R-104107-004 issued to GameAccount Global Limited relating to remote casino activity, whilst the review takes place.

The suspension is an interim measure, the need for which will be kept under consideration during the review.

The Commission will make no further comment until the review is complete.

GameAccount Global Limited is a mainly skill games operator that has online (remote) gambling interests in the CasinoRip online blackjack site.

According to section 120 of the Gambling Act of 2005, the Gambling Commission may suspend or revoke an operator’s licence if ‘a licensed activity is being or has been carried on in a manner that is inconsistent with the licensing objectives’.

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