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PartyCasino Gold Mega Jackpot News - 28th December 2009

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Virgin Casino News: New Slot Games and New Bingo Games - 27th December 2009

Richard Branson's Virgin Games has released more titles.

Marvel super hero online slot games are now available at Virgin, in addition to classic slots like Cleopatra II, Rubik's, Wheel Of Fortune, Monopoly, Elvis, Da Vinci Diamonds and Rainbow Riches Win Big Shindig.

New age and Hollywood titles like The X Factor, The Price Is Right and Transformers are also available.

Most games can be played for free or played for money.

Virgin's unique V*Points can be exchanged for a wide range of Virgin goods and services.

*Sorry, no U.S or Australian players. See World Casino Directory.

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Gangs' casino dole scam; Media Man reports from down under, by Greg Tingle - 28th December 2009

Rupert Murdochs' Australian newspapers including The Herald-Sun, continue to run excellent (and balanced) coverage on the casino and gambling sector in Australia.

Let it be known that Murdoch also has some gaming (and igaming) interests, however they are further developed in the UK sector. Media Man has incidental joined some of News Limited's b2b affiliate programs as goodwill and we utilise some of their newsfeeds, so there's your disclaimer before we swing into things.

The age old connection between casinos, gambling dens and crime continues, albeit a different kind of animal than when the late George Foreman and his "Underbelly" crew ran the streets of Melbourne and Sydney. The late "Earthquake" Tim Bristow gave me a small taste of the scene via Sydney's Penthouse Executive Retreat, and "The Golden Mile" (Kings Cross), which Sydney's "Mr Sin" used to have a significant hold on.

Mr James Packers' Crown Casino has come under the spotlight (or blowtorch) again.... in Australia, if its not the anti gambling lobby having a dig, its the press, and if not them, the police. Crown Casino spokesman, Gary O'Neil, was recently quoted that Crown "is not a convent", but that's pretty much a given.

Australian law enforcement agencies have smartly noted and actioned revelations that some high level criminal networks (and some not so smart ones also) are using Crown Casino as quite the hub and centrepiece of criminal activity.

One of the scams that the crims operate is having Centrelink (Australia's unemployment benefits service) customers, and pensioners, buying chips at the casino which are then used as part of the money laundering process.

Media Man will be attending Crown Casino Aussie Millions next month and is in negotiations with media representatives for Crown. We look forward to providing news media and gaming media with more balanced reports on the casino and gaming sector.

*The writer does own shares in Crown Casino

*Greg Tingle is an Australian based correspondent for Gambling911 and the founder and director of Media Man a media, publicity and internet portal development company. Gaming is just one of a dozen of business sectors that Media Man covers.

Ben Packham of The Herald Sun reports:


CRIME gangs are using pensioners and the unemployed to launder millions in dirty money through casinos, authorities believe.

Centrelink has alerted organised-crime investigators to 15 clients it believes are involved.

They are understood to include a Victorian man who bought almost $13 million in chips at Crown, despite being on the dole. The Australian Crime Commission is closely watching casinos after an 18-month probe.

ACC chief executive John Lawler said that it had intelligence indicating organised crime groups were engaged in "high-level gambling activity" in legal casinos.

Its financial assessment team matched information from casino loyalty programs with other databases, including Centrelink records.

Last year, the Herald Sun revealed it had identified about 2600 Centrelink clients who each bought at least $50,000 in chips; 30 had buy-ins of more than $1 million.

Many were welfare cheats with gambling addictions and undeclared incomes. But further investigation revealed some had links to organised crime groups.

The Herald Sun understands Centrelink referred clients with suspected organised crime links to the ACC for further inquiries.

It's believed the ACC identified more suspected money launderers, independently of the welfare agency.

The federal crime-fighting agency refused to comment.

"The ACC will continue to work with the casino industry to ensure serious and organised criminal entities involved in money laundering are identified and pursued," Mr Lawler said.

The investigation also used Immigration, Customs, and tax office data.

The ACC estimates the cost of organised crime is $10 billion-15 billion a year, an estimated $6 billion of which goes offshore.

Its recent report, Organised Crime in Australia, said most such groups had overseas links, good advice and "professional facilitators".

Organised crime groups are typically involved in drugs, weapons trafficking and high-level financial crimes.

Human Services Minister Chris Bowen said hi-tech data-matching meant that welfare recipients with illicit incomes would be discovered.

"Welfare fraud is a criminal offence liable to long jail sentences," he said.

"People who fraudulently claim benefits from Centrelink should consider themselves warned. It's not a question of if you'll be caught, but when."

Casinos are required to turn over information to authorities under anti-money laundering laws introduced after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Crown refused to comment to the Herald Sun.

*Read the full article here. (Credit: The Herald-Sun)

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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Partygaming Sees 2009 Core Earnings Slightly Ahead - 19th December 2009

Online gaming group Partygaming PLC said Friday it expects its 'clean' full-year earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, or Ebitda, to be slightly ahead of the company's expectations amid solid current trading.

'Clean' Ebitda is the company's preferred measure of profitability and excludes one-off, non-recurring and non-cash items.

In a statement ahead of the company's Dec. 31 year-end, Partygaming said it sees revenue for the full year in line with expectations.

Jim Ryan, Chief Executive, said in a statement that, "as indicated at the time of our third quarter key performance indicators, our business has continued to perform well across the board during the fourth quarter with a return to net revenue growth across all four of our key product verticals."

PartyGaming, the world's biggest listed-online gaming group by market capitalization, derives most of its revenue from online poker and casino games and has a smaller sports book and bingo business.

Poker has been under particular pressure amid a very competitive online gambling market and the company has increased the bonuses paid and expanded its loyalty program to encourage customers onto the site and retain them as well.

CEO Ryan added: "We are pleased to see that the initiatives introduced throughout the year are now feeding through into both operational and financial performance with increased player numbers and average net daily revenues versus the previous quarter, despite continued competition from illegal US-facing sites and the difficult macroeconomic climate."

Partygaming said its casino business has continued to perform well on the back of new games and higher jackpots, while Bingo has grown substantially since the group bought Cashcade in July.

Sports betting has benefitted from a good run of sporting results and the introduction of improved risk management tools.

The company also said new gambling regulations in Italy and France, due to be announced in 2010, represent significant revenue opportunities. Last month Partygaming launched an Italian online poker service with Fueps as it builds out its Italian poker network.

The company said Friday that it has agreed a new GBP35 million loan facility which it will use for general corporate purposes including mergers and acquisitions.

In April, PartyGaming agreed to pay $105 million to U.S. authorities, and in turn the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York agreed not to prosecute the Gibraltar-based company or its subsidiaries for providing Internet gambling to customers in the U.S. before the federal government's ban of the industry in October 2006.

Since the resolution of the U.S. prosecution situation, there has been widespread speculation about consolidation in the market with Vienna-listed online gaming group Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG rumored to be a merger target. BWin is also based in Gibraltor.

PartyGaming will report its fourth quarter key performance indicators on Feb. 3.

Partygaming shares, which closed Thursday at 259 pence, up 2.5% on the day, rose further after Friday's update and at 0805 GMT stood up 1.9% 263 pence.

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PartyCasino Adds New Games - 27th December 2009

PartyCasino.com has added more new slot games.

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Media Man website network exceeds 4 million hits for December 2009

Media Man website network exceeds 4 million hits for December; maintains Hitwise (entertainment) top ten and Google best of the web status

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Saturday, December 26, 2009

PartyCasino: The Top Ten Online Slot Games, by Greg Tingle - December 2009

The top ten online slot games by PartyCasino.com for the month of December 2009 are:

Rambo

Tarzan

Cleopatra

Mission: Impossible

Monopoly

Sinatra

Call Of Duty 4

Top Gun

Thor

The Hulk

The runner up online slot games are:

Resident Evil

Spider-Man

Mega Fortune Wheel

Ramesses Riches

Bejeweled

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Players from most countries can access PartyCasino and PartyPoker. PartyCasino is ranked by many authorities as being the superior online casino for Australia, Europe and South America.

PartyCasino is hopeful of accepting paid American players in 2010, however PartyGaming made a successful purchase of the World Poker Tour late this year allowing players to become more familiar with PartyGaming products and services the world over.

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Major innovations at PartyCasino.com include Live Dealer and Single Wallet, and 2010 will see "Avatar" like technologies arrive.

Latest games include the Call Of Duty 4 slot and Melon Madness jackpot slot. 2010 will deliver more Hollywood themed classics, and rumors suggest to be on the lookout for games including pro wrestling also, be it Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan or Ric Flair. Wrestling Legend Hulk Hogan actually purchased the rights to use the name "Hulk" from Marvel Comics in the 80's, but that's another story. Certainly Party do have positive history in wrestling, Hollywood and Marvel Comics circles. This is evidenced in the public domain not only by The Hulk slot game, but also by Stallone's Rambo slot, Tom Cruise's Top Gun slot and Schwarzenegger's The Terminator. Terminator Salvation features Australia's Sam Worthington, and insiders predict more Terminator games may be on the way.

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