Land Based Casinos Growing With Online Casinos

20.08.2006
Land Based Casinos Growing With Online Casinos

The Online casino industry is currently being debated about, and the U.S government is experiencing many conflicting opinions.

Just recently, the government has been working on eliminating online casinos and online poker from American resident's homes.

Now, land based casinos within in the United States are trying with good reason to legalize them.

There's no denying the fact that the online industry is taking people by storm, and many people want to get in on the action and US landbased casinos do not wan't to get left behind.

It's interesting to know that there are hundreds of online casinos, but not one yet is linked in some way or another to well known land based casinos.

Land based casinos want the interest of the people, and they are aware that if online casinos are owned and operated by them, the 'people' will be even more interested to play online..
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20.08.2006
BetOnSports clashes with NETELLER over payout claims

Neteller executive denies that his company is holding up payment to players

The ongoing tragedy of the BetonSports decline (see previous Online-Casinos.com and InfoPowa reports) continued this week as assertions and denials went back and forth regarding payouts to players as ordered by a US federal court.

Following Department of Justice prosecutions and a restraining order from a federal court, the embattled online gambling group has had to close its site to all US players, a move that slashed some 80 percent of its business off the books. The order also required the company to pay deposits back to players, something a spokesman said it could not do owing to a suspension in its contracts with e-cash processing outfits like Neteller.

This week, in an exclusive interview with TheOnlineWire.com, the Vice President of Neteller flatly denied his eProcessing company is preventing monies from being transferred by BetonSports to its customers.

"Neteller is not holding any funds from BetonSports.com and thus has not frozen or held any reserve funds from this company." Andrew Gilchrist, the VP of Corporate Development and Communications said...
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14.08.2006
eCOGRA Achieves 100 online casinos target ahead of plan

Target date of December 2006 easily passed, with 107 accredited online gambling venues

The online gambling standards and player protection body eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA) has easily achieved its target of accrediting 100 online casinos and poker rooms before the end of December 2006.

In an announcement this week the chief executive officer of the non-profit organisation, Andrew Beveridge said that the board of directors was delighted by the positive response to the "100 Seals Campaign"- a reference to the "Play It Safe" eCOGRA seal awarded to operators who have passed tough probity and operational efficiency inspections and continuous monitoring for fair games and safe gambling...
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