Gaming News all over the world 30.12.2009

30.12.2009, Mobility and Gambling Go Hand in Hand / EDeck Offers Online Sports Betting to Las Vegas Patrons / Winner 2010 Introduces Online Gambling to French Consumer / bet365 and Pacific Lottery Corp. Announce Strategic Alliance

Mobility and Gambling Go Hand in Handy
Mobile web services are definitely the way of the future with the trend growing by leaps and bounds every month. In a large portion of the world land based casinos are loosing out to the totally portable online casino. When you consider the growth of the use of cell phones and how sophisticated those phones are becoming it is just an obvious fact that gambling online via a mobile devise is the way of the future. Each month, approximately 68.6 million Americans use the web via a mobile device. That figure is expected to double within a couple of years. Consumers continue to increase the sales of mobile web service plans, as well as data devices to operate them, such as the smart phones, which are sold by nearly every cellular provider.

Making a bet on your phone on the web makes perfect sense for the time conscious fast paced environment of today where pleasure usually is mixed with business. Mobility services are not cheap but they are cost effective when time is money and travel becomes a chore. While the expected usage of mobile data plans is expected to increase 49.4 over the next four years, we can not help but wonder just how quickly the increase will come and how vigorous the need for mobile technology will be.

As with most technologies application innovation increases significantly with demand. Live online casinos in play sports betting all reley on the latest and most up to the minute data. If you know the odds and are actually able to stay on top of the action while you're on the move you have abetter chance of winning. It's as simple as that the first one in line gets the prize. Marketers of online gambling see the need and are acting accordingly providing more applications that are faster and more fun. It is predicted that in America alone mobile information use will soon reach one hundred million a month. That could create a lot of revenue for the gaming world.

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EDeck Offers Online Sports Betting to Las Vegas Patrons
The latest effort by a hotel in Las Vegas called the M Resort and Spa Casino, which is the newest addition to the offerings on the Vegas strip will include a form of online gambling. The resort includes 92,000 sq. ft. of gaming, 1847 slots and video poker machines, 64 gaming tables and a live action poker room. Now the hotel will be offering it's patrons a handheld unit that will allow patrons to make sports wagers online. This innovation has made the gap smaller with the customer now accepting the use of online devices to make their bets. The portable units include table games such as baccarat and blackjack, and are permitted with the use of an established account to gamble throughout the casino from a remote location. The eDeck, gambling device, as it is named, brings some of the convenience of online gaming to casino customers.

EDecks offer in game sports betting, allowing players to add new bets or change existing bets as games progress. This instant, anywhere, wagering opportunity is not unique to the M resort and spa casino. They were first introduced by the Venetian Hotel in 2007. The mobile gaming units are an attempt by Las Vegas sports books to recapture the sports betting market. The Nevada Gaming Commission numbers show sports wagering revenues last year were only $125 million, just more than one percent of total gambling revenue, as online gambling sites are drawing patrons away from traditional casino sports books.

Sunny Tara of Cantor Gaming commented that, “The portable devices are sophisticated, but they really are just tools to access the real technology, which sits on the servers,” The process is virtually the same as mobile gambling on cell phones, which is not allowed by US phone carriers who are concerned they may violate the current USA gambling rules for the internet.

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'Winner 2010' Introduces Online Gambling to French Consumer
Paris the iconic European city famous for everything will once again be the centre of the universe next May 2010. It will be the gambling capital of Europe for preciously three days from the 28th May to 30th of May 2010. Carrousel du Louvre in Paris will host the European jurisdiction's first gambling fair. 'Winner 2010' will be the working title for this new and extensive event. Carrousel du Louvre is attached to the great art gallery and is a series of large exhibition halls, used primarily for conventions, conferences, and the regular haute couture fashion shows presented by top clothing designers.

The Winner Exhibition company will be organizing the event and are aiming at encouraging and informing the general public about games like poker, horse racing and sportsbetting. With the online gambling market due to expand soon in France and the rest of Europe the timing for this event just can't be better. The fair will usher in the debut of poker, horse race betting and sports match wagering to the French online gambling market. The gambling fair will act as the platform for the online gambling operators who are introducing themselves to the new French consumer with online gambling products. 'Winner 2010' will offer live poker lessons from professionals to those novices wanting to learn the tricks of the trade and have some fun doing it. The Gambling Fair also plans to generate more interest in traditional casino gambling activities such as roulette and blackjack. A virtual currency will be used at 'Winner 2010' and is expected to garner considerable public attention. Online gambling operators who are potentially the suppliers of the new entertainment opportunities will benefit from this public forum in more ways imaginable. Operators will be able to get a feel for the interest level from the French public and present their offerings with style.

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bet365 and Pacific Lottery Corp. Announce Strategic Alliance
The only legally authorized seller of lottery tickets in Vietnam is The Pacific Lottery Corporation that is headquartered in Calgary Alberta Canada.

Pacific Lottery Corporation is engaged in the provision of comprehensive computerize online and mobile phone lottery technology and related professional services for delivery to a growing audience of international customers. Today, PLC leads the exclusive technical support activities for the only authorised State run online lottery program in Vietnam. The launch of the recently approved mobile phone lottery service in Vietnam, to come online in the very near future, is expected to greatly expand lottery ticket distribution combined with increased public awareness derived from the new daily, live lottery draw TV show. Vietnam, one of Asia’s most populated and economically vibrant countries in Asia.

The Pacific Lottery Corporation has recently announced along with it's quarterly report that it has agreed to a strategic alliance with bet365, one of the worlds largest Sports betting companies with gross annual amounts wagered of over US$ 5.1 billion. Bet365 is licensed and regulated in the United Kingdom and according to the Sunday Times is the UK’s 7th largest private corporation. They service over 3 million customers, in 17 languages, in 200 countries worldwide. PLC and bet365 look forward to working cooperatively together on new, exciting and mutually beneficial opportunities. Bet365 offers sports betting, poker, casino games, and bingo, as well as video streams on sporting events. Bet365 also offers an on course bookmaking service.

For sports betting, bet365 is licensed and regulated by the UK Gambling Commission. bet365's casino, games and poker operations are licensed and regulated by the government of Gibraltar.

The Pacific Lottery Corporation (PLC), was founded in 1995, and is a publicly traded company on the TSX-Venture exchange, in Toronto trading under the ticker symbol LUK. It is also listed on Frankfurt Exchange under the symbol PCF.

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