Welcome to The Players Lounge! This is the first section to check for breaking news on new games and new casinos. It's your place to learn about the development behind new titles, where you're likely to find the new games debut, and when your favorite operators plan to launch a new site. Players, operators, and regulators share some common interests in the online gambling sphere and this is another place those interests can overlap. But it is the players' lounge and the focus is on your interests.
Whether it's a new gamification model or promotional features built into games, new tech to make your gameplay more enjoyable, or where you might find your favorite lottery tickets available at an online casino, you'll find it here. You'll also find the latest progressive slots winners and relaunches of old favorite titles.
While most of the subject matter is online-oriented, we'll also let you know if land-based casinos are planning to go online, or if your local regulator plans to change the minimum gambling age. If it's something players need or want to know, you'll find it here.
Gaming products and services provider Scientific Games has announced that it will be holding the second annual installment of its Shuffle Master Classic poker event complete with a $250,000 prize pool to be sha...
Dear Mark: Why do casinos have jackpots on their video poker machines that pay $1,199? That seems like an odd jackpot number. Trish H.
Think, Trish, of a $1,199 jackpot as the Lords of Chance doing you ...
The pastime of placing a bet is alive and well in the United Kingdom with strong numbers indicating that all manner of betting activity is going strong in the regulated market. The industry not only provides a ...
Dear Mark: In last week’s column you mentioned that it was impossible to count cards on a continuous shuffle machine. Can you instead count cards on a video blackjack machine since, one) single-deck games are a...
Dear Mark: If a card counter has an advantage over the casino, wouldn’t it be to their advantage to have more hands per hour via a continuous shuffler? Travis C.
You’ve read it here before, Travi...
Dear Mark: I enjoyed your response last week when you played referee on what Gary R. thought was a misdeal when the dealer had a 17, kept hitting, busted, but the dealer still took his bet. I am sure you would ...
Royal Panda Casino offers one of the most diverse and robust selections of casino games out there, and they just keep growing their portfolio. Players worldwide (except US) can now access the premiere NextGen G...
U.S. players have more choices than ever before as long as they can get their deposits in and take their money out without a royal pain in the rear. A little while back we introduced you to Ignition Casino, and...
Dear Mark: Every so often we hear about someone winning the lottery or hitting the grand prize on a progressive slot machine, but these odds are astronomical! How is it that someone, somewhere, always seems to ...
On Tuesday April 12, 2015 Slots Plus Casino unveiled the newest game from Realtime Gaming suppliers; The Big Bopper. The game is available for download, instant and mobile play. The wide screen format video bon...
Japan may have lost it's trailblazing badminton star for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics today after bosses handed Kento Momota an "indefinite suspension" for his visit to an illegal casino with teammate, Kenichi T...
Dear Mark: A book review in the Wall Street Journal appears to claim that a computer can win at Roulette. This doesn't appear to be reasonable since each spin should be random and the rules of probability favor...
Camelot announced today that the biggest single prize in the UK Lotto game's history has been claimed for £35,133,888. Although not as large a total prize as the previous record set in January of £66m, only one...
Each year, somewhere in the world, we seem to hear of a record breaking lottery win that catapults the lucky recipient into his or her country’s top rich-list overnight. But which is the biggest of them all – a...
Dear Mark: When it comes to blackjack, why is counting cards considered a form of cheating? I look at it as someone who is very good at the game and no different from someone playing poker, like players who are...