According to a press release from London, England, Gala Coral and Gaming Technology Solutions PLC (”GTS”) have recently signed an online deal bringing their partnership into the online gambling industry.

Now Gala Coral will benefit by bringing in new casino games into their existing websites. GTS has approved its EdGE platform for use on the many online gambling sites for Gala Coral.

The online gambling sites that have gained popularity in the European market through Gala Coral include www.Coral.co.uk, www.GalaCasino.co,uk, www.galabingo.com and www.Eurobet.com.

Through Gala Coral’s use of the EdGE platform, the casino will be able to easily integrate new and innovative games into their websites. The ability to manage these games will strengthen the ease-of-use for online gamblers as well as the operator itself. Another aspect that GTS offers a back and known as Back Office (ICE) which will improve performance ability for marketing. Through the easily navigated interface Gala Coral will be able to use its platform to help customer service and customization.

According to Joe Coughlin, the lead executive for product development at Gala Coral, said: “We’re really looking forward to offering the new games. As a leading operator, we want to ensure that we continually offer our customers the very best and innovative products on the market. It was therefore crucial that we found a software provider with a proven track record of delivering innovative and high quality games to our timescales.”

Steven Matsell of GTS said: “We are delighted that Gala Coral has chosen GTS as its games integration partner and has selected EdGE as its software solution. GTS, as an open platform provider can deliver the best-of-breed games to the Gala Coral network through our established relationships with game developers from all over the world.”

Once again the idea of smoking in casinos has come to a head with the inclusion of a court case. This time a dealer from Caesars Palace Casino on the lost Vegas strip is now suing the company Harrah’s entertainment or been subjected to secondhand smoke.

Now that the case is filed the attorney for Tomo Stephens is gathering sources for a class action lawsuit against the casino. Tomo was a former blackjack dealer at Caesars Palace Casino and is fighting the case to find smoking areas for casino employees.

“The point of this lawsuit is not to ban smoking in casinos,” said Jay Edelson, a Chicago-based attorney who filed the action. “The real goal is to change what they’re doing. At least offer areas that are nonsmoking where employees can circle in and out. We are not trying to stop smokers from gambling.”

The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in lost Vegas, Harrah’s is not only taking away the non-smoking sections of the casino they are also encouraging players to smoke while gambling. In the past years a multi-casino study was performed to determine the secondhand smoke in the bloodstreams of people who were exposed to it.

According to the study done on three casinos, when smoke exists on the casino floors it also will exist in the bloodstreams of the casino employees through secondhand smoke. “We are not asking that Caesar’s Palace become smoke-free,” Edelson said. “They must take steps to protect the health of their employees. That’s reasonable and it’s humane.”

Stephens is fighting the lawsuit after long-term exposure to secondhand smoke throughout her career. She was then forced to quit her job in June and diagnosed by a physician as having pre-cancerous cells in her stomach. The physician therefore told her that she needed to remove herself from the casinos and further exposure to secondhand smoke.

Land-based casino gambling a taken a rather large hit in the past couple years due to the recession. Recently revenue generated at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas and Laughlin dropped nearly 15.1% to $56.5 million. Rather than taking responsibility for itself, the Golden Nugget has blamed the second quarter findings on competitors and customers who are unwilling to spend their money.

According to Tilman Fertitta , Landry’s President and Chief Executive Officer stated, “I feel very good about restaurant hospitality; I do not feel very good about gaming.”

The drop that occurred in the second quarter of this year for Landry’s Hotel and Casino showed a significant decrease from $308.1 million at this time last year compared to $282 million this year in the second quarter. The share earnings also significantly decreased from $.74 down to $.23.

Along with the Golden Nugget casinos, Landry’s owns 175 restaurants as well as amusement parks. As the CEO mentioned he is not concerned about the revenue generated by the restaurants, merely the revenue generated by the casinos.

After hurricane Ike struck last year in Galveston Texas, many of Landry’s restaurants needed to be closed. The timing of this event coincided with a decline in the economy therefore affecting the company. This decline caused many gamblers to stay away from casinos and possibly convince more to join online casinos. The restaurants did recover through a series of promotions and advertisements.

“At Saltgrass, we did do some advertising that tremendously helps,” said Fertitta. “We had pulled back a lot of advertising because we didn’t know necessarily if it would pay for itself.”

Many online casino gambling companies are seeking out global expansion, this is one new open door for them to easily access. Titular market adds new opportunity for these gambling operators as it has potential to open its doors to over 46 million Spanish-speaking online players. By incorporating the Spanish language areas will no longer be restricted to just the country of Spain but other Spanish-speaking countries.

Many online casino operators are now beginning to tailor their products to specific countries and local communities. In doing so they are involving more players than allowing them to take interest in their own specific choice of entertainment. One such come in the note as iGaming has explored this possibility he created a new seminar known as iGB Es España. Through this venture they hope to capitalize on being one of the first infiltrate the Spanish market and acquire new affiliates in the process. The conference will be held in Madrid from October 29-31 and will give the online casino community and idea of how many affiliates are interested in expanding into the online casino industry. The company that expands the fastest and furthest will have the best opportunity to dominate the Spanish online casino gambling market.

The purpose of this online casino gambling conference will be to show the Spanish market up-to-date analysis of different gambling sectors spent world. So it’s a conference will be allowed to ask questions and further explore the new technology as well as learn new tips and tricks to expand the online gaming industry in Spain.

Once Spain comes to a conclusion on the rules and regulations of online casino gambling within their country, the gambling companies will then be up to release their products and begin their affiliate programs.

In order to keep up with the rest of the world, Spain is working diligently to launch online casino gambling in their country. Government regulation of online gambling has been a factor that has kept them back from competing with other markets. Taking tips from the European market which has the largest online casino gambling population anywhere else in the world, Spain is working on the localized version of rules and regulations.

Another issue that has been discussed with online casino gambling has been outsourcing of money where casino organizers will set up a local shop and then dump all the money offshore. In doing so local communities will not benefit from the online gambling is all the money will be put into offshore accounts.

“Never has the need for localization been more apparent in our industry, and iGB España is a timely reflection of this shift in focus.” James McKeown Editor for iGaming Business and iGB Affiliate Magazine, stated, “Spain is a flowering market but there is still much to learn in order to create a successful and fully compliant business there. Being the first market-specific conference on the circuit, iGB España is the only event fully dedicated to the Spanish market, and is the only place where you’ll be fully educated on the legal, operational and technical workings of the market.”

The hottest ticket on the market is the one that gets people the closest to top TV stars. These stars to be movie stars, models or even professional athletes who have built a name for themselves in the public eye. Absolute Poker.com is now participating in the competition that will open the door for many unlikely online poker players compete against some of the top names in the print industry as well as every other industry.

From July 20 through August 24 online players can work their way into the system through this step 10 Ticket at AbsolutePoker.com. The system works is online players will compete in sit-n-go competitions where the winner will advance to the next table. The interest in these games is high due to the low buy-in required to play. Through this step program players will go through 10 different tournaments ended with the one final step competition for the big prize.

In order to move on to the next step online casino players must first finish in first or second or rate high enough to be invited to replay the step. Once each step is completed they will move on until all 10 steps have been finished.

The buy in the first level of the online casino step process is a mere $.10 with each additional round increasing in value. As you move step by step through the process, the goal is to reach the 10th step where you will no longer compete in an online competition. A land-based casino will hold the final step of the tournament.

Online Players that finished the 10 steps can enjoy the final tournament at the play against greats such as :Troy Aikman, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Richard Petty, Sugar Ray Leonard, Emmitt Smith, Reggie Jackson, Joe Namath, Mike Ditka, Julius Erving, Fuzzy Zoeller, Herschel Walker, Laffit Pincay, Jim Brown, Bobby Hull, Jerry West, Brooks Robinson, Gale Sayers, Kyle Petty, and Michael Strahan.

Online gambling industry executives are trying to spread the word and pull the masses that are interested in moving the game of poker out of the realm of illegal gambling. The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) recently was interviewed about their fight for the legalization of online casino gambling.

Leading the charge was Executive Director at CasinoAffiliatePrograms.com who spoke out about the legalizing of the online casino play.

John Pappas was featured in the interview for CAPTV channel and spoke of how online gambling needs to be available to the public. His view was to create a forum where gamblers can voice their own concerns and actually be heard. “We’re really encouraging the poker community to stand up for our game now by signing up for our petition,” said Pappas.

One way to voice your concern is, “You can go to PokerPetition.com where we have a quarter of a million Americans who have signed the petition [addressed] to President Obama.”

The hopes of the petition is to make the legislative executives aware of the amount of interest involved in the legalization of line casino gambling.

The plan of attack is, “We’re going to deliver [the petition] to him on National Poker Week so we’re building up to that. During National Poker Week, we’re asking people to write letters and call their Members Of Congress and do that right through our website, ThePPA.org.”

“We’re happy to provide the PPA with a forum for getting the message out about National Poker Week,” said Bob Rains, Senior Vice-President Of Marketing for CasinoAffiliatePrograms.com.

The plan is to encourage online casino gamblers to stand up for their rights as citizens of the United States, a right that was earned through centuries of wars. “We here at CasinoAffiliatePrograms.com also support the larger effort to get online poker fully legalised in the United States. Not only is this goal of direct interest to all of us in Internet gambling and poker affiliate marketing world, it’s also a worthy cause for American civil liberties in general.”

In outlining the latter for the casinos, Sayre is trying to leave the door wide open for the casinos will hopefully express these general aspects of concern as well as more specific areas that need to be put under the microscope. “There are often times interpretation issues that clearly some open dialogue would help,” Sayre said. “I thought it would be healthy to do something like this if the industry had an interest.”

The letter in question is a response to the most recent activity concerning Planet Hollywood resort where a $750,000 fine was paid in Nevada Casino regulators for failing to properly conduct themselves at a nightclub. Planet Hollywood resort is owned and operated by third party company, however they are still responsible for the dealings that happen within the casino.

The court case involving the Planet Hollywood resort and Casino dealt with nine counts of violations. Among the violations were specific instances of neglect of customers. Some complaints were filed pointed to nightclub employees who ejected customers from the nightclub were drunk and disorderly conduct, and place them in the casino area unattended. By failing to ask security to remove them if found in violation of the rules and regulations as well as displaying neglect following through on their positions.

Now with Sayre’s lead, the land-based casinos will have an opportunity to discuss these matters as well as other areas of concern.”I felt it appropriate that the whole industry didn’t get focused on just one area,” Sayre said. “There were some other areas that clearly both the regulatory system and the industry could benefit from some open dialogue.”

Las Vegas Nevada has been a recent crackdown by the gaming control Board against illegal activity. Two weeks ago a land-based casino on the Las Vegas strip busted for improper control of illegal activity at the club. Due to this incident and other speculation the gaming control Board are considering imposing serious rules and regulations to keep the Las Vegas casinos safe.

The first step in the process of eliminating these regulatory concerns will be to incorporate new seminars that will alert casinos of the regulation issues that they may be at risk of violating.

“It’s an invitation to open up some dialogue,” said state Gaming Control Board member Randall Sayre. “It’s appropriate that there is some avenue for not just us to dictate what we see as trends, but for the industry to come forward and say, ‘Hey, maybe you guys should interpret this for us so we know what we’re dealing with.’ “

Through open up this type of dialogue a state board hopes to alert the casinos and allow the maps you to speak up for themselves and begin to take their own measures protecting their hotel and casino properties. The strengthened my company at all activity that occurs on their property will be subject to these rules and regulations.

According to a letter that was released by Sayre through the regulatory control board, “Either through lack of knowledge or apathy, licensees are creating regulatory challenges in areas requiring corrective action in other areas beyond nightclubs.

According to a press release in Memphis Tennessee, The Good Times Radio Show is now the longest running live casino gaming radio show in the country. Recently it completed its 15^th anniversary of on air talk concerning Mississippi gambling and casino industry.

The radio show was first created in 1994 in Memphis, Tennessee by Rudi Schiffer. The on air casino show was supposed to be a sidebar to the Tunica Casino newspaper known as the Good Times News. Rudi has been a part of the casino industry since 1992 when the first casino opened in Mississippi. First I start with Jackpot Magazine a gambling publication for the South. It is from this magazine that he began over 16 years ago, with his first column “Heard it on the River.”

Schiffer later sold the casino publication to Morris Specialty Publications who incorporated his column into Jackpot Magazine as well as the Mississippi gaming news. He continued to produce the radio show in Tunica County, Mississippi and was awarded in 2004 with the first Jeff Piselli Media Support award by the Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau and Tunica County Chamber of Commerce.

Before entering the casino industry as a writer, Schiffer began his career in Boston as a sports writer for the Associated Press. Aside from his writing contributions he also ran a public relations consultant for or WorldCom PR network.

Once in Tennessee he became known as the”Voice of Tunica,” by writing for such notable publications as casinocitytimes.com, Mississippi Gaming News, and Southern Gaming & Destinations Magazine.