Many believe that electronic checks, or e-checks, will become the primary deposit method for online casinos, especially those that deal with American customers. Since the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in 2006, many financial institutions are weary of getting in trouble with the feds for being used for the transfer of funds from “illegal” online gambling. Their worry hinges in large part on the fact that UIGEA does not either make any gambling illegal or clearly define what types of online gambling are illegal. Since the law is so murky, there is the potential for abuse.

For that reason, Visa and Mastercard have both started blocking all transactions between American customers and online casinos, sports books or any other online gambling sites. Other credit card companies may follow suit and even if they don’t, Visa and Mastercard make up the vast majority of the market (with Discover and American Express a ways behind).

There are, of course, other options for making electronic payments. There are a ton of e-wallet sites out there, but some people don’t like using them and for some, they are difficult or tiresome to use. For that reason, many prefer to use electronic checks. To pay by e-check, players only need to enter their checking account number, routing number and social security number (to confirm their identity) on the website. E-checks are even often used to transfer funds on e-wallet websites, so in those cases a casino that allows e-check payment would be cutting out the middle man.

There are not currently a lot of online casinos that offer payment via e-check, though Lucky Red Casino and Aladdin’s Gold are two that do. In the near future, experts believe that a majority of online casinos that serve American customers will have e-check payment as an option in order to avoid losing business. Some sites even offer incentives, such as bonuses, for paying via e-check, since it is cheaper for the casino than a credit card payment.

With the large number of online casinos out there competing for the business of the same customers, the casinos have to do something to get your attention. Since they want your business, they like to run all kinds of promotions, including releasing new games, offering bonuses and tournaments. Right now Millionaire Casino is doing all three.

Magic Monkey is the new game and it’s about, well, a monkey who knows magic. To be honest, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near a magic monkey. They’re enough trouble without the magic. Mickey Mouse was enough trouble when he dabbled in magic and made those mops come to life and everything, and he was just a mouse. A monkey with magical powers? No thanks. For those who like the idea, though, it’s a 5-reel, 25-payline video slot with entertaining animation.

Millionaire Casino’s deposit bonus has been raised. For a while, the casino has offered a 100% match bonus, but now they have increased the deal to 200%. Players can now play with triple the amount of money they deposit, with an upper limit of $500.

And finally, the tournament being offered by Millionaire Casino is called the March Madness online slot tournament. It is being held to coincide with the NCAA Tournament (that’s college basketball, for the uninitiated) and runs until March 31. The tournament has a prize pool of $300,000, with half of that amount going to the first-place finisher. The online slot tournament has an entry fee of $10.

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March is a big time of year for college basketball fans. First comes the close of the regular season, followed by the conference tournaments and then the Big Dance – the NCAA Tournament. It is one of my favorite times of year, when I fill out my brackets and get most of them wrong, despite following the game all year and having a good idea of who should win. In honor of this exciting time of the year, Cherry Red Casino is now holding the Big Dance Blackjack tournament.

The qualifiers for this tournament are held every week, beginning on March 1 and the tournament itself is held on April 16. The weekly qualifiers have an entry fee of $16 and a guaranteed prize pool of $500. The top four players (out of 64) in each of the qualifiers gain free entry to the main tournament on April 16. For players who don’t play their way in, that tournament has a steep entry fee of $110 and a prize pool of $6,400. A total of 64 players from the qualifiers will make it to the tournament in addition to anyone who buys their way in.

Cherry Red’s blackjack tournaments for this promotion are mano a mano tournaments. In these games, you don’t play against the dealer. Instead, two players will compete head-to-head, with the winner taking all of the points. At the end of the qualifiers, the four players with the most points advance.

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Most Americans are obsessed with coffee. I don’t get it myself. I don’t understand why people would want to constantly drink a disgusting, foul-smelling hot drink that burns your throat going down and for many people serves as a diuretic drug or an enema (and for some people, both). I can only stand coffee if it’s ice cold and has enough other flavoring that I can’t taste the coffee at all. Basically, I can tolerate coffee if it’s made into a caffeinated milkshake.

Millions of Americans, however, disagree and can’t get enough of their cappuccinos, espressos, lattes, and their dry, half-caf venti caramel macchiato upside down. If you actually read that last part and knew what I was talking about, there’s a good chance you’re a coffee addict. You’re probably one of those people who needs to get your coffee fix in the morning, however many cups your fix is, to be able to function, and without it you are a shaking, nervous mess. Every other substance I know of that has that affect is illegal.

Regardless of my feelings on the subject, Americans are obsessed with their coffee. Maybe it’s because they threw all of that tea into the harbor and needed something else to drink in the morning. All Slots Casino has a new online slot that plays upon that coffee-obsession.

That new slot is called CashOccino. To be honest, the first time I saw this name I thought that Bengals receiver Charles Ochocinco (nee Johnson) had changed his name again. Instead, this new online slot has the theme of a classy coffeehouse. To be fair, even though I don’t like coffee, I do like coffeehouses, mostly for the music and atmosphere.

CashOccino has symbols of different coffee drinks, coffee beans and more. It has a color palette that is rich yet subtle, seeming like the perfect colors for a coffee shop. All Slots Casino’s newest game is a 5-reel, 30-payline online slot with a variety of multipliers, free spins and other bonuses. Wagers can be made in denominations ranging from $.01 to $45, giving you a wide betting range.

So if you’re one of those coffee fiends who gladly spends $8 for a drink from a coffee shop that you could recreate at home for less than $1, this may be the game for you. All Slots certainly hopes so. Maybe you would like to start your morning by playing this game while drinking your coffee. CashOccino will be available on March 4.

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Gambling is fun. I like to do it myself from time to time and it’s a great way to have a good time as long as you do so responsibly. There is one problem with it, though, that is difficult to get past: It’s expensive. You can’t gamble for free and even if you’re really good at the game you play, there is no guarantee that you will make money or even break even. If there were any guarantees of success, it wouldn’t be called gambling.

I don’t mind paying some money for entertainment. After all, it’s a little pricey going to a concert, sporting event or movie as well. Still, it’s always nice when the online casinos have promotions that help defray the costs of playing your favorite games. Lucky Red Casino is doing exactly that right now with their great welcome bonus.

Right now new members can claim a 400% bonus from Lucky Red Casino. Yes, that’s right: 400%. Here’s one way you can think of that: Your first gamble is choosing a casino to join and you immediately win that bet and quadruple your original amount. In some ways, it’s like winning before you even play a game.

To claim that bonus, you need to join the casino and make a deposit. Lucky Red will then match that deposit 400% up to $4,000 for online slots. If you are more of a video poker or blackjack player, there is a different match bonus. Players of those games will receive a 100% welcome bonus up to $1,000. The bonus for online slots is better because slots have a higher house edge.

The bonuses, of course, are meant to be used to play games with and thus cannot be immediately withdrawn. Getting started by playing with the house’s money is a pretty good way to begin your relationship with an online casino as far as I’m concerned.

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Right now, we all need money. I don’t know anyone who isn’t either hurting financially or worried about financial problems coming in the future. No job is secure and neither is the stock market, housing market or anything else people invest in. Some people say this is a bad time to gamble. I think it depends on your situation, but certainly now is a time to look for bargains and spend your money as wisely as possible.

Villento Casino recognizes that people need a little extra money to entice them into getting their game on. That’s why they have just raised their welcome bonuses to $1000 for new members. Players who join the online casino now get a 100% match bonus on their first deposit of up to $150. For their second deposit, Villento Casino is giving out a 30% match bonus up to $225. For the third deposit, the online casino will match 50% of your deposit up to $105. The fourth and final part of the welcome bonus is spread out over the entire year, with 40 free spins on the slot of the week every Tuesday for an entire year (52 weeks from your start date). That is a value of $520. I got out the calculator and, sure enough, those amounts add up to $1000 in free money.

In addition to the welcome bonus, Villento Casino has other good promotions, such as freeroll tournaments and online tournaments with prize pools of over $200,000. If you were on the fence about whether you wanted to spend time at an online casino, or if you knew you did but didn’t know which casino to try, this offer could certainly help.

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Casino Tropez is celebrating their eighth birthday and that’s no small feat. For an online casino to last that long usually means that you have proved your reliability and trustworthiness, have developed a loyal fan base, and offer good games that players want to play and promotions that they enjoy. Casino Tropez has been able to do all of that for 8 years and now it’s time to celebrate.

Normally, guests give presents to the person celebrating their birthday, but Casino Tropez is instead giving the gifs to the players. I guess it makes sense, since the players are the ones who have enabled the online casino to last thing long. Also, they probably figured no players would be willing to send presents to the casino. I guess they could have made an Amazon wishlist and put it on the website…

Anyway, to celebrate their 8^th birthday, Casino Tropez is giving away a 100% match bonus for new customers up to $8,000. Even before making a deposit, though, new players can earn up to $3,000 simply for registering.

There are other promotions going on at the casino as well, such as the friend referral offer, where if you get a friend to join the casino you will get $50 free and your friend will get $25 in addition to the aforementioned welcome bonuses.

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February is the month when men celebrate their love of football (with the Super Bowl) and women celebrate their love of getting gifts and “romantic” gestures (with Valentine’s Day). For that reason, it’s also a big time for promotions and tournaments at online casinos.

No one can claim that Millionaire Casino isn’t doing enough to celebrate Valentine’s Day. The I Heart Slots promotion ended on Valentine’s Day. In addition, they have been holding the month-long Lucky In Love online slot tournament. In this tournament, players compete for a prize pool of $50,000. This tournament is played on a game called Dr. Love, which sounds like the title to either a porno movie, a horror movie, or a pornographic horror movie (actually, that sounds like it could be good).

But that’s not all. Millionaire Casino has dubbed Cupid’s Arrow their slot of the month. Any VIP Plan members who play that online slot during the month of February will earn double rewards points.

I’m not the biggest fan in the world of Valentine’s Day. I think it’s artificial and gives people a bad idea of what it means to be romantic. However, perhaps kind of ironically, I love Valentine’s-themed slots. I guess it’s because I can imagine them being romantic and having nothing to do with the holiday, even though I know that’s not true. In any case, romantic or not, I always love slot tournaments.

For that reason, I think Millionaire Casino is a good bet for a place to gamble this month. If you agree, be sure to visit the online casino before the promotions end.

The Olympic Games opening ceremony in Vancouver is on Friday and many have already gotten the Olympic fever. I know I have. I suddenly care about things like skiing, figure skating and luge. Only during the Winter Olympics is this normal.

For those of you who share my affliction with the Olympic fever, as far as I know there is no cure other than to get as much of the Olympics as you can. The easiest way to do that is to watch the games on TV. However, since they haven’t started yet, in the meantime you need to get your fix by clever tie-ins. One that comes to mind is the Olympian Playoff tournament at All Slots Casino.

The Olympian Playoff tournament, like the real Olympics, has several events. For the purposes of this tournament, each event is a different game, with five games in total. Those games are the Winter Gold online slot, Avalon Slots, the Cashville slot, Blackjack Gold and European Roulette. To win, players want to get the highest score possible on each game, kind of like in the Olympics, where you can earn a medal at multiple events.

Players are competing for a prize pool of $50,000 and there is a winner in each event. Points are earned for a variety of things, such as each 50 credits wagered and every payout over 1000 credits. The events will be held in two rounds, with Round 1 running from February 9 through February 22 and Round 2 running from February 23 to March 7.

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The Super Bowl, sadly, is over and done with, meaning that we are not farther than ever from football season. It also means that all of the Super Bowl slot tournaments are over. Online Vegas still has their weekend tournament in progress, though, partly because theirs had nothing to do with the big game.

The Weekend Madness tournament at Online Vegas casino began on Friday, but runs through Tuesday. Players are competing for a guaranteed prize pool of $50,000. Now that’s my kind of madness! The first-place winner will earn $15,000; the second-place finisher will win $5000 and the third-place finisher will walk away from the tournament with a new $2500 of spending money.

The game is played on an online slot called Love Bugs, which has nothing to do with Herbie, that lovable anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle, or any sexually transmitted diseases. The online slot tournament has an entry fee and a rebuy that are both $12.99, earning you $325 to play with.

The tournament is almost over, so if you want to join and take your shot at the prize money, you should start playing soon. To enter the tournament, visit Online Vegas before it’s too late.