King Neptunes Casino Joins Belle Rock

Just received a mail from a casino I used to play at - King Neptunes - to say that they have been brought under the Belle Rock Entertainment brand banner. King Neptunes was part of the excellent Trident Lounge group but a while back was sold (with Trident Lounge Casino) to Carmen Media. No surprise here bearing in mind carmen own Belle Rock, who in turn manage the Carmen casino brands Jackpot City, Lucky Nugget, Gaming Club and River Belle. Good Microgaming casinos - like Neptunes - with a long and pretty solid history. The only downside is that BR support is pretty slow - it takes me anything up to 12 hours to get a response on a bad day. Otherwise, a pretty positive move.

Useful Live Feed For Casino & Poker Affiliates

affCAFF is a free system for webmasters that allows them to plug in bonuses, promotions and news from over 200 (at last count) online casinos, poker rooms, bingo sites and sportsbooks. It works by putting a line of Javascript or PHP, depending on which you prefer, into any page on your website and then it updates the bonus or promotion in real-time as soon as it is updated.

It also has an RSS feed integration tool too so that feeds from the casinos, poker rooms etc can be integrated into webmaster sites without any knowledge of RSS required.

In all the above cases, it lets the webmaster wrap the line of code that provides the feed in their own affiliate links too. Very neat and very easy to use. Visit affCAFF…

Mobile Casino & Poker - Smoking or A Dud?

The latest thing seems to be to do everything on your phone - or so we’re told. Download music, surf the web, email and now…poker and casino! To be honest, I used to own a PDA and found I never really used it except to - shock, horror - make phone calls! So I’m alitle sceptical. But then again, as a gambler, thought it would be interesting to check out this new one. This article sums up what I thought of it all. Is there a future? Is it the next best thing since sliced bread? Or a dud?

I downloaded one poker room and two mobile casinos: Aces Royal for the poker and for the casinos, Ladbrokes and Wild Jack (the only one of these that also accepts USA players by the way). As it turns out, the latter two are the same software so you get the same games. I’m not go into too much detail on games and stuff - only to say that graphically and operationally they are pretty impressive. If you want more on those - check out my Mobile Phones & Gambling satellite site.

Anyway - lets’ start with the Poker. 6 players to a table, various table limits, all Texas Hold’Em. You play against real people - it’s simply  

Casino Affiliate Guide

As a casino affiliate, I get asked a number of questions by players who fancy a shot at earning a buck from the affiliate side of the game. For those who don’t know, an affiliate is a webmaster who runs a site that promotes, reviews or offers information on products and services in return for a commission. In the casino and poker game, it’s big business and highly competitive, but for a player who also has the skills to put a half-decent website together, it can be lucrative given time.

I intend to do a series of articles on what it takes to be a good casino affiliate. I’ll deal with content, domain names and the art of search engine optimisation (SEO) in due course, but by way of an intro, this article lays out the basics…the information you need that will help you decide if it’s a course you wish to follow. If you get it right, there is no better business to be in. You simply drive traffic to your sites and refer them to online casinos who then do the work of retention and everything for you. However, that isn’t to say you have no responsibilities: you need to put the player first and it does require regular attention, but once established  

A Guide For Casino Players

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Useful Software and Tools

During the course of the last few years, I’ve come across some useful bits of software and tools that can help both players and casino affiliates. Actually, I’ve also found some prety crap ones too, but I won’t be listing those here. Many of these are free, one or two are shareware, and the odd one is a commercial application, although being a skinflint I’ve not often bought any, so there won’t be many here.

So here’s the most useful ones I’ve found so far:

Poker Freeroll Tournament Feed

A number of different RSS feeds in fact, the most popular one being the freeroll feed. They get updated every day with all the online poker tournaments from all the major poker rooms and are a great way to keep up with all the main tourneys, including WSOP and WPT qualifiers among others. Also a very useful resource for webmasters and bloggers to put them on their websites.

affCAFF Real-time Webmaster Feeds

affCAFF is a free system for casino affiliate peeps that integrates the latest bonuses and promotions from a large number of online casinosand poker rooms with a website. Also allows the webmaster to include their own afiliate links and updates the info every hour or so.

Video Poker Calculator

This is an excellent shareware tool that helps video poker players work out the best hands. The free version works pretty well, but an upgrade is also worth the money IMO.

How To…For Players & Wannabe Affiliates

I’m setting up a section to kinda offer my take on how to go about doing different things - pretty obvious from the title I guess. I’m going to start by explaining how to become a casino affiliate as that’s a question I get asked a fair bit on Casinomeister. Then I’ll move on to some basic questions that players will want to know…check it out in my player guides.

Online Casinos & The Law

Online Casinos - The Legal Situation

It goes without saying that different jurisdictions have different laws to govern online gambling, and as a player you need to be aware of your local laws before you deposit. A common mistake is to think that because you can find a way to deposit, you’ll be okay, but the laws also govern the casinos so getting paid might be trickier than you think if you live in a country where gambling online is illegal.

Below, I’ll look at the law in the USA nd Europe in a bit more detail, but always be sure your country of residence is comfortable with the thought of allowing you freedom to spend your own money before you play an online casino or poker room.

The US

The law regards online gambling has always been fuzzy in the US since the inception of the web. Until relatively recently, many casinos were generally happy to take US players, but in October 2006, the US slid in the “UIGEA” legislation that forbade banks and financial institutions from allowing their customers to place  

Are Online Casino Games Fair?

Are Online Casino Games Fair?

This is one of the first questions a “newbie” is likely to ask…after all, the history of gambling doesn’t exactly instill confidence when it comes to playing fair. The good news is, that in today’s world of stricter controls and in an industry dominated by a handful of top quality software vendors, most games use sophisticated Random Number Generators (”RNG’s”) which, at the high profile end of things at least, have been certified through licensing organisations. But it’s not all sweetness and light :)