One lucky Swedish online casino player is celebrating becoming a multi-millionaire after striking a staggering €4 million jackpot on CasinoEuro.com’s Mega Fortune slot. The bumper pay-out was made by Net Entertainment, who are one of Sweden’s leading online gaming and software suppliers, and eclipsed the previous record jackpot that was handed out on the same slot just four months ago.

The Mega Fortune slot is a five-reel, 25-line video slot which is famed for having one of the largest progressive jackpots in the market. The game features two local jackpots alongside a free-spin bonus and offers up to a five-time multiplier on any wins.

“It is my pleasure to congratulate yet another multimillionaire,” said Bjorn Krantz, managing director of Net Entertainment Malta Limited on receiving news of his site’s record-breaking pay-out. “We recognise a huge player interest in Mega Fortune and it is delightful to see how quickly these pooled jackpots can accumulate to such high payout levels.”

The winner, a Swedish woman, has expressed her desire to remain anonymous, but will no doubt be enjoying significant celebrations following her life-changing prize. Magnus Silfverberg, CEO of Net Entertainment’s parent company Betsson commented: “Being part of a linked jackpot network is of great value as it ensures that the jackpot grows to large amounts in a short period of time. Large jackpots are imperative for driving traffic and attract much interest in the player community.”

A former Atlantic City casino dealer who’s been on the lam for 10 years after being charged with armed robberies of five casinos and a bank has been arrested in Ghana.

The FBI says it got help from Scotland Yard to track down 32-year-old Edmund Osei in April in Accra North, Ghana. He was arrested last week by Ghanaian police after what officials call a diplomatic process.

Osei, who once worked as a poker dealer at the Trump Taj Mahal, is accused of taking $60,000 from casino and a bank during a robbery spree in the summer of 1999.

He disappeared after failing to show up for an arraignment in January 2000.

Harrah’s has announced a partnership with 888. Casino giants Harrah’s has previously tested the waters with online gambling when it hired ex Party Poker CEO Mitch Garber to run Harrah’s interactive entertainment early this summer. Since then not much has been seen from the camp with regards to online until now.

It has been announced that Harrah’s interactive and 888 holdings with work together developing the Caesars Palace and World Series of Poker brands online. The deal is to be handled by Dragonfish, the B2B sector of 888.

“Dragonfish will deliver its market leading poker and casino software, ePayments, CRM, Customer Support and VIP services, creating a platform to grow the WSOP and Caesars casino brands online”, said a Dragonfish spokesperson.

Gigi Levy, CEO of 888 also commented, “This is a ground breaking deal for 888 and demonstrates our ability to provide real value to globally renowned, land-based casinos and their leading brands”, said Levy. “We have the structure in place to realize our B2B division’s full potential over the next 18 months and beyond and today’s announcement of our partnership with an industry giant is further vindication of this strategy.”

Dragonfish has proved to be a successful venture as financial reports saw huge revenue growth with their poker and casino ventures whilst other parts of the company suffered.

Mitch Garber said of the new venture, “As we develop and roll out our interactive strategy, we have chosen to work with 888, primarily for their world-class technology, scalability, and a strong commitment to compliance, and responsible gaming”.

A scheme for a £40m casino, hotel and shopping centre in Buckinghamshire is to go ahead on the casting vote of a committee chairman, despite opposition.

The project will be built by the owner of Xscape at Milton Keynes and will be alongside its entertainment centre creating 200 new jobs, developers said.

Local residents mounted a campaign to prevent the development and are unhappy over the decision of the planners.

The planning committee chairman’s casting vote sealed approval.

The UK’s Channel ‘Five’ has announced that it has signed a five year deal with ‘NetPlay TV’ to broadcast a daily live casino show.

Supercasino.com is to be the live interactive TV show, and is set to air firstly from 12 Midnight until 4 AM on Friday, and the same on Saturday and Sunday.

This is set to start on the 17th of September 2009 and is due to be extended to 6 nights a week by October, and seven nights by January 2010.

This makes Channel Five the first Terrestrial TV channel to take advantage of OFCOM’s new licensing rules, classing Gambling under Teleshopping, allowing up to 6 hours of broadcasting in a 24 hour period.

The deal has been made possible from a previous deal between software developer Playtech and Channel Five in July allowing for the NetPlay Tv software to cope with the additional traffic.

Macau’s casinos raked in a record 1.5 billion dollars in August, their highest-ever monthly revenue and up more than 17 percent on the same month last year, a report said Thursday. Analysts hailed the second consecutive month of year-on-year revenue growth in the world’s largest casino market as the start of a recovery, the South China Morning Post said, after a 12.4 percent decline in the first half.

The August figure of 11.27 billion patacas (1.5 billion dollars) was 17.8 percent higher than the previous month, and 33 percent more than the average monthly revenue during the 12 months to July, the report said. The previous monthly record stood at 10.33 billion patacas in January 2008.

Morgan Stanley analyst Praveen Choudhary expects this month’s casino revenue to grow 40 percent from a low of 7.09 billion patacas a year earlier, according to the Post. Tourism has surged since the former Portuguese colony’s casino industry was liberalised and billions of dollars of investment began pouring in. With enormous casino complexes cropping up over the past few years, Macau has easily overtaken Las Vegas in terms of gaming revenue.

Macau’s August figure was slightly more than triple the Las Vegas Strip’s 471.25 million dollar average monthly casino revenue during the 12 months to June, the Post said. The August rise comes despite a worsening economy, with Macau’s GDP shrinking 13.7 percent in the second quarter of the year, according to China’s official Xinhua news agency.

Zeng Zhonglu, of the Macau Polytechnic Institute, said it showed the former Portuguese colony’s gaming market is yet to be saturated despite operators continuing to unveil new concessions, the agency said. City of Dreams and Hotel Lan Kwai Fong Macau opened in June and August, bringing the city’s total number of casinos to more than 30.

However, the Macau government has predicted a 10 percent drop in gross gaming revenues for the whole year.

Playtech, the company, which recently signed a deal to develop software for William Hill’s gambling website, said pre-tax profits in the six months to June 30 came in at €32.8m (£28.6m) compared to €24m a year earlier. Revenue rose to €56.7m compared to €51.6m last year.

Shares in Playtech rose 15p to 347¾ after it said the joint venture with William Hill was back on track.
The company lost a quarter of its market value in one day in July after it issued a surprise profits warning due to problems with the William Hill Online project.

Mor Weizer, chief executive, said: “We remain firm believers in William Hill Online and there are already some encouraging signs, including a big increase in the number of players.”

Mr Weizer said Playtech would introduce gambling software for Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices by the end of the year.

He added that revenue from mobile phone gaming was “marginal, but fast growing”.

The group will pay a 8.9 cents interim dividend, up 17pc, on October 23.

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