Well, Mr. Spitzer, at least you did the right thing.  Quite a fall from grace, methinks - from the Emperor’s Club to just plain old Mr. Spitzer.

Good bye.

Good riddance.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, lest you be charged for damaging public property as well.

I nearly spit my Crystal Lite all over my notebook when I saw the Breaking News from CNN… New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, formerly NY’s #1 enemy of online gambling as NY Attorney General - has admitted that he was involved in a prostitution ring.

I guess even tenacious bulldogs who bark and bite and never let go sometimes latch on to the wrong thing.  But this particular instance has completely startled New York citizens, not to mention a number of other high-profile personalities and people. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been moving servers, upgrading scripts, and playing around with themes for the site, so on occasion you may discover that the site is down or looks different or acting weird (like its owner).

Rest assured it’s not you, you’re not imagining things.

Apologies in advance for any inconvenience… everything should be back to normal this week.

The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA), a group of people formed to challenge the legitimacy of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), saw its challenge shot down in flames in a court decision rendered on March 2.

iMEGA challenged the UIGEA on a number of issues, including the right to free speech, the right of states to regulate gambling, and the inconsistency of the UIGEA with the foreign trade obligations of the US with respect to its membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Read the rest of this entry »

I was cruising around one of my favorite haunts, Casinomeister, when I happened on a post which asked, What about your Privacy & Security?.

It turns out that a player is claiming that a casino asked him for the usual ID documents for their own records - but when asked by a payments processor for those documents, they were provided by the casino - NOT the player. Read the rest of this entry »

Most online casinos offer bonuses of one type or another to try and attract your custom. Quite often there’s a large bonus available for opening an account, followed by weekly offers to keep you active.

However, there’s no such thing as a free lunch - every bonus has conditions, of which the most common is a minimum playthrough. For example, if you deposit $100 and get $100 in bonus, you may be required to play the entire amount ($200) through X number of times - quite often this can be 15x playthrough or about, meaning you will need to wager $3000 before being permitted to cash out. Read the rest of this entry »

Hardly. Unless you’re a casino operator, or an affiliate who doesn’t gamble, you’re not likely to get rich through casino gambling, unless of course you hit some major jackpot like the online jackpots listed on my Awesome Jackpots site.

Awesome Jackpots is currently undergoing a revamp, and will soon feature every up-to-date jackpot available online, as well as various articles and reviews of each game. In the meantime, feel free to visit the old site to see what kind of information is already available.

But back to getting rich… some people believe that the only way to get rich gambling is - you guessed it - not to gamble. The house always has an edge of some sort and over time the house will always win. Read the rest of this entry »

As you may have noticed, I haven’t made any posts to my blog since May 2006. Since then the online gambling industry has gone through some very turbulent times, starting with the enactment of the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act) in late 2006, which resulted in a number of operators and software platforms dropping out of the US market - a very lucrative one at that - but the powers-that-be which treat US citizens and residents as if they are dumb, mindless, naive little children decided that they should “protect” their children by making financial transactions for the purpose of online gambling illegal. Read the rest of this entry »

Hello dear friends!

It’s been a while since you’ve been able to hide from my caustic wit (not!) in my weekly newsletters from Got2Bet. While I’m sure the great majority of you are going to damn the day I got my new soapbox (May 6, 2006), there ARE a few of you who have asked me to get off my butt and start doing some work for a change… so I hereby declare May 6 as Spearmaster Day - the day when the self-appointed Conscience of the Online Gambling Industry formally reclaimed his porcelain throne!