For the previous financial year, the company recorded revenues up to $17.02 million. The latest figures indicate that the company has experienced a 13% growth. Apart from that, the company declared that the cash flow through operations came up to $7.22 million. This amount saw an increase by 77.3% from $4.09 million in 2007. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization increased twofold from $2.48 million to $4.81 million.  Net income amounted to $2.24 million. It recovered from the net loss of $67,461 suffered in the previous year.

The short term results that the firm revealed showed the years fourth quarter revenues at $4.09 million, which equated favourably with the $3.93 million for the same period in 2007. This mainly happened because of an augment in service returns. Apart from the financial results, the company also declared that it had made investments to distribute more games and various updates than ever before.

Chartwell launched as many as eight online casino games plus nine online slots. Eight more games were on the verge of being completed at the end of 2008. Alan Richter, Chief Financial Officer for Chartwell said that the company was able to execute its strategy really well in 2008.

Secret Admirer is a famous online slot game. A player will be able to experience the romantic aura from the start as it begins with a video clip that shows Cupid firing love arrows in hearts and spreading rose petals. The signs on the reels are linked to Valentines. They include, Secret Admirer Heart, Pendant, Diamond Ring, Mask, Rose Heart Wreath, Atomizer and Single Red Rose. The symbols for cards are Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten, Nine, Eight and Seven. These are elegantly created in gold and improve the Valentine feel.

Secret Admirer is a 5 reel and 9 payline slot game having as many as 46 winning combinations. The coin denomination choice differs from $0.01 to $1.00 and ten coins, at the maximum, can be wagered across every payline. 5 Mask symbols on a lively payline result in payout amounting to 5,000 coins. This payout, when bet, can yield $50,000.

Secret Admirer contains a gamble game option. It increases the level of mystery. Players must guess the colour card which is kept with its face down. After indication by the player the card is turned face up. If the player’s guess is correct then his or her winnings get doubled.

If his or her guess is wrong then he or will loose the winnings. The gamble game is optional and players can choose to walk away with their initial winnings.

The service will enable these operators to have real time bank payments. Customers will also get some extra benefits which include funding of their accounts through debit or credit cards. Also, all the bank transactions will be conducted absolutely free. Very good interest rates will be offered on deposits; along with quick and complimentary online bank payments throughout Europe.

A Spokesperson for the bank, who was at the ICE (i) show hosted in London, said that since the launch of Ivobank, it has always attempted to modify its products and services to reduce costs for gaming merchants and players alike, while preserving a high level of service. He also said that this includes 24/7 customer service through telephone, Internet chat and protected email service.

Matt Webb, Head of Merchant Services said that the bank has been able to gain impetus in the online gaming sector from the time it was launched. He also added that the bank was making efforts to build a wide-ranging group of dealer clients. The bank has been able to make swift integrations of operators using the Microgaming platform.

Europa Online Casino has decided to host a new promotion for their members to commemorate the festive atmosphere. Starting on February 5, all members at the online casino will be entitled for an exclusive bonus. The offer will end on February 7. Every member at the Europa casino, who makes a deposit on the opening day of the promotion, stands to receive an exclusive bonus from the casino. This will be apart from the promotion that will be going on.

The initial deposit made on all days of the promotion will produce a surprise offer for the members. Players need to just make their deposits and get in touch with the with the support team for information on their free gifts. Europa Casino Manager, Marius Valentin said that the promotion has been designed in a way to ensure optimisation of players’ winnings.

He also said that the start of the year has been very good from the perspective of the members. One player, for instance, walked away with a staggering €550,350 after playing on the Football Rules online slot game. Apart from the promotion, Europa Casino hosts a weekly online slots tournament.

It is, however, not clear if Allen will become a part of UltimateBet’s star team or just be a professional sponsored in online and live tournaments. Allen has proved his talents in online as well as live poker arenas. His WPT victory amounted to a million dollars. The event finished last weekend.

Back in June 2008, Carter had managed to get the attention of UltimateBet officials after he won the online poker room’s main weekly tournament. It had an assured prize pool of $200,000. Carter managed to take away $45,000 for all the trouble he went through. The event regularly sees an overlay meaning, the prize pool goes beyond the stipulated amount. Earlier in January, Allen was able to finish third and take away an amount of $15,000 in a $50,000 Guaranteed hosted by Full Tilt Poker.

Presently, Ultimate Bet’s Star Players Team comprises of blackjack guru ‘Hollywood’ Dave Stann, Tracy Scala winner of ‘Best Damn Poker Show’, Tiffany Michelle, online poker genius James ‘P0KERPR033’ Campbell. Late last year, WSOP Bracelet Winner Cliff ‘JohnnyBax’ Josephy, left the company.

Poker News Daily Columnist, Eric Lynch, known as Rizen to the in the online poker community was a member for some time. Ultimate Bet´s key celebrities are Annie Duke and 11-time WSOP Bracelet Winner, Phil Hellmuth.

The promotion will be covering all the slot games that are on the offering on the site. This includes Mega Spin slots, Video slots and Progressive Jackpot slots. Players, who are able to wager the highest amount during the course of the promotion, stand to take a share from the prize pool. Three players with the highest wagers will gain qualification for a Bonus stage for the month. They will then have to battle it out for a prize pool of $4,000.

The next promotion is called Roxy Poker Challenge. This is also underway since January 27 and will go on till February 2. This promotion is based on online video poker. To qualify, players need to deposit a minimum amount of $100 and then wager $2,500 at least, on any of the video poker games the site offers. The portal has 50 different video poker games in its portfolio. So, players have a number of options to choose from.

The Double Player Club Points promotion has begun on January 27 and will go on till January 29. Players wagering at any of the online casino games during this period will be receiving twice the VIP points. The site has specified some games for this. These include the four new releases for this month namely, Mega Moolah the 5-Reel Drive Progressive, Liquid Gold, Polar Pioneers and Joker Poker Level-Up Video Poker.

The remaining games are Avalon, Mega Moolah Progressive, Carnaval, Keno, Joker Poker (Single-Hand), European Roulette Gold, Triple Sevens Blackjack and Progressive Cyberstud.

The European Masters of Poker will have a buy-in worth €1,000+100 on every stop. The estimated field of participants for this event is around 400. The winner will get €100,000 and an EMOP trophy. Players at the online poker room can qualify for the tournament for a price as low as €2 or they should have 200 VIP points along with daily satellites lasting for nine days all the way to the €100 Sunday Main Qualifier.

Each package contains €1,100 for the tournament buy-in and €500 for travel and hotel expenses. There are also at least of six packages assured in each of the Main Qualifiers on Sunday. The EMOP is a strong allure to players wanting to participate in big live tournaments having affordable buy-ins and hosted at electrifying sites. The month of February will see to additional qualifiers to event hosted at Tallinn. Both of them have a €100 buy in and will held on February 4 and 11.

There is every possibility that players may run into Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, who persisted with his live poker tournament roll last weekend with a 23rd place finish at the European Poker Tour Deauville, France and walking away with a neat €15,500 in the process.

The new software by NYX is looking to provide the players a whole new live bingo experience. They wish to achieve as much perfection as they can with regards to realistic play. Keeping in minds the goodwill of NYX, the new product meets all the quality requirements. The unique feature of the software is its flexibility and quick responsiveness. In addition, it is also one of the lightest software to download. Online Bingo players can certainly except to be surprised and impressed. The Design features, shapes and movements of components provided by the software are worth ever penny the software costs. Also the display of information is so luring that the software providers vouch to rivet even a mere visitor.

The CEO of NYX Interactive, Staffan Lindgren expressed that NYX is also striving to be the market leaders in designs of online Bingo software. They wish to create online Bingo games that appease both the players and the online casino operators.

As a foolproof solution to this, Gene Gioia invented one of the best tools at the online gambling sites. For all those who do not know Gene Gioia is the Founder and CEO of Gioia Gaming Systems. Gioia Gaming Systems is responsible for a host of great online casino products. The ground-breaking products from the house of Gioia Gaming Systems have also been nominated for awards. The said products are the “Cut N’ Shuffle” and the “Game Check”.  These products enable the players to cut, shuffle as well as deal their own deck of cards while at an online casino.

Now with the use of this new online casino system, players would be more confident given that they would be the dealer. Just as they play at home, they would be cutting, shuffle and dealing the cards.

At present, not all the casinos have adopted the echecks as a method of making deposits. The casinos that do accept payments through echecks have great software, wonderful games to choose from, various bonuses and customer service. One of them is Rushmore Casino. This site has become one of the best casinos powered by Real Time Gaming (RTG). It is reputed for its deposit selection and time taken for processing.

The site accepts registrations from players based in America and has a superb start-up bonus which is a 100% up to $888. The other one is Slots Online Casino. This portal lays greater emphasis on slots. However, it also offers some great some fantastic table games. The slots on the website are colourful and have good sound effects. All of this ensures that players have a great gaming experience. The site also has a 100% up to $777 start-up bonus.

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