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The online casino arm of Virgin Games, Virgin Casino, is offering players a generous Santa’s 20K Sledge Promotion at the site in the days leading up to Christmas.

Players at Virgin Casino will have the opportunity to win pre-Christmas cash prizes during the Promotion that began on Monday, December 19th and will continue until Thursday, December, 22nd.

Players who wager on specific slots at Virgin Casino between now and December, 22nd have a chance to earn up to GBP 120 each day.

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Leading casino software provider, Playtech, has announced that it has purchased the interactive gambling and betting games developer, Ash Gaming, for an amount of £23 million.

The acquisition of London based Ash Gaming, which was founded by Chris Ash in 2002, is Playtech’s fourth acquisition this year.

Ash Gaming has grown substantially since 2001 and currently employs forty people. Its profits doubled to £2.6 million in the twelve month period in its last full year report.

In terms of the deal, Playtech will make an initial payment of £15.5 million and the remaining £7.5 million will be paid by them over a period of three years and linked to future results.

Aladdin’s Gold online casino has announced that it is currently offering a short term Christmas promotion that commenced on Thursday, December 15 and will continue until Sunday, December 18th.

The promotion is titled Christmas Special and is a simple deposit promotion offering lots of attractions.

In order to qualify for this promotion players are required to deposit an amount of $50. Aladdin’s Gold online casino is offering players a bonus of 100% of the deposit made compared to the usual bonus percent of 55% or 65% offered. The 100% bonus being offered by Aladdin’s Gold in this Christmas Special is given in the spirit of Christmas. Players can claim a maximum bonus of $1,000 in this promotion.

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The United Kingdom has reaction with dismay to reports that Facebook, the largest and most popular social networking site, is contemplating entering real money online gambling.

An article in the newspaper, The Daily Mail, points out that there is in excess of 3 million Facebook users in the United Kingdom who are aged between 13 and 17 with a further million users estimated to be under 13 years of age but pretending to be older than that. Should real money online gambling come to Facebook, there is grave danger that underage persons will get involved.

According to Dr Robert Lefever, the founding director of the Promis Recovery Centre where online gambling addicts are treated, the majority of young people think that anything on Facebook is acceptable and will, therefore have no hesitation in trying to gamble online for real money.

Virgin Casino, the popular online casino, has announced that a great new promotion, titled the Christmas Hamper Promotion, will be running at the casino between Monday, December 12 and Sunday, December 18.

On Monday the online casino is offering players a bonus of 25% up to £25. Players are required to deposit a minimum of £5 with a play through requirement of 7.5 times.

Virgin Casino players can claim a 50% bonus up to £50 on Tuesday for a minimum deposit of £5 and the play through requirements are 15 times.

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Omni Casino has announced that a unique Christmas promotion, titled Santa’s Surprise, will commence at the site on Monday, December 12th.

Every day during Santa’s Surprise promotion, which will run until Saturday, December 24th, Omni Casino will be offering players a special gift with each player, whether he is a VIP member of Club O or ordinary player, being entitled to the same gift. The gifts will not be revealed in advance and the gift for a particular day will only be revealed on that day.

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The Christmas Giveaway promotion kicked off at Casino.com, the Playtech powered online casino, a few days ago giving players an opportunity to win a brand new Audi worth $30,000.

This exciting promotion will run until Sunday, January 8th, 2012 and players wishing to participate are required to register an account at the online casino and opt in to the competition before Sunday, January, 8th, 2012.

Players are also required to make a minimum deposit of $50 in one transaction which will entitle them to one ticket for the main prize draw giving them an opportunity to be in line to win the brand new Audio offered by Casino.com. Three tickets into this lucky draw will be given to players for each $100 deposited by them.

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Many poker players were taken by surprise last week when the Microgaming Poker Network suddenly announced that the Canadian based Kahnawake Gaming Commission regulatory authority had taken the 24 Poker site offline and had, in fact, suspended its gaming license on 24th November, 2011. Kahnawake took this action after receiving complaints with regard to 24 Poker’s lack of response to inquiries from the authorities as well as from players. The Kahnawake Gaming Commission has also issued a Show Cause Notice against 24 Poker giving the operator 30 days to respond.

Microgaming has, therefore, suspended the network on which its games were played and made a statement announcing that they had blocked all game play on the 24 Poker website due to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission’s suspension of 24 Poker’s gaming license. The statement went on to say that the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and Microgaming had unsuccessfully attempted to contact 24 Poker’s management team.