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In the iGaming world – short for real money online gambling – there’s nothing more important than player safety. Keeping personal and financial information secure must be the top priority of the player, as well as the casino they choose to play at. In my book, the golden rule of iGaming security is to...

We don’t gamble in anticipation of losing, but any responsible punter knows the risk of loss is real, and that the odds of winning are always against us. We play for fun, for entertainment, and for the chance of coming away a big winner. One player of the Queensland pokies at Royal Hotel in...

The casual gamer who visits Mac casinos once in a blue moon is probably going to stick to the basics – pokies, blackjack, maybe a spin of roulette here and there. But for more avid players, these games can become tiresome after awhile. These are the players who are more likely to visit less...

I love Apple products as much as the next guy. I have an iPhone 7, an iPad Pro, and a 2014 model MacBook Pro. I love them all. I was hoping to get my hands on the new 2016 MacBook Pro, but I held off when Consumer Reports issued a bad rating late last...

Today’s online and mobile pokies come in a vast assortment of themes. Anything you can imagine has been done, probably over and over again, by various digital gambling software companies. One of my personal favorites is the pirate pokies theme, like Microgaming’s 2013 release of Sovereign of the Seven Seas. As you probably know,...

New mobile pokies are all the rage in the iGaming world these days. Desktop gambling still has a huge market, but there’s a global shift towards gaming on smartphones and tablets, and NetEnt is right on top of that transition. They’re capitalizing with a range of new ‘Touch Slot‘ games, like the soon to...

South Australia pokies fans take heed. The maximum size of single-spin bets on poker machines throughout the state have been formally reduced by half to $5. Compliance with the new law is mandatory. Venues who fail to set their poker machines to accept no more than $5 per spin by today could be shut down by...

As we look ahead to the New Year, predicting what it will bring is always a variable experience based on past performances and educated guesses. With that said, I’m going to make some predictions as to what 2017 will bring us in terms of global online gambling laws and regulation. The most prominent nation’s...

Throughout the last two decades, the internet gambling industry has transformed from infantile stages to a blossoming, global industry worth billions of dollars. In the early years, taking steps to become regulated was a perfunctory task. Now days, anyone with an inkling of knowledge as to how the business works should know never to...

Just this month, a new lobbying group was formed called Responsible Wagering Australia. With several major bookmakers on their side, the RWA’s aim is to convince government officials to enforce stricter regulations for online betting in Australia. The first item on the agenda, the group is pushing hard for a prohibition against ‘free bet‘...