Only about three months ago Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment launched Caesars Casino Online. Now they’ve jumped into the bingo market with CAESARS Bingo Online. Now, the first bit of advice I have is that if you’re in the United States, don’t bother to try to take a look at either Caesars Casino Online or CAESARS Bingo Online. They’re directing all US players to the Caesars Palace Hotels. The site is only available to UK players.
Now, while US players may be directed to the hotel site online, CAESARS Bingo Online will give UK players a chance to win a trip to CAESARS Palace Las Vegas. The bingo site promises the fun found in the live casinos as well as the chance to win prizes and promotions to Las Vegas or Empire Casino in London.
While CAESARSBingo.com will focus on bingo it will also offer roulette, baccarat, slots and blackjack as free to play or real money games. These are to be supported by the Gamesys software platform in an agreement with Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment.
For casinos in places like Las Vegas and Atlantic City, the partnership between Harrahs and Gamesys can serve as an example of one way online gambling can benefit the brick and mortar gaming industry. Partnerships between land based casinos and online sites could help build brand recognition for both. Online players want to play with names they recognize and are going to be more attracted to an established brand like Caesars since land based casinos have been around much longer than virtual ones. Playing at the online casino will serve to reinforce the brand and perhaps influence future vacation decisions.
The Amazon Wild slot is one of the newest additions to Virgin Games and I’m in love with the look of this slot. The background is a tropical rainforest with a Mayan pyramid in the background and the whole slot is almost Mayan themed. But we’ll talk about that as we go. The slot is a five reel, 100 payline game with each reel 4 icons tall, so you’ll find you need to rely on the game to tell you when you’ve won. Play starts at a penny so if you play all the play lines, the minimum bet is $1.00. Keep this in mind when choosing your wager.
The basic icons come in three groups – flowers, birds and animals. The lush tropical flowers contribute to the look and feel of the game but are the lowest paying win. The birds include a hummingbird, parrot and toucan and those move you up a bit in the pay table. The last group includes a frog, iguana, monkey and jaguar and these pay the most.
The Mayan sun god is the Wild symbol and will expand to fill all four rows if you get two or more on a single reel. The scatter icon is the Bonus map. Three, four or five of these on the reels will open the Amazon Map Bonus game. The in the game, you are a Conquistador wiping out civilizations in your quest for gold. Okay, actually you chose from the pyramids on the map to reveal hidden bonuses.
Now, this is the one part of the game where I had problems with the theme, not the play. First, there is the conquistador reference which rather ignores the effect that had on the ancient civilizations in the Americas. Of course, it also sort of misses on the historical aspect in another way. The Mayan civilization was well into its post-classical stage by the time the Europeans found them. So, as a conquistador, you’d have wanted to go after the Aztecs and Incas. Which brings in the treasure map. Which has you searching pyramids along the Amazon river, exactly where the Maya didn’t live. They were a Central American culture. (I grew up in Central America, so most players are unlikely to notice this.) But that taken into account, the bonus game is fairly easy to trigger and can help bring your winnings up.
The game features plenty of jungle sound effects, great animation and wonderful graphics. It has to be one of the lushest games I’ve played recently when it comes to appearances. But graphics aren’t everything. So for my up or down game finish review. I finished up in money. No huge winnings but this is a fun game that you can keep playing for a long time.
InterCasino is literally offering an out of this world prize. Or as close to literally as you can get. Sometime between now and May 30th the casino will award one lucky member a Space Adventures suborbital spaceflight. Yep, they’re going to send you into space.
So, I went to check out Space Adventures. The Suborbital Spaceflight is a $100,000 prize for the adventure minded. The space adventure will require a little vacation time since the winner will start out with training to prepare them for the flight itself. Then on flight day, they’ll be boosted by rocket engines to a 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the earth. The place where space begins. The engines will then shut down for five minutes of weightlessness and a view of earth from space. I’ll assume that the winner will then somehow return to earth but Space Adventures doesn’t supply any details on that. (A little research reveals that Space Adventures is a Russian company and that flights are in a winged aircraft rather like a shuttle. So the landing is controlled, not a splashdown for those of us old enough to remember the old space programs.)
So, how do you win one of these great Space Adventures? Just open an account with InterCasino. For their 13 weeks of Space Race they’ll reward players with lucky stars each time they play and wager. Every star will be an entry into the prize drawing. So, you don’t have to win — just play.
This slot features graphics that give us an amusing take on Greek myths. Playing feels a bit like a pop quiz on — what is this mythical Greek creature, but the animation and cartoon like characters do add charm to the game. The slot takes you on a tale of Perseus and the Medusa. A little myth refresher, young Perseus in pursuit of love promises to bring a gift to a king. The king asks for the head of Medusa, a Gorgon with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone. Perseus sets off in pursuit of Medusa and Hermes, Athena and Hades all provide him gifts. Like many Greek tales, Perseus wanders around having adventures for long enough for a bard to get through a fairly long story-telling session at a banquet before our hero finds the Gorgon and cuts off her head by using his shield to see her so he doesn’t have to look directly at her. Got all that? Good. This is a slots game so it doesn’t come into play at all. Except — you too are about to undertake a long journey in search of the elusive Gorgon named Medusa.
Medusa in the game is the lady with the green snakes for hair. She’s also the scatter symbol and hitting 3, 4 or 5 ladies will win you 15 free spins at a 4x multiplier. Score five Medusas and you’ll win 50 times your total bet, which is the top pay off for this machine. My problem was that while I did fairly good at getting one or two Medusas on the reels who blew me kisses and paid off with a scatter win, hitting three Medusas was a difficult chore. I only managed one round of free spins in my review play.
The “Stash of the Titans symbol” is the wild and if you manage to line up five of those, you will ten times your payline. Our hero Perseus is mounted onto of a Pegasus and the good news here is that Perseus and the treasure chest will even pay out even if they’re mixed on a payline.
Those are the big pay outs. For a bit of the basics, Stash of the Titans is a five reel, twenty payline Microgaming slot machine with wagers starting at a penny and going up from there. The graphics are fun and for a run down on the Greek creatures you’ll see:
- A Satyr who’s looking a little chubby
- A Griffin with the head of an eagle and body of lion
- A Centaur who is half human and half horse and who flexes his muscles during the animation
- The Cyclops with his club is there to knock down some Greek columns
- Also the bull-headed Minotaur from the Island of Minoa (Crete)
- The three-headed hound Cerberus guards the way to Hades
- A multi-headed hydra the sea serpent is there. Hydra’s were reputed to have nine heads, but they probably all didn’t fit on the screen
You’ll also find a chest of treasure and the Parthenon, this one apparently devoted to money, but remember Greek myths often gave an example of how much trouble money could cause.
I think this just proves that casinos will use any excuse to promote their online site. But that only means that we ask players should take advantage of all those excuses. Commonwealth Day is an annual celebration held the second Monday in March. Generally speaking, the day is marked by Queen Elizabeth attending a service at Westminster Abbey and then delivering her Commonwealth Day broadcast. Since drinking, food or chocolate are not involved, this isn’t a holiday that garners much attention. (Rather like Presidents Day in the US which is generally marked by people going about business as usual and wondering why the mail wasn’t delivered.)
But Club World Casino is celebrating Commonwealth day with a Hot This Week bonus where you can take advantage of 60% match bonuses for playing slots, keno and scratch cards. Or a 45% bonus for Blackjack, Video Poker and table games. If you haven’t signed up yet at Club World Casino, they offer a 100 percent welcome bonus up to $777 for slots, keno and scratch cards. Just use the coupon code BIGSLOT. Or take advantage of a 100% welcome bonus up to $150 for blackjack, video poker, casino poker and more games by using the code NEW100.
Club World Casino operates in the United Kingdom and is powered by Real Time Gaming (RTG). The site has been in business since 2005 and offers both a download and instant play option. At this time, the site is still accepting players for the United States, thought it will not accept real money wagers from Netherlands Antilles, Costa Rica, Poland, Israel or full-time college students. I’m not sure how the site would determine the last, but it is in the terms of use. (Reading terms of use is always interesting.)
Ha, score again. I recently wrote about the difference between slots tournaments at land based casinos in Las Vegas and online casinos that I play at. One big difference was price. The fees for slots tournaments in Las Vegas can run fifty to five hundred dollars while online casinos run under twenty dollars and often sponsor free tournaments. Well, that was for slots, which tend to get a lot of play at casinos. Of course poker also has its free roll tournaments which are extremely popular. But it’s not always easy to find tournaments for some casino games, much less free ones. In fact, a blackjack playing friend just mentioned the other day that she’d like to find a blackjack tournament.
Well, I’ve discovered one for her so I’m going to pass the information along to any blackjack players out there. VIP Casino is offer free roulette and blackjack tournaments this month. The first half of March is devoted to the free roulette tournament while the second half will be dedicated to a free blackjack tournament.
Here’s how to take advantage of the offer. First you’ll need to sign up for an account at VIP Casino and chose to Play for Real. Although VIP Casino offers free games, those won’t work for the tournament itself. Once you’ve signed in to play, go the More Games section in their menu and select the free tournament you want to play in. You’ll be entered and given $500 to play with in the tournament. For each tournament, the playing time is limited to 10 minutes and you want to achieve the highest balance possible during that time. Don’t worry about conserving the money because that $500 is just for tournament play. Also, you can quit at any time during your ten minutes, but keep in mind that the player with the highest balance wins. The first place prize for the games is $400 with $200 going to second place. Players who manage to score in the third through twenty-second position will win $20.
The 82nd Oscars Awards are scheduled for March 7 so you’ve still got time to take part in Ruby Royal online casino’s Oscar promotion. This is fun one because you don’t have to know how to play poker or spin the slots. Just know the movies. The game started March 1st, but there’s still time to jump in on the tail end of the competition.
The participate, players have been guessing who will win the award in the top five awards categories — best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best leading actor, best leading actress, and best picture. Ruby Royal is helping out by providing a list of nominees in each category. Now, here’s the fun part. Since this is the 82nd Oscars Award, if you take part in predicting the winners in a category, you’ll be able to claim an 82% deposit bonus without an upper limit. But those who predict correctly can win up to $82 free. Here’s how that plays out. If you guess one category correctly, you’ll win $15. Two categories will get you $30 while three categories are good for $50. If you guess four categories, you’ll win $70, but if you manage to predict all five categories correctly, you’ll win $82.
Today is the day to pick the Best Picture, always a favorite for fans. The nominees are Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, The Hurt Locker, Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, UP, Precious and Up In The Air. Who’s predicting Avatar? Despite and the money a fanfare for that one, I’m thinking it’ll do better in the Best Special Effects category but perhaps not Best Picture. Agree or Disagree? Just go to Royal Ruby and cast your vote.
This slot is so utterly campy that I can’t help but love it. Let’s start with the intro movie, ladies it is not to be missed as it takes you into a locker room where five muscular hunks await behind the shower doors for your attention. Once you’ve enjoyed the movie, you’re introduced to the game itself, which is a five reel, 9 line game with game play up to 25 coins per line. Coins can be worth .01 to .25. This isn’t designed to be a high roller game but more a bit of fun for the ladies.
Icons, yes, let’s talk icons. The base icons are hats for our five hunky dudes — a ship captain’s hat, a police officer’s hat. A fireman’s helmet, a baseball cap and a pilot’s helmet. Added to those are the five hunky heroes themselves. Scroll through the payout if you want to read their bios. Roger is a pilot, Wade the seaman, Duncan the cop with cuffs on hand (no, it actually says that), Patrick the hot fireman and Brad the ocean Adonis.
The jocks (underwear briefs this time) will activate the pick a package bonus with up to 7 free spins at a 3x multiplier. For the bonus game, you do pick one of the jock symbols to determine your bonus. The pink strawberry symbol on reel 5 can add up to an extra 3x multiplier and the yellow on reel 4 will add up to 5 free spins. The heart symbol is the wild symbol, of course. The symbol for males is the scatter symbol and if you hit it, it will be happy to see you.
But the best is the sneak a peek bonus. To trigger this bonus, you’ll need to get the zipper icon on reel one and then score one of the guys in the corresponding spot on reel 5. This will trigger a scratch of game where your chosen man will remove an article of clothing if you match three icons on the card. They are wearing briefs underneath the clothing. And they are drawings, not real men. But there’s a campy silliness to the experience that will send a group of the girls into giggles.
I enjoy playing this game and have to admit I sometimes forget to check to see if I’m up or down in winnings. The only bad part of it is that the bonus are difficult to trigger. I think I’d be tempted to play more often if that Sneak a Peek bonus showed up more regularly. But Sneak a Peek Hunky Heroes will tempt you to spin those reels.
Let Saint Patrick help with the luck of the Irish at Go Casino. And you’ll need lots of luck to find this promotion on the site. Go Casino is great for slots tournaments and wonderful at offering prizes and freerolls to keep players on the site. But they could use some help in promoting their events. This is a great promotion buried a long list of promotions and not easy to find without doing a “search on this page.” Even knowing about it, I had trouble finding it. (Are you listening Go Casino?)
So, now to the tournament. From Friday, March 5 to Wednesday, March 17, Go Casino is offering Free entry into a the Countdown to St. Patty’s Freeroll with a guaranteed $150,000 in prizes. While the entry is free, rebuys are $12.99. You’re starting stake is 100 chips and with a little luck of the Irish, you could make those last the entire tournament.
The game for this one is the 5-Reel Wheel of Chance slot (there is also a three reel Wheel of Chance slot out there, but that isn’t the slot you’re looking for). The slot doesn’t have a particularly Irish theme, though the Asymbol is appropriately green. But it isn’t the expected A for Ace. The base symbols are instead A, E, I, O, U — or vowels. The icons include a cruise ship, luggage and a man enjoying the beach, so we’ll just say this slot is St. Patty on vacation. Play is a penny to $10 a reel with a total of twenty reels. Hit three or more Lady with the Wheel scatter symbols to launch 10 Free Spins. The diamond is Wild to help boost your winnings. The Bonus Wheel appearing on both reel 2 and 4 will trigger a bonus round. The bonus game lets you spin the wheel of chance and collect a prize. You’ll get more than one spin but with each spin, the odds of going bust increases as new Bust landing spots are added to the wheel.
So, Go to Go Casino for some St. Patty’s day fun!
I saw rumors of this circulating around the web yesterday. It seems that affiliates for All Star Slots were being informed of the change before the press announcements hit and financial details of the transaction haven’t been released yet. But the good news for players is that they don’t have to worry about this change affecting their accounts or their favorite games. Both All Star Slots and Club World use Realtime Gaming Software so the same games and operating system will be available. Also the acquisition by the more firmly established Club World will allow All Star slots more growth and the chance to develop a more solid reputation. If you play at All Star Slots, you should see no change in your account balance or comp points but you’ll now be able to access the promotions and tournaments offered by Club World. So, this will be a gain for the players.
I’ve played at All Star Slots, but it isn’t one of my favorite sites. The casino has had a somewhat floppy existence since its launch in 2008. All Star Slots was originally built on Wizard Gaming software but the casino soon found that the new software gaming company couldn’t provide the service they needed. So the casino switched to Realtime Gaming. Wizard Gaming is still around but currently only lists one company — Slots Country in the UK — as a client. And now, after a mere two years of life, the owners have decided to take an offer from the larger, more established online casino group.
