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South African Player Wins Big at Casino Tropez

Casino Tropez, the popular Playtech powered online casino, has revealed that a lucky player from South Africa, known only as “Guil” had a couple of massive payouts over a period of only two days of wagering online at the site.

Guil was wagering on two leading online slot games and won over ZAR 4 million on Thursday, June 21 and Friday, June 22 2012. ZAR 3.3 million was won by him on the online slot game Desert Treasure on the Thursday and another ZAR 400.00 on the same game on the Friday. Guil also won a total of ZAR 450.00 wagering on the Gold Rally slot game on those two days.

The symbols on the reels of the Desert Treasure slot game include a camel, an Arab and the oasis with high value card symbols being associated with dangerous creatures that are found in the desert such as snakes, spiders and scorpions.

The wild symbol is the golden snake which offers a fixed jackpot payout of 10,000 coins.

The scatter symbol is the Bedouin girl that awards scatter payouts as well as 10 free spins with tripled payouts.

The Desert Treasure slot game also offers a bonus game and the trade mark Playtech Dollar Ball game which is the main attraction in this slot game. This game allows players to play a type of bingo game for a $1 side bet during the spinning of the wheel and can lead some lucky player to a progressive jackpot win.

Casino Tropez is an online casino of the Euro Partners and is licensed by the Directorate of Offshore Gaming of Antigua and Barbuda.

Playtech launches into Social Gaming

Leading online gaming software and services provider Playtech has announced that it has signed a deal with Skywind Holdings, a company linked to Playtech’s largest shareholder, Teddy Sagi, in terms of which the group will be propelled into the fast growing social gaming arena.

The agreement will see Playtech gaining access to over 150 developers that specialize in social gaming solutions and real money mobile software. The real money gaming software that comprises the platform, rummy and poker will be licensed on a permanent basis while the rest of the social and real money software will be licensed for an initial three year term.

Playtech will pay Skywind the sum of EURO 6 million per year as well as 20 percent of the revenue it generates through the software.

According to the chief executive officer of Playtech, Mor Weizer, Social Gaming offers excellent growth opportunities for real money gaming organizations to apply their technological and marketing expertise. Weizer added that Skywind’s software license delivers a cost effective entry into social gaming, expanding Playtech’s real money offering, especially its market leading mobile capabilities.

Playtech has been keeping close watch of developments in the social gaming arena and has been examining numerous ways of entering the market.

The group revealed that the agreement with Skywind will see Playtech devoting resources to launching a full B2B social gaming model with immediate effect so as to maximize the time to market advantage created by entry into the software license agreement. Playtech added that the group anticipates that such investment and overall licensing costs will produce positive results for shareholders over the medium term

New Mobile Offering by Casino.com

Casino.com, one of the leading online casinos, has announced that it has launched a mobile offering that will give players “on the go” an opportunity to access the casino whenever they want from wherever they are in order to play their favorite games on the Playtech powered platform.

Mobile players at Casino.com will now have a chance to enjoy the huge range of titles, blackjack, video slots, roulette, scratch cards and many more from the mobile platform.

Mobile players can use their mobile devices and smart phones including iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4S, iPad, iPad 2 and 3, Android 2.2 and 2.3x and Android 2.2 and more on the no download mobile domain.

Players wishing to open an account on the new platform can do so by clicking on “My Menu” or “Join and Play” and then “signing up for a free account”. Confirmation of their acceptance will be sent by SMS within 24 hours of joining. Existing players at the online casino may use their passwords and information in order to log in.

New players are eligible for a lucrative welcome bonus when signing up for the first time and making a deposit. This welcome bonus is worth a whopping $3,200 and includes weekly reloads.

All new mobile customers at Casino.com can participate in the Happy Monday promotion and stand in line to be eligible for offers worth $500.

Players are entitled to receive 50% of their bonuses up to $50 at the end of the month.

Loyalty points are given to players each time they play at the site and because Casino.com is powered by Playtech, they have access to hundreds of innovative casino games.

Euro 2012 Football Promotion at Europa Casino

Europa Casino, the popular online casino, has announced that it is giving its players an opportunity to enjoy all the action that will take place in Ukraine and Poland this month during the Euro 2012 Football Tournament.

The online casino will be running an amazing special football bonus promotion at the site as from Friday, 8th June, 2012 that will continue until Sunday, 1st July, 2012. Both new and existing players are eligible to participate in this new promotion.

The promotion will be divided into two groups of prizes with the first group consisting of players coming from countries whose team is playing in the final rounds of the football competition and the second group consisting of players coming from countries whose teams do not reach the final rounds of the competition.

A bonus of up to 100% on their first deposit can be claimed by those players in the first group each time their team takes to the field if their team plays in the final rounds. After making the deposit players are required to contact customer support with the bonus code “football bonus”.

A bonus of up to 100% free can be claimed by the second group of players on their first deposit of each week throughout the period of the promotion.

Players wishing to redeem their bonus should contact customer support with the code “football bonus”.

There are numerous exciting football themed slots on offer in Europa Casino’s games lobby which include Final Score slots, Football Rules slots, Benchwarmer Football Girls slots, Top Trumps Football Legends slots and many more.

Europa Casino is powered by software from Playtech.

Football Themed Online Slot Game Launched at Casino Tropez

Casino Tropez, the popular Playtech powered online casino, has announced the release of a new online slots game titled Football Fans Slot.

Players of this exciting new online slots game get to select a country from Germany, England, Argentina, France, Brazil and Spain. Once a country is selected the high value card symbols get painted with colors of that country’s flag.

The wild symbol is the football that also offers players the highest lien payout of 5,000 coins. Three male fans and two female fans make up the other high paying symbols on the reels. Other symbols on the reels include a glass of beer, an air horn and a top hat.

The scatter symbol is the Football Fans logo and two or more of these appearing anywhere on the reels will award players with scatter payouts. Three or more on the reels will trigger the Penalty Kicks free spins bonus. Players are awarded 10 free spins and the feature can be retriggered.

The new 20 pay line video slots game also offers players an interactive feature on the reels titled Grab A Beer where a gold circle appears on one of the 15 spots on the reels. This can be moved to any other spot before the spin starts and if the beer symbol ends up under the circle after the spin the players wins three times the total bet. This Grab A Beer feature is only available in the main game.

The line bet in Football Fans varies from 0.20 credits to 500 credits.

Casino Tropez is licensed by the Directorate of Offshore Gaming of Antingua and Barbuda.