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Click2Pay is not available to US residents following the implementation of the UIGEA late last year - sorry guys!

With many people hesitant to give their credit or debit card details to online companies they have never dealt with before, the popularity of financial intermediaries or online web wallets has increased dramatically over the last few years. For those of you who are still able to transact with casinos using credit and debit cards (hello UK!), you can do so with 100% confidence at ALL of the casinos featured here at CSI.

Click2Pay is one such web wallet that has benefited from the public’s inbuilt mistrust. You can still fund your Click2Pay account with a credit card, incurring a 3% transaction fee, but once in funds you can deposit to and withdraw from your online casino player accounts at your convenience, securely. Acting as an intermediary between your credit card and the casino, Click2Pay ensures that card rejections no longer take place. Read the rest of this entry »

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Once again, a world record online casino jackpot has been won at Intercasino. Factory worker, ‘Obaesso’, and his wife were apparently playing Millionaires Club progressive slot for the first time on Tuesday 15th May 2007 when the third arrow spun in on the bonus wheel game - isn’t it always the way? The exact sum won is yet to be confirmed by Intercasino staff but I had seen the progressive jackpot at about £5,800,000 only the day before this announcement was made so it was at least that big!

Support staff did give me the following quote:

At first he did not believe he had reached the jackpot so he phoned us to get confirmation. When we gave him the news he jumped for joy and couldn’t believe his luck!

Stick with me and the CSI Team for the latest news on this remarkable progressive slot jackpot. 

The Chipster has spun those bonus wheels many times and won some tidy chunks but never been able to hit that third arrow for the big jackpot! Read the rest of this entry »

Home : Online Slots : Fruit Machines

Treasure Ireland UK fruit machine is another competent Microgaming release, available in the popular Flash version of many of their online casinos. These UK pub-style fruit machines are great fun to play, always amusingly themed and have many features and mini-games to keep your interest.

I am going to have a huge problem reviewing this UK fruit machine, however, because it is exactly the same as another Microgaming AWP machine, Apocalypse Cow! The only differences between the two fruit machines are in theme and sound, all other aspects of gameplay are identical.

This is not a negative, Treasure Ireland is still a great UK style fruit machine, it’s just that I don’t want to repeat an existing fruit machine review word for word. I can do you some pretty pictures though… Read the rest of this entry »

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32Red Casino Cup Final Bonus - one of your top UK casinos has come up trumps again with a topical sweetener for the Cup Final month of May 2007. Deposit £32 or more into your casino account and contact 32Red Casino prior to playing quoting “32 Cup final Bonus” and they will add a £32 match bonus to your account immediately.

This offer celebrates the return of the FA Cup final to Wembley Stadium, the best new stadium in the world and the true home of English football. The re-building of Wembley Stadium has been much maligned and has cost hundreds of millions of pounds more than originally planned. The team at CardSharkIsland believe it is ultimately a huge success and will be a shining beacon across the world for English football and other important sporting events.

On May 19th 2007, two behemoths of English football, Chelsea FC and Manchester United FC, will do battle on the hallowed turf and christen the new stadium in ultimate style. It promises to be a memorable sporting occasion. Whether you have a wager on the game or not, you are a winner at 32Red Casino whatever the outcome. Take advantage of this time limited casino match bonus now and double your initial £32 deposit.

As always, make sure you read through 32Red Casino Cup Final bonus terms and conditions before you play.

Home : Online Slots : Fruit Machines

Apocalypse Cow is a typically madcap take on one of the most infamous movies of the 70’s. How Microgaming landed on the idea I will never know - maybe they followed the same hallucinogenic diet as Brando, Sheen et al!

Marginally more likely, as with most UK style fruit machines or AWP (amusement with prizes) machines, the designers just wanted subject matter that lends itself well to cheesy puns and play on words, both mainstays of British humour. Apocalypse Cow slot has a few gems on offer to keep you amused:

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Home : Online Slots : Fruit Machines

Cash n Curry is a classic UK style three reel fruit machine with an Indian Takeaway theme. The traditional single win-line of this fruit machine offers a jackpot of 500 times your stake when you spin three ruby rings (”ruby murray” = curry, “ring sting” = the morning after!) and you can win up to 2000 times your stake if you get the Curry Go Round Super Jackpot in the feature trail game. With a £10 max bet, that’s a potential £20,000 on the Cash n Curry bonus game!

I play slots, fruit machines, slotties, fruities, bandits (call them what you will) for hours at a time so you can take what The Chipster (that’s me, Chip Stack) says to the bank - Cash n Curry is certainly the funniest online fruit machine designed to date! You have to be from the UK, understand our late-night curry culture and have a puerile sense of humour to agree with me but hey, we know our audience! Just take a look at these Cash n Curry beauties:

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The most common promotion offered to new players by a casino bonus and it can come in many forms. The most common bonus promotion is a first deposit match bonus, whereby the casino will give you a certain percentage of your first deposit in free money. For instance, a 200% bonus of up to £100 free would mean that if you deposited £50, the house would give you an extra £100 absolutely free.

In the early days of online gambling, the ‘no-deposit’ casino bonus promotion was quite popular. However as you might imagine, this type of promotion can be very expensive for the casino as there aren’t many people in this world who will say no to free money! The result of these types of bonuses are usually the casino being inundated with vast numbers of players who are only interested in what they are getting for free, rather than becoming loyal customers.

The latest type of casino bonus is the free spins promotion and it’s without a doubt the most popular promo on the Net at the moment. The usual structure of a free spins bonus is that a new player will be given a finite amount of free spins and a bonus bank roll. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s no surprise there’s such a huge variation of online slots available when you see how popular slot machines are compared to other casino games. In many casinos, slots account for more than 45% of the games played and the Internet casino software providers have focussed hard on recreating the various types of slot machine online.

It’s widely recognised that Microgaming offer the best casino platform and we’re sure this popularity has a lot to do with the more than 200 online slots they offer. Whether you’re a newbie slots player looking for a simple 3 reel slot machine, or you’re a seasoned slot junkie who wants to play 5 reel, multi-payline feature video slots, you can get your slots fix at any of the excellent MGS casinos. Read the rest of this entry »

There are a vast amount of online casinos available to today’s Internet gamblers and with so much choice, it’s important that you make the right one. We’ve been reviewing online casinos at CardSharkIsland for over 5 years so it’s always worth checking out whether we’ve reviewed a casino before playing there. If we haven’t reviewed the casino yet then the following checklist can help you make the right decision.

• Casino Software
• Payment Options
• Player or Casino Affiliate Forums
• eCogra
• Common Sense!

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Since the United States government made the decision to effectively outlaw online gambling late last year, the list of payment options available to players in the US has rapidly decreased. When the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act was passed into law on October 13th 2006 it became illegal for US banking institutions to allow transfers to or from online casinos. The banking industry was given a 270 day period to create a system that could identify online casino transactions across a spectrum of banking options such as bank wire, ACH, eChecks and credit cards. In reality, the crackdown on the online casinos that chose to continue accepting wagers from US players came far sooner.

The speed at which the banks started to implement the new restrictions was likely increased due to the two former founder directors of Neteller being arrested on January 15th this year. Read the rest of this entry »