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Manne wrote:
2012 was 888casino online casino's 15th birthday and they certainly celebrated with a bang! Check out the awesome facts and figures of 888casino players' successes of the last year:
$3,800,000,000 was paid out to 888casino winners!
The luckiest slot was Leprechaun's Luck paying out $30,000,000
The luckiest skill game was Blackjack paying out $500,000,000
The luckiest winner was F.A. hitting the $1,556,908 Ultimate Thrill Grills jackpot on a £5 bet
The luckiest country was the U.K. with total wins of over a BILLION dollars
The luckiest day was Fridays: more than $490,000,000 was won on Fridays of 2012
More than 5,000 jackpot winners,
Won 17,000 jackpots,
And were paid over $20,000,000.
That's 50 jackpots a day...
Or 1 every 28 minutes!
Players won big and had a blast as 888casino continued to develop and grow. In 2012 888casino introduced 31 new games, 10 new mobile apps, a new LIVE private room, running on a whole new software.
600,000 new players joined and here are just a few reasons why you should, too...
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Amazing Year at 888casino - Special Reports - Onlinecasinoreports-com
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888 operates a large network of sites including 888bingo, 888poker, 888ladies, 888sport, Pacific Poker, Reef Club Casino, and Casino-on-Net. It also does business under the name of its subsidiary Cassava Enterprises. From around 2000 to 2007, 888 aspired to omnipresence via pop-up banner ads, email blasts, and its generous affiliate marketing program. Those tactics weren't unusual at the time, but 888 took things a little too far. The company received a slew of sanctions in 2005 and 2006 for, among other things, permitting its affiliates to engage in black hat practices in order to demote competitors in search engine rankings.
The International Gaming Affiliate Marketing Initiative (IGAMI) blacklisted 888 twice for "unethical affiliate practices including scraping and spamming" and "numerous instances of blog and forum spamming." Another group, CasinoAffiliatePrograms, suspended 888's certification in May 2006 and requested that the company take steps to curb spam. These moves were followed by sanctions from a number of players groups. By the time 888 started to get back into good graces, at least 36 groups had publicly condemned the company.
888 still has an expensive affiliate marketing program, but the company says it has changed its spammy ways. There was an arms race for brand recognition back when the online gambling industry was still fairly new, said public relations officer Andrew Benbow, but now 888 only engages in "very good targeted marketing."
"The 888 back office is generally thought of as being the best in the industry," he told The Verge. "It's not in the company's benefit anymore to annoy people about the brand name."
Individual states are now passing their own internet gambling laws, in spite of the fact that the legal status under federal law is still somewhat murky. Nevada was the first state to legalize internet gambling, followed by Delaware and New Jersey. An effort to legalize internet gambling nationally failed to pass before the last Congress went out of session. Two technology companies got the first Nevada online gambling licenses back in June, and a number of brick-and-mortar casinos have also been licensed. However, 888 would be the first "online-specific" casino operator to ever receive a license in the US, said Holly Wetzel, vice president of communications at the American Gaming Association. The Nevada Gaming Control Board hasn't publicly confirmed that 888 received a license, but a source familiar with the proceedings said it seemed poised to be granted after a hearing yesterday. Other online companies have been pushing hard for licenses, and 888 may have received favorable treatment because of past cooperativeness. The company swiftly pulled out of the US market in 2006 after online gambling was ostensibly outlawed under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, even though the US represented half its revenue at the time. By contrast, PokerStars, which was shut down by the Justice Department in an April 2011 raid on poker sites, has "credibility issues to overcome" in the words of one lawmaker.
888 is a publicly traded company with an $863 million market value. It bills itself as the largest online casino in the world, and is the fifth-largest online poker network in the world according to traffic rankings compiled by PokerScout. 888 plans to launch a poker site and then an online casino for players in Nevada. No timeline has been announced, but the former could come anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.
First online casino to get a US gambling license turns out to be notorious UK spammer | The Verge