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Oct

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Once a month we like to take a look at the kind of things people are searching for as regards the UK online gaming space.  It often makes for an interesting insight into what is popular in the UK online gambling environment and allows us to more specifically target what our writers cover on this blog. The key trends are a large amount of search based around the slots and fruit machine experiences offered online particularly those Vegas based slot variations. 

Sep

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We have been doing a bit of research into the most common terms people have been using to find the blog which makes very interesting reading as this shows how people typing keywords into Google and the like find the stories we are writing about and what we find interesting.  there are effectively three strands of our traffic:

1) Getminted and brand related terms or product related
2) Game title driven heavily influenced by Monopoly and The price is Right
3) Generic search terms such as Casinos and Slots

To show what we based the analysis on we have listed the top 250 phrases bringing traffic to us.

Apr

10

Playtech revenues have risen over the $100m mark whilst total revenue rose 86%. Profits dropped as expenses of operating the business rose.  The company remains confident and puts the increased costs down to four areas:

Investing in new gaming markets

Developing new casino products

improving existing products such as Poker

Searching for aqusitions and new joint ventures

Casino income was king for Playtech with total product reveneues rising to US $74.7m up 58% and Poker jumped up by a huge 269%.

 

Apr

9

NetPlay TV plc, the interactive gaming company, has achieved record figures for its Live Roulette show by breaking through the threshold of £1 million worth of bets in a day. During the first three days of April, gross bets totalled £2.91 million.

Apr

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There was a time when Bingo was simple. Some would say too simple!

But now with sites such as FoxyBingo.com bingo has taken on a different life with giveaways, promotions, chat rooms and much more adding to the much loved gambling experience.

The days of the smoke-filled halls with players keeping their fingers crossed for minimal rewards seems gone for good.

In this article we focus on FoxyBingo.com specifically and discover how bingo has changed very much for the better?

Mar

28

As this is the name of our gaming site we felt it a good idea to add in a little bit of information regarding the heritage of the name which basically comes from the term mint or minted.

Mar

28

Come on down they used to shout and play the most popular game show around. The Price Is Right is now available at Getminted Casino as a browser based flash casino game and you can choose from three themes -

The Price Is Right Slots - A US based Vegas Casino Veriosn

The Price Is Right Match Three - A scratch card theme  

The Price Is Right Fruity - (a UK based fruit machine version)

The Price Is Right TV game show was created in 1956 by Bob Stewart but in its current format it has been running since 1972, and was hosted by Bob Baker. The show, known for its "Come on down!" catch phrase is generally regarded as the greatest TV game show of all time. 

Mar

27

We have put together a lits fo offline progressive Jackpot Records for our readers.  To see the kind of levels of payout that has been occuring offline it is our view that we will see some of these records being eclipsed as network progressive slot machines like Wager Works MegaJackpot get further exposure across a varitey of large online gaming operators.

Mar

27

We have grabbed a list of all the recent MegaJackpots payouts from offline casinos it sure makes intresting reading.  Of course the unanswered question is when will Megajackpots available on Getminted will drop the prize is just under £1.7M and it is going to change someone's life when it drops.

 

Mar

27

The success of Megabucks led IGT to adapt the MegaJackpots concept to 33 other systems in a wide range of denominations from Star Wars to Wheel of Fortune. IGT MegaJackpots have produced hundreds of millionaires, and have awarded more than $4.7 billion in major jackpots.

 

Mar

27

Boss Media AB ("Boss Media") has applied for delisting of the company's shares from OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm. The last day of trading in Boss Media's shares will be Friday April 18, 2008. Boss Casino and Boss Poker have been very successful software platforms over the last decade and this is why Gtech decided to aquire the business recently.

Feb

29

Strictly Slots magazine published its fourth annual "The Best of Slots" survey. The winning games, in multiple categories, were chosen by slot players - not, as the magazine noted, by a panel of judges or gaming executives.

This is the list of the most popular games (in order of popularity) for each of the categories included in the survey intrestingly Getminted fetures many of these slots or variations of them:

Feb

18

The Sunday Times reproted this weekend on the man much in the press during the week - Graham Calvert.

Graham is going after William Hill, the bookmakers, for £2m. His premise they allowed him to continue gambling when he was (a) heavily in debt and (b) absolutely useless at it.

Calvert claims he tried to have himself self excuded using William Hill's "do not accept money from me again" button. However, he then opened another betting account with the bookmakers and proceeded to place many more unsuccessful bets via this betting account one in particular for £300K + on the Ryder Cup believeing the US team woudl clean up.

Graham, blames not himself but William Hill for his current position of destitution - as the Times points out: "rather in the manner of those grotesquely fat American women who sue McDonald's for continuing to allow them to stuff their fat faces with Big Macs and super-size fries, despite the fact that they arrive, waddling, at the counter - with their poor hearts, encased in blubber, begging for mercy."

Calvert will possibly lose the case it will represent his final roll of the dice for him with the odds stacked against him.

Feb

17

Craps is one of the best games around as regards house edge in other words the player has a very good chance of beating the house with this gamne the big problem with it is no one in the UK seems to know how to play the game so it often gets missed or skipped over by players.

Craps is a game based around the rolling of 2 dice on a large table it frwequently features in Casino films as it is a great dramatic way to show off the excitment of gambling in a live casino environment.  Typically a hot girl will be shown to throw dice, kiss the dice and generally look good whilst the chaps put all their money down on the different bets.

The object of the game of craps is to basically bet whether or not the person throwing the dice will either pass or not pass during any given roll.

The dice roller starts by shooting the first dice roll, known as the "come-out phase," whereby he/she wins by rolling either a 7 or 11. Rolling "craps," or a 2, 3, or 12 automatically causes a player to lose at the table. Should any other number be rolled, the shooter has known made what is called the "point," thus entering the game into the "point phase" of the craps game.

In order for the dice roller to win now, he or she must roll that same "point" number a 7 is rolled. Those surrounding the table bet on whether the shooter will make a pass and roll something other than a 7 or if her or she will NOT make a pass and hit 7 before the "point" is made. If the pass is not made, the shooter "sevens-out" and must move on and allow another shooter to roll.

As you can see the rules are relatively complicated so the best bet is to play some games for free messing around with the different bets to see if you can work it out whilst playing the actal game. 

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There are few games available at Casinos throughout the world as high on drama as those found at a roulette wheel.

And Getminted.com brings all that high octane drama straight to your PC thanks to six top class roulette games.

Named after the French word meaning "small wheel" Roulette as a gambling game has attracted some magical stories over the years.

Take for example the case of Londoner, Ashley Revell.

In 2004, Revell sold all of his possessions, clothing included, and brought US$ 135,300 to the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas and put it all on "Red" at the roulette table in a double-or-nothing bet. The ball landed on "Red 7" and Revell walked away with his net-worth doubled to $270,600.

Thanks to Getminted's collection's of Roulette games you too can try your hand on the famous wheel keeping your finger's crossed that the ball falls where you want it to for big rewards.

Jan

21

Getminted online casino has been launched in 2002 and is now one of the best UK casinos. The site is running Wagerworks games, and is famous for some of the most exciting slot games available online. Check out videos of some selected slot machines and casino games we published on YouTube.

Here is just a teaser - watch Monopoly Here and Now!




Check out video previews of other Getminted casino games: