32Red Online Casino to Accept PayPal

32Red Plc – the company behind the multi award-winning 32Red Online Casino based in Gibraltar – today announced that it would be accepting deposits and withdrawals using PayPal, adding to the numerous secure banking options currently available to 32Red players.

PayPal is the UK’s favourite online payment service, with 21% share of consumer internet payments . Offering safe, fast and easy payments to over 73 million active account holders worldwide in 19 different currencies, it is viewed as the faster, easier way to pay online. The addition of PayPal to 32Red’s banking options will help current players deposit and claim their winnings more easily and open up joining the Best Casino winner to thousands of potential new players.

Operations Director, Pat Harrison, said: “32Red strives to make joining and playing our gaming products as simple and as convenient as possible. The addition of PayPal to our banking methods will allow players to manage their finances, deposit and withdraw easier than ever before. We’re positive that our strategic alliance with PayPal will also mean we will introduce more new players to our Best Casino service this year.”

PayPal operates by the addition of funds to accounts by bank cards and directly from banks. The sum can then be used to purchase chips at 32 Red online casino for example without the players having to submit any personal bank details. Winnings will then be deposited back into the PayPal account and withdrawn back to the users’ bank should they wish. It is considered by many to be the ultimate digital wallet. 32 Red Casino is featured on PayPal Casinos

Swansea City Football Club Announce Sponsorship Deal with 32Red Online Casino

32Red Plc and Swansea City FC announced today a partnership that will see the award-winning online gaming firm become the South Wales club’s official shirt and gaming sponsors.

The two-year sponsorship deal will see the 32 Red logo placed on the front of the Swans’ home and away shirts, while the Gibraltar-based company will also become the club’s official online gaming partner.

32Red Online Casino offers players over 350 unique casino games and a choice of welcome bonuses and monthly rewards. The poker site provides thousands of poker tables where players can enjoy games of Texas Hold’em, Omaha poker and more in addition to online bingo and a mobile phone casino.

The deal also reverses the current trend where an increasing number of professional clubs are failing to secure shirt sponsorship in today’s difficult financial climate. Swansea City’s vice-chairman, Leigh Dineen, was delighted to secure 32Red Casino as club sponsor, especially as 32Red’s previous shirt deal was with Premier League Club Aston Villa.

“It shows how far the club has come,’’ explained Dineen. “32Red were talking to a number of other football clubs, including some in the Premiership, about shirt sponsorship; but we are delighted to become their chosen partners in football. We are now a Championship club with a Premiership sponsor – and that’s something we are very proud of.”

Dineen added, “It was also encouraging to see a number of companies express an interest in becoming our main sponsor. There were some very interesting discussions over the course of last season, but 32Red was without doubt the best deal for us. It is a modern company with global reach; has pro-active ideas and will help us spread the Swans message to the international stage. We are really excited about working with them and I’m sure we will make a great team.”

The deal also represents an exciting and potentially lucrative opportunity for the club to share revenue drawn from 32Red’s online casino, poker and betting services. The club will be announcing some exciting initiatives on this link for its official website and supporters’ on July 1.

Ed Ware, CEO of 32Red, said: “We are thrilled to be partnering with Swansea City, one of the most exciting clubs in the Championship. Swansea has become a highly progressive team over recent seasons and we are looking forward to an exciting time as the club’s main sponsor.”

“The deal means we will once again raise our profile throughout the UK by becoming part of the football scene. And, thanks to the increased media coverage of the Championship, we expect our tie up with the Swans to deliver significant interest in our award-winning online casino.”

The sponsorship deal was facilitated with the help of Jim White and his commercial consultancy company, The Changing Face, and David Little of Magrath and Co in London. Both are avid Swans fans.

Paddy Power Races towards higher online pass rate through use of robust AGE verification software.

Paddy Power, the shining light in the Irish and UK betting industry is successfully protecting their customers’ online betting experience whilst reducing costs by implementing age and identity verification market leader, NetIDme.

“NeIDme offered us a solution that was easy to implement, matched our requirements and allowed us to increase our match rate by 10%” said Ronan Wall, Online Operations Manager, Paddy Power

Paddy Power was seeking to improve their customer experience and adopt an age verification solution to increase online pass rates. This is the key element for minimising the inconvenience to the customer upon registration. At high profile sporting events which attract first time customers, time intensive and costly follow up calls are now reduced by the NetIDme implementation.

Following successful pilot testing, NetIDme provided access to NetID Verify – a secure, fully automated batch service – configured specifically for Paddy Power’s volume processing requirements.

“Paddy Power, looking for ways to streamline their verification processes and improve online pass rates or matches, selected NetIDme, and are now benefitting from our unique Optimised Ratings Engine(ORE) technology. Our platform delivers very high match rates, drives down costs and helps improve customer value and retention”, said Peter McCudden COO, NetIDme.

To ensure the highest possible online matches rates, NetID Verify’s self learning unique ORE technology has the ability to instantly identify the best data source for each verification request. Reaching an estimated 800 million records instantly, the platform has also been configured to include additional fraud checks through the use of an Address Verification System (AVS).

NetIDme is a major age verification & identity services provider in the online gaming and gambling market based in East Kilbride in the West of Scotland, UK.

Titan Poker Player Wins First European Championship of Online Poker Tournament

In the first tournament of the 14-day, $4.55 Million Guaranteed Prize series, a 21-year-old Titan Poker veteran from Canada displayed his considerable poker skills.

A 21-year-old student from Canada pocketed $52,500 and first prize at the opening event of the fourth European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP IV), which kicked off on May 25 at popular online poker room Titan Poker.

Player “ch0ppy”, a two-year veteran at Titan Poker, outlasted 1,125 other avid online poker players in the $250,000 Guaranteed Prize No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament. The ECOOP IV event was the first of 14-nights of online poker action, which culminate with a $1,500,000 Guaranteed Prize Main Event on June 7. A total of $4.55 Million in prizes is guaranteed to winning players over the two weeks of online poker tournaments at Titan Poker.

Qualifying satellite tournaments for the ECOOP IV events are being staged daily at Titan Poker. The ECOOP IV tournaments (ECOOP IV) offer a wide variety of poker games, including Texas No Limit Hold’em, Limit Hold’em, 7 Card Stud, Pot Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo. Poker buy-in amounts vary to meet every player’s budget.

Titan Poker’s first ECOOP series was staged in December 2007 and players competed over ten days for their share of $2,500,000 in cash prizes. In May 2008, ECOOP II was staged with a grand total of $3,600,000 in guaranteed prizes at the ten nights of tournaments. Staged over fourteen days between November and December 2008, the third ECOOP tournament series distributed more than $4,150,000 in prizes to winning online tournament players.

Titan Casino raises the stakes on 2009 Champions League

While Europe remains gripped with curiosity as to who will win this year’s UEFA finals, Titan Casino is offering members a double incentive on the outcome.

It’s been two weeks since the final whistle blew on an extraordinary semi-final match that saw Manchester United defeat Arsenal, 3-1. The finalists, Barcelona and Man Utd, are now preparing for the biggest match of the year to determine who will be Europe’s top football team in 2009.

After United’s defeat of Barcelona in the 2008 Champions League semi-finals, both teams feel they have something to prove. Can Ronaldo help his team win the tournament for the second consecutive year, before his rumoured move to Real Madrid next season, or will Barcelona’s star player, Messi, help lead his team to a revenge victory?

To add to all the football excitement, Titan Casino’s manager, Robin Steele said in a recent press conference, “We’re giving our members a special treat to celebrate the UEFA Champions League final… and we’re creating more winners than just the 11 men on the pitch!”

This treat refers to a live tournament, being held in conjunction with Elite Challenge, the online tournament specialists. From 27-30 May, all members at Titan Casino are eligible to play in the Elite Challenge once they have made a deposit into their casino account.

Prior to Titan Casino’s tournament starting, each casino member will receive an email giving them one of the 2 final teams to support. If their team wins the football final on 27th May, Titan online casino will double their winnings.

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