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Titan Casino unveils an all new look and feel in line with other Titan brands Titan Poker and Titan Bet, for an improved user experience.

Titan Casino is pleased to announce the launching of a new website and casino lobby.

The new Titan Casino now reflects the design of sister sites Titan Poker and Titan Bet for a single unified online gaming mega-brand.

While the Titan Casino games remain the same, the website and casino lobby have been fully redesigned for an improved user experience including additional information and easier navigation.

In terms of the Titan Casino promotions, a popular draw for online casino players, the new Promotions page makes it easier for site visitors to locate the exact promotion they’re looking for. Instead of a single page listing all the casino promotions, it is now conveniently divided into four separate categories marked Welcome Bonus, New Promos, Ongoing Promos and Members Only Promos respectively.

Players will also enjoy the additional information on individual games. For example, each new game (such as Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World and Iron Man 2) has a full page write-up delineating the benefits and highlights of the game.

Each game type (such as blackjack, slots, roulette, etc.) also has additional information to help new players get started including sections on game history, game strategy and game glossary. While the rest of the site has been translated into an additional 12 languages, these particular pages are only available in English for the time being.

In addition to the changes to the website, the Titan Casino lobby has also undergone a complete overhaul. Not only is it more aesthetically pleasing, it is also easier for players to navigate and find their favorite games.

To get started, players simply need to download Titan Casino (free of charge), log in and click on the blue Games button in the bottom right corner of the casino lobby.

Realex Payments have established themselves as the payment provider of choice for major gaming brands over the last number of years, and this week they announced a new partnership with Betsafe which strengthens their ties with the industry. "We are delighted to welcome Betsafe on board" said Mark Johnson of Realex Payments. "We have built up our industry expertise over a number of years and they have seen that we bring the tailored approach and peace of mind that their needs demand".

With strong pan-European acquiring connections, a partnered approach and a focus on security and customer service, Realex Payments have made their mark in the online gaming sector.

"We have recognised Realex payments as very professional and experienced in the online gambling industry. The Realex team have understood our requirements perfectly and, as a result, the integration went smoothly and fast. Thanks to Realex we are able to provide our customers with a unique experience, along with very high acceptance rates." said Olga Bencini, Payment Solutions Director at Betsafe.

"We pride ourselves on our partnered approach, and it’s success has been demonstrated once again with this new partnership. We look forward to growing a successful relationship with Betsafe over the coming years" added Johnson.

Betsafe is one of the leading suppliers of online gaming products in Scandinavia. Since January 2006, Betsafe has established itself as being one of the most trusted and reliable gaming companies in the industry, and the company is known to sponsor and handle large events such as Gumball 3000 and the poker tournament Rigged in Riga. They offer their customers a wide selection of products such as poker, sportsbetting and casino games.

Realex Payments is the UK’s fastest growing online payments service provider. Based in Hammersmith, London, they process in excess of £9 billion per annum for over 4,000 clients across many sectors including 32red, Cryptologic, Boyle Sports and Party Poker from the eGaming sector.

About Realex Payments:

Realex Payments is a leading European payment service provider. With offices in London Paris and Dublin, Ireland, the company enjoys an exceptional track record of growth. Founded in 2000 by award winning entrepreneur Colm Lyon, the company provides a broad range of payment services to small and large businesses as well as financial institutions.

Realex Payments process billions of pounds per annum for merchants domestically and internationally, across a wide range of industries including airlines, mobile carriers, utilities, insurance companies and gaming companies. Clients include Virgin Atlantic, Vodafone, The AA, AXA Insurance, Aer Lingus, Cryptologic and Party Poker.

For more information, contact Tracy Glynn, Head of Marketing, Realex Payments. Tel: +44 (0)20 3178 5370

Winning players at Titan Poker’s weekly Super Satellite tournaments and special league promotions will represent the poker room in Las Vegas this summer.

Titan Poker, the leading online poker room in Europe, is offering its players multiple ways to win their way to Las Vegas to participate in this summer’s World Series of Poker 2011* tournaments.

Titan Poker is awarding No Limit Hold’em Main Event packages to winners of its Sunday and Tuesday night Super Satellite tournaments. Each package is worth $13,000 and includes the $10,000 buy-in to the Main Event (Event #58), 7 nights’ accommodation at a luxury Las Vegas hotel, and $1,770 for flights and spending.

In parallel, Titan Poker is staging a Super Satellite tournament series awarding winning players with a $13,000 package to the Pot Limit Omaha Championship (Event #42).

Two additional Super Satellite tournament series being staged by the popular online poker room award winners with entries to No Limit Hold’em Side Events #48 and #54, as well as giving them a chance to experience the glamor of a Las Vegas visit. These winner packages are valued at $5,500 and $3,500.

Titan Poker’s WSOP* Warrior League allows players to participate in eight league tournaments at a single buy-in, as well as a league Grand Final. The top ten players on the league’s leaderboard will each win WSOP* 2011 prize packages, with the first place winner receiving an exclusive $20,000 Warriors Package that includes entry to the Main Event. A total of $100,000 in prizes will be distributed to players in the Warrior League.

The four-month MT3 multi-table tournament race is awarding the top twenty players on its leaderboard with $5,000 WSOP* Experience Packages which include an entry to one of the Side Events in Las Vegas.

With multiple ways to the World Series of Poker* available at inexpensive buy-ins, avid poker players have many reasons to select Titan Poker as their ticket to Las Vegas. Titan Poker stages many special promotions and freeroll tournaments for new players, who are invited to try out the free poker download and experience the exciting poker action.

Bet365 Casino player Steven M has become the latest addition to a long line of big winners with bet365 – scooping a massive £101,705 Progressive Jackpot!

Steven M has been a keen Slots player with bet365 since 2005, and has enjoyed some significant wins in the past. They don’t quite compare, however, to the scale of this impressive Progressive Jackpot win on bet365’s hugely popular Wall Street Fever game.

Steven M said he was "flabbergasted" when he realised he’d won the jackpot and immediately gave bet365 a call so that they could confirm the good news.

Now that it is starting to sink in, Steven M is planning what he will do with his £101,705 win. He says he will spend some of the money on his grandchildren, and thinks his wife will have no problem deciding what to do with the rest!

This is not the only big winner that bet365’s Wall Street Fever has produced, as it follows a previous $335,000 jackpot win by Mr J on the same game. With an extensive range of popular Progressive Jackpot games on offer at bet365, there is plenty of opportunity to play for some huge prize amounts such as these. These Progressive Jackpots are amongst a total of over 150 exciting casino games available at Bet365 Casino.

The London-based player protection and standards body eCOGRA has undergone a change in ownership following a successful management buy-out (MBO) initiative led by chief executive Andrew Beveridge.

The organisation announced this week that the original Founding Members of eCOGRA, three major and competing online gambling groups, had agreed to the change. In future the new ownership structure of eCOGRA would not include software or other service providers or operators enabling it to be truly independent in the discharge of its audit, advisory, compliance and seal awarding activities.

The Founding Members note that the company had established itself as a credible and respected industry player with major business connections since its launch in 2003, and that it is now appropriate that the founding ties be severed, allowing eCOGRA to make its own way in the world of online gambling.

Staffed by IT, responsible gambling and audit specialists, eCOGRA offers a wide range of professional business services to internet gambling companies, and enjoys business relationships with major trade associations and several international licensing jurisdictions.

The company’s Safe and Fair seal of accreditation has become a reliable indicator of operators committed to high standards of commercial conduct, customer respect and fair gaming, and is held by 150 websites, belonging to some of the most successful tier one companies in the industry.

"The industry is maturing, and eCOGRA must be part of that evolving process," Beveridge said this week. "The trend toward national or state regulatory regimes around the world is just one of the areas in which our professional services are increasingly in demand by companies and jurisdictions committed to ensuring that they are well prepared in all respects to meet the highest international standards."

Beveridge revealed that eCOGRA’s services and operational structure would remain largely unchanged.

"We will continue to offer unbiased player dispute mediation through our Fair Gaming Advocate, and our TGTR outcomes-based software monitoring system is proving increasingly popular with non-accredited entities and will if anything be expanded," he said.

"Our policy of independently assessing operators for the award of the Safe and Fair seal, and subsequent review and monitoring activity, will remain in place, and the provision of professional business services and advisory consulting remains a key element in our commercial offering and will become an increasing important part of the services offered.

"Importantly, our strong commitment to responsible gambling will continue, specifically in our operator training initiatives and the requirements enshrined in our standards."

"Going forward eCOGRA intends to become a major force in helping shape new gaming regulations, offering specialised advice and assistance to existing and emerging jurisdictions and be at the forefront of establishing industry standards".

The MBO has scored an important coup in bringing eCOGRA’s former Independent Directors onto the new Board.

"Our chairman will be Michael Hirst OBE, supported by a directorate that includes Bill Henbrey, Bill Galston OBE, Frank Catania and myself," said Beveridge, adding that biographies were available on the eCOGRA website at http://www.ecogra.org

"We are very fortunate that these highly experienced and respected figures in the industry will continue to make their considerable knowledge and business expertise available to us," he said.

Michael Hirst said that the original mandate of the eCOGRA Independent Directors had been to continually improve the credibility of the industry, ensure players were properly protected and develop appropriate standards and regulations.

"Those basic principles will remain our goal in addition to increased competitive commercial activity," he said.