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 Winnings will then be deposited back into the PayPal account and withdrawn back to the users’ bank should they wish.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.

January, 2009 – Microgaming, the world’s largest online gaming software provider, today announces that top European bookmaker Interwetten, has gone live with its market leading casino software.

The partnership with industry giant Interwetten further strengthens Microgaming’s elite portfolio of operators and arrives on the back of an unprecedented series of successful product launches last year.

Interwetten are now live with Microgaming’s full complement of over 400 multilingual casino games including the new and incredibly popular multiplayer BlackJack tournaments and renowned Casino management tools. Interwetten will also be making use of over 160 exciting flash games launched directly from their website.

The decision to use Microgaming’s software means that Interwetten are able to provide the most engaging and sophisticated online experience for its customers. Interwetten are now able to offer both multiplayer casino games and casino tournaments while using Microgaming’s back-end software to apply business intelligence tools to optimise every game, every player, and every spin to maximise results and increase profitability.

Roger Raatgever, Microgaming CEO says, “We are thrilled to welcome such an esteemed and successful business to our customer base and look forward to a long and successful partnership with Interwetten. 2008 saw Microgaming go from strength to strength having driven a number of major initiatives that are significantly benefiting our operators.”

“We are pleased to partner with a market leader like Microgaming. By relaunching the casino site we are reacting to an increasing development trend and are making the best offer on the market available to our customers”, Thomas Daubek, Interwetten CEO

About Microgaming (www.microgaming.com)

Since the company developed the first true online casino software over a decade ago, it has led the industry in providing innovative, reliable gaming solutions. Thanks to an unrivalled R&D programme, that averages 60 games per year and a unique ‘partnership’ approach to working with operators; Microgaming powers 120 of the world’s most profitable casino sites. The company’s front and back-end software supports multiplayer, multilanguage games – over 350 of them, all uniquely branded and provides platforms for landbased and wireless gaming. The Microgaming Progressive Jackpot Network is the world’s largest progressive and has paid out a record $250m plus in the last five years.

Microgaming software powers the world’s leading poker network with over 40 card rooms, as well as market-leading bingo software.

As a founding member of eCOGRA, Microgaming is at the forefront of an initiative focused on setting the highest standards in the gaming industry, and leads in the areas of fair gaming, responsible operator conduct and player protection.