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Archive for October, 2009

Future of Gaming: games bigger than films!

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

It was with great interest today that I viewed on YouTube the longest advert I’ve ever seen for a game. It wasn’t a walkthrough video, nor the developers talking about how they created it. It was in fact a 14 minute and 11 second epic film, setting the scene for the upcoming Assassins Creed II out this Autumn across the world.

It just goes to prove that the video games industry, not even the gambling industry nor the film industry is now the main driver of entertainment. The rise of home entertainment, electronics, computing power and bandwidth are transforming areas of the leisure industry once deemed nerdy and geeky and the lines between passive watching and interaction are firmly merged once and for all. The future is not too far away when 3D televisions are afforadable and then virtual reality will mean we might well be staying in to go out. And no doubt the gambling industry will no doubt be far behind. I’m guessing that we might even see a rise in new gambling styles and games whereby one gambles on what laptimes or kills a gamer can attain in a game. Roulette and Poker might be games of yesteryear who knows in 10 years time in the home.

For now sit back and view the sumptuous advert. It has a few squeemish moments, but nothing more than a normal Hollywood blockbuster has.

The Future of Gambling – perhaps we should start a thread up on our Online Gaming Forum about it and see what everyone has to say, or by all means add your comments below.

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Gambling Best Prices Facts

Friday, October 16th, 2009

William Hill Best Prices

Last season William Hill customers enjoyed more top prices than any other leading bookmaker. This season is no different. The price comparison was taken from the Racing Post (Saturdays) 09/08/08 – 03/10/09 (Tuesdays) 11/08/09 – 06/10/09 comparing team prices covering domestic and cup fixtures and World Cup and friendlies.

Oggs has reviewed many of these and sportsbook betting is available via their online casino review links on our website – Online Bookmakers

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Drama as London Poker Season ends

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

teddy sherringham
Some of the world’s top poker players ended London’s three week poker fest in dramatic style this week. It was Peter Eastgate and Aaron Gustavson in the London leg of the European Poker League Tour and Daniel Negreanu and Barry Shulman in the final of the World Series of Poker Europe.

Celebrity players were in attendance too with ex-England international , Manchester United and West Ham player Teddy Sherringham coming through both competitions way ahead and smiling. It seems that Teddy has taken to the cards since his professional football days and done rather well, even though he is rumoured to be flirting with playing for non-league Beckenham Town FC in the FA Vase this season.

Other celebrities included the shrewd ex-Ryder Cup golf player and manager Sam Torrance and ex-Everton player and former international Trevor Steven too. There were a fair few players at the tables who had started their poker careers via online poker sites and they didn’t look fazed at all playing in the real world. “Cards are cards, at the end of the day, although watching peoples’ expressions is of course different from the online tables”, one contestant observed.

Back under the spotlights the two finales were dramatic. On Wednesday, American pro, 23 year old Aaron Gustavson won the London leg of the Euopean Poker Tour held at the Hilton Metropole on the Edgeware Road taking down £850,000 in the process. He’d had to battle a long way to the summit, the tournament fielding 730 players, the largest ever.

He beat Peter Eastgate the reigning World Champion in just 20 minutes head to head. But Eastgate’s reign as world champion runs until November 10, when the final nine players of the World Series of Poker Main Event convene in Las Vegas to play down to a new world champion. And with an impressive year of over $10m in winnings he will dust off this defeat and still head to Vegas with every chance.

In the World Series of Poker Europe top money winner Jamie Gold was eclipsed by Daniel Negreanu as he topped his season’s earnings to over $12.5m. But it wasn’t Daniel on top in London, he was cruelly beaten into the runners-up position by eventual winner, magazine publisher Barry Shulman, who got over Negreanu’s All In play on a QJ with J 8 5 in the flop against pocket aces, sweated on another Jack on the turn card then as luck in poker would have it the final river card turned up the ace he so badly needed. That’s poker for you!

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Real Players Review and Vote Their Favourite Casino Into Top Ten

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Online casino review websites, of which there are plenty, offer two types of casino review; some offer biased and over praising narratives and others like Oggs.com tell it plain and straight, good points and bad. Oggs’s sister site Casinotabs.com has taken the review process one step further and now ranks best online casinos by a rating and comments system provided by all real individual players.

This is a major difference and over time the top ten casinos showing will really be those offering the best service, best games, best offers etc because real players have said and voted so. It’s actually quite refreshing and a chance for players to find out what others think about a certain casino and all it offers.

The rating system and comments box can be acccessed on each casino and Casinotabs’ owners hope that more and more players will share the knowledge and the real player reviews will become invaluable and informative to others.

More and more sites are realising that their visitors, loyal or not are important and wish to engage with them and benefit from their knowledge too. It works for Casinotabs and it’s also working on the new Oggs Online Casino Forum, where casino players discuss everything from slot competitions to which are the best casinos for US players or who provides the best casino customer service.

Casinotabs like Oggs has been going through a major refurbishment and the two sites are working closer together to compliment each other and offer those who like to gamble unrivalled knowledge of what each online casino offers.

If you have a favourite online casino or would like to comment on a particular service then head over to Casinotabs.com and help rank casinos in a fair and helpful way for all casino players worldwide. Also why not follow them or Oggs on Twitter. Twitter.com/Casinotabs or Twitter.com/Oggs

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Bookies Open A Book On Books

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

2009 Man Booker Prize Judges

Book World’s Super Thursday, Man Booker Prize, Nobel Literature all available at the Bookies!

This is Book Week, or perhaps Bookies Week, or more closer to the point a week that encompasses three of the largest events in the Book calendar each year and for the first time is being covered by British Bookmakers.

Today is the book world’s Super Thursday; 800 books are launched today in the run-up to Christmas. Over 40% of book sales happen in the next three months and it can make or break a publisher, bookshop or author.

Tomorrow, 1st October is the main UK book award the 2009 Man Booker Prize, hundreds of books have been whittled down to just half a dozen with Ladbrokes bookmakers giving the nod to author Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall at 10/11, ahead of J M Coetzee’s Summertime and Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger, both 5/1.
And finally next Thursday 8th October sees the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize. The field is packed for this one with Amoz Oz at 4/1 edging Assia Djebar and Joyce Carol Oates at 5/1 each.

More people are looking for Special or Celebrity Bets and bookmakers are keen to offer more opportunities than ever before. In fact most punters like these types of wager as they feel they have a better knowledge of the events or category as it is part of their everyday life.

As Super Thursday’s books are launched, bookies like Ladbrokes have opened their own book offering odds on who and what will be the Christmas Book Number 1, which is less likely to be as highbrow as a Booker Prize or Nobel winner, so the early showing is Dan Brown 2/1 The Lost Symbol, Ant and Dec 3/1 Ooh! What A Lovely Pair and Jamie Oliver 5/1 Jamies’s America and Peter Kay 5/1 Saturday Night Peter followed by Jeremy Clarkson 10/1 Driven to Distraction and many more books under that too.

So if you fancy a bookish gamble, then click through to Oggs’ Celebrity Betting page, and click on Ladbrokes Casino. Once there click on the top Sports tab and then once in there the Specials category down the left navigation column’s list. You will find the book odds under Awards and Christmas.

No doubt there are plenty of good outside bets to look at with over 800 books alone today published and launched so best of luck beating those other bookies!

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