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We all know now that City provided some last minute entertainment to us neutral supporters and went onto life the title for the first time in most of our life times by virtue of a better goal ratio and for that congratulations are in order. The supposed billion pound investment by the new Dubai based owners have it seems paid dividends for City supporters.

As per the title of the article, another fact that will find much glee with City supporters is the fact that founder of Bet Fred and United supporter Fred Done paid out £500k to punters who had bet on Man Utd winning the league. This was paid out in April as Fred thought that Utd were sure winners of the title.

The last time that Fred paid out punters early on Utd winning the title also saw Utd pipped at the post by Arsenal. Man Utd supporters are now saying that Fred has jinxed the team. That is one allegation that Mr. Done has refuted on a video on You Tube and it does make perfect sense. How on earth could he have jinxed a team when he has not played in a single game?

Manchester City supporters will also find it heart warming that Bet Fred have an additional £300k in pay outs going to punters who predicted that City would win the title. This has been an expensive end of season experience for Bet Fred. Perhaps instead of paying out punters in the future he can buy a player for our local team, although we guess that would make punters a little less happy.

To end if off, well done to Manchester City on winning the league and well done to Mr. Done for taking it on the chin and conducting himself in a manner befitting a top bookmaker.

Written by Greg for GamblingGames.co.uk

Up until now the addition of gambling type games to social media sites has been a bit of a grey area but we do expect for this kind of increased regulation to be applied in all markets. The very fact that a person has to pay to play a game of chance automatically makes it a gambling type game irrespective of what platform it is hosted on.

We have been saying for weeks that a large amount of companies are making a massive mistake by thinking that social gaming equates to social gambling. Social Gaming is not about gambling, it is about playing a game that you enjoy that can while away a few minutes or hours.

Making payments on games that involve no skill automatically creates a gambling environment and then quite rightly these operators would need to conform to gambling legislation in their own areas as the Japanese social game companies have found.

We look forward to the conitnued rollout of social games and are most interested to see what Facebook and other popular Social Networking sites will do in regards to gambling type games on their networks.

We do realize that we are devoting a lot of space and time to the subject of social games on the site, we do want to emphasise the point that we do not believe social gaming is likely to lead to gambling and hope and understand that companies involved in the social gaming sphere understand this.

The only reason why these companies would want to add gambling type games onto social games platforms is to squeeze the bottom line or boost share prices. We think that adding gambling to the mix on social gaming is wrong and there should be a distinct and clear distance kept between social games and gambling type games.

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The UK gambling company was in talks in regards to making a £77 million acquisition of social gaming assets which had the effect of raising some concerns amongst industry analysts.

If this deal had gone through it would have seen Mr. Sagi who founded the company and who still owns 48% of its shares paid out yet again by the company for a product he has built. Mr. Sagi has managed to sell a number of related gambling concerns back to Playtech in recent times including the much maligned Euro Partners marketing division.

Euro Partners provides an affiliate marketing service to a large number of Playtech Casinos and has established a less than salubrious reputation according to some Affiliate Forums. Playtech are according to reports wanting to gain a premium listing on the Stock Exchange which would mean additional regulation and have therefore taken a number of steps to ensure that it is seen to be doing the right thing in terms of acting independently.

It has therefore decided to scrap the Social Gaming purchase and pursue a software licensing deal with Mr. Sagi that would be conducted in an independent impartial manner. The continual purchase of gambling and gaming related concerns by Playtech from its largest shareholder and founder of the company must be raising some eyebrows.

At the present time Playtech software does power some of the biggest names in British Gambling including William Hill with who it has a joint venture and Windows Casino which is a long standing popular European and UK Online Casino.

There is no doubt that Playtech is one of the foremost gambling companies with a wide range of products including outstanding poker and bingo products, why could it not build these social gaming products instead of purchasing them from the founder of the group. Perhaps the strategy of the group is to aquire rather than create.

Playtech Plc has in the past managed to aquire vast amounts of products and to intergrate them slowly into their various products. This makes Playtech a formidable company in the gambling space and if i where a betting man and i am i would be looking to aquire shares in this UK gambling company.

We are a bit wondrous at the way this has all come about. It seems to be a sorry state of affairs we think when companies and level headed people at Media outlets can confuse playing games for fun on a social gaming platform with playing it for real money on an online gambling site.

Since when has going onto Facebook and playing Midas Solitaire equated to online gambling. We do know that there are companies out there who would like this to be the case and to make money from it all sorts of social games have been built that players can now play and then pay for. But for the love of money how does playing a game for fun equate to online gambling.

We prefer to stick to the old fashioned way of gambling. Why these imaginary scenario games for money when you can sign up to an online gambling venue that is licensed and regulated and play for much bigger jackpots. Everything that can be found at a land based gambling establishment can now be found at online gambling venues and more.

We think that there is a space for everyone in this market but please stop confusing social gaming with online gambling. The two are vastly different and should remain that way.

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It does seem that the Casinos will be targeting the Euro 2012 football tournament as 2 of the new slot games are football type slot games and the last one is for the music aficionados.

The two football slot games are called Football Fans Slots and Benchwarmer Football Girls Slots.  Both of the Football Slots games feature free spins and multipliers as part of the slot game and should find a niche in the slot market. The final slot game due to be unveiled is The Jazz Club Slots game.

The Jazz Club Slots game has a New Orleans club theme and in the bonus round slot players get to choose a soloist which determines the style of the free games. Jazz Club Slots also has an expanding wilds feature.

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The NFL has previously allowed teams to promote Scratch Card games and the ruling re gambling advertisements although limited in nature means that yet another avenue of revenue has been created for some powerful brands in the USA.

Gambling advertisements can only appear in the game program and the upper and lower concourses of stadiums. Gambling venues are also able to advertise via Radio but none of the advertisements are to be endorsed by either players or NFL franchises.

In the United Kingdom and Europe we have already been through this process with a number of top football and other sporting sides being sponsored by gambling companies. The argument for this is that it raises funds for more grass roots development of sports and the argument against it is that it allows powerful brands to be associated with gambling. Some might view this as being detrimental to younger members of society.

We live in an age where gamblers are able to bet on anything at any time and anywhere so we think that the NFL allowing some gambling advertising is a good thing and restricting the amount and nature of advertising is also a good thing.

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According to Sky Vegas the game had been attracting a large amount of interest due to the progressive slot jackpot on offer and activity over the bank holiday weekend peaked when the slot jackpot was won.

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