Earlier this week, one lucky player hit a record-breaking online slots jackpot while playing the Red, White and Win, a progressive slot machine from Vegas Technology. While this is, indeed, an occasion for celebration, it is also a very ironic situation in the online gambling world.

The U.S. District Court of Maryland has charged yet another online gambling tycoon with violating the UIGEA. 51-year-old Kenneth Wienski, CEO of Diversified Check Solutions, has become the third person to be arrested based on UIGEA regulations, for transferring money from players to online gambling sites.

At All Slots online casino, playing online slots is not only a solitary activity. There are plenty of tournaments to take part in, as the operator ensures that players get a chance to exercise their competitive sides. Thursdays and Fridays are always the most exciting days, with dozens of online slots tournaments to take part in.

While online gambling is currently not illegal in Canada, the government has decided to intervene in the industry by offering its own online casino. In conjunction with Loto Quebec and Atlantic Lottery Corp, B.C. Lottery will launch an online gambling network that will cater to players nationwide.

888 casino is starting off the month with a great new promotion, offering upwards of $1000 to all new players. The Every Card Wins promotion will run for the entire month, as the online casino operators hands out free scratch cards to every newly registered player.

In an initiative that is sure to set standards for North America's television and gambling industries, French television regulators are creating rules for online gambling advertising on the country’s television stations. After much consideration, consulting and research, they will present their findings between June 1 and June 15.
 
There are three major options that regulators will have to consider when deciding how to conduct online gambling advertising:
 

PlayTech is one of the leading online slots designers in the industry, and although the company saw hard times in 2009, this year seems to be more promising. According to Reuters, PlayTech’s revenue has increase by nearly 30% in the first quarter of 2010 alone.

“We continue to see strong interest in our products and a good pipeline of prospective licensees in regulated and soon-to-be regulated markets”, PlayTech said in a recently issued statement.

Microgaming has launched two new games for the month of May. With two completely different themes, the online slots games have one uniting aspect: they’re both based on and possibly targeted towards women.
 

At the 14th Annual Canadian Gaming Summit, the biggest players in Canada’s gambling industry gathered to discuss the changing shape of the market. Although the summit is normally focused mostly on finances and new technology, this year’s meeting was spent talking about online gambling and it effects on the industry as a whole.