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Management and employees at the Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment are celebrating a remarkably successful year despite difficult economic conditions, reporting that full year after tax profits soared by over a third on the previous year’s results.

After tax profits for the full year rose 35% to SEK 107.7 million (€10.5 million) from SEK 80 million in 2008. Operating profit soared even higher – to SEK 87.8 million, or 37% up on 2008’s SEK 32.4 million, and revenues for the year jumped by 46% up to SEK 300.1 million (2008 FY: SEK 205.6 million).

President and chief executive Johan Öhman said that the fourth quarter showed stronger performance than the third, and that the upward trajectory has continued into 2010.

“We saw strong growth at the end of 2009 with a revenue growth of 12% during the fourth quarter compared to quarter three,” explained Ohman. “The increase was the result of organic growth by existing licensees. The number of game transactions increased by 23% during the same period. Combined, this result shows that there is a strong market development and demand for our products. This positive trend has continued in January 2010.”

Ohman is optimistic on the company’s prospects for 2010, saying: “We have a solid order backlog comprising, for example, Expekt and Microgame which, together with Sportingbet rolling out CasinoModule on additional geographical markets, will create new license revenues.

“The implementation of Seamless Wallet is ongoing with our major licensees. This functionality enables operators to place Net Entertainment’s games in other parts of the web portal than the casino and thereby offer games to a larger share of their players, creating a foundation for increased gaming revenues from new player segments.

“CasinoCafé had positive development during the fourth quarter with increasing volumes; however, from a low level. Delta Invest continues the roll-out of CasinoCafe, which has been slower than expected, with focus primarily on the Ukraine market.”

Sportsbook.com has released its 2010 Oscars odds and Avatar has now gone from long +300 odds to the new favorite at -300.  One must bet $30 to win $10 (the $30 is returned along with the $10 win should Avatar be awarded "Best Picture"). 

"Avatar is being billed as the epic film or our lifetime much like Gone With The Wind," Gambling911.com Senior Editor Payton O’Brien said.  "There is nobody that I know who did not leave this film in awe.  It’s more than just a pretty science fiction flick.  The film is certainly worthy of an Oscar."

Initially Up In The Air and The Hurt Locker were co-favorites.

Up In The Air now has odds of +800 with the payout potential being $80 on every $10 bet.

The Hurt Closet still had pretty short odds at +140.

Ten films have been nominated for "Best Picture".  It is a return to the way the Oscars were awarded in the movies’ early decades when as many as 12 films were considered in the field of finalists, then-academy President Sid Ganis said announcing the change in June.

Carrie Stroup, Gambling911.com Senior Reporter

Besides the game itself, the 2010 Super Bowl commercials are looking to be among the most controversial in quite some time.  There is a Tim Tebow Mom abortion spot running that CBS will not pull.  Once again, they pulled a sleazy GoDaddy.com advertisement, which seems to happen annually.  GoDaddy.com is the same registrar that practically handed over a couple of online gambling domains to the commonwealth of Kentucky before the industry could come in and ensure a positive decision in that matter.  Nobody in the online gambling sector is crying over their ad being pulled. 

But enough about GoDaddy.com.  In addition to all those fine Super Bowl 2010 betting props that are out there, the folks at Bookmaker.com are now offering odds on 2010 Super Bowl commercials and which will be rated highest based on the USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter.

The favorite: Anheuser Busch, which would pay out $90 for every $10 bet.  Considering they do have some of the funniest commercials, that might be a pretty good bet.

Levi Strauss and Dockers Brand, Disney and Yum! Brands all came in around 11/1 odds.

Ever since Mean Joe Green threw that kid a Coke during one of the most heralded Super Bowl commercials of all time, the championship game has become a gold mine…mainly for the network that carries the game.  Commercials airing during the Super Bowl are very expensive and it is not unusual to have lesser established companies (i.e. dotcoms) fail one year later after blowing most of their ad budgets to appear during the game.

"THE Federal Reserve Board may want to scrutinize another statistic to gauge the health of the economy: demand for ads during Super Bowls," suggests Stuart Elliot of the New York Times.  This year’s Super Bowl ad space had just about sold out. 

By contrast, at this point in 2009, when NBC was selling spots to be shown during the broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII on Feb. 1, considerably more time remained unsold.

"Last year, time was being sold entering into a recession," Mr. McClintock said. "This year, it’s being sold apparently coming out of one."

Most of these Super Bowl commercials will inevitably be duds.

The pundits can discuss eTrade talking babies and cowboys herding sheep all they want, there are only a few true classics among the Super Bowl commercials airing the past few decades.

Aside from the Mean Joe Green commercial, there was the Big Brother Apple 1984 spot, that annoying but memorable Budweiser Wazzzzzzzzuppppp commercial, and another Budweiser spot featuring funny talking frogs. 

Place your bet on the best 2010 Super Bowl Commercials here at the world’s most established online sportsbook, Bookmaker.com.

Payton O’Brien, Gambling911.com Senior Editor

Rival-powered online casino RoyalApollo.com has announced that it has begun accepting players based in the United States and is set to welcome them with a range of new deposit bonuses worth up to $1,200.

The Curacao-licensed site stated that it made its decision ‘following a growing need to offer top quality online gambling entertainment to US players in a safe and secure gaming environment’.

Players based in the United States can now take advantage of a full matching first deposit bonus worth up to $200 while they can receive a deposit bonus of up to $150 on their second credit. This same bonus worth up to $150 applies to any third deposits while the fifth to tenth deposits are subject to a full matching bonus of up to $100.

RoyalApollo.com recently upgraded its weekly bonuses by launching its Happy Days promo schedule, which means that rewards are now given out for every day of the week. In addition, there is its upgraded VIP Club to dish out even more promotions, offers, bonuses and perks to loyal players at six different layers.

“US players wanting to fund their online casino accounts at RoyalApollo.com should find a wide range of convenient, discreet and easy-to-use payment methods that are supported at this site,” read a statement from RoyalApollo.com

“Payment methods include credit cards, eWalletXpress, UseMyWallet and Click2Pay and can be used to deposit funds into the player’s account or withdraw winnings.

“Players should be pleased to note that RoyalApollo.com online casino also offers extra bonuses on deposits as a means to encourage the use of available alternative payment methods. The bonuses range from 15 percent to 25 percent depending on the payment method selected.”  

Jenny Woo here with an exciting new concept for Gambling911.com readers.  YOU will be offering input into my own world famous Top 10 Sexiest Poker Players of…. list. 

How?

Over the coming weeks I will be presenting a list of qualifies, beginning today with Phil Hellmuth.

I’m going to create a list of what I believe makes a poker player like Phil Hellmuth sexy.

YOU will offer feedback below in our comments sextion. 

In compiling my own list of Poker’s Sexiest for 2010, YOUR imput will be taken into consideration.

We won’t stop there either.  With each article, I’m going to ask our readers to comment on who they believe should make the cut and why.

Here is why I think Phil Hellmuth should qualify, though this doesn’t mean I don’t find others in the poker community more sexy.

What makes Phil Hellmuth sexy for 2010?

*Dark piercing brown eyes.

*Love his thick slick jet black hair.

*A bit of a poker brat and diva turns this girl on.

*Man boobs, or as our own Thomas Somach refers to them – MOOBS!  Yes, they are hot on some men.

*He was a bit of a sloppy lush in 2009.  Right up my alley!

*He is hung like a horse based on what I have heard from someone who has seen it. 

*I love when he throws a tantrum.  It does get this girl a little hot and horny especially when he loses all those chips.

*He has beautiful lips – great for kissing.

*I like how the hair over his ears is sometimes unkempt and points upwards like a rocket towards the moon.

*Gives to charity.

*Hangs with rock stars and various celebrities.

*Love when he dresses up like Caesar in this tight pants.

*Posed naked playing poker for some magazine beside Jennifer Harman and Daniel Negreanu.  I would like to be the meat in that sandwich.  Yum!

*He has I think 14 gold bracelets, none of which he bought himself.

*He’s won several million over the past few years. 

I would say his spell of bad luck over the past year is going to cost him some points.  He’s probably a bigger diva than me and that always costs him event though he made my top 10 last year.  I have a feeling that may sour some of our readers though. I wish he had a hairier chest and his biceps were a bit bigger.  I want him to drink a little less than I do in 2010. 

What do you all think.  Please cast your votes below in our popular comments section and remember, your input counts. 

Phil Hellmuth is the spokesperson for UB.com.  Get Huge cash bonuses here

Jenny Woo, Gambling911.com Senior International Correspondent 

With Arsenal sitting on top of the Premier League table debate is raging whether Arsene Wenger’s young team can take Chelsea and Manchester United all the way in the race to this season’s title.

Having not lost in the league since November it is Arsenal’s next four games that will tell whether they have what it takes as The Gunners prepare to face Aston Villa, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool in a crucial run of big games.

Paddy Power are offering odds of 25/1 that Arsenal win all four of the key games whilst it is 5/1 that the wheels come off the title challenge and Arsenal fail to win any of the matches.

Of the four games the bookmaker considers that winning the Liverpool game only is the most likely at betting odds of 11/2 whilst it is 8/1 Arsenal win the two home games of the four against Manchester United and Liverpool.

With five goals in Arsenal’s last four matches captain fantastic Cesc Fabregas will no doubt play an important part in The Gunners’ big run of games. Fabregas is at odds of 9/2 to score three goals over the next four games whilst 5/2 indicates that the opposition stifle the key man and he fails to get on the score sheet.

Despite sitting at the top of the table, at least until United play Hull City this weekend, Arsenal are 3/1 joint second betting favourites to win the title alongside the champions Manchester United.

The GTech G2 group, which is the parent company of St Minver, Boss Media, Dynamite Idea and Finsoft, has announced several product developments that it intends to showcase at the upcoming IGE-ICEi show. The group plans to release details on a major casino software update featuring new side games and demonstrating its new Live Hosted Bingo.

Following the successful migration earlier this month of its UK bingo licensees to a new G2 Bingo product, the provider will unveil what it boasts is one of the most innovative and exciting new features to hit online bingo – live streamed chat hosts. Demonstrations of this highly interactive new feature will be keenly watched by rivals and show visitors alike.

“The way that we have incorporated the live video streaming into the game window, and the way our hosts will focus on ‘presenting’ rather than calling numbers, we believe makes this feature unique and will make players engage more with the product,” said Alison Digges, who heads up group bingo operations for GTech G2. “At IGE, we’ll be giving a sneak preview of the video streaming that will go live with our UK customers shortly, with the view to expand this across all our bingo customers, she said.”

In the casino update, G2 will show off new games developed in-house by its Game Studio, and additional content from other leading games developers, especially licensed/branded content.

Licensees like Virgin Casino and Gala Coral have been quick to offer well-known games like the Bar X Magic 7 which was developed by the Dynamite Idea group at G2. This and the other new instant-win side games included in the group’s updated casino games portfolio are already popular with operators.

“Our approach is to combine the best of our home grown creativity with the best of the open market, said Dominic Mansour, head of G2’s Casino and Games division. “Our new slot machines were developed in-house, but Virtual Derby, our new virtual horse racing game that incorporates animated video clips, is an example of what an aggregator we’ve become. It was developed by Solid Icon and, thanks to our back end systems, seamlessly integrated into our games portfolio.”

On the sportsbetting front, G2 plans to display the latest upgrades to its Margin Maker platform, including its Pools Engine, which allows operators to create, maintain and manage pool betting, and the Games Room Bonus Engine, which enables them to reward individual side and instant game players with free funds, loyalty points or prizes.

Not one to shy away from "Celebrity in the Closet" betting props, the folks from BetUS.com are at it again, this time offering odds on whether disgraced golfer Tiger Woods is indeed a bisexual.  Let’s face it, odds on Vin Diesel’s sexuality were among the most popular ever featured on the Gambling911.com website.

Not so fast though on Tiger Woods being a bisexual.  The online sportsbook is offering long odds of 8/1 on another man claiming to have been intimate with Tiger’s Wood.

"Tiger Woods has put through the ringer over the last few months as his mistress count has climbed into double digits, his marriage has fallen apart, and now new claims have surfaced from former mistress and Playboy model Loredana Jolie that the golfer is bi-sexual," Reed Richards of BetUS.com stated.

Tiger Woods Bisexual Odds

Will he come out as Bisexual

         •         Yes  5/1

Will another man come forward and claim to have been with him

         •         Yes  8/1

Will photos be revealed of a bisexual relationship

         •         Yes  10/1

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At Bet-office.com we believe that the best online casino software developer in the online gambling industry is Microgaming, and we are not the only ones who think that. The Isle of Man in the Irish Sea is the home of Microgaming and the Isle of Man newspaper. The Isle of Man newspaper has awarded a reward for innovation and independent thinking to the software maker.

It is not the first time the online casino company get awards and is recognized by the media. In 2008, Roger Raatgever, CEO at Microgaming was appointed as Business Person of the Year and the company itself received the Company of the Year award, in 2007 the casino software company got the award for Best New Business and Program Development. The annual awards celebrate achievement, dedication and excellence in all sectors of industry and the community on the Isle of Man. The award committee recognized Microgaming as a market leader in the online casino gambling industry, and applauded the innovative thinking that has brought the company success since the first casino software was developed over 10 years ago. The Art of Microgaming’s to bring so many “firsts” in the gambling market was reported, along with its status as market leader on responsible gambling and its devotion to the local community with the creation of the Microgaming Health and Care Trust, which contributes to the health and welfare of the Manx community. In 2001, Microgaming set up its headquarters on the Isle of Man. Roger Raatgever said in an interview: “We are honoured to be recognised for our innovation and independent thinking as these attributes have been central to our growth over the last decade. This award recognises our ability to harness the creativity and passion of our team to inspire the most inventive and cutting-edge games on the market. The Isle of Man is a dynamic place both to work and live, and is a leading jurisdiction in the online gambling industry. We are proud to call it home. We look forward to playing an ongoing role in contributing to the economic and social success of the Island for a long time to come.”