Get New Friends on Twitter

I've been on Twitter for quite a while now, and often put tweets in around the casino topics I like so much. You can follow me on twitter: davidpom00. I like Twitter for its ease of use, and for its ability to enter just a short few lines to reach a large worldwide audience. If you haven't tried Twitter, it's great fun!

One of the best things you can do as a writer on Twitter is to grow your audience. After all, it's the same amount of effort to write just a few lines in Twitter whether your audience is one person, or one million people. I've found a great website application that can help you to grow your number of Twitter followers QUICKLY. It's called Twitter Friends, and you can access it at twitterfriends.org. Getting new Twitter followers using Twitter Friends is easy. When you join, you're given some base credits to get you started - and you can then get more by following other twitterfriends users or subscribing to the twitterfriends newsletter. These credits are then used to attract other users (who in turn get these credits when they follow you). The more credits you have, the more people you can attract to follow you.

It's great to have an audience for your "tweets" (text thoughts), and know that people are actually hearing what you've got to say. And of course, they can "tweet" back to give you live feedback about what you've written. Check out Twitter and Twitter Friends today!

Merry Christmas Everyone

Thanks so much for reading my blog - and I hope you have a very Merry Christmas this year! I know I'm a day or so early in my wishes - but traditionally my Christmas Day is fun-packed and busy, and tied up with all manor of friends and family activities - so I'm getting my wishes out to you now, in case I run out of time on the day!

I hope you've all been winning some money in these weeks leading up to Christmas, so that you have been able to buy gifts for others you love, and treats for yourself. But if not, do not fear. Gambling streaks go up and down - perhaps the new year will bring you new luck. Never give up without a fight! Beat the casinos - and don't stop until you do!

Have a great Christmas everyone. I'll be around over the Christmas break and will continue to update the blog - possibly even with more regularity over this period - so stay reading for more good advice, great offers, and interesting casino-related news. :-)

Virgin Casino Christmas Cracker Promotion

Now is a FANTASTIC time to join Virgin Casino if you haven't already, or to log in and play if you're already a member. Not only can you still get your up to 100GBP match bonus for joining, but you'll also be eligible for the Virgin Casino Christmas Cracker promotion. Starting on 12th December, Virgin Casino are giving away a number of daily prizes to celebrate the "12 days of Christmas". You can win V*POINTS, gaming consoles, laptops, a home cinema system and cash!

Some of the prizes you can win during this promotion are shown below:


Qualifying is easy. To qualify you just need to:
1. Play any game of your choice between 12th December and 23rd December 2009 (GMT).
2. Players will receive one entry into the daily draws for every 1 V*Point earned.
3. To qualify for the daily prize, players are required to play on that day.
4. You only need to enter the promotion once to be eligible for all the daily prize draws.

On top of this promotion, don't forget that you automatically earn V*Points when you play casino games at Virgin Casino, that can be converted into cash or flights with Virgin. There is a Christmas promotion on flights from the UK to many European cities. For just 1250 V*POINTS (equivalent to 12.50GBP) you could make a redemption for a return flight to one of the finest European city break destinations (excluding taxes and charges), flying from a range of major UK airports. This new redemption option is available NOW. With this fantastic promotions, you could visit: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Rome, Venice

On top of all of this, Virgin Casino are launching new slot machines later this week including Spiderman, The Hulk and Fantastic Four. So there's new slot machine games to play too! (Note: I'll try to feature some of these new slot machine games in the blog once they are launched officially). My advice: Join Virgin Casino NOW, and make your Christmas a real cracker!

Who's there? Super Hoot Loot!

The Super Hoot Loot slot machine can now be played at Virgin Casino. A whole exciting forest can be found in this 40-line slot machine game, with eagles, foxes, and GIANT multipliers! If you manage to trigger a winning combination on the special Loot Line®, you can sit back and watch that win get multiplied up to 200x! It's a real hoot!

The bigger your stake on the game, the higher your multiplier on the Loot Line. Loot Line® awards are boosted by a massive multiplier equal to the number of credits bet. You can win MEGA MONEY! Play up to 5 credits per line, for a maximum bet of 200 credits - your winnings could be HUGE!


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The Loot Line® is seeded with an automatic 2x Wild Owl in the Free Games feature. Not only are you much more likely to achieve meaty Loot Line® wins, but your Loot Line® award multiplier is guaranteed to be twice as big - up to 400x!

You're sure to enjoy playing the Super Hoot Loot Slot Machine, at Virgin Casino. With a 100GBP casino bonus available for new Virgin Casino players, Virgin Casino really looks after its players. Come and win some of Richard Branson's money in time for Christmas!

No Extra Casinos In New Zealand

In 2003, the New Zealand Government passed the 2003 Gambling Act, which specifically banned the development of any new casinos outside those already operating in Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown. Occasionally there have been rumours that the Government might relax that position, fuelled by a desire to get more tax dollars into the state coffers. Those rumours have been quashed this morning, by an article in the Dominion Post (a Wellington based newspaper), which quote Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy as saying "there were no plans to remove the previous government's moratorium on new casinos".

Are more casinos good for a small country like New Zealand? In reality, probably not. Those extra casinos will create even more problem gamblers, even more crime, even more hassles for the wider community as a whole... however they would be good for extracting more tourists from their dollars, giving the NZ Government more revenue (via casino taxation), and potentially revitalising some areas of urban space. Auckland's casino has been particularly good at making the inner city of Auckland a fun place to visit again, with lots of entertainment options surrounding the casino. Christchurch's casino has done similar things down south.

I do think having a few more casinos, even if concentrated in the same demographic areas as the existing casinos, would breed better competition and therefore encourage a greater return / experience for casino players. From a personal perspective, on that basis alone, I'd welcome a competitor to major operators. I've long thought that a casino built on Auckland's North Shore or in West Auckland would greatly enhance competition in the Auckland market (NZ's highest population city).

Anyway, New Zealand might not have any new casinos any time soon - but that's no big drama. With new casinos soon to operate in Singapore and Macau, and CityCenter just opened in Las Vegas, and with more than 8000 online casinos to choose from, there's no shortage of option for New Zealand players to "get their gambling fix".