Look Back Into 2008 - A Great Year in Online Gambling

LONDON, UK - As reported by onlinecasinoreports.com: "This has been - it always is - an exciting year in online gambling.

New products are offered and new gambling niches investigated. As players,
  we only benefit from this pluralism. Along with them come new and higher jackpots, new gambling markets open up and the ball keeps rolling.

On the other hand, online gambling is not yet fully adopted by governments, or governors; Kentucky is a case in point.

Nevertheless, our end of year summary is a positive one, and the 2009 predictions just as much.

Record Jackpots
A jackpot of this magnitude is not won every day. Not even every year. In August 2008, Sylvia P. of Canada hit stratospheric platinum when she won the Beach Life Progressive Jackpot at Joyland Casino. When the slots stopped spinning, her winning tally had racked up $4,188,719.

Other multi-million winnings have also been won this year. Such was the $5,556,753 jackpot won by Klaus E., who played Mega Moolah on Jackpot Ballroom Casino.

Business News
Behind the scenes, the casino operators and affiliate programs - the people who think up those promotions we constantly seek - have also made some major moves.

In perhaps the largest merger in online gambling and sports betting history, affiliate programs CPays, Webroute Affiliates and William Hill all joined hands. The new super affiliate program will take form in 2009, and offer players excellent deals, software platforms and supports..."

"Great New Products
This is a specially interesting category, where one would ask: What is there to invent in such a lush market as online gambling?

Well, Cool Hand Poker offers something new. The new poker room targets a class of players that has often been left out. Beginner and medium players, who fear running into a poker shark who will rip them of their funds, can play at their leisure at Cool Hand, where by limiting the number of tables one can play at a given moment, manage to keep the pros out of interest..."

"Regulation
No news from the US, so no surprises there. But there have been positive developments elsewhere.

The UK experiment has proven to be a success, with the UK Gambling Commission on top of licenses, enforcement, and issuing guides for players. South Africa is another example of careful, thought-out steps in the direction of regulating the local market..."