The thing that did turn me away from Black Diamond was partially that their site was having problems loading from time to time and they didn’t seem to be online all the time. I’m not sure if the software had something to do with this, but I did find that TopGame did take up more of my system settings and needed to be activated in the system tray of windows in order to work. I wasn’t overly impressed with the quality of the games either.

I have the feeling that Black Diamond Casino must have felt the same way, because they recently switched to Rival casino software and there seems to be less technical problems overall. Plus they now have more games to offer players.

New Promotion

No Deposit Bonus

In order to draw new players to their casino, Black Diamond has decided to offer any new customer a free $25 no deposit bonus to try their new games and software out. This free bonus is pretty fair too. If you do not decide to deposit at this casino after you get this bonus, you can still withdraw a maximum of $50 from the account. This is provided that you wager the $25 at least 25 times or $625 in wagers.

If you are from Europe, this is €25 that needs to be wagered 30 times (€750 total). If you are from the UK, you can get £25 that needs to be wagered 40 times (€1000 total).

Slots Welcome Bonus

In addition to that, you can also get a welcome bonus worth up to $1000 on your first 4 deposits. Not each bonus is the same for each deposit though. The 1st deposit is a 200% bonus worth up to $200 free on a $100 deposit. The second deposit is a 100% bonus worth up to $100 free.

The 3rd and 4th deposits are both 50% deposit bonuses. The third deposit is worth up to $200 free on a deposit of $400 and the fourth is worth up to $500 free on a deposit of $1000.

These bonuses are only good for the following games: All slot games excluding progressive slots, specialty games and Keno. No video poker or table games are allowed. The wagering requirement is 25 times the bonus and deposit values combined.

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Want to be able to play all the games with a bonus? Black Diamond has that covered as well. You can get up to $300 free on your first 3 deposits. This bonus only excludes any type of Roulette game.

On your first deposit, you can get a 50% match bonus that is worth up to $100 on each deposit. The third deposit is a 25% match bonus that is also worth up to $100 (on a $400 deposit)

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This game was created by Rival Gaming and the slot machine itself is a normal 5 reel video slot that has a total of 20 paylines, a wedding ring jackpot icon, an expanding wild wedding cake, a champagne bottle scatter card and a bouquet bonus round icon.

Here’s the way that this video slot works:

Wacky Wedding Video Slot

As with all video slot, you must line up icons from the leftmost reel on the screen and match the icon across the reels to the right in order to win a payline. You can bet on up to 20 paylines, which means you can win multiple times on the same spin. In Wacky Wedding, you must match at least three icons across in order to win a payline, except for the wedding ring jackpot which only requires matching 2.

One cool feature about this game is an expanding wedding cake icon that takes over the middle reel. This wild card will be substituted for any icon except the scatter or bonus. The cake only expands when you can complete a payline with it.

You can also win free spins by getting three of more champagne bottles on the screen. This icon is called a scatter and does not have to be on a payline to win. If you get three champagne bottles, you win 10 free spins, 4 for 20 spins and 5 for 75 spins. The free spins work by taking the coin amount you bet when you received free spins and uses that amount to determine how much you win for each free spin.

Wacky Wedding also has a bonus round that you can win. Simply get three or more bouquets to trigger the Toss the Bouquet bonus round.

In this bonus round, the bride will throw her bouquet to one of five ladies (or one guy) and you will decide who she throws it to. Whoever catches the bouquet will give you a certain amount of bonus money won.

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Anyone can enter this tournament for free, you don’t even have to make a deposit at Crazy Slots to play. The first place winner will get $15,000. Second gets $5,000, third is $2,500 and the top 10 finishers all get more than $500.

You will start with $80 in coins to start playing the featured video slot game of this tournament – Winter Wonderland.

If you bust out during play, you can rebuy back into the tournament for $12.99. People who rebuy will an receive $350 in coins. In order to rebuy, you must have less than $25 in coins left to play with.

There are more than 4,500 people already registered. Somebody has to win the $15,000 grand prize.

How Slot Tournaments Work

Here’s the general premise of playing an online slot tournament:

Everybody is given the same amount of money to start with and everyone is playing the same game. The object is to have the most money collected by the end of the tournament. That person will win the grand prize.

You can see how you are doing by looking at what place you are in while you are playing Winter Wonderland. Also, you can check out the current top 10 players totals at any time in the tournament lobby.

In this video slot, you can bet on up to 20 paylines. A payline is won by matching 2 or 3 icons in a row from the first column on the left across to the right. You can win multiple paylines with a max bet.

Also, during the course of play, you can win 15 free spins by getting three of the scatter icons on the reels. The free spins have the same payouts as your bet that you received free spins on.

There is also a bonus game that you can achieve. In the bonus game, you will be rewarded with a certain amount of bonus money in correlation to the amount that you bet. In order to win the bonus game, you must get the bonus round icon (the girl on skis) to appear on the first, third and fifth reels.

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Fearfully Fun Fright Night Freeroll underway

This tournament is 100% free to enter. It started about 5 hours ago and continues until 11:59 PM EST. You get $100 to start the tournament and the top 25 places receive real money prizes and 1st place wins $666! Re-buys are only $1.99, which gets you $200 to play with. There is a guaranteed $2,666 total up for grabs.

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Halloween Weekend Madness starts in 4 hours!

Halloween Weekend Madness begins tonight! $13.13 will gain you entry into this tournament that boasts a prize pool of $66,666. Re-buys are also $13.13. Everybody starts with $325 in coins and whoever has the highest score at the end of the tournament wins $16,666. This tournament ends on Tuesday, November 3 at 8:00 PM EST.

The featured game is Monster Money. I found a really good review for Monster Money Video Slot. Video slots bonus round has a couple other good reviews you may want to check out, because its pretty hard to find any decent video slot reviews.

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The tournament began yesterday, 22 October and will run through Monday, 2 November. But don’t worry if you haven’t already entered, there’s still plenty of time to sign up or win seats into this exclusive tournament. A total of 8,700 players will have the chance to play for the €1 Million Grand Prize.

The featured game will be Tomb Raider. The number of coins you start out with is 9,000 and there are unlimited rebuys for €20 each.

The goal is to get the highest score for a single game. You are allowed up to 1 hour of play time per game; but you can get up to three continues of 4,500 coins and an extra 30 minutes of play time for €20 per add-on.

Only your top score will be accepted to qualify for a position on the leaderboard.

Participants that place in the top 450 spots will win cash prizes from €100 to €50,000. Also, 32 lucky players will be selected from the field to win €1,000 each based on their finishing position. Here’s how the prize money breaks down:

1st – €1,000,000
2nd – €50,000
3rd – €25,000
4th – €10,000
5th – €7,500
6th – 10th – €5,000
11 – 20 – €2,500
21 – 50 – €1,000
51 – 150 – €500
151 – 250 – €250
251 – 450 – €100
32 Special Position winners – €1,000

Special Positions: 76th, 128th, 178th, 227th, 277th, 332nd, 376th, 474th, 568th, 753rd,947th, 1,177th, 1,627th, 2,013rd, 2,458th, 2,944th, 3,232nd, 3,506th, 3,827th, 4,020th, 4,242nd, 4,588th,5,000th, 5,655th, 5,927th, 6,363rd, 6,941st, 7,126th, 7,411st, 7,813rd, 8,007th and 8,328th

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Microgaming is from the small self governing British dependency island called Isle of Man, which is located between England and Ireland. This is also where the money transfer and online payments giant Neteller is from.

Microgaming powers over 120 leading online casinos, as well as many poker and online bingo sites. They provide over four hundred different games to these casinos including all variations of card games and table games and hundreds of video slots to choose from. They also power many of the progressive jackpots that are interlinked between Casinos.

For the customers convenience, Microgaming provides its games in both downloadable software and a no download flash version.

32Red Casino is giving away 60 seats

32Red Casino is having a free slot tournament weekend and will be giving away 60 seats to the Grand Slam of Slots or will re-buy for current participants.

Play in the Grand Slam of Slots ]]> http://www.gamblinglog.com/news/microgamings-grand-slam-slots-underway.htm/feed/ 1 http://www.gamblinglog.com/news/golden-casino-host-slot-tournaments-halloween.htm http://www.gamblinglog.com/news/golden-casino-host-slot-tournaments-halloween.htm#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:05:14 +0000 admin http://www.gamblinglog.com/?p=268 Golden Casino is hosting two slot tournaments to celebrate Halloween: Fearfully Fun Fright Night Freeroll $2,666 Guaranteed and Halloween Weekend Madness $66,666 Guaranteed. The excitement starts early on Friday, October 30 and goes on through Halloween and continues all weekend long.

Fearfully Fun Fright Night

Fearfully Fun Fright Night is a freeroll tournament, meaning you can enter the tournament for free. You will need to open a real money account with Golden Casino, but you will not need to deposit money to be able to take part in this tournament. This tournament will begin on Friday, October 30 at 10:00AM Eastern Standard Time and will end one minute before Halloween (11:59PM EST).

You will start with $100 in tournament money and the object is to accumulate the most money before midnight. First prize wins $666 and people who finish in the top 200 will receive a prize. In case you lose all your money in the tournament, you can reload for $1.99 and buy back into the tournament.


The featured game for Fearfully Fun Fright Night is Black Magic. Black Magic is a 5 reel 25 payline video slot in a mystical/magical Halloween theme. A sorceress icon acts as the substitute card in the game and helps you make winning combination. An picture of bats in the full moon is the scatter card; if you get three scatter cards on the screen, you will arive at the Black Magic bonus game.

The bonus game is rather simple: choose one of the six jewel icons to reveal the bonus amount you will receive. You will be able to pick all six crystals in this bonus game and all money will be accumulated and added to your total.

Halloween Weekend Madness

Halloween Weekend Madness is the larger of the two tournaments. There is a guaranteed prize pool of $66,666 available to win. This tournament will start on Friday, October 30 at 8:00PM EST and will end on Tuesday, November 3 at 8:00PM EST. There is a $13.13 entry fee to be able to play in this tournament.

You will receive $325 to start the tournament and the same concept applies: whoever accumulates the most money when the tournament ends wins. The winner of Halloween Weekend Madness will receive $16,666 and the first 500 places will receive a prize. If you want to by back into the tournament if you lose all your tournament money, you will have to pay a $13.13 rebuy fee.

The featured game of Halloween Weekend Madness is Monster Money, which is another 5 reel 25 payline video slot. Monster money is a Frankenstein/Halloween theme.

A crazy professor in the make of Dr. Frankenstein plays the role of the wild card and will help you create winning combinations on the paylines that you have bet. An electrical rod icon is the scatter card. As with Black Magic, if you get three scatter cards on your screen, you will go to a bonus round with a chance to win big money.

The bonus round is also the same principal as Black Magic. Pick any one of the six doors to reveal bonus money. You will be able to pick all six doors and all money is added together and combined to your previous total.

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There will be a series of 15 qualifying tournaments and culminates with a $15,000 Freeroll tournament on October 15th, 2009. Each qualifying tournament will take place at 8:15PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT + 5).

Buy-ins for the qualifying tournaments are $15 + $1, $10 + $1 and $5 + $0.50 and will include different variations of Texas Holdem such as No Limit, Fixed Limit and re-buy tournaments. There will be standard tournaments with 15 minutes blind levels, as well as turbo events with 8 minute levels and super turbo events with blinds going up every 4 minutes.

The top 30% of players after each tournament will receive Tournament Leaderboard Points. This will determine who gets to move on to the Semi Final and ultimately the $15,000 Final Tournament. The Semi Final Tournament will take place on Thursday, October 8th and will consist of players who rank between 16th – 115th on the point leaderboard as well people who have played in at least 10 qualifying tourneys. The top 15 finishers in the Semi Final Tournament will advance to the Final Tournament, but the winner of this tournament will receive a seat in Bodog’s $100,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament, which is held every Sunday at 4:00PM EST.

The top 15 players on the Tournament Leaderboard will automatically qualify for the $15,000 Freeroll Tournament, along with the top 15 players from the Semi Final Tournament and players who have competed in at least 15 qualifying tournaments. The top 15 places in the Final Tournament will also receive a seat in the $100,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament.

The tournament schedule is as follows:

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