A planned online casino in Kansas City could generate $203 million in internet gambling revenues its first year, according to the Kansas City Star.

The proposed Hollywood Casino is a joint partnership between the Kansas Speedway and Penn National Gaming. They say it could open as early as January 2012, according to the Star. It will include online slots, table games and eventually a hotel.

A consultant’s report said that the casino is projected to generate $203 million in 2013, with revenue jumping to $261 million after the hotel is completed.

The state’s Lottery Gaming Facilities Review Board will vote on the proposed casino in December, the Star reports.

A retired grandmother who prefers the quiet comfort of online casinos to the noise and smoke of Las Vegas recently won a progressive jackpot of $175,812 at her favourite online casino. The player, known as QAZMLP, won the massive prize playing Jacks or Better, one of Slotland’s most popular video poker games.

The avid slots player said she used to enjoy going to casinos in Las Vegas but nowadays prefers the comfort and convenience of online slot machines.

“Maybe I am just getting too old, but within thirty minutes of getting inside a casino, I get a headache with all the noise and music blasting around me,” said the lucky winner. “For over five years, Slotland has been one of my little pleasures.”

The night of her big win was lucky from the start when the first hand she was dealt was a Full House in the first round. Although she’d started with small bets she took this as a good sign and increased her bets to $10. After a few more good hands she’d turned her $200 deposit into $500 in no time at all.

“In the next five hands, I ended up with a straight, 3 of a kind (twice), a dead hand, and a beautiful four of a kind,” QAZMLP recalled about the night that changed her life. “With some nice music in the background, and my drink on the desk, and breathing smoke-free air, who wouldn’t be happy?”

“I honestly lost track of time with the best winning streak I ever had at Slotland but by the time I was dealt out the ultimate hand (I got the Ace, Queen, Jack and 10 of Spades and pulled up the King of Spades), I was almost at $1,300. With the $175,000 jackpot, I ended up with over $177,000.

QAZLAP plans to pay off the last $30,000 on her house and then take a trip-of-a-lifetime to Japan via Hawaii.

“Don’t tell anyone yet, but each of my seven grandchildren will get wallets this Christmas, each one filled with ten $100 bills!”

Slotland now offers fifteen one-of-a-kind slot machines and video poker games. They are all instant play casino games so there is nothing to download or install. Six of the most popular games, including Jacks or Better video poker, are also available on mobile phones and PDAs. All of Slotland’s slot machines, including the mobile versions, are tied to one progressive jackpot which was reset to $50,000 after the last win and is now almost $70,000.

Slotland’s 3D casino, WinADay, has a separate progressive jackpot of its own. The jackpot there, where the new video poker game “Deuces Wild” was just launched, is currently over $125,000.

A woman playing a 25-cent Wheel of Fortune® slot machine at Agua Caliente Casino • Resort • Spa in Rancho Mirage, California is the latest to take home a big payout at the online casinos Wheel of Fortune slots.

Rosie from Chino Hills was visiting the internet casino with family and friends when she hit a wide area progressive jackpot worth $133,320.87.

Rosie’s win is the second to strike that particular bank of slot machines in just six weeks.

On September 10th, a woman from Los Angeles took home $141,506.95 on another Wheel of Fortune slot machine nearby.

Agua Caliente Casino • Resort • Spa, a four-diamond resort in Rancho Mirage and Spa Resort Casino in downtown Palm Springs offer the hottest slots, a variety of table games, live poker and high-limit gaming, plus fine dining, shopping, relaxing spas and luxurious hotel rooms, all in a gorgeous resort setting.

Online gambling is depriving the Malaysian government of give casino bonuses millions in tax revenue according to a report published in The NewStraits Times.

The newspaper quoted an industry source who pointed out that illegal gaming generates almost identical revenue — 2.9 million US dollars — to that achieved by legal online casinos operators.

Although arrests have been made, they have yet to detain any of the “main players”, while the 6 legal operators pay two monthly taxes totalling 14 percent, the report said.

Skill internet gambling fans will find a new and advanced version of the popular casino game Yatzy now available at Bwin, branded ‘Maxi Yatzy’.

The game is a revved-up version of the original casino game and now offers six dice as a key feature as well as several other new elements.

The main aim of Maxi Yatzy, as in predecessor Yatzy, is to score as many points as possible within the twenty different categories on the score pad. In every round, the player has one starting roll with all six dice and two optional rolls. After any roll, the player is allowed to put their score onto the score pad.

Once the player has entered the score, a new round begins and any remaining rolls are carried over to the next round. The time limit for the game is six minutes, and the action is played over twenty rounds, one for each score category. The final score from the score pad, multiplied by 100, plus the remaining time bonus, makes up the overall final score.

Product manager for multiplayer games at Bwin, Caroline Westholm says: “Yatzy is already one of the most popular SkillGames on our site and we are therefore very pleased to introduce the new edition, Maxi Yatzy, to our users.

The Gibraltar-based online gambling group Carmen Media is one of two new clients who have entrusted a recently formed online casinos advertising agency in London with business that brings its billings to over GBP 8 million.

The Twenty Twenty Media Vision agency was formed recently by former WFCA media director Bill Jones, reports Media Week. Carmen Media’s account with WFCA has moved without a competitive pitch to Twenty Twenty, along with three senior managers from WFCA recruited by Jones and online casinos.

Carmen Media and an e-card retailer company branded Purple Hoot are among the first clients at Twenty Twenty, which had earlier signed up Zavvi, thehut, Raymond Weil and TW Steel. The Carmen Media group includes Jackpot City Bingo, Jackpot City Casino and Gaming Club Casino.

GTech G2 subsidiary Dynamite Idea, which specialises in online casino games development, has announced that it is to provide the major UK gambling group Gala Coral with side games for its online bingo and casino sites.

The first of the new games to launch will be the Bar X Magic 7 slot machine, an online version of the game that is popular in bingo halls across the UK, followed by the Bar X 5 and Bar X 125. A set of other side games will be added before the end of the year.

Bar X is a brand that has been around for thirty years and is well established, with over 55 000 machines in bingo halls and gaming arcades throughout the UK and Ireland.

The online version of the Electrocoin Bar X Magic 7 is a three reel, single line fruit machine developed by designers at Dynamite Idea.

Instant win side games have become more than a supplemental revenue stream for online casino and bingo operators, many of which derive 60 percent - 70 percent of their income from these product offerings, a company spokesman revealed this week.