The famous CryptoLogic’s Millionaire’s Club has passed the $3million mark and is set to be the biggest online casino prize.

The progressive slot has passed the $3,043,035 mark and is already expected to move towards the $4 million mark as players continue to log-on to sites such as InterCasino which are powered using on Cryptologic’s software.

The video slot machine is a progressive nine-line, five-reel game and is proving so popular that the jackpot is increased by over $30,000 a day, with at least an extra $1 being added every three seconds.

Intercasino manager Ryan Hartley described the game as “the most popular online casino jackpot we have ever seen on the internet”.

Last year’s winner won a total of $1,067,836,00 but this year’s lucky player is set to enter the record books as the biggest online gambling winner.

Bodog Online Gambling Group has announced that it is hosting its annual marketing conference this summer in La Vegas.

The event will take place on July 23rd to 25th at the Wynn Las Vegas, Nevada, and is expected to attract leading figures in online betting.

The digital entertainment and online gaming expert has published an impressive timetable of speakers for the conference, including keynote speaker Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Mark La Monica, Newsday.com internet news manager, GMR Marketing creative director Max Lenderman and Jim Stern, author and president of the Web Analytics Association.

The third annual Bodog Marketing Conference features the theme Seduce, Induce, Ignite and will look at growing customer base, retaining customer loyalty and growing a business venture.

Bodog.com founder and CEO Calvin Ayre said: “Our goal is to make each Bodog Marketing Conference better than the last. We are thrilled that along with Magic Johnson we are joined by an esteemed group of industry leaders who will be presenting on the most cutting-edge ways for companies to establish and grow their online gaming businesses.”

The online gambling industry is now worth an estimated $13 billion a year worldwide and is continuing to grow rapidly, with millions of new people subscribing to websites each month.

There is a new craze sweeping the casinos of gambling Mecca Las Vegas.

People are reportedly flocking in their droves to establishments offering the opportunity to gamble on a range of casino games while enjoying the luxury of a swimming pool.

Such novelty casino pools are apparently to be found springing up all over Vegas and allow customers to swim up to Blackjack and Roulette tables, reports Arizona Republic.

Two venues offering such soggy delights are the Hard Rock Hotel and the Tropicana, which are both heavyweights on the Vegas scene.

Other places offering swimming pool entertainment in Sin City are Palms Skin and Green Valley Ranch’s new Whiskey Beach where guests can sip on drinks in the evening.

San Diego County will see the Viejas Casino – a Native American business – open its doors next week.

The project is a $25 million expansion of the existing Native American casino and is one of the first to be reviewed by the government under new gambling laws.

It took 18 weeks to complete the renovation and while it opens to the public from tomorrow, the grand opening is scheduled for May 5th.

Viejas Casino will feature a futuristic design and the expansion will provide gamblers with 14 new card tables, a lounge and a bar and also 260 slot machines.

By adding new slot machines the premises will now hold 2,500 in total making it the Indian casino with the most slots in the whole county.

The head of the Canadian Gambling Association has accused online gambling of sucking money out of the established Canadian gaming industry.

Speaking in Vancouver at the associations’ national conference, Bull Rutsey claimed that online casino’s are effectively costing the Canadian economy some $500 million and pose the single most real threat to Canada’s land based gaming industry.

In the past five years online gambling has grown from a $5 billion business to a $13-$14 billion industry.

Online Casinos.com quoted Mr Rutsey saying: “Millions just disappear – the money is sucked right out of the economy.”

“Internet gaming is a real competitive threat, and law enforcement needs to take steps to deal with the issue. It seems to be a case of benign neglect at this point.”

Rutsey also claimed that rather than provincial governments benefiting from their share of the $7 billion laid in bets in online casinos last year, profits are instead passing into the hands of organised criminals and private companies.

New players in the online casino world will now have a resource to guide them through the range of different game rules and websites on internet sites.

The website – Casino Choice – aims to offer advice for online gamblers about the increasingly popular pastime.

As well as providing guidance on the best and most secure casinos on the web, the site also aims to give guidance on any security issues customers may experience.

There will be previews and reviews of online casinos as well as online forums so players can share advice on their favourite games.

London’s infamous Millennium Dome could have a brand new 24-hour casino built in it, under new plans to construct a super-casino somewhere in the UK.

Greenwich is one of several places in the UK vying for the right to build Britain’s only Las Vegas-style super-casino, with the Dome entry possibly having up to 1,250 slot machines and unlimited prizes.

Proposals for the site were submitted to the Department of Culture Media and Sport’s Casino Advisory Panel last week, by the Greenwich site remains under strong competition from Blackpool in Lancashire, which also wishes to build a super-casino and cash in on the gambling trend sweeping the nation.

The panel is due to make its decision later this year, after looking at the impact any casino building will have on each individual area, including any benefits and damage caused by the regeneration.

Oscar winner George Clooney’s planned Las Vegas casino development has been put on hold.

The Hollywood actor was planning to build Las Ramblas, a huge casino-hotel in Las Vegas based on the famous Las Ramblas promenade in Barcelona, Spain.

Only recently announced, the development of the 11 towered, five star hotel-casino will now have to be put back from the original completion date of 2008.

Clooney has previously said that he intends to donate almost a quarter of his upcoming casino projects to the African Debt Relief Program.

The project ran into problems after Clooney’s backers chose to sell the 11-hectare plot on which the £3 billion casino was to be built. The Ocean’s Eleven star reportedly says he remains committed to the project.

A new automated online casino system for PCs claims to help roulette players beat internet casinos.

The new system is aimed at helping players to “curb their greed and win” at online roulette tables and retails for around $250 online.

Developed by Samuel Blankson, author of How To Win At Online Roulette, limited copies of the system will be made available to the general public

The Ultimate Roulette System will run on any PC operating Microsoft Excel and works by removing the human decision process, and therefore the element of greed, from the roulette game.

Users key in their online roulette results and the system generates a displayed message of the next bet to place and the value of the stake, using a set of complex algorithms adapting automatically to the random shifting patterns of the game.

Blankson said: “The longer most players gamble the easier it becomes for them to lose their self control and allow their tendency to be greedy to surface. A great loss normally ensues at this point and the casino wins. Any great gambling system must first seek to eliminate this problem before providing any sophisticated play strategy or technique.”

The exclusive Les Ambassadeurs casino in London’s Mayfair has been sold for £115 million to an Indonesian billionaire.

The casino witnessed falling trade after the July 7th bomb attacks on the capital last year and, although business has picked up slightly, owner London Clubs International (LCI) has made the decision to sell.

LCI bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy four years ago and it announced the sale of Les Ambassadeurs in a trading update, warning that disappointing profits at the club had affected its forecasts for the year ending March 31st 2006.

The high-rolling casino is a notorious haunt of oil sheikhs and international billionaires, but has failed to recover from the results of the London bombings, a run of good luck for its clients and a rise in unpaid gambling debts from £3 million to £5 million.

Shares in LCI fell after analysts reduced profit forecasts and the company announced the sale of Les Ambassadeurs to an Indonesian cigarette billionaire, Putera Sampoerna, one of the casino’s members.

LCI has revealed that it plans to focus on regional casinos because of new government gaming rules and will use profits from the sale of Les Ambassadeurs to reduce company debts.