Raise your hand if someone managed to successfully pull one over on you this past April Fool’s Day. Yes, I ended up being a victim of gullibility also. But one lucky player at one of the top online casinos managed to make April Fool’s Day a very special and highly profitable day for him. It happened at William Hill Vegas. One online casino player was able to win an impressive 114,000 pounds. It was a 29-year-old man named Paul Gwiym who came away as the day’s big winner.

And let me tell you – it took a considerable effort to make him believe that he had actually won the casino prize money and that it wasn’t just some trick to fool him into believing he had won when he really hadn’t. That would have been unbelievably cruel if you ask me.

All it took was some time spent playing at a casino slot machine. He had to call up the casino’s customer service department in order to properly confirm that he had won the money. He just wasn’t about to celebrate with the threat upon him that the whole thing may be just someone’s cruel idea of a joke. The player who scored the big win had only spent about 30 pounds as he devoted his time to one particular slot machine at William Hill Vegas. And I am sure that if you ask him, the casino player will tell you that it was the best 30 pounds he has ever spent in his entire life. Many online casinos had different promotions going on for the special trickster day, but this player was just on to try his luck and have a little fun.

With the new year now fresh upon us, it feels like anything can happen. All the possibilities have been opened to us. That feels especially true for everyone who is involved in the online casino industry. With the Bush Administration about to vacate the premises, things could change in drastic and extremely positive ways once President-elect Barack Obama steps into the White House with Michelle and their two daughters. This will be the year when the fate of online gambling will be determined once and for all. How will the government choose to regulate the industry? No one knows yet what will happen but many people are very hopeful since there are still a great many online casinos that are operating in the United States online gambling market.

This hope is also good news for any players who reside within the United States because it means that some of their favorite casino sites such as Rushmore and Lucky18Casino will still be accepting players in America. But unfortunately, along with that good news comes some bad news too. With the new year now upon us, it seems that the awarding of big jackpots at these casinos has slowed down dramatically since the beginning of 2009, especially for American players.

Out of the past 29 jackpots that have been hit by players at online casinos, not a single one of them happened at a casino that still accepts players who live in the United States. But this is not all bad news since those casinos that have not had their jackpots hit are still growing bigger with even more money waiting to be won.