October is a special time of year. Summer is gone and it starts to get a little chilly (in Florida sometimes dropping way down to the 60’s). Baseball’s postseason starts. We raise awareness for breast cancer, spinal bifida, and lupus. We celebrate Filipino American History Month and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) History Month. Roxy Palace Casino also unveils now promotions. Alright, that last one is not a known national observance for the month of October, but is it less obscure than LGBT History Month?

This month there are several promotions going on at Roxy Palace. From October 6 to October 12, the online casino is holding the Roxy Poker Challenge. It is a video poker tournament with a unique twist. Instead of giving prizes to the top earners or top wagerers, this tournament rewards those with the highest winning percentages. That percentage is calculated by the proportion of hands won to hands played. In this way, the tournament rewards smart and skilled players. I know what you’re thinking: No, you can’t simply win the first hand, quit and then win the tournament. In order to qualify, the player must deposit at least $100 and wager a minimum of $2,500 during the promotion.

Running from October 6 to October 8 is the Bonus Slots Magic tournament. This tournament takes place on a variety of online slots. For this promotion, players are rewarded for wagering the most. Those wager the most in the tournament will share a $4,000 prize pool. Players need to deposit a minimum of $100 to qualify for the tournament.

There are also a variety of online slots and table games for which Roxy Palace is giving out double Player Club Points, including Scoop the Cash, Lumber Cats, and Adventure Palace. In addition, yesterday Roxy Palace premiered several new Microgaming titles, including Pure Platinum, Kung Fu Monkey (a favorite of one Gambling Review writer), and Wooly World.

To take place in the tournaments, head on down and visit the nice folks at Roxy Palace. Tell them I sent you. Actually, they won’t care, so don’t bother.

If you are like me, combining the words “Kung Fu” with anything immediately transforms something ordinary into something that is awesome. Go ahead and try it: Kung Fu Hair Drier. Kung Fu Wet Nurse. Kung Fu Accountant. See? That goes double when you combine cool animals and online slots with Kung Fu…which is probably the marketing strategy going on over at Microgaming these days.

The new Kung Fu Monkey online slot sounds like a winner on all accounts. Kung Fu Monkey Goes To Chinatown (that’s the full title), is a 5 reel, 15 pay-line video slot new from Microgaming. This brand new online slot is set in China where evil ninja monkeys guard the road to reward. Only Kung Fu Monkey (and you) can take them down. With a Wild, two Scatters, Multipliers, Free Spins and an innovative 3 level, second screen bonus feature, there is surely no bigger and more exciting online slot featuring the martial arts and primates available anywhere online.

Fighting alongside the Kung Fu Monkey, it is your job to take down Kung Fu Baboons, Monkey Ninjas and big, scary and mean looking Big Bad Boss gorilla. By defeating enemies, Kung Fu Monkey wins rewards, rescues hostages and has a lot of fun.

The slot features symbols like Chinese gongs, crazy looking monkeys, wise older monkeys, the Kung Fu Monkey himself (that’s the wild symbol) and a hot girl monkey who is hot in that “bugs bunny dressed like a girl” way. Don’t judge me.

Bottom line, the game play is exciting, the colors are brilliant and the sound effects are funny and engaging. What can I say? I love zany online slots and this one fits the bill. I am bananas for Kung Fu Monkey. Sorry. I had to. (Bows)