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Cinema Casino
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About
Cinema Casino is one of Vegas Partner Lounge's most
uniquely branded online casinos, not to mention one of
their most popular. Themed in a cinematic style,
Cinema Casino uses the VIPER Microgaming software
platform to provide for a fair and efficient online
gambling environment. As their website aptly
expresses, there are many villains in the "script of
online casinos". This is precisely why Cinema
Casino chooses to be legally licensed under the
regulatory standards of the Kahnawake Gaming Commission
in the Mohawk Territory of Canada. The Kahnawake
Gaming Commission was established on June 10, 1996,
pursuant to the provisions of MCR No. 26/1996-97, Mike
Delisle Jr. and Iris Rice. The Commission has full
jurisdictional power to insure all online gaming related
activities are authorized and meet the strict standards
of honesty, fairness and integrity set forth by
Kahnawake Gaming Law.
Conscientious online
gamblers should be glad to hear that Cinema Casino
openly addresses issues of problem and underage
gambling. Keeping close ties with Gamblers
Anonymous, Cinema's personnel is trained to spot signs
of problem gambling. There are several
self-diagnostic tips on their website, as well as a
twenty question self-assessment designed to help
gamblers recognize addictive tendencies. In other
words, you are in good hands at Cinema Casino. The
vast majority of their players have proven to be
responsible gamblers, which is a credit to their
management.
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Casino Software
As previously mentioned, Cinema Casino uses Microgaming as their
software provider. Microgaming is the online casino industry's leading
supplier of betting solution and gaming technology. Microgaming was
established at the dawn of the online gambling industry in 1994, and has been
paramount in helping set a precedent for the most influential technology
developers in the business. Microgaming's system insures all of their
online casino licensees employ built-in transparency initiatives and intuitive
gaming solutions. Microgaming is renowned for their steadfast commitment
to players as evidenced by their persistent testing of the software and newly
developed applications. The software platform gives real-money account
holders free access to the Cash-Check and Play Check system, both of which
insure complete transparency. Cash Check keeps record of each player's
financial transactions and gambling balances in a password protected bank-like
statement, while Play Check keeps a detailed log of all game results, including
dealt cards and stake amounts.
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Bonuses & Promotions
A Welcome Bonus is consistently available to new players at Cinema
Casino. Players can expect to get at least a 100% deposit bonus upon
opening a real-money account, as well as 10-15% bonuses on all future deposits
made with one of several eligible deposit methods (listed in the Online Casino
Cashier section further in this review). The Welcome Bonus at the time of
this review was a
100%Match
Bonus up to $200 Free. In terms of future deposits, Cinema Casino's
longstanding bonus scheme awards up to $3,000 free every month - Earning
anywhere from 5-15% using (from lowest percentage to highest) debit/credit card,
PaySpark, Click2Pay, MoneyBookers, PaySafeCard, UKash, Neteller and Neteller
InstaCash, UseMyBank, wire transfers and standard money transfers. The
wager requirement on the new-account bonus is reasonable at a game-variable rate
of 30x. What this means is that online slots, American Roulette, and
Parlor Games (such as online keno) contribute 100% to the wager requirement -
meaning the full value of each stake goes to meeting the 30x requirement.
At this rate, before a $100 bonus can be cashed out, the player will be required
to make $3,000 in bets. With $500 in bets at the American Roulette table,
a player only needs to make $2,500 more in wagers. Sic Bo, which counts
25% toward the bonus play-through, requires more bets for meeting the wager
requirement. Instead of dollar for dollar (at 100%), $.25 of every $1 will
apply to the wager requirement. Once a player makes their first deposit,
the bonus will be received into the players account in five to eight hours.
The Loyalty Program at Cinema Casino was designed and structured by Vegas
Partner Lounge. It is a multi-tiered program that awards 250 points to
every player who opens a real money account. When a player accumulates 500
points, they may exchange it for a single free chip, or, keep accumulating more
chips to be cashed out later at a better exchange rate. For instance,
instead of receiving five chips for 2,500 points, the exchange rate is for six
casino chips. For 50,000 points, a player will receive 200 free casino
chips. Although Classic Online Blackjack is not eligible for producing
comp points, all slot machines award three times as much comp points.
Instead of the standard rate of one point per $10 wagered, online slot machines
at Cinema Casino give three points for every $10 wagered. Special
promotions and contests are consistently offered as well.
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Games & Payouts
There are over two-hundred games available for real-money gambling at
Cinema Casino. Each game is accommodating for a wide variety of bankrolls,
ranging from pennies to a hundreds of dollars per bet. Blackjack allows
for the largest stakes at $1,000 per hand (blackjack bets as low as $2 per
hand). Baccarat ranges from $10 to $500 per hand, Slots range from 1 penny
to $225 per bet, Craps range from $1 to $100, Cyberstud Poker ranges from $1 to
$50, Video and Power Poker machines range from 5 cents to $100 per bet,
Progressive jackpots range from 5 cents to $200 per bet, Keno ranges from $1 to
$10, and Bonus Slots offer stakes ranging from $1 to $3.
Payout percentages beat those of the best Las Vegas Casinos, especially the
Table Game
Payouts, which are the most consistently high. October and December of
2005 saw casino table game payouts exceed 99%, while in 2006, January and
February were both over 98%, followed up by a very generous month of May, which
delivered table game payout percentages of 99.23%. Poker machine payouts
also get very high at Cinema Casino, consistently exceeding the 98% mark.
May of 2005 was the highest ever, returning a payout of 100.03%. One year
later (May, 2006) the same poker games returned 99.83%. All payout reports
are prepared by Price Waterhouse Coopers - a worldwide leader in fairness
testing and accounting verification for the online and land-based gambling
industires.
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Online Cashier
ProcCyber Services and Borth Holdings Ltd. handle all commercial
financial transactions made through the Cinema Online Casino cashier. Both
companies are considered premier electronic cash merchants having processed
billions of dollars in secured transactions. Proc Cyber Services operates
a risk management protocol that includes prevention and detection. Players
are required to provide proof of identity, copies of credit cards on file,
signed deposit history statements, as well as other identity authenticators
whenever requesting for withdrawals, thus protecting against fraudulent
transactions.
All
players at
Cinema Casino have immediate access to the online cashier by simply pressing
the "Bank" button in the casino lobby. After registering for a real-money
account, players can enter the cashier at any time to make deposits and request
withdrawals through a variety of third-party eCash wallets and facilitators.
To make a deposit, players must first log into the software and click the "Bank"
button while in the casino lobby. Selecting the "Deposit" button and
entering the deposit amount will instantly process the request, aside from money
transfers and wires, which can take from one to five days to process. Upon
registering for an account, players are prompted if they would like to register
for a real account (even with a practice account, players are asked if they
would like to open a real account each time they log into the software). After providing personal details such as date of birth and name, the player will
get to choose from the available deposit methods. Some of these methods
will require the player to visit the website of the deposit facilitator in order
to create an eWallet account (such as Neteller), which the player will be guided
step-by-step in doing so.
Withdrawals are made in the same fashion, except that
the request will remain in a "pending" state for 24 hours so that identity can
be verified. Depending on the withdrawal method used, the transaction can
take from one to five days to be received by the player. During the
24-hour pending state, players can reverse their withdrawal request, which is a
nice option for those last-minute changes of mind. And for European based
credit card holder, credit fund transfers can be processed in three to five
business days, meaning withdrawals can be sent direct to a Visa Card.
Deposit/withdrawal Methods include Money transfers, bank wires, Visa Card,
Master Card, Neteller, MoneyBookers, Click2Pay, PaySpark, FirePay, UseMyBank,
PaySafe Card, Switch/Solo/Delta Cards, and Citadel.
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Gaming Policies
All binding terms and conditions are posted on Cinema Casino's
website. In summary, the conditions cover legalities regarding age
requirements, software and bonus abuse, affiliate relationships of both Cinema
Casino and Vegas Partner Lounge, and dispute resolution under the jurisdiction
of the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Terms and condition of promotion and
bonus abuse are listed in a separate section, which are summarized as follows:
Cinema
Casino reserves the right to investigate whether a player has participated
in promotion abuse, regardless if the player has or has not been in compliance
with the terms and conditions. If the player is found guilty of bonus
and/or promotion abuse, casino management may take the following actions on the
player:
1) For promotion cash-ins that are
in progress, the casino may pay the amount in full, after which the player may
be banned from future promotions and/or banned from playing in the casino.
2) An account may be immediately closed if promotion abuse is deemed to have
done.
3) Players may be banned from further promotions if found to have abused a
promotion or bonus in any way whatsoever.
4) A player can be found guilty of bonus/promotion abuse if the player does not
demonstrate any degree of risk with their personal funds, thus warranting a
suspension of the promotion until the player establishes a purchase/deposit
history with the online casino cashier.
5) Cinema Casino reserves the right to contribute the name and personal details
of bonus/promotion abusers and fraudsters to an online gambling industry
database that is used by other casinos to verify the credibility of new members.
6) Information about bonus abusers may be forwarded to the fraud
department of Proc Cyber Services and Borth Holdings Ltd., both of which process
financial transactions for a large majority of online casinos in operation.
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Casino Customer Service
Live Help via email chat, regular email and toll-free telephone are
available from the support staff of Cinema Casino and Vegas Partner Lounge.
The Customer Service branch of Cinema Casino has been widely recognized by
industry professionals and players to offer outstanding service that is both
competent and punctual. Emails are timely returned, while live support is
available 24/7. Vegas Partner Lounge employs customer service departments
in fourteen different countries, as well as a general phone line for those
players not sure where to call (although the latter is very unlikely).
General inquiries through email can be sent to cinema @ vegaspartnerlounge.com.
Cinema Casino's site map is very helpful in that it lists all of the website
sections, including a comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions page created by
the Customer Service staff themselves.
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Awards
Cinema Casino has won affiliated awards for Best Online Casino
Software (Microgaming) and Best Customer Service (Vegas Partner Lounge). If
there was an award for Most Unique or Creatively Branded Online Casino, Cinema
would most likely be in the running.
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