Depending on your point of view, online casinos are either the competition of brick and mortar casinos or close cousins. They both offer the same games, but not the same experience. In many cases, they are not available the same places (though I suppose technically an online casino is available anywhere you can get an Internet connection).

How you see their relationship would impact how you see the Crazy Vegas online slot at Cherry Red Casino. Is it a casino making fun of their own industry in a light-hearted way or is it an online casino criticizing their competition?

I choose to see it as the former, but whatever the case, the Crazy Vegas slot is a fun send-up of the Las Vegas Strip. The title for the online slot is in the form of a neon sign, complete with palm trees. The slot features symbols of an Elvis impersonator, a showgirl (not Elizabeth Berkley, by the way), casino chips, stacks of cash, a King Tut figure (not Steve Martin from SNL, by the way), dice and more.

The Crazy Vegas game is a 5-reel, 20-payline video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $5 per line. There are 20 possible winning combinations and a jackpot of 2,000 coins. The online slot has a variety of free spin bonuses and multiplier bonuses.

The online slot also has the Big Bonus Feature, which is a game of chance that I wouldn’t mind finding at a real casino. There is a Big Bonus button in the middle of a square. There are two rings within the square. The outer ring has values in it ranging from 5 to 100. The inner ring has multipliers ranging from 1x to 10x. The outer ring spins clockwise and the inner ring spins counterclockwise. When you push the Big Bonus button, the rings stop spinning and you receive a bonus of whatever value it landed on from the outer ring multiplied by the number of times selected in the inner ring.

On second thought, you will probably never see that game in a casino because no matter what happens, you win money. I guess that’s why it’s just a bonus game. Of course, it could be modified where some of the choices win you nothing.

Anyway, Crazy Vegas is a fun take on the Las Vegas casino style. If you’ve been to Vegas, you know how delightfully over the top the Strip is. Even if you haven’t gone, you’ve seen it in enough movies and TV shows that you probably have a good idea.

To enjoy the fun of the Crazy Vegas slot, visit Cherry Red Casino today.

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Realm of Riches, an online slot you can find at Cherry Red Casino, brings us back to medieval times, when knights slayed (or is it slew?) dragons, protected fair maidens, and fought for the King. They weren’t all business, though. There were also folks like the Knight of the Roundtable, who dance whenever they’re able and eat ham and jam and spam a lot.

Realm of Riches doesn’t have any dancing, spam-eating knights or even Knights Who Say Ni! This is a more serious affair. The Realm of Riches slot has symbols of various knights, shields with a coat of arms, a king’s crown, a castle and more. There are also the traditional cards symbols of a Jack, Queen and King, though in this case they actually seem appropriate.

Real of Riches is a 5-reel, 20-payline video slot that has a regular fixed jackpot of 10,000 coins (up to $50,000) as well as a randomly triggered progressive jackpot. The slot can be played using denominations ranging from $0.01 to $5 per line.

The Realm of Riches slot offers a variety of bonuses, including up to 25 free spins and multiplier bonuses. The online slot has good animations and background music that is commonly associated with movies about knights and swordplay. In all, it is a good game to play with minimal risk, since you can bet as low as $0.01 but still have the ability to trigger a progressive jackpot.

To play the Realm of Riches online slot, visit Cherry Red Casino today.

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Earlier today I reported on the release of a new Realtime Gaming slot at Cherry Red Casino called Hockey Hero. Those folks weren’t satisfied with the release of one new game, though, so they also launched Lucky Last at the same time.

The Lucky Last slot is an Irish-themed slot. Like most Irish slots, it features a leprechaun and other stereotypical signs of luck. The online slot features symbols of a rainbow, horseshoe, a lucky #7, a shamrock, and more. The game seems to be playing on the idea of the “luck of the Irish,” though I have never understood what that saying means, since Ireland seems to have had more than its share of bad luck.

Lucky Last is a 5-reel, 25-payline video slot that has a variety of bonus prizes. If the gold coins, which is the wild symbol, appears on reels one and five, you are taken to the Lucky Last Feature, where you get 7 free spins. I guess that’s for a lucky seven. In the first 6 spins, you get triple payouts on any winning combinations and on the seventh spin the payout is doubled.

But why is the bonus less on the seventh spin? Don’t worry; it’s not to be mean. That is because that last free spin has another bonus for you. In that spin you have 50/50 odds of retriggering a free spin. You can retrigger the free spins up to five times, meaning you have a big chance to rake in some bonus cash.

Whether you’re Irish or not, whether you believe in good luck charms or not, you’ll definitely feel lucky if you hit some good combinations during the Lucky Last bonus feature. To play the Lucky Last online slot and take advantage of the multiple free spin bonuses, visit Cherry Red Casino today.

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Someone told me that the National Hockey League playoffs start this week. I’m not Canadian, so I don’t follow hockey, but I guess if you’re in Canada or one of those U.S. states that are practically Canada, you’re probably pretty excited.

Coinciding with the start of the NHL playoffs is the release of a new hockey-themed game at Cherry Red Casino. The game is the Hockey Hero online slot and it does its best to capture the atmosphere of a hockey game, or at least I think it does. I would have a better idea if I had ever been to more than one hockey game in my life. Anyway, the Hockey Hero slot is part of Realtime Gaming’s Real Series slots and it comes with a two-tier random progressive jackpot.

The Hockey Hero online slot features symbols of a goalie, puck, skates, a hockey mask, referee, and of course beer. After all, it gets cold inside a hockey arena, so using a beer jacket for insulation is necessary. Also, all sporting events are more fun if you’re not sober. That goes double for boring sports like hockey.

Hockey Hero is a 5-reel, 25-payline video slot with a fixed jackpot of 10,000 coins in addition to the randomly triggered progressive jackpots. The game has a wide variety of free-spin bonuses and multiplier bonuses. There is also the Win Win feature, where you can win up to 200 times the triggering bet.

If you’re a fan of hockey then this should be a great online slot for you. I hope you can play at Cherry Red Casino in Canada, so if not, I’m sorry for taunting you. But if you’re a fan, work on your playoff beard, pull a chair up to your computer, and grab yourself a beer. The Hockey Hero slot is a good way to spend your free time. Besides, if you’re not out hunting caribou, what else are you going to do in Canada?

To play the Hockey Hero online slot, visit Cherry Red Casino today.

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When I was a kid, one of my favorite stories was the story of Pinocchio. It was the story of a wooden puppet boy who came to life when Tinkerbell, a fairy, cast a spell on him. Tinkerbell then spoke to Pinocchio and told him that he is to be a prophet and preach the gospel to the far region of Ninevah. Pinocchio resisted, saying he wanted nothing to do with that and all he really wanted was to be a real boy. He then left for Neverland to help Peter Pan fight Captain Hook and the evil pirates. On his way there, though, there was a terrible storm and he was thrown overboard and swallowed whole by a whale. Three days later, Pinocchio came up with a plan and burned wood to make the whale sneeze. He then escaped, went to Ninevah to fulfill his destiny, and the rest is history.

I think I have that story right, anyway. It’s been a while. At Cherry Red Casino there is an online slot based on this popular children’s story. The game is called Wooden Boy and it features a wooden boy (as you might expect) that looks like Pinocchio.  The online slot also has symbols of a whale, a cuckoo clock, a fairy, a fox in a top hat (um, maybe he was from Neverland?) and more. The Wooden Boy slot has a background that shows the inside of Geppetto’s house, with various toys, including Pinocchio, hanging on the wall. In the game, Pinocchio appears as both a wooden puppet and a real boy, so I guess at some point he gets that wish, but I don’t remember that in the story. Maybe he was a real boy in Neverland…

Wooden Boy is a 5-reel, 20-line video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $5 per line. It is a progressive slot with a normal jackpot of 40,000 coins. The game features a variety of bonuses, such as up to 15 free spins as well as multiplier bonuses.

It’s been a while since I’ve read or seen Pinocchio, so playing this online slot was a good refresher. It brought me back to the days of my childhood and I had a lot of fun playing it. To experience the fun of the Wooden Boy slot, visit Cherry Red Casino today.

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This is a bittersweet day for sports fans like me. Basketball season is now over since those bullies at Duke defeated the Cinderella team of Butler for the NCAA national championship. Yeah, I know that the NBA is still going on, but I stopped caring about that league the same time that the players did.

While I mourn the end of basketball season, though, I am super excited about the beginning of baseball season. Yesterday was opening day in Major League Baseball and it was an exciting day, mostly because the Atlanta Braves pounded those dirty Chicago Cubs into submission 16-5.

To me, there is nothing like America’s Pastime. I have fond memories of going to the ballpark, eating hotdogs, watching the game and trying to catch foul balls. I also remember how much the palm of your hand stings after you do catch a foul ball, but it’s totally worth it. One of my favorite memories as a kid was going to a Braves game and eating ice cream out of a mini helmet (they used to use those instead of cups for ice cream).

Due to all of that nostalgia and my excitement for the beginning of baseball season, I searched the internet for baseball-themed online slots. I found a couple games, but the best one that I found was the King of Swing slot, which can be found at Cherry Red Casino.

King of Swing has all of the elements I would expect from a good baseball slot. The background is a packed baseball stadium with a game being played under the lights. It looks as if someone has just gone yard, because all of the fans are standing and cheering.

The King of Swing online slot has symbols of a baseball helmet, glove, baseball cards, cleats, a soft drink, hotdog and more. There are two different wild symbols, a pitcher and a batter. A baseball serves as the scatter symbol.

King of Swing is a 5-reel, 25-payline video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $5 per line. In addition to its regular payouts, the game has a random progressive jackpot. If the batter wild symbol is used in a winning combination, your winnings are tripled, kind of like what Eric Hinske did off the Cubs in a pinch-hit at-bat yesterday.

The best part of this online slot, though, is without a doubt the King of Swing Baseball Bonus feature. As Tom Glavine said in that great commercial, “chicks dig the long ball,” and so will you if you can manage to clear the fences in this bonus game. In the game, you step to the plate and face a number of pitches. What bonuses you get depend on the result of those pitches. Base hits earn you up to five free spins each and all home runs earn you free spins and multipliers. Even if you swing and miss, though, you earn one free spin for the strike, so you have nothing to lose. The bonus game takes place until you either get three strikes or see 10 pitches, whichever happens first.

I’m all kinds of excited over the start of baseball season right now and to be honest, I wish I was watching Baseball Tonight on ESPN or anything on the MLB Network right now instead of working, but sometimes you have to pay the bills. If you’re excited like me, I suggest playing the King of Swing online slot at Cherry Red Casino.

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Here is what your average non-Australian knows about Australia: They talk funny (kind of a combination of British and southern), they enjoy shrimp on the barbie, they have really big knives (thanks to Crocodile Dundee), they enjoy picking up snakes, wrestling crocs and running around the Outback in khaki shorts (thanks to the Crocodile Hunter); they enjoy bloomin’ onion, they throw boomerangs, and they were founded as an English penal colony.

That’s about it. A couple of the above things are even true.  For those who are not aware of the real life down under, there is an online slot at Cherry Red Casino that can help you either learn about their culture of embrace their stereotypes, whichever is more fun for you.

The game is the Red Sands slot and it is set in the Australian outback. Unlike visiting the country, by playing the game you have no risk of death from sunstroke, dehydration, sharks, crocodiles, or poisonous snakes, spiders, frogs, octopi, or basically any other animal.

Red Sands is a 5-reel, 20-payline online slot. It features symbols of koalas, kangaroos, and other Australian wild animals. The background of the slot features beautiful Australian scenery of red desert sand, hills and of course kangaroos. Your balance, bet and money won are shown on scoreboards in the shape of boomerangs. There are a number of free spin bonuses and multiplier bonuses to reward you for playing. In addition, there is a bonus game where if you get at least 2 moonscape symbols, those 2 symbols freeze and the other symbols spin again up to 10 times. The goal is to get as many moonscapes as possible, though even if you don’t get anymore, having 2 is a winning combination.

It was fun playing the Red Sands slot, though I have to admit that even though I played it in the morning, it had me craving a nice New York strip steak with shrimp skewers on the side. I’m not really sure if New York strip is common food in Australia, but I know it’s my favorite thing to order at Outback Steakhouse.

Anyway, if you’re in the mood for an online slot that is based on the land down under, you should visit Cherry Red Casino and play the Red Sands slot today.

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This world, especially America, has a fascination with cats. The longest-running musical in the history of Broadway was some lame production about felines whining about their memories of their days in the sun. Garfield to this day still takes up space in most newspapers (you know, those things senior citizens get their news from) despite only having one joke: The cat eats a lot; I get it! When I was a kid, I watched Garfield cartoons on TV in addition to Heathcliff, Eek! The Cat, and anything else with a feline protagonist. My favorite movie at that time was An American Tail, which is about Russian mice who fled to the U.S. because “there are no cats in America.” Of course, they were wrong. It turns out that the movie was actually about immigration, socialism and the Holocaust, but it was popular back then because it had mice and cats.

And don’t get me started on Lolcats! Some idiot genius figured out that you can basically take any picture of a cat doing anything that a cat normally does (yawning, sleeping, eating, playing), superimpose a stupid caption with all of the words misspelled, and have an audience of millions, or maybe even billions! This phenomenon has gotten out of control, to the point where some of the people in my office actually talk in “lolspeak” in their day-to-day conversation. They think it’s cute, but it has me wondering if my employer gets a tax incentive for hiring the mentally handicapped.

Anyway, all of my ranting and raving aside, cats are big business, and not just in Chinese restaurants. For that reason, I decided to check out a cat-based online slot that they have at Cherry Red Casino. The game is called Operation M.Y.O.W. Needless to say, that didn’t make a good first impression. Attempts at cuteness like that tend to make me gag a little. M.Y.O.W., in case you’re wondering, stands for Make Your Own Win.

Operation M.Y.O.W. is a 3-reel, single-payline online slot that features symbols of different cats. Would you like to know their names? Of course you would! They’re Lucky, Catman, Kung Fu Kitty, Catzilla and The King. Each cat has his own pay table and you get to choose whose pay table you play with. You have the option to change your mind at any time. That adds variety to an otherwise average game.

In addition to symbols of the aforementioned cats, the slot also features symbols of flowers, koi fish, and other things that cats tend to kill, not including intelligence. Okay, let me back up. I’m taking kind of a negative view of this slot based primarily on the fact that cats are really overexposed right now, but not everyone feels that way. If you love cats and enjoy the image macros on ICanHasCheeseburger.com, then you’ll probably enjoy this slot and its feline imagery.

The online slot can be played in denominations ranging from $0.05 to $5. It is a very simplistic classic slot that does not have any bonus games, multipliers, wild symbols or other bonuses. The jackpot in the game is 5,000 coins.

To play the Operation M.Y.O.W. online slot, visit Cherry Red Casino today.

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Remember that old song where they say “everybody’s working for the weekend?” Well, I like to think that some people legitimately like their jobs and think of the work week a little differently, but the truth is, everybody loves the weekends. Unless you work on the weekends, in which case you’re screwed. The weekends are great because you’re off work or school and can spend your time with family and friends, watching sports, participating in your favorite hobbies and doing whatever it is that you like to do in your free time.

Also, it’s a great time for online gamblers. The weekends are usually full of slot tournaments and other good deals. Right now, Cherry Red Casino is holding a good promotion where you can get some good bonuses.

First of all, as always, players who join the online casino get a 100% match bonus on their first deposit as a welcome bonus. It’s always nice to get a present thanking you for patronizing a company. I only wish hotels would do that (though I guess you can consider the bars of soap and towels gifts). In addition to the welcome bonus, though, Cherry Red Casino has another good promotion this weekend.

This weekend, members who want to play online slots, blackjack, keno and more can get a 150% match bonus of up to $750. If you were going to play the slots anyway, this is simply some free money to get you started. To claim the bonus, you need to use the proper coupon codes and there are several different codes to use depending on your method of payment. See the “promotions” section on Cherry Red Casino for more information.

To take advantage of this match bonus and make this weekend as good as it can be, visit Cherry Red Casino today.

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Treasure Chamber is a new online slot by Real Time Gaming and its purpose is clear. It is meant to cash in on the appeal of the Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider, and Mummy franchises. That’s probably a good plan, since all three are immensely popular. In fact, the Indiana Jones trilogy makes up 3/10 of my Top Ten favorite movies ever. Yes, notice that I said “trilogy.” In my mind, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull doesn’t exist.

The Treasure Chamber slot, which can be found at Cherry Red Casino, features an explorer protagonist who wears a brown leather jacket and fedora hat (sound familiar?). In the game, the explorer (or archaeologist?) treks through a jungle in search of a mysterious chamber. Or can we say that the explorer is looking for a tomb to raid?

The online slot has a jungle setting and has symbols that you might expect to find on caves, temples, or other ancient structures. There are symbols of a jaguar, an owl, a woman and the explorer himself, who serves as the wild symbol. If you’re looking for a good bonus game, you will be disappointed, because in this game there is no time for love, Dr. Jones. It’s just business and that means only the regular game of spinning the reels. There are a variety of free-spin and multiplier bonuses, though.

Treasure Chamber is a 5-reel 20-payline online slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $.01 to $5. The game has a random jackpot, meaning that the jackpot increases as it is played without payout (with the deposits going toward the jackpot), but the slot is not progressive because it’s not linked to any other games.

Though the male protagonist closely resembles Indiana Jones, there is also a female explorer in the game, who is dressed much like the man. Though she is probably supposed to bring Lara Croft to mind, she reminds me more of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. But that’s okay, because Jane Seymour is hot for an older woman…Okay, forget I said that.

To embrace the spirit of adventure, trekking through dangerous locales and trespassing on an ancient civilization’s property, be sure to play the Treasure Chamber online slot today. To find the game, visit Cherry Red Casino.

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