Newsletter: 9th June 2006

In this issue: Football Frenzy - It's World Cup Solitaire! The Best Just Got Better - New Blackjack Tournament Schedule!Brand Spanking New Panic Solitaire Tournaments!Go For Gold With Our Loyalty Bonus Scheme!It Pays To Have Friends!

Hello and welcome to a special World Cup edition of The Insider! With the 2006 World Cup having just kicked off in Germany, we've been bitten by the football bug and are proud to present a fantastic football-flavoured new tournament...

Football Frenzy - It's World Cup Solitaire!

What better way to celebrate the biggest football tournament on the planet than by giving you the opportunity to win fantastic cash prizes, official World Cup footballs AND World Cup replica shirts!

World Cup fever is here and we've just launched our fantastic World Cup Solitaire tournament! Regardless of who lifts the trophy in Berlin on Sunday 9th July, you too could be a World Cup winner playing our fantastic Panic Solitaire game. We've certainly got into the World Cup spirit and with superb new graphics and music, it's Panic Solitaire like you've never played before!

Brand Spanking New Panic Solitaire Tournaments!

It's one of the most popular games on the site but previously you would only have been able to play Panic Solitaire in the Pennies to Pounds, Hi-Score Instants and Panic Attack tournaments. However, that's all changed and we've now launched a whole new range of Panic Solitaire tournaments that will give you even more opportunities to play and win with the best Solitaire game online!

There's now a wide range of Rookie, Amateur and Pro Knockout Tournaments for both 2 & 4 Players; each with a variety of entry fees and prize funds. You can also take part in a brand new 100 Player Rookie Tournament with a tiny 25p / 36 Eurocents / 46 UScents / 62 AScents entry fee but if you fancy your stakes a little higher, why don't you try the Hi-Rollers Tournaments where you take on another equally as determined player for big winnings!

Don't worry if you enjoyed the Panic Attack, Pennies to Pounds or Hi-Score Instant Tournaments, they're still going strong and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And now with all our other new tournaments, Panic Solitaire fans are now spoilt for choice!

Go For Gold With Our Loyalty Bonus Scheme!

We're now into the third week of our fantastic Loyalty Bonus Scheme and already plenty of players are feeling the benefit of their play on the site - with weekly pay-outs back into their account!

How does the scheme work?

Our loyalty scheme will reward you each time you play a cash-game on our site. It’s quite simple – for every £1 / €1.47 / $1.47 / A$2.48 that you spend, we give you 100 loyalty points. We have split our scheme into three levels - Bronze, Silver and Gold. You only need to play cash games to the total value of £25 / €37 / $47 / A$62 to get to our first Bronze level. So if you play 5 games of £5 a time or 25x £1 games, you'll receive 2,500 loyalty points, regardless of whether you win or lose any of these games.

The more you play, the more you earn. At the end of each week we look at how many points you carried over from the previous week, how many you have earned that week and what loyalty level you have reached. Amazingly, we then pay you back between 0.5% and 2.5% of all your matched stakes back to your account as cash!

Don't forget, you'll receive DOUBLE LOYALTY POINTS for every entry you make into our fantastic World Cup Solitaire tournament so you've never had a better chance to build up your total and ensure you get the best possible payout on Sunday night.

How do I know how many points I've earned and how much I've been paid back?

It's easy to check out your Loyalty Scheme status. Just log-in and click on Loyalty Bonus in the left-hand menu. From here you'll be able to see how many points you've earned so far this week and how many points have been carried over from last week. Remember, we deduct 15% of your total points balance every Sunday - that leaves you with 85% of your points to build on for the next week!

You'll also be able to see your total points balance, what your current Loyalty Band status is (either Bronze, Silver or Gold) and you're current rebate rate. And if you want to see how much you were paid on Sunday night for your previous week's pay, just check out My Account and Account History to see just how much you earned for simply playing on the site!

We've already got a growing number of Silver players and it's only a matter of time before we have our very first Gold member! Rest assured, as soon as it happens we'll let you know!

It Pays To Have Friends!

Fancy taking on your brother at Backgammon? Or playing your partner at Pool? Eager to beat your boss at Blackjack or keen to show-up your sister at Solitaire? Well, why don't you let them know about the site and you can show them exactly what kind of player you are! What's more, you can earn some free cash in the process!

Just log in and Refer-a-Friend to the site and we'll pay YOU instantly! It's as simple as that! All we ask is for the email address of somebody who you think would enjoy the winning opportunities we offer and we'll do the rest. Then, if they sign up as a real money player, we'll give you £20 / €30 / $30 / A$42 instantly! Remember, any new players will also receive a bonus of up to 100% on their first deposit so, at the end of day, everyone will be in the money!

Or simply email customerservices@gameaccount.com and let us know what you think!

Starting today, we're running four weekly accumulator tournaments with a minimum guaranteed Prize Fund of £300 / €435 / $550 / A$750 to be split between the Top 10 players every 7 days! And with the pot increasing with every entry - the more you play, the more it will pay!

But if a whopping cash prize isn't good enough, finish on top of the table and we'll send you an official World Cup football AND an official World Cup football shirt for the team of your choice! Whack on your shirt, cheer on your team and then get yourself over to the local park and emulate the world's top players - all thanks to playing World Cup Solitaire!

But we're not done yet! For every entry you make into our World Cup Solitaire tournament, you'll receive DOUBLE LOYALTY POINTS! So while you ensure that you post the best score possible in this fantastic new tournament, we'll be giving you even more Loyalty Points to add to your total. Then on Sunday night, you'll receive a percentage of your matched stakes back into your account in cash and you could also be a World Cup Winner!

All you have to do is log-on, enter and post your highest score. You'll have until Midnight Sunday GMT to get yourself as far up the leaderboard as you can so enter as many times as you like!

The Best Just Got Better - New Blackjack Tournament Schedule!

We know just how popular our Frantic Fives and Famous Fifteen tournaments were but we had plenty of comments from players who wanted the tournaments to run longer, therefore giving them more time to post their highest score. We've listened to your feedback and are proud to announce our brand new Blackjack Tournament Schedule

Don't worry - our Tournaments will still be running 12 hours a day, 7 days a week! In fact, with our extended running times, you'll have even more chances to win. Remember, in Tournament Blackjack you start with $10,000 in chips and you have 25 hands in which to build your stack - finish with more than your opponnent and you're a winner! The beauty of our tournaments is that you're pitted against other players not the House so you might not necessarily need a big score to win. We've had winners posting scores of - $10,000!

We've launched 5 new tournaments that will run in turn from 12pm - 12am BST every day!

Our Famous Fifteen tournaments are now bigger and better than ever - so big in fact we've had to split them up! We're running three different variations of the Famous Fifteen throughout the day, each with different entry fees and each offering different cash prizes. The only things that remains the same is the 15 minute time limit and the fact that we'll be paying out the Top 3 players so enter as many time as you like and see if you can get yourself up on that leaderboard!

It's exactly how it looks - a Famous Fifteen tournament running for double the time and therefore offering double the opportunity to be a winner! If you find that 15 minutes is just not enough time to ensure you post you're top score, then our Famous Thirty is the one for you! Who knows, you could be one of the lucky Top 3 winners!

The big one - this is going to be undoubtedly the most talked about daily Blackjack Tournament online! After 60 minutes of Blackjack action, we'll payout to the Top 10 players - each getting a share of the £100 / €150 / $150/ A$240 prize fund! Just make sure you're online at 10pm BST every day to ensure you grab a piece of the action

16 Player Knockout Tournament
Fancy working your way up to the top, brushing aside opponents along the way as you strive for that No 1 spot? Then our fantastic 16 Player Knockout tournaments are for you. Just make sure you register your entry at 8pm BST every day and play through four rounds of exciting Blackjack action! There are two fantastic variations of this great tournament, both with different entry fees and both offering the winner 70% of the pot and the runner-up 30% of the pot! Remember, you'll be up against other players not the House so you could find yourself in the final without even posting a big score!

32 Player FREE TO ENTER Knockout Tournament
That's right - you're eyes aren't decieving you! FREE TO ENTER! We're running a 32 player knockout tournament at 8pm BST every day with a guaranteed prize fund of £20 / €29 / $37 / A$50 and payments going out to the Top 2 players. Entry is open to all real money players - and you won't have to spend a penny! You can only enter once but you'll have to be quick - once we've got our 32 players the tournament's full-up and you'll have to wait another 24 hours for your chance to be a winner for free!

Our brand new schedule of Blackjack Tournaments run every day from:

United Kingdom & Ireland: 12pm & 12am
Europe: 1pm & 1am
North America: 7am & 7pm (EST)

So make sure you're online, logged in and ready to go for 12 hours of Blackjack action!

Let's Hear From You

As always, call us on the telephone and let us know what you think. From the UK on 0207 292 6260, International 0044 207 292 6260 or the US on 011 44 207 292 6260.

Simply email customerservices@gameaccount.com with your comments!

We always love to hear from you (good, bad or otherwise).

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