Diligence and attention to detail have been the watchwords during the development of Cake Poker’s new mobile gambling offering, and this thorough approach was again evident this week with further improvements to the online casinos software.

While the Cake Poker Mobile software is still technically in beta testing, it’s been continually refined, according to the company’s blog.

The latest tweaks unveiled by the Cake tech gurus working on the Cake Poker Mobile product have been based on casino gambling player feedback and include:

• 4 colour decks

• Total Pot indicator

• Table Position indicator

• Re-buy in-game (with re-buy time indicator)

• Sound effects

• When choosing your table selection options, you can now filter for desired Flop percentage

• Enhanced Performance and architectural improvements

Players who are already on Cake Poker Mobile, will be prompted to download and install the new version automatically when they launch the old version.

For those who haven’t yet tried the new product, all you need is a Windows Mobile device, and a visit to http://mobile.cakepoker.com/m.

This new update also irons out a few small bugs:

• Disconnections are handled better

• Table action can now be seen while player is sitting out

• Error logging for troubleshooting

• Hole cards face down bug

• Application loading issues

• Action button improvements

• Table joining improvements

Players have an open invitation to partticipate in the development phase by communicating their thoughts and suggestions to feedback@cakepoker.com.
A company spokesman said this week that there are exciting new features imminent, including:

• Blackberry/Symbian support

• Top-down view of the table

• Real lobby table list w/ table stats

• Mobile cashier and account management

* Mobile tournaments

It appears that the Russian based online gambling software provider, Connective Games is trawling for partners to help achieve its ambitions in setting up an Asian facing internet gambling network, judging by press release material this week from its marketing outlet Game-On.

Tomsk-based Connective Games has been providing gaming solutions for online casino and poker operators for the last three years and partners with several of the leading poker networks and independent operators, the press material advises without specifying the companies concerned.

In pursuing its Asian goals, Connective Games will use its expertise to build an Asian network with a range of popular traditional games for Asian players such as Mahjong, Chinese Poker, Badugi, Big 2 and Rummy.

CEO Konstantin Zubarev says: “Asian games are undoubtedly some of the most exciting and this market is a huge opportunity for operators seeking to diversify. We are ready to target this fast growing market and seeking partnerships with companies and individuals that have a valued interest and understanding of Asian games. Connective Games’ aim is to become one of the biggest players for both existing and “new to market” operators. ”

Austrian online gambling group Bwin has secured a three-year extension to its sponsorship agreement with the top Spanish football club Real Madrid.

The new online gambling agreement represents an extension of the current sponsorship deal, which was scheduled to expire next year with the end of the European casino games season, and will take the relationship through to 2013.

No financial details of the latest agreement were released, but it is likely to at least equal the reported Euro 45 million attached to the previous three year arrangement.