Today, Monday October 12th 2009 gave a very positive start to the week for the online casino sector on the markets with many of the main players experiencing very good growth in share price over the course of the day.

Monday saw a increase in the share price of PartyGaming. At the day’s beginning the price stood at 275.00 and the value of shares was standing at 277.30 by the closing bell . This leaves the price 1.5% up from 272.90 which was also where it had closed on Thursday.

Monday October 12th 2009 also saw a increase in the share price of Cryptologic. At the start of the day 6.10 was the valuation of the shares and 6.226 was the value of shares by the end of trading . That is all of 2.3% up on the Friday October 9th price of 6.08 and is all of 3.1% higher than the 6.03 from the previous day.

William Hill on  the other hand saw a slight drop. The price was 170.20 at the beginning of the day and the value of shares was 169.70 by the end of the day . That is 0.2% down on the Friday October 9th price of 169.30.

Overall, the sector had a good day and a very positive start to week and we will have to wait to see if things continue in the positive fashion over the next couple of days.