Virgin Poker Festival hits Nottingham on 28 June

Following the success of the previous Virgin Poker Festivals in Birmingham and Newcastle, Virgin Poker yesterday announced that the next poker extravaganza will take place at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Room, in Nottingham, on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June 2008.

With Dusk Till Dawn being the first poker-only venue in the UK and the largest poker room in Europe, the Nottingham festival is tipped to be bigger and better than its predecessors. Over 270 Virgin Poker players will be given the opportunity to compete in a two-day live poker tournament- and the chance to win a share of its impressive GBP 32,000 prize pot.

The Main Event at the Festival will be a EUR 150 Texas Hold’em No Limit Freezeout tournament for up to 270 players, with 10,000 starting stacks, 40 minute levels and GBP 5,000 added to the prize pool. There will be no direct buy-ins to the event- all online players will qualify via online satellites and freerolls at www.virginpoker.com

Other players can compete for the chance to win a seat at the Virgin Poker Festival on Sunday 22nd June, when Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club will be holding a special live satellite tournament with 20 seats up for grabs.

Joe Legge, poker manager for Virgin Poker, said: “Having found a recipe for success in Birmingham and Newcastle, we’re excited to announce that the next Virgin Poker Festival will be taking place in the premier poker club in Europe. Whilst some will be up to their ears in mud at the Glastonbury Festival over the weekend we’ll be getting competitive and enjoying the thrill of a live tourney with the chance to win a share of our great prizepool.”

Fun is definitely the name of the game at the Virgin Poker Festival, with a variety of side events taking place alongside the main tournament to give everyone an opportunity to get involved- regardless of their poker playing abilities. Practice tables will offer ‘live play classes’ for less experienced players, whilst Wii bowling- back by popular demand- will be taking place over the weekend in search of a player worthy of the Wii bowling crown.

To add a further Virgin twist to the Virgin Poker Festival, players will be able to knock-out key opponents whose heads carry bounties of fantastic Virgin giveaways, whilst STTs and Heads-Up challenges with the Virgin Poker team will ensure every opportunity for players to have a winning weekend.

And, for those not lucky enough to win a seat at the main tournament table- or those players suffering an early exit- there are three side events running over the weekend. With Virgin adding 50,000 Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles for the winner of each side event, a dash to Vegas for the WSOP may be on the cards for a lucky few the following week!

For more information on the Virgin Poker Festival, and how to qualify, please visit www.virginpoker.com.

Digital poker table makes dealers obsolete

If inventors of high-tech gaming tables would only apply their formidable skills in other areas, the world would surely be a better place. Recently there have been some ingenious creations to automate parlor games, whether they deal cards or shuffle mahjong tiles.

Now there’s a fully digital poker table that makes the deck of cards (as well as their dealers) obsolete. The “X10 Ten Player Automated Table” can accommodate up to 10 players in the tournament staple of Texas Hold ‘Em, each with his or her own 12-inch touch screen and a 27-inch LCD in the center where the flops, turns, and rivers will show as community cards alongside the chip totals. The hands are kept private, BornRich explains, because players can “peel” the corners of their cards to take a peek.

It’s a much broader version of the two-person “Heads-Up Challenge” we cited a few weeks back, combined with the concept of other multiple-player systems except they’re all at the same table. If you’re hosting the game, however, you’d better win some monster hands because you’ll need them to pay the $29,950 price.

Titan Poker Players Will Up the Ante in China this August

Titan Poker, the largest online poker room on the iPoker Network, has launched a series of qualifying satellites to determine which of its players will participate in the exciting Asian Poker Tour (APT) tournament in Macau from August 26th until August 31st.

This second stop on the Asian Poker Tour will take avid poker players from around the globe to the southeast coast of China on the western bank of the Pearl River Delta. Titan Poker is offering its players many chances to qualify for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play poker in an exotic Asian location.

Players have two chances each week to qualify for the APT - Macau. Every Sunday and Wednesday Titan Poker is hosting Super Satellites that award top players a $9,000 prize package. Qualifying players will receive entrance to the APT Macau Main Event poker tournament, luxurious accommodations for six nights at the StarWorld Hotel, and $3,000 for travel and spending.

The inaugural Asian Poker Tour tournament, staged in Manila at the end of May, was a tremendous success with its unprecedented One Million Dollar guaranteed prize pool, the largest ever offered in Asia. Hopes are high that Macau can deliver even greater rewards to participants.

Titan Poker regularly rewards its players with huge cash prizes. At the end of this month, the poker room will give away $3,600,000 in its second European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP II). It also frequently awards its players with seats at the world’s most well-known poker tournaments. Titan Poker will be sending players to the World Series of Poker 2008 in Las Vegas. Earlier this month, it sponsored the Eurocity Poker Tour Madrid Open - an exclusive poker tournament open to an elite 200 players.

Annie Duke Readies Absolute Poker’s Liv Boeree for First Bracelet Win

What happens when the world’s best female poker player takes an astrophysics-student-turned-poker-pro under her wings? That’s what everyone in Las Vegas is waiting to find out as Annie Duke guides Liv Boeree towards her first World Series of Poker* bracelet.

“It’s a huge confidence boost knowing I have the world’s best poker teacher and player mentoring me,” stated Liv Boeree. “Since starting tuition with Annie in March my game has improved more than I thought possible.”

While Boeree only recently began her pro education, she first connected with Annie Duke on the UltimatePoker.com Showdown television series in August 2005. It was the wealth of insight gained from Duke that effectively launched Boeree’s poker career.

In a little over two years, Liv has amassed several top 10 finishes in Texas Hold’em tournaments across London including multiple first place wins. In February 2008, Liv caught the attention of Absolute Poker and was quickly signed by the online poker site.

The talented poker player has already proven her worth. On May 4th, Boeree finished first among a field of 53 players in the Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship, securing a coveted trophy and $30,000.

“Liv is a fantastic student to work with,” says Annie Duke. “The speed with which she grasped the concepts was astonishing and, obviously, with her two recent tournament wins she has put the lessons to good use. I am eager to coach her during the series and see how far we can take this talented lady.”

Live Boeree can be found playing at Absolute Poker’s online poker tables. The free poker software can be downloaded from www.absolutepoker.com.

Ted Forrest

Ted Forrest (born September 24, 1964 in Syracuse, New York) is an American professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Forrest won three bracelets at the 1993 World Series of Poker (WSOP). After the mid-1990s, Forrest turned his attention full time to cash games. He made a triumphant return to the WSOP by winning 2 bracelets at the 2004 WSOP. Since then he has moved his focus from seven card stud to hold ‘em with some success, including reaching 4 final tables on the World Poker Tour and winning a championship on the Professional Poker Tour.

Forrest is well known as a competitive high stakes gambler. He has been a key part of a consortium of poker players who pooled their money together to play Texas billionaire Andy Beal in a series of very high limit, heads-up, Texas Holdem games, with limits ranging anywhere from $20,000/$40,000 to $100,000/$200,000.

Forrest also participates in many proposition bets, such as betting John Hennigan $10,000 that Huck Seed’s brother Leif could not run to L.A. from Las Vegas while only sleeping twice. His ‘healthy disregard for money’ that is so beneficial to his poker game also leads to reports that he has bankrolled losing players and invested imprudently in the past.

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German Player Wins European Championship Tournament at Titan Poker

Player “Heins77″ from Germany was the winner on Wednesday of the sixth tournament staged as part of Titan Poker’s ten-day European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) tournament series.

The ECOOP series is currently attracting unprecedented player interest at Titan Poker, the largest online poker room on the iPoker Network. A total of $3,600,000 is guaranteed in prizes at the ten tournaments, but the large number of online poker players participating in the tournaments has driven up the prize pools even higher.

Player “Heins77″ took home a first prize of $45,570 as he beat off 1,084 other players in the Texas Hold’em No Limit, 6-Player table tournament with a buy-in of $200+$15. A total of $217,000 was distributed to the winning players, more than the event’s guaranteed prize pool of $200,000.

The previous night, the fifth ECOOP II tournament saw 505 players compete at a Texas Hold’em No Limit Freezeout tournament with a stiff $750 + $50 Buy-in. The prize pool, at $378,750, again surpassed the promised amount.

The ECOOP II tournament series continues at Titan Poker until June 1st, when it culminates with a tournament finale with $1,500,000 in guaranteed prizes.

Titan Poker players are able to buy-in directly to each of the ECOOP II events or win their seats at online daily qualifying tournaments, which start at just $2 + $0.20.

This is the second European Championship of Online Poker staged by Titan Poker. The first ECOOP series was staged in December 2007 and exceeded expectations by awarding more than $2,500,000 in prizes.

Bettors go all-in on 2008 World Series of Poker

Poker betting is one thing but wagering on poker betting is quite another. And yet that’s the challenge gamblers will face when they match cash to conviction on the 39th World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, beginning May 30.

Although some books have prices for which poker players will win each of the 53 preliminary card games, it is Event #54, the $10,000 buy-in World Championship of No-Limit Texas Hold ‘em, known as the Main Event, that not only attracts the most poker players but the most action from bettors, as well.

That competition gets underway July 3 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel with the Final Table determined on July 14. The nine players who advance to the Final Table will return to the Rio on November 9 where the outcome will be decided on the evening of November 10.

Poker exploded as a TV and gambling essential a half-decade ago when new technology allowed viewers watching at home to see each player’s hole cards. Bookmakers, who tried to keep pace with the phenomena, have been swamped of late as the number of entries to the Main Event swelled to a record 8,773 in 2006. Try making a future book involving that many names!

So, given the huge fields and the fact that an established professional poker player has not won the Main Event since 2001, books have taken to offering prices on players merely making it to the Final Table. (Odds on winning the top prize will follow after that).

The lowest odds on any individual reaching the Final Table is 100/1, a price afforded to 1987 and 1988 Main Event champion Johnny Chan, 1989 winner Phil Hellmuth and 2001 champ Carlos Mortensen, as well as such highly regarded poker players a Gus Hansen, Daniel Negreanu and Allen Cunningham.

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Saab wins RP leg of Asian Poker Tour

Australian national David Saab emerged as the top winner of the 2008 Asian Poker Tour as he bested more than 300 players in the finals of the six-day event Sunday at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati City.

The 35-year-old became the last man standing at the “no limit Texas hold’em” after beating South Korea’s Chris Roh in six hours at the gambling table.

Saab already had 2.2 million worth of chips against Roh’s 800,000 before the winning the tour’s Philippine leg.

Saab, who started Sunday’s game as the chip leader, pocketed the $280,000 top prize. He was a former chief executive officer of a public company before turning pro full time.

Second placer Roh, who owns an online gaming room, took home $150,000.

Roh and Saab eliminated Japanese player Satoru Ishii to arrange their one-on-one match.

The 29-year-old Japanese, who works as a magazine writer, pocketed $100,000.

Filipinos reach the finals

Two Filipinos, meanwhile, made it into the finals before eventually bowing out of contention.

Terry Gonzaga and Don Carmona were eliminated from the competition after running out of chips to play.

Gonzaga, who works as a business manager of a semi-conductor outsource assembly plant, was the third to be eliminated among the top nine players who made it into the finals.

“Talagang matindi ang pressure,” said Gonzaga. He said that this was his first major tournament.

Carmona, who was cheered on by Filipino spectators, was the next to be eliminated.

“Magaling… magaling sila,” said Carmona, who is engaged in the customs brokerage business.

Other players who made it into the finals were Michele Ferrari (Italy), Yun Man (South Korea), Kwang Soo Lee (South Korea) and Gerasimos Deres (Sweden).

More than 300 players battled it out at the APT leg in Manila for a share of the guaranteed $1-million prize pot.

Meanwhile, APT CEO Chris Parker announced announced a US$1,500,000 guaranteed prize pool for its next event in Macau.

The Asian Poker Tour Macau will be held at the StarWorld Hotel and Casino from the 27th to 31st of August 2008 with the buy-in at $5,000+$300.

Another scandal rocks online poker

The Absolute Poker scandal mostly flew under the mainstream media’s radar last year, but as the old saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Maybe George W. Bush can’t get that cliche correct, but if he played online poker he would definitely understand it’s meaning right around now.

The news is now official as UltimateBet has admitted that it has suffered its own cheating scandal.

And this time, the mainstream press is noticing. Canada’s National Post newspaper is already on top of the story.

A media organization with an already conservative bent, on Saturday the Post published a stark story about the state of security inside the poker world, with an article titled Native policing of gambling in doubt after online cheating.

And while I’m generally loathe to agree with conservative views of online gambling, I’m having a hard time disagreeing with the premise of the article, which questions whether the Kahnawake reserve has the balls to properly regulate the gaming companies under its watch.

Right now, it looks like it doesn’t.

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World Series of Poker shows Vegas at its best

Las Vegas has been beset by weird, bad news this year. There’s the mortgage foreclosure crisis, plus a hepatitis outbreak. And you could drown away such troubles with a night on the town, but then you might deal with long lines at expensive, celebrity-owned nightclubs that are, alas, under investigation by the feds.

So it was a relief this weekend to see the focus of Vegas rooting into what it does best: poker. Specifically, taking people’s money away from them for their own good, or at least Las Vegas’ good.

The World Series of Poker was a magnet for many hundreds of action junkies from around the world. They chipped in up to $10,000 each to play the tables. A swarm of international media buzzed around them.

And some poker players and spectators did their part to help alleviate our housing crisis. Quite a few told me they just moved to Las Vegas within the past month, either to get closer to tournaments here, or to prey as poker pros on tourists in hotels.

The most prominent gaming duo was actress Jennifer Tilly and her poker champ boyfriend Phil Laak. They just moved here a few weeks ago. And they were hard to miss at the Rio, since he’s known as “The Unabomber” for hiding his poker face behind dark glasses and a hoodie. And she’s appropriately called “The Unabombshell.”

Tilly thinks “Unabombshell” is a cute alias, but she prefers another nickname she hears: J-Tilla the Killa.

“I think that strikes fear in the hearts of men,” she says. “‘Unabombshell’ sort of implies ‘decorative:’ someone you can have at the table so you can stare at her boobs.”

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Player Receives $55,000 as Titan Poker Deals Its Billionth Hand

Titan Poker, the largest online poker room on the iPoker Network, dealt its Billionth Hand on May 27 and player “wootrigged” from Finland went home with a prize of $55,000. The other five players playing at the same table received $5,000 each, just for participating in hand number 1,000,000,000.

Titan Poker’s Billionth Hand promotion, which launched a number of weeks ago, awarded more than $420,000 in prizes. A countdown started when the 950,000,000th hand was dealt. Hundreds of dollars in cash were awarded to players every day as Titan Poker neared its monumental billionth hand.

Players were able to track the progress of the countdown to the Billionth Hand by logging into the Titan Poker software, or onto the Titan Poker website. Titan Poker players also received regular updates of the countdown progress and were immediately informed when they started to play on a winning hand.

Titan Poker regularly rewards its players with huge cash prizes. The popular online poker room is currently giving away $3,600,000 in its second European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP II). It also frequently awards its players with seats at the world’s most well-known poker tournaments, including the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the Irish Open, the European Poker Tour and the Asian Poker Tour. In May, Titan Poker sponsored the Eurocity Poker Tour Madrid Open, a highly successful tournament event staged at the Casino Gran outside the Spanish capital.

For World Series of Poker players, brain trumps hand

The real action at the World Series of Poker won’t be visible to the eye or even the hole-card cameras under the tables. It will take place inside the heads of the players.

They will mess with each other’s minds, watch for clues that might tip off another’s hand or a nervous bluff and calculate the risks and rewards of each hand. And before they move all-in with their chips, they will decide whether they have not only the cards but the nerve.

“A lot of time, it’s just a game of chicken. You don’t have very much. You think they don’t have very much. Each of you is just trying to make the other one fold,” says pro Barry Greenstein, who rates psychological toughness the No. 1 trait of a poker player.

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Poker: Picking the right time to gamble is important

Ideally, you want to get your money in the pot in a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament when you have an opponent dominated, but that isn’t always possible.

Sometimes your stack will be below average, you will draw a nice hand, even if it isn’t the best, and you will see a big pot brewing. You have to gamble.

It happens to the top players all the time. They don’t always like it, but one part of their strategy is to pick a smaller stack to gamble with so they can’t bust out, as Josh Arieh showed at the $15,000-buy-in Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Las Vegas’ Bellagio in 2007.

With blinds at $500-$1,000 plus a $100 ante, the player under the gun limped, as did pro Marcel Luske and two other players.

Arieh, who finished third in the 2004 World Series of Poker main event, found ace-queen offsuit on the button. He also found a chance to make a move to improve his below-average stack of about $24,000.

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Ultimate Poker Challenge

Ultimate Poker Challenge is a syndicated show that televises a series of weekly poker tournaments where players accumulate points instead of money in order to play in the semi-finals. Eight players then go on to play in the finals. The playing field for ultimate poker challenge is comprised of both professional poker players and top amateurs.

Chad Brown, an actor most recognized for his work on the soap opera “Another World” hosted the show with Brandi Williams as field correspondent who often interviewed the players. Matt Savage was the tournament director. In the first season of Ultimate Poker Challenge, James Van Alstyne won the top prize of $100,000. In season 2, Andy Bloch, who is best known for being a member of the MIT blackjack team that was featured in the book, “Bringin Down The House,” which is also the subject of the 2008 movie, “21″ won the top prize of $167,500. The winner of the show’s season 3 was Amir Vahedi, who took home $181,390.

Seasons 1 and 2 of the exciting series are available on DVD for fans of the show to purchase. In season 4, the show was actually renamed to The Ultimate Poker Challenge Presents Cash Poker: The Ultimate Challenge. In 2007 ultimate poker challenge teamed up with Woman Poker Player magazine to create the Ultimate Women’s Poker Challenge. This event was held at Binions in Las Vegas and was televised for the show. Shows like these have really helped to popularize poker, especially when people at home see the “average Joe” take home the money. It gives the ordinary amateur hope that he or she has a chance at winning the big one someday. Also, by utilizing Henry Orenstein’s invention of the pocket camera, now that the home audience can see the player’s hole cards, it makes watching poker more exciting than ever!

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World Series of Poker kicks off with $10K event

It seems it was yesterday that Jerry Yang was celebrating his 2007 World Series of Poker main event title. It feels like it was last night that I was busting out of the 2006 WSOP main event. Sorry, some of those hands just haunt me in my sleep.

But it is time for poker’s main attraction — the WSOP — again. And while the number of main event entrants is anybody’s guess, this year’s World Series already is guaranteed to be the longest in history.

It starts today with the $10,000 buy-in pot-limit hold’em world championship and ends in November with the final stages of the main event final table.

Usually, it’s the casino employees event that kicks off the WSOP, so it’s refreshing see the World Series starting in style this year with one of the 12 world championship events. In all, Caesar’s Entertainment will be handing out 55 WSOP bracelets again this year at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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World Series of Poker

Last May, Jerry Yang was just a 39-year-old social worker from Temecula with six kids, a hefty mortgage and a wife who worked at night to make ends meet. Poker was a recently acquired, TV-inspired hobby he indulged in at the nearby Pechanga Casino.

But as this year’s 55-event, six-week World Series of Poker season kicks off Friday, Yang is a millionaire who is gunning to defend his title as 2007 winner of the $10,000 World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, a.k.a. the Main Event.

The promise embedded in Yang’s story is precisely why Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack believes more than 30,000 people will play and why more than 100,000 people will come to the Rio All-Suites Hotel-Casino just to watch for free.

“You can’t buy your way onto an NBA court, but you can buy your way into the World Series of Poker and walk away as a world champion,” Pollack said.

Indeed, anyone can play in the events, which have entry fees from $1,000 to $50,000. Some don’t even have to; Yang won his Main Event entry in a satellite tournament. That cost $225; in two weeks in July he outlasted 6,358 players to win $8.25 million.

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Absolute Buddy

Online casino operator Absolute Poker has developed new software designed to make playing friends online a snap. Absolute Buddy allows players to locate both offline friends and familiar opponents online.

By placing the names of online competitors into the Absolute Buddy program, gamblers can detect if the players are online, and if so, where.

If a player is currently signed in, his name will be highlighted in bold. A triangle next to the name signifies that the player is currently seated at a table. Single-clicking on the triangle reveals the name of the table; double-clicking puts the gambler at the table with the player he sought.

Players can plan to play against each other, and easily find a table to share.

The software is designed to be similar to online instant messaging services, such as Goggle Chat and AIM. This assures gamblers of ease of use and comfort.

Not only can players seek out friends, the device is useful in finding both opponents that have been easy prey and those that one wants revenge upon for a bad beat.

Vegas Luck Hits UltimateBet as Online Poker Player Cashes in on $546,253.86 Bad Beat Jackpot

56-year-old online poker player from Florida wins $177,532.51 with losing hand

A little Vegas luck was definitely on one online poker player’s side Tuesday morning. A Texas Hold’em player with the moniker “joeyvegas0711” popped UltimateBet’s latest Bad Beat Jackpot, which had been sitting at a staggering $546,253.86.

The jackpot exploded at 10:38am on May 27th when joeyvegas0711 turned over an assumingly unbeatable four queens. But everything changed the moment babybaby16 flipped over a queen-high straight flush and swept the $35.44 pot in his direction.

For his losing hand, joeyvegas0711 took home $177,532.51 of the $546,253.86 Bad Beat Jackpot. BabyBaby16 added an additional $88,766.25 to his $35.44 pot and 270 other players shared another $88,766.25.

Bad Beat Jackpot is just like traditional Texas Hold’em poker with an added jackpot component. In addition to rake, $0.50 is collected from qualifying poker hands and placed into a constantly growing pot until someone hits the jackpot.
When a player loses a hand with four 8s or anything better, 65% of the jackpot is divided among Bad Beat Jackpot players (25% remains in the pot for the next jackpot and 10% is dedicated towards administrative fees). All players seated at a Bad Beat Jackpot table featuring the same limit and game type as where the bad beat occurred also win a piece of the jackpot.
Full details on UltimateBet’s Bad Beat Jackpot game can be found at www.ultimatebet.com .

PurePlay to Award Highest Number of Seats to Poker’s Main Event

PurePlay, the largest U.S. compliant play-for-cash online poker site, announced today that it will be extending its 2008 World Series of Poker* seat giveaway through the month of June, with hundreds of World Series qualifiers running every day. PurePlay, the U.S. market leader, will be giving away the largest number of Main Event seats among all U.S. based poker sites.

San Fransisco, CA (PRunderground) May 29, 2008 – PurePlay, the largest U.S. compliant play-for-cash online poker site, announced today that it will be extending its 2008 World Series of Poker* seat giveaway through the month of June, with hundreds of World Series qualifiers running every day. PurePlay, the U.S. market leader, will be giving away the largest number of Main Event seats among all U.S. based poker sites.

PurePlay’s most recent winner is Donald Wilson of Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada. Said Wilson, “PurePlay’s offer of cash prizes without risking my own money has always been attractive, and they’re the reason I’ve been an enthusiastic regular on their site. Without risking a dime of my own money, my dream of winning a seat to the WSOP* Main Event came true. Who knows, if I play my cards right I could walk away with millions.”

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Blackjack Pays Out Most in Bodog’s Online Casino

The biggest payday yesterday in Bodog’s online casino came from Blackjack. (Bodog Beat Image)

Congratulations to Matthew E. of TX for being yesterday’s biggest Bodog casino winner with $19,296 from Blackjack! The other top nine winners are as follows:

* Robert G. of CA came in second and apparently also know how to play Blackjack. He won $7,840.
* Steven H. of PA rolled the bones and made $6,793 from Craps.
* Jimmy W. of MD was yet another big Blackjack winner with $6,289.
* David B. of FL made two big scores yesterday. One from the Realm of Riches slot for $5,737 and one from Tri-Card Poker for $4,180. Way to diversify David!
* Joan L. of NY nabbed a piece of the Aztecs Treasure slot for $5,249.
* Walter S. of MO played one of our favorite games, Let em Ride, and won $4,389.
* Barbara W. of GA laughed it up after winning $4,115 from Joker Poker.
* And finally, Renee W. of MA took a dip in the Crystal Waters slot and swam away with $4,020.

Bodog’s online casino has dozens of great casino games including the ever popular, and apparently quite lucrative, game of Blackjack.

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Poker Pro Justin Bonomo Joins Team Bodog; Josh Arieh Out

Bodog Poker will announce Monday the signing of Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo to their roster of Team Bodog pros that represent the online poker company at poker tournaments and in marketing campaigns.

Bonomo joins David Williams, Evelyn Ng and Jean-Robert Bellande on Team Bodog. Meanwhile two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Josh Arieh is no longer a member of Team Bodog having been informed last week that the company wished to go in a different direction. That direction appears to be younger.

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Everest Poker ‘Hugely Supportive’ of New WSOP Final Table Scheduling

Everest Poker, who recently signed a multi year deal to brand all table felts and the inner rung of the final table at the World Series of Poker, is delighted with the new November 2008 schedule for the final table.

“This move is a masterstroke for the WSOP’s global profile and will undoutedly make the build up to the final table the most dramatic yet,” said Jennifer Joyce, Chief Marketing Officer, Everest Poker. “From both a commercial and personal point of view I am hugely supportive of the scheduling and from a European perspective it gives everybody a much better chance to see the biggest event in world poker.”

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Canada’s Coast to Coast Poker Championship Starts Today

The Coast to Coast Poker Championship kicks off today at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia, pitting East versus West and featuring 7 events over 9 days, with an estimated 2,650 players and $2.4 million prize pool. The main event offers a top prize of $377,300 based on a sell-out.

The Coast to Coast Poker Championships will be the first stop for WPT Canada and the tournament will be filmed to produce four one-hour episodes, which will air nationally in Canada. The style of broadcast will reflect the WPT.

“We are proud to host the first-ever Coast to Coast Poker Championships, which brings some of the best poker players in Canada while adding an East versus West rivalry to the classic game,” said Darryl Schiewe, BCLC’s vice president of casino gaming. “We have such good poker in Canada and with great poker rooms, tournaments and players there is no reason to leave Canada to play.”

For more information, visit www.riverrockcasino.com.

Day 2 Latin American Poker Tour Ends- Final Table Now Set

The first stop of the Latin American Poker Tour began May 3rd with 314 players, then 113 players started Day 2, and after a long grueling day of play the final nine players have emerged (listed below). They will return Monday May 5 at 2pm to determine who goes home with the LAPT Champion title and the $222,940 top prize money.

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Highlights for All Africa Poker Channel: May 5 -May 11

The All Africa Poker Tournament

Watch legendary poker moments as formidable poker pro’s and celebrities from across the globe, throw down the gauntlet, to be crowned the next poker king or queen, at the leading poker tournament in Africa- the All Africa Poker Tournament.

This phenomenal tournament has not only made more than a dozen millionaires, but has been the platform from which many local poker players have been elevated into international poker stardom. Experience all the poker thrills first hand.

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Duplicate Poker launches World’s Biggest Online Poker Glossary

Ever since poker’s best kept secret was revealed in September 2007, it is now well known in the gaming world of poker that Duplicate Poker Online is the only site to visit for unlimited fun and a variety of chances to win real cash.

But for those who are yet to know, Duplicate Poker is the innovative game that works with more of a player’s skills than it’s got to do with luck.

Duplicate Poker now pokes more fun to its teeming members and online visitors by giving them access to its large glossary of poker terminologies which also doubles as the world’s biggest online poker database.

“This is where poker players all over the world would turn to, as the one-stop resource for them to have a good idea of what a poker word means,” says Pinhas Romik, the CEO of Duplicate Poker.

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Online Poker: billytk01 Wins Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed

The Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed had an overlay this week of $40,800 with a field of 3,546. Coming out on top this week was billytk01 who earned a cool $132,787.50 for coming in first place. When final table play began he was the only player to have above 2 million in chips and was one of only three players above 1 million. Here is how the final table played out:

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Poker and money go hand in hand at casinos only

Editor’s Note: The Evening Guide presents the second of a two-part series on the growing popularity of Texas Hold ‘Em poker and the legalities involved.

The only place any poker game involving money is legally allowed is in a casino, says a spokesperson for the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.

The commission does not license any charitable organization in licensed establishments to hold poker games particularly if “it’s going to be for money,” Ab Campion said in an recent interview.

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Poker Table Materials Launches E-Commerce Website

Poker Table Materials provides products for the poker table building industry at both the wholesale and retail levels.

Poker Table Materials is a new full service, consumer friendly e-commerce website with a shopping cart and resource pages containing industry information. The company is built around the fundamentals of great customer service, high quality products and competitive pricing. The product line includes fabrics, vinyl, foam padding and accessories for gaming tables. These products are sold at both the wholesale and retail levels. All of the products are available for purchase directly from the website and will normally ship out to the customer on the same day the order is placed.

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DonkeyGear.net Re-Brands and Introduces a New Poker Mascot

The uprising of the hottest poker fashion and apparel website, DonkeyGear.net, seems to have surprised even its founders. Launched only a few months ago, DonkeyGear.net caters to a variety of poker needs, although it’s their poker t-shirts and apparel specialties that have separated them from their competition and have gotten people in casino poker rooms to take notice.

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Titan Poker Plan To Fill Annual Lull

Each yeah, there is a lull of activity in the online poker world; occurring in the immediate run-up to the World Series of Poker.

As well as running several promotions throughout the next month, they will be hosting the second annual European Championship of Online Poker.

Titan will also host two super-satellites for the Asian Poker Tour Manila, with a chance to win a $2,500 seat at the event for just $258. The events will take place on May 5 and May 12.

These satellites will pay out prize packages of $6,000 in total value, covering all accommodation and travel costs. Four of these prizes can be won.

The ECOOPII tournament will feature ten days of poker action and prize pools of $3.6m. Satellites to the events are running now.

Poker Players Opt For Jury Trial

In America, five defendants in a case brought against players participating in home poker games have requested a trial by jury after growing angry with laws that ban any form of entertainment using cards or dice.

The defendants in South Carolina were charged under a state law passed in 1802 following raids early last month. The affair was the culmination of a ten-month investigation by police where four houses were watched. Officials stated that high-stakes games were taking place and arrested 27 people and seized $62,000.

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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF ONLINE POKER II (ECOOP II)

Get set for the SECOND European Championship of Online Poker THIS MAY!!

The European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) is a thrilling online tournament series where skilled poker players compete for a share of millions of dollars over an action-packed ten days.

Our first ECOOP in December 2007, was an incredible success - and we gave away $2,500,000 in just TEN DAYS!! Click here to see the results of our first ECOOP.

The ECOOP II will run from the 23rd of May to the 1st of June - and it’s set to be bigger and better than ever before!! This second championship is going to award an astonishing $3,600,000!

What’s more - play for your place on our special ECOOP II leaderboard and you could also win a seat in a $50,000 Freeroll!! i All top 100 PLAYERS will be eligible to play in the $50,000 GP Freeroll, which will be staged 72 hours after the Main Event. Check your place on the leaderboard here.

DON’T MISS OUT - START PLAYING TODAY FOR YOUR SHARE OF $3,600,000!!

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Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, sent a delegation of seven players to compete in the European Poker Tour (EPT) in San Remo, Italy, this month. The internationally renowned online poker site was represented by players from a range of countries, including Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

All players were awarded a prize package worth $10,000, which included $2,500 for flights, accommodations, and spending along with free entry to the 4,700+ 300 Euro Main Event.

Daniel Walker, winner from the U.K, said that “the player that busted my pocket Jacks with his Queen-6 was Anthony Lellouche, who played extremely well and went on to finish in second place. He definitely put my chips to good use! Thanks again for organizing a great week - I had a spectacular time!”

Another Titan Poker winner, Kenneth Tomming, from Denmark, had the chance of a lifetime to play at the same table as professional poker player Daniel Negreanu. In addition to San Remo, Kenneth has also won a seat to the upcoming Titan Poker sponsored EuroCity Madrid Tournament in May.

Titan Poker regularly awards its players with seats at the world’s most well-known poker tournaments, such as the Aussie Millions and various European Poker Tour events. Titan Poker will also be sending players to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and the World Poker Showdown in the Dominican Republic later this year. In May, Titan Poker will host the European Championship of Online Poker II (ECOOP) where skilled poker players will compete for a share of $3,600,000 dollars.

Comments (1) Apr 21 2008