Monthly Archives: June 2008

“A Billion Ways to Spend a Billion Euros”

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Sarah Jackson of Stafford is reported to the latest winner at Billionairio.com, a numbers game that could yet make her a billionaire.

Having seen the company’s ad in the magazine, she bought a ticket a soon found out she had won €1000 in a preliminary draw. The great thing about her winning that she is still eligible for the game’s prizes of €10,000, €1,000,000 & €10,000,000 and she could even win the grand prize of €1 Billion. So, it is obvious that Billionairio.com offers the biggest prize pool ever available anywhere.

Winning numbers are made up of the last digit of the closing value of pre-determined indices on the day of the prize draw. Every purchased ticket increases the prize pool. Each ticket has a unique number and there can be only one winning ticket for each prize.

Register for the FTR Gauntlet by Visiting FlopTurnRiver.com

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The start of the next season of the online poker league the FTR Gauntlet took place on May 18, 2008, at 3:00pm ET.

It must be noticed that it is already season VII of the Gauntlet, but with every season it’s been getting more popular and bigger.

For those who don’t know, the FTR Gauntlet is a series of $11 buy-in private tournaments held by FlopTurnRiver.com and hosted on PokerStars. Anyone may join the league for free, but you must be a registered FTR Poker Forum member with a PokerStars account.

This season there are 16 out of 32 tournaments to choose from, and there is also a mixed-games format. Players can enjoy different varieties of poker: full-table or 6-max no-limit Hold’em, heads-up Hold’em matches or pot-limit Omaha/8 tourneys.

At the end of the season, 3rd place wins free FTR gear and $75, 2nd place receives FTR gear and $150, 1st place gets the FTR gear and $300, plus the beautiful and coveted FTR Gauntlet crystal trophy. During the Gauntlet games, there will be special bonus or bounty prizes announced.

After the season, the top 10 players from Season VII and each of the past seasons are eligible to play in the FyrFytr Tournament of Champions (TOC) invitational tourney.

Since all Gauntlet games are hosted at PokerStars, all new players should register their account with the PokerStars Marketing Code “flopturnriver” and PokerStars Bonus Code “First2008” to gain the maximum deposit bonus and access to exclusive PokerStars events hosted by FlopTurnRiver.com.

Renewed DevilfishPoker.com

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After months of hard work DevilfishPoker.com has been re-launched on the Entraction network (formerly 24hNetwork) – a great and successful network with outstanding software. Now, the website has a contemporary look and offers its players a number of promotional activities such as a sign up bonus of 150% up to €666, a daily €666 freeroll, daily “Beelzebub Breakfast” and “Lucifer’s Lunch” freerolls, a cash game bad beat jackpot, and a monthly €100,000 guaranteed tournament.

In “Bad Beat” Jackpot losing hand receives 40%, while winning hand receives 20%. All players dealt cards split 20%, and as for the rest 20%, it is kept back for the new Jackpot.

Players can also participate in €100,000 guaranteed tournament held last Sunday of each month. Players can buy-in directly for €200 or qualify from €2 – €20.

The New Online Gambling Law in South Africa

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The internet gambling law has been recently passed by the parliament of South Africa. To come into effect the bill should be signed by the president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki.

The aim of the law is to fight the negative effects of online gambling such as money laundering, gambling addiction and player protection.

In accordance with the law every player in South Africa will have to register with a licensed online gambling company proving he or she is over 18 years old. Besides, the law allows electronic monitoring system that helps root out potentially addictive behavior and restricts credit extensions to players.

The 2008 WSOP is About to Start

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The 2008 WSOP will soon start, but the players from all over the world are already sharpening their skills before going to Las Vegas.

Some players will go to Vegas to play in the Hold’em events, others will have their skills tested in other forms of poker. To improve the card playing skills, some players have been taking classes.

So, there are two weeks left before the beginning of the tournament, and within this time players will be taking time to ensure they are ready for the tournament or not.

Hurry Up and Place Bets on the Eurovision Song Contest

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The odds makers are taking bets on the Eurovision Song Contest. The first Semi-Final (there will be two Semi-Finals for the first time in the history of the contest) is only a day away, but the odds will be taken until the last minute.

According to the odds offered by the European online bookmaker Bet365, Russia has become a favorite with odds 3/1. Serbia is a runner-up with odds 5/1.

Dima Bilan will represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. He is considered to be veteran there as he participated in the contest in 2006 where he attracted the world’s attention.

Serbia will be represented by Jelena Tomašević. It goes without saying that it will be really hard for her to win. Se is already being compared with Bora Dugic – the winner of the last Eurovision Song Contest.

Ukraine at 11/2 and Armenia at 6/1 are the next countries on the list of the Eurovision song contest odds.

More New Players Win

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The results of the recent All Slots Casino $100,000 slots tournament have shown that there is no need to be professional to win as all slots handed out nearly $80,000 in tournament winnings to new players. Even the $50,000 jackpot was handed out to a new player from Norway (Per Magnus S is his screen name). Sheila P won $10,000 playing the one-armed bandits.

Over 1,780 players took part in the competition, and lots of them were new to the scene.  All Slots VP of Player Affairs, David Brickman said that he wouldn’t be surprised if the next $100K tournament will be known as the “tournament of new players”.

The date of the next $100K tournament is still unknown, but now All Slots Casino is offering freerolls to make their players busy.

Did You Buy a Lottery Ticket from a Cincinnati Liquor Store? Check it!

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The Georgia State Lottery administrators are waiting for the lucky winner $196 million to step forward. He has not yet come to the fore, bit it is known that the ticket was bought from a Cincinnati liquor store.

The current situation may lead to the number of fraudulent claims, so everyone is looking forward to see a winner of $196 million.

The sum seems to be so big that it’s hard to imagine what you could with it. Share your ideas with us. And if you bought your ticket from a Cincinnati liquor store, you might be a winner…

Interest in Online Gambling by U.S. Citizens is Growing

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Despite the UIGEA, there is a growing interest in online casino gambling by U.S. citizens.

The statistics presented by ZD Net shows that growth of online gambling (an interest of 12,592 compared to the previous month of 11,082) follows the growth of interest in the Radio Entertainment field and Gay and Lesbian interests.

According to ZD Net, Google was the top search engine with more than 68% of all search engine traffic. It was followed by Yahoo (18%), MSN (12%), AOL (4%) and Ask.com (2.4%).

Approximately 68% of users click on the first page of search results, what explains the fact that it is competitive to get websites listed in the top search results.

To the mind of ZD Net Web 2.0 will attain $4.6 billion by the year of 2013, so it is clear that the online gambling industry should stay here.

Do You Know the Best Way to the WSOP?

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There is an opinion that Bodog qualifying tournaments are the best way to WSOP 2008.

The opinion is based on the fact that Bodog has been guaranteeing 6 x $12,000 main event prize package to the winners of their online tournaments for the last few weeks. The number of players in the games does not matter. Thus, only 66 players took part in the last two Sunday $250 Main Event Semi-final games, but despite this Bodog awarded a seat at the main table to the winner.

It is obvious that Bodog are running some of the tournaments at a loss, but being good to their word helps gain better reputation. And good reputation has been made over the last few years of being one of the most proactive Poker companies.