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Ace Hoyle has Power to Stay

Friday, January 8th, 2010

There are lots of online sites offering gambling tips and recommendations. Ace Hoyle is the recently launched poker information portal offering a bit of a laugh along with the reviews, warnings, strategies and more. Having an interactive approach, Ace Hoyle encourages visitors to come back.

In the highly competitive online gambling market where sometimes it is so hard to find a unique and fresh approach to collaborative poker information and sharing sites, the site is believed to become a success.

Top Poker Magzine Features Top Stories

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

November’s issue of Bluff Europe is now available at newsstands and card rooms across Europe.

The front cover of the magazine features Barry Shulman, the CEO of Card Player magazine, who defeated Daniel Negreanu for the coveted title of the WSOPE winner. Inside the magazine you’ll also find an exciting life story of five-time WSOP bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen. In addition to that Bluff Europe offers a great variety of live tournament reports from WSOPE, EPT and English Poker Open. Besides, November issue of Bluff Europe provides its readers with top-quality news, reviews and features from the biggest names in poker, not to speak about an exclusive freeroll for the readers.

Fourteenth tournament of FTOPS is announced to start in a few weeks. The guaranteed prize constitutes $16 million dollars. There will be approximately 25 events during the whole tournament. You may already see advertising campaign online telling some basic fact that you will be most interested in.

The buy-ins are $0.50 of 50 Full Tilt points which might seem to be a very small prize to pay for chance to win $16 000 000. Six times you will have the chance to win $1 000 000 as six events have been prepared with main prize of $1 mln.

FTOPS XIV is planned to set off with a $216 6-max hold’em on the fourth of November with approximately $1 mln in cash prizes.

Sunday $250 000 tournament from Titan Poker

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Its time for the regular weekend tournament from Titan Poker to set off in a few hours. The guaranteed revenue constitutes $250 000 and you still have some hours to search for the satellites in case you are not willing to pay $300+$20 to sign up for the event.

All the participants will be playing a No Limit Texas Hold’em with 5000 starting chip stack and 10 players per each table. Blinds will be moving with interval of 15 minutes.

To gain more information please visit Titan Poker official web site and register to take part in the tournament. Registration is free and doesn’t take long.

The Main event of the Fests al Lago WPT underwent changes in the structure of the tournament with the $15 000 of the revenue for the most skilled player. The new structure provided each player with 60 000 chips to start playing and another innovative step was to allow new players to register in the tournament till the middle of the contest. The second day brought another 35 players to participate in the even, making the total number of the gamblers equal to 275.

Despite the fact that the tournament is not that big, the number of players, who are still coming to the event, has greatly increased and is much greater than the managers have expected. This fact is mostly the result of a strong advertising campaign all over the net.

The prize pool has been raised up to $4 000 000 by the quantity of the players. Most active players will be awarded with a worthy cash prize. The winner will take home $1 218 225 and other will be illegible for a $23 855. The exact quantity of the winners is limited by 27 persons.

Third day even started today at 12 00 at the gorgeous Bellagio.

Father Andrew earns $25.000 gambling

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Welcome the card player priest who knows the card better than anyone else. He will be a gust in the TV Poker competition in the coming weekend.

While spending his time gambling Father Andrew Trapp has proved to be a good player by gaining revenue of $25.000 according to Poker Stars publicists. As a result he is rewarded with the right to continue participating in the show’s Million Dollar Challenge. Watch him on FOX on Sunday night.

A gambling Priest might seem to be a wrong notion but he assures everyone supporting him on youtube that all the funds he wins will be used in construction of a bigger church, besides he shows an example to all young men of a person who serves God and enjoys his life while being a priest.

“Elena m” Challenges Bodog Team

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Bodog.com reports that 441 players payed a byu-in of $109 to take part in the Sunday $100,000 guaranteed tournament. “Elena m” turned out to be a winner of the top prize of $25,000.

Actually, it was for the first time when ‘elena m” made it to the final table. On the way to her winning she had to fight against two 2009 WSOP Bodog Team members, Brandy “ParliGod” Savage and Bolivar “ramux’ Polacios.

Online player ‘trp2006’ is reported to have taken second place for $15,000 followed by ‘elymint’ in third for $9,500. Rounding out the final table was ‘theycallmetrues’ in fourth for $7,000, ‘ParliGod’ in fifth for $5,500, ‘Ecliptica’ in sixth for $4,500, ‘Ramux’ in seventh for $3,500, ‘lunarphase’ in eighth for $2,200 and ‘tommybear987′ in ninth for $1,700.

Because of the ongoing situation in Kentucky threatening the domain names of soma of the largest internet gambling brands in the European market, the Microgaming online casino software development company has announced their decision to leave the US market. As a result, any of the online casino sites licensing Microgaming software will not let US players use their services.

Regarding this decision as a safety measure, lots of online casino sites were pleased to get this news, however, some gambling sites including Poker Host, remain active in the US gambling market. Not planning to leave US customers, Poker Host has changed the gaming platform, switching from Microgaming to the Cake Poker Network.

Following a deal with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Inc, UltimateBet.net has been announced to be the official sponsor of the 25th anniversary WrestleMania event that is to take place on the 5th of April in Houston.

One Canadian player will be rewarded with an all expenses paid trip for two to the this event by UltimateBet.net.

Starting on the 16th of February, UltimateBet.net is running a series of Texas Hold’em qualifier tournaments. The prize is a return airfare to Houston for two, hotel accommodation and $500 to spend. Besides that, the site offers tickets to the anniversary event, 2 replica WWE championship belts and a framed WrestleMania 25 poster.

CryptoLogic Lost One of its Members

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Playboy Poker, powered by CryptoLogic was shut down on January 29th of this year. It has been confirmed that Playboy gaming will no longer have a poker site and won’t be moving to another platform.

Playboy Poker has been in operation since 2007. Having various links between players and the Playboy world, with players’ points that could be redeemed for Playboy merchandise and trips to Las Vegas Playboy Club, the site, unfortunately, has not managed to achieve great results.


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