Author Archives: Ildebrando Pugliesi

About Ildebrando Pugliesi

Ildebrando Pugliesi – was born in 1980 in Apple Valey, MN, USA. Today he is happily married, adores his wife and two little daughters. His Italian background and hot temper made him a poker fan from the early years of his life. After graduating from Crossroads College, MN, and receiving a prestigious job in Councelling Psychology he started playing poker professionally. Ildebrando enjoys improving his poker skills and sharing ideas about it.

Eric Baldwin Joins UB.com’s Poker Pro Team

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Eric Baldwin is reported to have joined the poker pro team of UB.com, a top internet poker gaming site licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.

Baldwin, known as “basebaldy” earns money playing poker online. In the past year he is believed to have won approximately $1.5 million. His success and prominence are growing, and that is why UB.com invited him to join their poker pro team.

UB.com’s poker pro team consists of the biggest budding stars, and Eric Baldwin will naturally compliment the already existing base of players and will probably redefine the UB’s predence on the international poker gambling market.

They Could not Skirt Israeli Law Enforcement

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5 suspects believed to be responsible for illegal online gambling site Internet1x2.com have been arrested in Israel. The site was operated out of a luxury villa in Belize, while the server is based in Estonia.

Two of the arrested turned out to be brothers: Idan and Shai Raviv, the “masterminds” of the operation. They employed dozens of Israelis including female card dealers. Idan is suspected of running the business from England, while his brother, Shai, was performing his duties in Tel Aviv.

Using web cameras, the site card dealers interacted with gamblers in Israel. In addition to that, Internet1x2,com offered gambling on a wide range of sports. Wagers were collected with the use of credit cards and funds went directly into brothers’ bank accounts.

The brothers will be charged with money laundering, a series of tax authority violations as well as the gambling charges.
Despite the fact that the site was operating abroad, the site still catered for Israelis and let Israeli users to gamble, and as a result Idan and Shai could be tried under Israeli law.

Software Protection Against Computer Bots

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The recently formed at the Cambridge University Engineering Department company called Featurespace is developing a software program to help protect online casino players from fraud.

Having partnered with King.com specializing in skill games, Featurespace started working at software that has to protect players using King.com from computer bots that might try to compete with human players for cash prizes. At the moment lots of casinos are concerned about this issue.

Featurespace is a small company with 15 employees. The company is currently looking for more software engineers to work further in software development for online casinos and other industries.

The software is supposed to work based on behavior patterns that it will look for. Analyzing statistics the program determines if behavior is normal or not and then shows if fraud is occurring.

Featurespace was slow at the beginning, but now it is booming, and it is likely that very soon e will hear more news about them.

More Bingo Side Games from Microgaming

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Microgaming has recently announced the release of a new set of bingo side games (the games that can be played while the bingo balls are being drawn) that include video slots, pub-style and table games.

New sophisticated in construction and graphical appeal games include The Rat Pack, Chain Mail, City of Gold, Diamond Sevens, Ski Bunny and Wheel of Riches.

Microgaming releasing new games every month increases the amount of new players and earns loyalty of already existing ones.

Australian Player Hits a Jackpot

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This time exciting news comes from the Royal Vegas internet gambling site: Chontel B., an Australian player won over AUD 26,000. It’s been the second great win in Chontel’s life. Previously the player took home $33,000 for playing in the Grand Slam of Slots tournament. It’s amazing, but two winnings have taken place in a couple of months apart!

It’s enjoyable to hear someone win, but please remember that there are lots of other great games and jackpot-winning opportunities still available at the Royal Vegas gaming site.

Nostalgia-Factor from Sega

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With the recently received license from Alderney, Sega Games Ltd. is setting its headquarters in Alderney. And now, it’s just a matter of months before the new online casiono and internet poker sites will ready to launch.

Sega Games powered gambling sites are known for bringing into the industry such characters as Sonic the Hedgehog and games like Sonic, House of the Dead and Virtual Fighter. After a deal with Playtech, Sega will have to launch and operate on the popular Playtech gaming platform. The deal will also let the sites to use Playtech’s already popular games.

New Tournament from Full Tilt poker is on its way

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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

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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.

English harbor receives 4 new online games

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Online casino named English harbour accepts American gamblers and Casinos which practice the same policy have to work hard to attract and keep American players interested. The solution is quite simple. They have either to held frequent tournaments with multiple bonuses or provide new games to the players.

This is the case with the English Harbour Casino. They have 4 new games which they are happy to provide to their visitors: The Reel Deal Slots game, Safari, Supermarket and Winter Wonderland. The games have been installed already, so everyone is welcome to try them out.

New players will be granted a 100% bonus up to $800. English harbour has been afloat for more than it takes to prove the responsible attitude and gain reputation of a fair gambling Casino.

For more information please visit the official site of the English Harbour Casino.

Best Protection for online customers guaranteed at 7 Sultans Online Casino

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Depositing funds to online gambling facilities always comes with a thought that your money may get lost on its way to your account.

This thought is unpleasant and scares away clients (players) who want to be confident and protected. 7 Sultans shows a bright example of customer care by constantly providing new security measures to protect its customers and their funds. No hacker attack is said to be able to steal private data or any other data that might somehow affect a user (player). Latest security technologies are involved into high tech entertainment company which offers a number of gambling rooms with multiple games of any kind.

To protect its visitors 7 Sultans have turned to a 128-bit-SSL Digital encryption to protect funds transaction from unauthorized access. Each player is provided with a separate password and a username which are required each time a user makes a transaction to withdraw the funds he/she gained while playing. All funds are immediately transferred to the account of a user through a highly reliable money transfer methods only to grant a truly reliable security fro every step a player makes.

Due to all the valuable steps 7 Sultans have performed the Casino has become one of the leading and most prosperous online gambling places with solid reputation and millions of players.