October 22, 2011
While the poker world is preoccupied with the Main Event at WSOP 2011, the online poker room PokerStars is chugging away. The tribulations of the recent months following Black Friday have slowed down the progress on the Road to 100 Billion, but have not deterred it from the path.
The next mega milestone on the road to 100 billion is 65 million. The payouts will begin from the 64.7 billionth hand. Thereafter every millionth hand milestone will award prizes to the participants in that hand with the 65 millionth hand awarding mega prizes.
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October 17, 2011
Oh yes! It’s fair to say that Wink Bingo has some cool Halloween stuff going on this month, and we’d like to draw your attention to the ‘Get Your Freak On this Halloween’ tourney. Wink Bingo has £500 of high street vouchers to win in this promotion which runs from the 13th until 31st October.
The aim of the game is to win points and become one of the top ten online bingo players on the point’s leader board.
Win points by
- Wagering at least £2 on an instant game 1 point
- Calling Bingo on number 66 2 points
- Calling Bingo on the Witches Hat or broom 2 points
- Wagering 50p on any 75 or 90 ball games 2 points
Check where you are (and all your roomie mates are) on the leader board at any given time at and just keep piling up those bingo points at Wink Bingo to be in with a chance of winning some high street vouchers.
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October 17, 2011
Time Tourneys are an innovative new type of online poker tournament available exclusively at PokerStars. Each Time Tourney works on a fixed time frame. Once the time is up, the prizepool is paid out according to the size of each player’s finishing chip stack. If you like your poker face-paced and action-packed then Time Tourneys are exactly what the doctor ordered. The idea behind Time Tourneys is simple as can be. All tournaments have a fixed time frame of between 15 minutes and 180 minutes. Once the time runs out, prizes are awarded to players as a function of the size of their chip stack. T Full article…
October 16, 2011
State officials in Nevada have put together a list of online gambling regulations. Some of the topics addressed in the regulation are requirements for registrations, proper methods for solving disputes, internal management procedures, licensing issues and requirements for applicants. Even though the Federal Government has not yet legalized online gambling officials in Nevada feel that they should have a draft of gambling guidelines already drawn up prior to the Feds official decision.
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October 14, 2011
Through the looking glass this time out, as we wrap up a busy week, checking in on a handful of mainstream pieces that have examined online pokers plight in recent days. The most important of these might have been a story in the called Poker Inc. to Uncle Sam: Shut Up and Deal, which offers a top-level view of the political battles shaping up in D.C. over online pokers possible future.
Its an important piece because of its large audience, not because of its groundbreaking information. In fact, the NYT piece doesnt offer a whole lot thats new, trotting out Black Friday (and Full Tilts Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer), the pressures poker players are playing on the political scene, and of course the requisite nutjob from the far right as usual, its Focus on the Family whackobean Chad Hills.
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October 10, 2011
Deciding on a pleasant vacation on the Mediterranean rather than slogging through the record setting field in Atlantic City, 2011 World Series of Poker November Niner Matt Giannetti made the most of his stay by winning the World Poker Tour stop at the Casino in Portomaso, Malta, early Sunday morning.
240 players stepped up to take on the challenge of this latest stop on the WPT European circuit, building a €720,000 prize pool from the €3000 buy ins. One
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September 28, 2011
The state of Florida is heavilty reliant on its tourism industry, so when the global economy flounders as it has the past several years, the Sunshine State is one of a handful of states that gets hit the hardest. The economy has made lawmakers take an alternate view of how to bring money into the ailing state budget. The biggest bill to come to the floor in terms of instant funding involves expanding casino gambling on a grand scale. Las Vegas-style casino resorts are being pushed in the latest gambling bill to be debated. Lawmakers have acknowledged that if it was not for the economy, the gambling bill would have little chance of passing.
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