80-year-old patient, admitted to the VA Medical Center, shared his story of gambling activity of dasher and told The Daily News Journal that he loaned $ 1,500 to the quarterback. Oliver Donnell, the patient, told Daily News Journal that he has no talked to the police about the debt yet. He said police never contacted him regarding the issue as nothing has happen ever related to the issue. Read the rest of this entry »

The two leading names in the world of poker have merged up to provide you freerolls up to $70,000. Yes, Poker News along with William Hill Poker has recently revealed their partnership for bringing out the huge poker series offering cash freerolls up to $70,000, which include two major freerolls worth $20,000 each. Read the rest of this entry »

The “Poker in the Park” event organizers confirmed the appearance of some celebrities to speak at the lecture theatre. “Poker in the Park” is considered as the largest poker event held in Europe. The lecture theatre from the leading poker magazine, Bluff Europe will be held on September, 2 and 3, 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Titan Poker has always been an online poker site respected for their innovative promotions and the Summer Jackpot Race promotion that they currently have going to the end of the month is certainly no exception to that rule.

There are many different elements to the Summer Jackpot Races and the first two of these would be adaptations on themes already existing within other Titan Poker promotions.

The Fort Knox promotion has been revamped for the purposes of the Summer Jackpot Races, giving players the chance to enter sit and go tournaments that take the name of the famous fort of American gold. Any player that is able to win six Fort Knox tournaments in a row will get the progressive jackpot for them with the minimum jackpot amount having been set at $50,000. Even if you are unable to unlock the main jackpot, you still have a shot at getting a consolation prize as finishing in the top two in any six Fort Knox tournaments is worth $750.

The Titan Double tournament series is also being revamped for the Summer Jackpot Races as the two tournaments held each night will come with buy-ins of $6. Victory in both tournaments will unlock a progressive jackpot worth at least $1000.

Finally, Titan Poker will also be holding a points race on weekly and monthly time frames. You will be evaluated on your accumulation of points on the four-day period starting each Monday and ending each Thursday with up to 10 $500 prizes available over the course of that month. At the end of the month, $20,000 in prizes will also be split amongst the top 50 players in this race.

The present economical turbulence in the gambling industry seems to hit up each and every nooks and crannies of the industry. One such consequence of this crisis can be seen in the operating income downfall of one of the leading online gaming companies, the 888 Holdings plc. Read the rest of this entry »

Beverly Perdue, Governor of North Carolina, passed a bill into law banning the video sweepstakes games statewide, this Tuesday. It has been declared that this bill will come into effect from the first week of December, 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Want an all women poker league? You can have it now at PokerStars. The launch of the all women poker league at PokerStars is surely great news for all women poker players. Now the women have a chance to play and compete against fellow female poker players and will get the opportunity to win exciting prizes. Another aspect for which the women will be able to rejoice is the very low buy-ins.

The buy-in for the Women’s League of PokerStars starts at $5.5 and the league will continue for the rest of the year. The various winners of the league will be awarded points. At the end of every month, the players having the most number of points will be awarded the prizes. The same format will continue at the end of the year and the players with the most number of points at the year’s end will be winning fabulous prizes. The prizes include not only cash but also various types of Luxury Event Package for Ladies that the women players can win.

Every day, twice this tournament will be played. Once it will be played at 13.10 ET and again at 21.10 ET. The players will be given points which will start at 10 points for the ninth place holder and will go up to 20 points for the first place. The players will be able to receive prizes at the month’s end in two different ways, in Euros and US Dollars.

PokerStars will award prizes till the 50th position and the winners of every table can win up to $300 or 200 Euros. At the year’s end, PokerStars will be awarding the winners the high value cash prizes and the first place holder can win up to 1,000 Euros or $1,500 and the Luxury Ladies package. With a welcome bonus of 100% this is surely the best opportunity the women players can get for having fun and winning high value prizes.

The bill, titled H.R 2267 proposed by Barney Frank, the United States House Rep., has passed the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, with an impressive margin of 41 Ayes and 22 Nays along with a ‘present vote’ by Representative Ron Paul.

Although the bill for regulating Internet Gambling, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act still has to cover large distances to finally get the approval by President Barack Obama, this passage is definitely one of the most significant steps towards the ultimate destination.

After this committee voting, next the bill will go to the House of Representative. There, it needs to collect a significantly good margin of votes in order to proceed further. Then, H.R 2267 will need an impressive vote margin in the upper house of U.S congress, the Senate. The bill can be amended further during the whole process of turning it into a law.
This progress is a huge footstep towards victory for all those American citizens, who want the online gambling to be regulated and legalized by the government of United States.

After several hours of discussions, many amendments were being filed by the representatives present at the event on Wednesday. Some of the most important amendments include different conditions. There must be some technology that should be implemented in order to keep the minors away from online gambling, security against any kind of fraud, constraints on up to what extent a player can put money on online gambling, loss compensation, disallowing credit cards and many more.

The voting decision was praised by several people including the Poker Player’s Alliance Chairman, Alfonse D’Amato. He expressed his satisfaction over this passage of H.R 2267 by the House Financial Services Committee. He also mentioned that it is better to regulate this Consumer Protection Act than making the U.S people to play on the non legalized websites.

Annie Duke, the poker icon, has emphasized on the legitimization of the online poker this Wednesday. According to Duke, it is much safer to play poker games over the internet than playing it in the brick and mortar casino halls. Read the rest of this entry »

HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. (HDUP) along with Canadian Poker Tour (CPT) Operators and the Canadian Poker Player Magazine recently announced the large increase in the administration revenues and company sponsorship contracts. This is definitely a remarkable achievement for the various marketing schemes employed by the CPT. Read the rest of this entry »