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UK Online Gambling Advertising Starts Now (UK White List – Gambling Act of 2005)

September 1^st, the UK Gambling Act 2005 will take effect and all the online gambling sites are gearing up for the new UK gambling laws. This piece of new legislation will be updating laws from as far back as 1845!

The new laws will relax the restrictions on advertising for gambling and according to the government will protect vulnerable people especially children, cut crime and keep games fair. Casinos, bookmakers and casino and online poker websites are preparing to start running gambling advertising as early as Saturday.

All UK gambling advertisements must closely follow the policy set by the Advertising Standards Authority and also operators have volunteered to a 9pm cut off point for commercials for their gambling services unless they are shown around a sporting event.

The new UK Gambling Act 2005 will affect not only effect casinos and online gambling websites, but all forms of gambling in the UK including arcades, betting, bingo and gambling in pubs and clubs. It gives local licensing officers the power to visit local gambling sites to inspect and enforce the new requirements.

Another change that the Gambling Act will enact is that bingo halls no longer have to return 100% of its stakes back as prize money. They can now hold some back and offer rollover prizes. As a result, the National Bingo Game is launching a new £1 million jackpot game called the Big N starting September 15^th. Advertising as the largest jackpot game in bingo, the jackpot prize will roll over till there is a winner.

Elite Now Gets You 9% at Absolute Poker

If you are an Absolute Poker VIP player, starting September 1^st you have even more of a reason to keep a balance in your account. Absolute’s Elite VIP members will earn a huge 9% interest per annum on their AP account balance with this new interest bearing account feature.

David Clainer, Senior Vice President at AP stated that, “We’ve taken the Elite level of our VIP program from rewarding to extraordinarily lucrative. Why withdraw when you can build your bankroll in interest alone?”

The 9% is based on the poker player’s daily balance and it requires that the balance held at the online poker site to be greater than $1,000 and the maximum eligible balance is $500,000.

The VIP program is made up of three tiers: VIP, Platinum and Elite. To work your way up through these tiers a poker player must earn 5,000, 20,000 and 40,000 VIP points respectively. Each month the player must also earn a certain number of points to maintain the VIP status.

Beside the new 9% interest on your account balance, Elite VIP members also enjoy:

• $200 in pending blackjack cash, plus additional pending blackjack cash based on play
• $50 in pending poker cash just for maintaining status, plus additional pending poker cash based on play
• A $50 poker tournament entry of player’s choice or a $50 blackjack match play
• 3 times as many Absolute Reward Points as a regular member
• The highest exchange rate in Absolute Poker’s Points for Cash program
• An Elite VIP host dedicated to handling their account
• Front of the line service on payouts and deposits

Dan Harrington Wins WPT Legends of Poker for $1.6 Million

The World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker final table shaped up to be a legendary poker table indeed. This years WPT Legends of Poker was held at the Bicycle casino in Los Angeles California, with an all star final table that consisted of the following great poker players beginning at seat one, and making our way around the table.

WPT Legends of Poker Final 6

1. Shi jia “Jack” Liu: $1,305,000
2. Dan Harrington: $2,230,000
3. Tom Schneider: $3,495,000
4. Thu Nguyen: $1,475,000
5. David “The Dragon” Pham : $70,000
6. Michael McClain: $725,000

According to Poker.com these six poker players, have together sat at six World Poker Tour final tables, and hold six World Series of Poker Bracelets, add those two sixes together, and the fierce group at this table has earned 12 Million dollars collectively throughout their poker playing career’s.

Legends of Poker Highlights

- Shi Jia “Jack” Liu doubled up both Mick McClain and David Pham. Liu now moves all in, not a caller in the house.

-Play continues, until Pham raises preflop – middle position, and Liu pushes all in over the top of him from the button, for three way action, Harrington raises the pot again from the small, $750,000.

Pham throws his cards into the muck, Liu turns over AJ, Harrington shows pocket ladies. The flop, J55, Liu made a pair of Jacks, but is still beat by Harrington’s bigger pair of queens, the turn comes a six, the river a four, both blanks. Harrington wins the hand – 2 pair, Queens and 5’s, Liu wins 6th place, for a win of $137,175.

- Thu Nguyen raised to $200,000, Michael McClain re-raises from his small blind to $600,000, Nguyen pushes back over the top, all in.

McClain makes the call throwing in an additional $1,045,000 in chips and showing Ace Queen. Nguyen turns over the hooks, pocket jacks. The flop ads a bit of excitement to the mix, King, Jack, deuce. A set for Nguyen, a Gutshot straight draw for McClain. The turn card was another two, giving Nguyen a boat, leaving McClain drawing dead. The river a 4. Nguyen jacks take down the pot, McClain takes down 5th place, and $182,900.

60 hands later. . .

Schneider is first to act, and pushes all of his chips into the middle of the table. ‘All in’, for 1.7 Million in chips. Pham makes the call, pocket kings in the small blind. Schneider is a bit behind with Ace 9. The flop is dealt Jack, ten, 9, the turn card, another ten, the river a six, pretty much all blanks for Schneider, who took 4th place, and $228,625.

Pham playing a pretty good strong aggressive raise, pushed the pot up before the flop, Nguyen re-raised, moving all of his chips into the pot from big blind position, a little more than one million in chips in total. Pham considered for awhile, he made the call, AQ. Nguyen was trailing with A5, the dealer was no help, Pham took down the pot with the better kicker, Nguyen took 3rd place, bringing the WPT Legends of Poker to heads up play, and taking home $388,660.

Pham Begins heads up play the chipleader with $5,805,000. Harrington starts out with a bit shorter chipstack, at $3,895,000.

They pushed back and forth, getting into a few confrontations, passing chips to one another. ‘The Dragon’ lost some big hands, became crippled, then… doubled his stack back up twice through Harrington.

Finally, Pham limped, the big blind was $300,000.00 Harrington checked it. The dealer brought 10, 5, 4. Harrington bet $400,000. Pham made the call. The turn was an Ace, Harrington lead the betting again, $1 Million in chips, Pham appears to think he’s slow playing Harrington, he pushes all in over the top with bottom pair.

Harrington calls pretty quickly, with both bottom pair.. and top pair. Pham’s drawing dead.

Dan Harrington won the 2007 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker raking in a $1,634,865 prize, in addition to a $25,000 buy in seat for the World Poker Tour Championship, and a seat to the 2008 WPT Legends of Poker.

Pham took down 2nd place, for a little over eight hundred thousand dollars.

Aussie Poker Player Hits $800K Plus Absolute Poker Bad Beat Jackpot

Well, the anticipation is over, the record breaking $821,670 bad beat jackpot at the online poker site Absolute Poker has been won. Wednesday, an Australian poker player (KADI) got the bad beat jackpot but all at the table shared in the bonanza.

This is the biggest bad beat jackpot ever recorded eclipsing the previous mark set by Party poker at $739,621.

A bad beat is a term poker players used when a favored hand is beat by a better hand. In this case, KADI’s ten high straight flush lost to a king high straight flush. Normally even the best poker players in the world would have a hard time dealing with such a hand but the losing had this time won the majority of the jackpot, $267,042.97. That will go a long way in getting emotionally over losing the hand.

The winner of the hand received $133,521.48 and the other seven poker players at the table each received $33,380.37. Not a bad way to end a night of online poker playing!

For those of us that missed out on the AP bad beat jackpot, it has been reset at $215,000. According to Absolute Poker, with $.50 collected from each qualifying hand at a bad beat table, the jackpot is increasing at an average of $2,000 per hour.

More on Bodog.com errr NewBodog.com

Bodog lost their domain name (website address), www.bodog.com and www.bodog.net among affiliate domains and other various gambling website addresses, it seems that Bodog Fight and Bodog Beat were originally not effected. They’re gone now though.

Untangling what actually took place has taken a bit of time, as Bodog originally thought it to be a DNS error, in fact, more details are being discovered as time passes.

A Washington State judge ordered Bodog.com’s registrar to remove the website due to a patent infringement claim filed, and won by 1st Technology LLC. Some say the infringement is laughable, and patents on any portion of the concept of gambling online, is unenforceable and just another attack by the United States on online gambling.

As an Oregonian, I must say, I do wonder with all of Washington’s attention to online gambling… How DO they find they find the time to keep those highways so tidy!

On the 1st day of August 2007, a Superior Court Judge in King County Washington ruled that Bodog was infringing upon the patent rights of 1st Technology LLC, in the matter of 1st Technology LLC VS Bodog ENT Group S.A.

Bodog failed to show up in court, and was cited for the offense, though it really does seem they were completely unaware. Some say that perhaps they were aware, yet not willing to step on US soil after such aggressive legislation and enforcement tactics have already been displayed in the US so recently.

However, didn’t Bodog just have a pretty big presence at the 2007 WSOP, with their bus, the Calvin Ayre tryouts.. etc?

In the midst of all of this, Bodog Poker and Calvin Ayre would like to welcome you to their new home, www.newbodog.com. The site where the word Bodog, according to Calvin Ayre is still in use, as it is legally trademarked, which might just make things a bit sticky for the new owners of those confiscated domains.

Further Details Of Bodog Entertainment’s Plight

A $48.6 million default judgment obtained by a Las Vegas company against Bodog Poker in a patent infringement case kept the online giant out of service on Monday and Tuesday. Bodog established a new website which is almost identical to the first and was back to operational by Tuesday afternoon.

Though a news release stated that it was a dispute of the owner ship of bodog.com and a confident Calvin Ayres claiming that they are fighting the dispute and would win, no other details were brought forth.

According to Nevada court documents, 1st Technology LLC of Las Vegas obtained the judgment on June 14^th against Bodog Entertainment Group S.A., Bodog.net and Bodog.com. This was after a period in which Bodog failed to answer allegations that the software used by Bodog players infringed upon 1st Technology’s patents.

One of the speculations is that since the US Department of Justice started arresting online gambling executives that Bodog representatives will not come onto American soil thus not answering to allegations which lead to the judgment and shut down.

1st Technology has been steadily closing in on Bodog, which was run out of Costa Rica but now based in Antigua. 1st Technology lawyer Kristopher Rath complained that, despite the default judgment, Bodog “continues to act with impunity in the United States.”

“The Bodog entities infringing activities are responsible for over $65 billion in cumulative transactions to date, with approximately two-thirds of this revenue currently being derived from infringing United States activities,” he said.

Bodog Still Operating Fully

Yesterday Bodog Entertainment encountered DNS issues related to several of its websites including Bodog Poker and Bodog Casino. As a result, it is directing customers to an alternate site (www.newbodog.com) with little or no interruption to service. “These problems are the result of a legal dispute over the ownership of the Bodog.com domain name. We are fighting this dispute and are confident that we will win,” said Peter Theodoropoulos from the Bodog team.

“We are having difficulties related to our DNS registration but in little more than 12 hours, nearly all aspects of the website have been updated to reflect the environment our clients are accustomed to,” says Bodog founder Calvin Ayre. “We are working to resolve any of the minor remaining glitches on the alternate site, but other than that it is business as usual.”

Calvin Ayre reiterates, “We are fighting this dispute and are confident that we will win. I sincerely apologize to any customers affected by our interruption and will continue to provide updates as they become available.”

Gilbert Man is State Poker Champ

Andreas Foulias of Gilbert was named new State Poker Champion of Casino Arizona on Aug. 19. Foulias won a $250,000 cash pot as well as a championship ring and trophy. The event was a No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament.

“I haven’t realized what’s happened yet, but I know I will be really excited tomorrow,” said Foulias after winning. “I’ve been playing poker for 45 years and play every day at Casino Arizona because it’s the best place in the state for poker,” he also stated.

Foulias competed against more then 450 players of all skill levels. The event was a No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament.

When asked what he plans to do with his winnings, he replied, “Play poker!”

The Arizona State Poker Championship tournament started the semifinal tables on Saturday at 9AM. It started with 450 players and continued until there were only 20 left for the final two tables. The final players returned Sunday at 11AM to compete for the championship and a $500,000 prize pool. Cash was awarded to the top 45 players.

1st Place = $250,000, trophy, and championship ring

2nd Place = $100,000 and a trophy

3rd place = $50,000 and a trophy

The final six players competed on Sunday in the Signals Lounge at Casino Arizona, Loop 101 and Indian Bend Road, during a live taping for a special edition of We’ve Got Your Game.

The special edition of the weekly sports show will air on KPNX Channel 12 today August 28,2007 at 3 p.m.

Part 2 of the State Poker Championship will air on KPNX on Sept. 1 at 4 p.m., following Notre Dame football.

“The Casino Arizona State Championship was a huge success and has, in just three years, become a favorite event for poker lovers,” said Kent Odekirk

Everest Poker UK Amateur Football Poker Sponsorship Freeroll Tournament Announced

The winner of the Everest Poker UK Amateur Football Sponsorship Poker FreeRoll Tournament will win an entire years sponsorship for their favorite UK amateur football team, from  Everest Poker, I expect this type of thing from Bodog Poker, it’s new and refreshing to see Everest jumping out of the box and going beyond the norm.

The unique prize is currently available only to UK Poker players, due to the nature of the prize I’m sure. The tournament is being held in association with BLAPO, who only allow players that reside in the United Kingdom.

The tournament comes at the perfect time, as the amateur football season in the UK is just a bout to kickoff, knowing as much, Jonathan May said, “With the amateur football season about to start, we thought it was a perfect time to offer something like this to our dedicated UK players,” as the Everest Poker Property Manager he went on to say, “If you’re a fan of British or Scottish amateur football, then you can help your favorite team out in a way they’ll really appreciate!”

The freeroll tournament is set to begin August 31st this year (right around the corner!) and will begin at 20:00 GMT. The winner will receive football gear that will outfit their favorite team, the gear is worth $1000.

NOTE: Though this is a freeroll tournament, one must make a deposit to enter, for inclusion in the tournament enter the bonus code FOOTBALL07 as you make your deposit.

Party Poker 300k Sunday Guaranteed – Results

Party Poker held their usual Sunday 300k guaranteed poker tournament this week, hosting 1,423 online poker players, this was about 100 more players or so than gathered for last weeks game. The top 200 players in the game were paid, with just short of 200k paid out among the top ten tournament finishers.

dswdo made his second appearance in three weeks at the Sunday 300k guaranteed tournament and came to play, within a few minutes, as he began using his chipstack (the largest at the table) and eliminated kooi116 and Play_for_shoes, both went to the rail after their 2nd hand of poker at the final table. dswdo held Big Slick off suite, as did Kooi116 and.. believe it or not… Play_for_shoes, however, the board came spade, club spade, runner runner spade, guess who held the Ace of Spades. After finishing the amazing hand, and winning with big slick offsuit against TWO players, with big slick off suite, dswdo said “A little luck helps,”

The next exit was made by Rambo5 who found himself all in with pocket queens, generally a good spot to be, when you’re up against the pocket aces of jamiejackpot, not so much.

Lagas65 made 5th place, was AK off suit was shot down by A5 also off suit, the dealer brought the five on the flop, so Lagas won’t even be able to tell an ‘on the river’ story today.

6th place went to squashball, who put his money into the pot with pocket 8’s against Ace King offsuit held by EdKaddet, the ace of clubs and the King of Diamonds. The flop came:

7 of Spades
3 of hearts
6 of spades

The turn was the Queen of clubs, all blanks so far things were looking good for squashball! However it looks like he will be able to tell a … on the river.. story today, the king of spades made its way into the game on the river and  sent him to the rail.

Now dswdo takes out his 3rd final table player, Tompengpung1 who finished up with pocket queens against a set of sevens.

In a flurry of action, 3rd place and 4th place were claimed two hands a row, first dswdo took out Edkaddet, dswdo held a8 off, against EdKaddet’s A4 suited, hearts. Edkaddet lost that hand, and won 4th place, the next hand, down to three, Masha3431 holds ace deuce against jamiejackpots pocket 10’s. No help for Masha3431 and heads up play was officially underway.

That last hand gave jamiejackpot a small lead in chops, but dswdo was pretty quick in snatching that lead back. The two played heads up back and forth for less than five minutes, with dswdo really playing some strong aggressive poker. dswdo hit a straight on the river in the final hand, beating out jamiejackpots two pair, 7’s and 5’s. dswdo is this weeks Party poker $300,000.00 guaranteed champion.

Final Table payouts and standings:

1. $60,000:  dswdo
2. $33,000:  jamiejackpot
3. $20,700:  Masha3431
4. $16,350:   EdKaddet
5. $13,800:  Tompengpung1
6. $10,350:  squashball
7. $7,950:    Lagas65
8. $5,250:    Rambo5
9. $4,050:    kooi116
10. $2,850:    Play_for_shoes

Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot Near $700,000

The poker tables at Absolute Poker are filling up fast especially after the popular online poker site announced that their current Bad Beat Jackpot is quickly approaching $700,000.

Early Monday morning, the Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot promotion had reached $667,000. With $0.50 collected from each qualifying hand at the special Texas Holdem bad beat jackpot tables, that number is growing by an average of $2,000 per hour.

The huge jackpot eclipses Absolute Poker’s own record of $464,652.03.

The next player to lose a hand holding four 8s or anything better will win a large piece of the jackpot. The winner in the bad beat hand will also share in the jackpot. Then yet another portion goes to everyone who is sitting at the table.

With bad beat tables starting as low as $.25/$.50, every poker player no matter what bankroll can have a chance to hit it big at Absolute Poker.

Full Tilt Online Poker $750,000 Guarenteed Weekly Tournament Results 8-27-07

Nearly 4,000 poker players showed up to play the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed prize pool tournament this week. Even with this large number of players though, they barely covered the tournaments guaranteed prize, with a total prize pool of $756,800.00. The poker tournament paid out a total of 522 winning players, with first place paying out $133,991.44.

TAHUR5 came to final table as the chip leader, holding a two to one chip lead over NCSUBODOG, who became the first player to make his way from the final table of the tournament, to the rail… via bad beat. NCSUBODOG held the dreaded rockets, all in against Martine23’s pocket kings.

Everything went as one would expect on the flop, aces ahead, Martime23 likely cursing the bad luck that dealt him Kings to Aces. His fate was quick to change though, when the King of clubs fell on the river, crippling NCSUBODOG. He made some failed efforts at re accumulating his lost chips until his AQ off suite came up against spirit619’s pocket queens. The ladies took down the pot, NCSUBODOG finished the tournament in 9th place winning $10,141.12.

southside1 makes a move, he pushes all of his chips to the middle with a big ace, the Ace of Spades, with the Jack of Hearts. He doesn’t just get called, both Sugar D and spirit619 make the call. spirit619 turns over pocket sixes, Sugar D flips over Suited K7 – hearts. The flop 5D, 6S 3H giving sugar his set of 6’s. The turn was blank, and the river, the Ave of hearts came to little and to late to help southside1 who went out in 8th place for a $13,622.40 win.

SlmPickens busted Martine23’s pocket tens sending him to the rail, with a flush. Shortly thereafter he found himself looking at another pair of pocket tens. SlmPickens held an Ace of Diamonds , 4 of clubs for a kicker and was all in. spirit619 had the tens, and Sugar D who also had all his chips in the pot, showed pocket sixes.

spirit619 had both all in players covered. The flop:

3 of Spades
3 of Clubs
4 of Hearts

This improved SlmPickens hand a bit, giving him a pair of 4’s but he still had some work cut out for him to win the hand, needing another 4, or an ace to avoid the trip to the rail.

The turn and river, both Kings, no help to either al in player, spirit619 takes them both out, one shot, and pulls in the pot, two pair, tens and kings.

And then there were three.

pokachump chopped spirit619 down in third place, leaving pokachump and TAHUR5 to battle it out heads up. 20 minutes of push and pull ensued. pokachump held the chip lead, when heads up play began, but it was a slight lead and TAHUR5 took it. They passed chips, and the chiplead back and forth, and then things got interesting. The board held the eight and nine of spades and the five of hearts. Both players flopped big hands. TAHUR5 got top two with 8’s and 9’s, and pokachump flopped a straight, the nut straight.

Both players dumped their money into the pot, TAHUR5 didn’t make a boat, the straight held up, and pokachump took 1st place in the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 tournament raking in $133,991.44.

Full Tilt Poker Final Table Payouts:

1. $133,991.44: pokachump
2. $80,977.60: TAHUR5
3. $52,976: spirit619
4. $41,775.36: Sugar D
5. $31,331.52: SlmPickens
6. $23,233.76: Martine23
7. $17,406.40: sanex21
8. $13,622.40: southside1
9. 10,141.12: NCSUBODOG

US Student Wins First Leg in Asia Pacific Poker Tour

Brett Parise, a university student from Indiana, won the first round of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Manilia Monday. He won $180,000 and a place in December’s grand final in Sydney. Parise was the youngest player in the final nine. More then 200 players from 30 different countries had started in the three day event.

Joe Hachem, World Series of Poker Champion in 2005, and Vanessa Rousso, a star from the American Poker Circuit were eliminated the first day. Parise had been playing poker since he was 18 and won his seat in the tour through a free online competition.

All nine finalists shared a pool of $500,000 in prize money. Parise said he saw the game as a good way of making money but he doubted whether he would take it up full time. “I’ll finish my degree but I don’t have any idea what I will do after that. I like poker but it won’t be my life,” he stated.

The next leg of the APPT takes place in Seoul in September and two other venues in Asia yet to be decided before finishing up in Sydney.

Tuff Fish Petition: Sandstrom’s Online Poker Petition In California

Anthony “Tuff Fish” Sandstrom, professional poker player and supporter of legalizing online poker in the United States, started up a petition on July 27, 2007, to initiate a state-run online poker site for residents of California.

Sandstrom was given approval for the petition by the Secretary of State, certifying that the petition, should it gain 430,000 signatures from California residents before Christmas, will provide voters with the option of approving a state-run online poker site on the voting ballots come February, 2008.

The petition has received some criticism from industry experts, as well as opposition from California’s land-based gaming industry. Casinos across the state are not exactly eager to compete with stay-at-home poker gaming. The California State Lottery has failed to express an over-joyed opinion of the proposed competition as well.

Should Sandstrom succeed in fetching the required signatures, and should the voting public of California approve the legalization of a state-run online poker room, the state itself would stand to benefit entirely from any profits derived from the venture. The revenue would be split accordingly; 80% allocated to city roadwork, 10% to unincorporated county roadwork, and 10% to the prevention and assistance of problem gambling.

Titan Poker Winter “European Championship of Online Poker” to Commence in November 2007

Titan Poker has announced 10 days of tournament frenzy beginning on November 30th!

Titan has announced that the European Championship of Online Poker will commence on November 30th, 2007. The ECOOP will feature $2.5 Million in guaranteed prizes. The event is promised to be one of the largest online poker events held in the winter of 2007. The Main Event itself carries a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million this event will be held on December 9th.

4flush will be covering each of the events as they happen, so stay here for future updates!

Tournament Schedule:

Date/Time (GMT): Buy In: Poker Game: Guarantee:
Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. $200+$15 No-Limit Hold’em $150,000
Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. $100+$9 Omaha Hi-Lo R/A $100,000
Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. $250+$18 No-Limit Hold’em $250,000
Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. $100+$9 Pot-Limit Omaha R/A $100,000
Dec. 4 at 7 p.m. $750+$50 No-Limit Hold’em $200,000
Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. $200+$15 No-Limit Hold’em (6 player) $150,000
Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. $200+$15 Limit Hold’em $100,000
Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. $100+$9 No-Limit Hold’em R/A $250,000
Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. $250+$18 Pot-Limit Omaha $100,000
Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. $1,000+$60 No-Limit Hold’em $1,000,000

In addition to large cash prizes, winners will also receive an ECOOP bracelet following along in the tradition of the WSOP. Those players placing in the top 50 throughout the series will be entered into an exclusive Titan freeroll that will take place the day after the last event winner has taken down his prize.

Poker Players that opt to buy in to ECOOP events can expect to pay $100 + the $9 fee, additionally, entry is available via Sit and Go style tournaments, and larger multi-table tournament style satellite games, allowing players to play in the big games for as little as the $2.20 s’n'g buy in!

Dealerless Poker Tables – Novelty Wearing off in Detroit Michigan

I was originally against computerized dealerless poker tables, however, I’ve been reading about them, players reactions to them, and casino’s responces, and I’ve changed my mind, a bit. It would seem there is a following for them. When the PokerPro table was first installed at Greektown Casino in DT Michigan, there was a line, to get on the waiting list.

These new poker tables were hot items! However, it would seem they have cooled off a bit, however, they have created a new visitor group for land based casinos. These new casino goers are primarily the youngest folks allowed in the casino. They’re ‘online poker players’ they want the game to move, quickly, and the computerized dealer helps that happen.

MotorCity Spokeswoman Jacci Woods says “It is very popular; however, it is a unique market,” and much to the relief of traditional poker fans, “It doesn’t seem to pull from our traditional players at all.”

Slot Glitch Pays Out $450K

This slot machine kept paying and paying for months.

The Twin Rivers casino in Lincoln had a video lottery terminal with a glitch and for two months gave gamblers credit for double the money they put in. This lottery glitch cost an erroneous pay out of $450,115 over that time period.

The machine supplied by Gtech, was removed on July 15th only 51 days after it was installed. Gtech reimbursed the state and is currently investigating whether there may have been criminal activity, whether it could get back any of the lost money and/or whether they could have discovered the error sooner.

According to Gtech spokesman, Robert Vincent, the machine has a money doubling feature and it was turned on, apparently by accident. This feature doubles the credit up to $100 for the amount a player puts in.

Of the reimbursed money the state will keep $274,000 and the rest will be shared by Twin Rivers, the town of Lincoln and Gtech.
There was a similar incident last summer at a Caesars Indiana casino. That machine due to it not being designed for U.S. currency, credited $10 for every $1 inserted, according to State Police that cost Caesars $487,000.

Some of the two dozen gamblers at the Caesars Indiana that played on the faulty machine returned the money to the casino after being contacted.

Absolute Poker Releases New Poker Software

You can now get a free update of Absolute Poker popular online poker software.

Absolute Poker released today its newest Version 8.0 software to all its players. This version gives players the utmost flexibility to customize many aspects of their playing environment.

Senior V.P. Dave Clainer says, “We’ve officially unleveled the online poker playing field. Our players have asked for innovative features and we’re thrilled to deliver them all in this release.”

After months of coding and design enhancements, Version 8.0 makes the site more attractive to the original players and the potential players looking for a better online poker site to play on said Clainer. The new features include:

• New cutting-edge graphics
• Three table views to choose from
• Faster card dealing
• New poker room menus and displays
• Re-sizable tables
• One-click table arrangement and alignment
• Easier to play more than one table at once
• Additional mouse functionalities

Current players will be able to update the software as soon as the sign in again.

Now Transfers Funds Between Absolute Poker and UltimateBet

If you wanted to play poker at a casino and decided to walk across the street to another to try their tables, you cash out at the cashier and cash in at new casino, quick and no fees. Online poker is not that quick or even convenient, until now.

Absolute Poker and UltimateBet announced a new partnership that will change the way online poker cashiers operate. You can now transfer funds across the two online poker sites without incurring any process fees.

In a joint statement, “We’re opening the doors between two of the most popular poker rooms, our new payment option allows funds to seamlessly flow from one poker room to the other,” said George MacLean from UltimateBet and David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker.

Players with accounts can move there money from both sites instantly without having to make a new deposit. Clainer and MacLean note that the system really comes in handy when a promotion or tournament on UltimateBet catches the eye of an Absolute Poker player or vice versa.

Full Tilt Offers Self Exclusion

Full Tilt has taken a huge step towards a stance on responsible online gambling. No pressure, no lawsuits, no big articles recently on online gambling addictions on Full Tilt Poker. Through no major malfunctions, Full Tilt Poker has made the choice to allow online poker players the option of banning themselves.

Full Tilt isn’t the only online gambling site to offer the service, Sportsbook.com for instance also offers a self exclusion option. The way this works at Full Tilt Poker:

If you have a gambling problem, or perhaps you just think you’ve been spending a bit to much cash online lately, or have been putting aside responsibilities for online poker. Whatever the reason, if you think you need a break, but don’t necessarily trust yourself to listen to that little voice inside your head that’s yelling “Turn Off the Computer Man!! We’re Freakin’ BROKE!”.

Just tell the folks at Full Tilt Poker how long you’d like your account to be banned, and wallah, break time buddy. This might be good for me, I don’t gamble to much persay, I don’t gamble huge stakes, but I do generally have a table open, just image the amount of writing I could get done … hehe .. naw, never mind, bad idea, and as for this article.. it’s my big blind..

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