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

August 31, 2007

September 1st, 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 15th. Advertising as the largest jackpot game in bingo, the jackpot prize will roll over till there is a winner.

    Score a Royal Flush with your pocket cards on any real-money Texas Holdem ring game at CarbonPoker.com and you will receive a bonus of 100 x the big blind!

    Written by Steve Vaughan · Filed Under Poker News 

    Elite Now Gets You 9% at Absolute Poker

    August 31, 2007

    APIf you are an Absolute Poker VIP player, starting September 1st 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

      Written by Steve Vaughan · Filed Under Online Gambling News 

      Dan Harrington Wins WPT Legends of Poker for $1.6 Million

      August 31, 2007

      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.

        Written by Lady4Flush · Filed Under Online Gambling News 

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

        August 30, 2007

        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.

          Written by Steve Vaughan · Filed Under Online Gambling News 

          More on Bodog.com errr NewBodog.com

          August 30, 2007

          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.

            Written by Lady4Flush · Filed Under Online Gambling News 

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