OnGame, the world’s 6th largest online poker network, has just brought on the largest sports betting exchange, Betfair. Though the biggest exchange betting site, Betfair has had little luck when it comes to the online poker arena. A sponsor of the World Series of Poker Europe, Betfair regularly lags in the number 16 spot of all Internet poker "real cash" ventures, just ahead of Bodog. They averaged just over 600 "real cash" players in the past 7 days. Betfair is scheduled to go live on Ongame Network’s P5 Poker Engine later this month, providing players with an enhanced gaming environment [ Read More ]
Amidst all the hustle and bustle at the Rio Hotel and Casino, site of this year’s World Series of Poker, the chaos was interrupted by orchestrated acts of kindness at this year’s Ante Up for Africa event. When the cards went up in the year, 83 players, which included a dazzling array of poker pros and Hollywood celebrities, plunked down $5,000 for this year’s cause, the crises in the country of Darfur. When it was all said and done, players had raised almost $300,000 for the cause. Prior to the tournament, there was a star-studded red carpet media session leading [ Read More ]
UB and PokerPlayersUnite.org join forces to support Crystal King on her road to recovery, and poker players can help Crystal and her young family with a small outlay of $10. UB.com and PokerPlayersUnite.org is teaming up for a second time in as many months to deliver another amazing ‘Second Sundays’ online fundraiser, this time to support the Crystal King Benefit Foundation ("CKBF"). The July 11th $10 buy-in event at UB.com is scheduled for 14:45 ET, and will be hosted by Amazing Race contestant and Team UB Pro Tiffany Michelle. UB will match 100% of the prize pool, with all proceeds [ Read More ]
British players continue to do well in World Series of Poker, with Steve Jelinek claiming a fifth gold bracelet for the Brits in event 41 of the 41st WSOP. Event 41 was a $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better competition entered Day 3 Thursday afternoon with15 players left from the initial entry field of 847, and by late that night after 12 hours of action only four players remained when level 29 started. Leading the field was Jelinek on 2,500,000 and John Gottlieb on 1,511,500, and that’s the way the heads up panned out after 12 hours of [ Read More ]
While many states are attacking and raiding Internet cafes, the state of New Hampshire has decided to take the idea and make it work for them. Starting July 1st, online gambling will be offered in the state where lawmakers recently rejected casino gambling. PlayNowNH will offer customers the opportunity to buy $100 worth of credit at lottery retailers. The gamblers may then take that credit and go online to pick which of the games they would like to play. The games all play out similar to scratch off tickets. The determination of a win or a loss is made when [ Read More ]
Bwin are known for their fearless innovation within the online gambling market, and recently have expressed this by taking out a majority shareholding in UnitedGames, the EU Massively Multiplayer Online Game developer & Publisher. This deal follows closely the recent deal carried out with Gioco Digitale, the Italian Poker & Casino operator and is Bwin’s first entry into the MMOG industry, giving Bwin access to UnitedGames profile of 17,000,000 players in over 178 countries. UnitedGames is based in the Netherlands and was founded in 2007 and provide marketing, translations, community support with localization services. Chief Executive Marjin Hanrick has commented [ Read More ]
Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin has scored a major coup and some formidable positioning in the Italian market following an agreement to acquire the Italian group Gioco Digitale. With hopes high for an imminent and positive regulatory system in Italy the agreement is especially valuable and significant. Closely held Gioco boasts it is Italy’s first independent online gaming site and offers mainly poker, betting and skill games, but there is clearly good potential for expansion into other genres under the Bwin banner. A timeframe for the takeover has yet to published, and the terms of the deal have not been [ Read More ]
Through 10 episodes, the 2009 WSOP has earned an average rating of .75, which translates to 741,311 household impressions. That is up about 3 percent from 2008′s .73 rating through this time period, which translated to 704,826 household impressions, according to ESPN. The real test will come with the "nearly live" World Series of Poker final to be played out and broadcast in November. What should be a blockbuster event thanks to the "Tiger Woods of Poker" making the cut, Phil Ivey, is anything but. So far, he’s a practical "no show" on the promo circuit. Michele Clayborne, who oversees [ Read More ]
Leading online poker room PokerStars.com has announced that its virtual school at PokerStars.net has signed up to be the official sponsor of the all-women High Heels Poker Tour (HHPT). Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the HHPT was created in 2007 to empower women that had a desire to become world-class poker players. Its next event, a $125 no re-entry poker tournament, will take place in Dania, Florida, at the Dania Jai-Alai from four o’clock in the evening local time. “PokerStars.net has all the attributes in an online partner that female players crave,” said Lauren Failla, Founder of the HHPT. “An [ Read More ]
Police in the small Utah city of Murray raided an Internet cafe on Sunday evening and arrested over 50 people on allegations that they were conducting and participating in illegal online gambling activities. The Murray City Police Department revealed that it had conducted several undercover operations at The Fortune Cyber Cafe in the Salt Lake City suburb since spring in cooperation of the Salt Lake County District Attorneys Office and stated that customers were playing various online slot games alongside poker and keno. Following the raid, police formally charged six employees while issuing 45 others with citations. Ironically, the owner [ Read More ]
