Full Tilt Poker Awards Bounties for Busting its Team of Pros
May 14, 2008
Win Your Buy-in Back Up to $200 for Each Pro You Send to the Rail
Full Tilt Poker started offering its Knockout bounty tournaments recently, but the site has had prices on the heads of its red-named sponsored pros for quite some time. Players have a chance to win their buy-ins back in virtually any scheduled multitable tournament on Full Tilt through this ongoing promotion — which goes along quite nicely with the bragging rights.
Full Tilt Heads-Up World Championship
May 12, 2008
While the FTOPS VIII are still running strong, Full Tilt Poker already announced the next High Roller Event. The $25,000 Heads-Up World Championship will take place on May 24th - 25th.
With an incredible buy-in of $25,000 Full Tilt Poker wants to entice the absolute high rollers to an elite event held only a week after the current Full Tilt Poker Series.
64 players at the most may participate in the championship. Already signed up are Jennifer Harman, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer and host and reigning NBC NHUPC champion Chris “Jesus” Ferguson. Such an event is probably a one of its kind tournament in the history of online poker and will certainly attract countless railbirds.
People for whom the buy-in price tag is set too high, still have about two weeks to qualify via one of numerous satellites for this monster event.
More information about this spectacle can be found at Full Tilt Poker: $25K Heads-Up World Championship
$15 Million Invested Into Legal US Online Poker Room
May 8, 2008
When the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was passed in late 2006 by the US government, online poker operators located in the United States went running for the hills, relocating their offices to legal jurisdictions. Most cut off US players as well, resulting in what was supposed to be a dead US market.
What really happened was that online poker players in the US found other online poker rooms that would continue to accept their deposits. While these are steadily dwindling in numbers - ePassporte just cut off their payment processing services between US residents and online gambling operators - one online poker room remained behind.
Titan VIP Loyalty Race
May 6, 2008
Until May 10th our partner Titan Poker hosts the VIP Loyalty Races with a prize pool of $30.000!
The prize money of the Titan Poker VIP Loyalty Races will be divided up like this:
$16.000 for Diamond & Titanium players
$10.000 for Platinum and Gold
$4.000 for Silver
Each of the three groups has thus its own competition with individual rankings.
The more you play, the higher you climb in the ranking. How exactly does this work? “The players will be evaluated according to a unique points/race system, which will determine the players’ average activity in cash games and tournaments.”
$6.000 for the Diamond/Titanium winner
In the highest VIP Loyalty Race the winner will net $6.000, the runner-up will receive $2.500 and the third place ends up with $1.500. In the Platinum/Gold Race the winner receives $3.600, and in the Silver Race $1.500.
Two Players Chop the PokerStars Sunday Million
May 5, 2008
A total of 7,001 players entered the PokerStars Sunday Million creating a prize pool of just over $1.4 million. When the players began play at the final table the chips were fairly evenly distributed with five players having above 10 million but as play progressed it was Iron Henry who would begin to accumulate and come out on top – after he and his heads-up opponent, ShankingYou, would agree to an even chop. Here’s how the final table played out:
Seating assignments and chip counts when final table play began:
Poker players, Frank hope to overturn online ban
May 4, 2008
WASHINGTON — The odds might not be in his favor, but U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., has gained a valuable ally in his fight to overturn a 2006 law banning online gambling. Poker Players Alliance, a grass-roots organization fighting for poker players’ rights, has put its chips on Rep. Frank’s proposal.
With more than 1 million members, the alliance in mid-April began actively lobbying Congress. Members have flooded congressional offices with more than 17,000 letters in the past month, attended town hall meetings in districts and flown to Washington to meet with lawmakers, according to John Pappas, executive director of the alliance. There are 25,000 members in Massachusetts alone.
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NETeller and Canada
April 28, 2008
The NETELLER Group announced several significant changes to its services in a number of markets. Recent actions by regulators, payment processors, and online gaming operators have increased the uncertainty around certain activities related to online gambling in some jurisdictions. The Board of Directors of the Company reached a decision, on 25 March 2007, that the risk to the Group’s ongoing business in Canada and Turkey has increased in the light of such developments. The Board has therefore concluded that the Group will no longer process transfers related to online gambling sites on behalf of Canada or Turkey resident customers.
Reduced Service to Canada
* Cessation of Canadian transfers to gambling merchants: the Group will cease processing online gambling related transactions for Canada-resident customers with effect from 12.01 AM MST Monday 9 April 2007.
* Suspension of InstaCASH transactions: As of today Monday 26 March 2007, at 12:01 AM MST, Canada-resident customers were no longer able to deposit funds using NETELLER’s instaCASH service either directly or from any online gambling site.
* Non-gambling services continue: Canada-resident customers will continue to be able to use their e-wallet accounts for non-gambling transactions, including peer-to-peer and pre-paid debit transactions.
* Available customer funds: Customer funds, including those of Canadian residents, are held in a pooled, segregated trust account and will be available for withdrawal by customers, on demand. Canadian customers continue to be able to use their e-wallet accounts for non-gambling transactions
Well, that’s the official story. But Canadian Players should NOT panic. You have time to get your money out, if you so desire. And don’t forget that lots of rooms continued operations in the US after NETeller pulled out - these rooms WILL continue to serve the Canadian market.
Titan Poker Gives its New Depositors a Ticket to Freerolls to Win Great Electronics
March 14, 2008
At Titan Poker all you have to do is make your first deposit, and a digital product of your choice could be yours! Just make your first deposit at Titan Poker and you’ll get a free entry to one of the 5 freerolls played every week for new depositors. The winner of each New Depositors Freeroll will choose their digital prize. If you do win you will get your choice of a iPod Touch, iPod Classic, Mini home theatre system, or a 8.0 Megapixel Digital IXUS 860 Camera. With this extra bonus Titan Poker is a great site to sign up for and start winning your way to fantastic prizes and also great cash tournaments.
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