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Lock Poker Offers New Promotions with Revolution Gaming
Earlier this month, Lock Poker acquired Cake Poker network and announced the launch of its new brand, Revolution Gaming Network on June 1. Recently, the poker room revealed details about the deals and promotions that it would be offering through the new network. The changes include a better bonus offer, 100k guaranteed tournament and return of the dealt rake back promo, which has been a hit with several poker players in the past. Here is some more information about the … Read the rest
Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
Paypal Poker Sites
People seldom equate PayPal with online gambling, but there are a few Paypal poker sites for those who are tied to the billion-dollar e-commerce business. When I say “Paypal poker sites”, I mean online gambling operators which accept payment from Paypal. These are few and far between, but the ones I mention are some of the largest and most storied gaming companies in the world.
What Is PayPal?
PayPal is an e-commerce company which facilitates safe online cash transactions for millions of customers every day. PayPal was founded in Palo Alto, California in 1998, but after it was bought by eBay in 2002, Paypal has become synonymous with eBay. Most e-Bay customers use Paypal to pay for their online auction transactions, and this has helped make “Paypal” the preferred cash transfer service for a large section of the buying public–especially in North America.
Despite this, Paypal is seldom discussed when someone is talking about online poker. There’s even the assumption by many that Paypal has nothing to do with online gambling, either because the gambling laws in the United States make it risky for any money transfer company based there to get involved, or because the risk of some future American law will make the time and effort building ties in the online gambling industry worthless. But there are a few betting websites on the Net which take PayPal money transfers.
These companies tend to be based in the United Kingdom and tend to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. Perhaps this lends an air of credibility to these operations, but whatever the reason, people used to using PayPal for their online transactions who want to place a few wagers online can seek out these sites as possible online gambling locations. As always, be certain about the local, state, and national laws where you live, before you engage in any gaming considered illegal in those places.
Ladbrokes Casino – Paypal Money Transfers
Ladbrokes is the largest book operator on Earth, and has over 2,400 gambling books spread throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. Ladbrokes is a London-based outfit which has been around since 1886, though it was known as the Hilton Group from 1999 to 2006, when Ladbrokes owned the Hilton brand.
Ladbrokes has a large network of online gambling sites and poker rooms, which is powered by the OpenBet software system designed by Orbis Technologies. It would be hard to find a corporation more synonymous with gambling than Ladbrokes, so it’s no surprise that PayPal would accept payments to and from their poker sites.
- Finland
- Switzerland
- New Zealand
- Greece
- Portugal
- Sweden
- England
- Belgium
- France
PayPal Poker Sites – William Hill Poker
William Hill is one of the few betting operations which can be mentioned in the same breath with Ladbrokes. With headquarters in London and Leeds, William Hill is found on the London Stock Exchange and has been in operation since 1934. William Hill Online hasn’t been as successful, but it remains in partnership with the Israeli software design firm, Playtech. William Hill’s online business was located in the Netherlands Antilles until 2007, when a British law prevented gambling operations outside of the European Union Economic Zone from advertising in England. Since that time, William Hill Online has moved to Gibraltar (to avoid the crippling UK taxes).
- UK PayPal Poker Players
- Swedish PayPal Poker Players
- New Zealand PayPal Poker Players
- Finland Poker Players
- Spanish PayPal Poker Players
- Belgian PayPal Poker Players
- Greek PayPal Poker Players
- Italian PayPal Poker Players
- Portuguese PayPal Poker Players
BWIN Poker – PayPay Poker
Americans may or may not have heard much of BWIN Poker, but it’s one of the brand names of gambling on the European continent. Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment Plc is an Internet gambling firm based out of Gibraltar. The company is formed out of the merger of BWIN and Party Gaming Plc, which merged in March of 2011. Like several other companies on this list, BWIN is quoted on the London Stock Exchange. According to multiple sources, BWIN is the largest publicly-traded gambling firm on the Internet–which is saying something.
Below are some countries where online gamblers can use Paypal at the BWIN Poker sites.
- Finland
- Belgium
- Portugal
- Spain
- Greece
- Hungary
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- France
Pacific Poker – Paypal Poker Websites
Pacific Poker is a respectable online gambling site which has been around since 1997. Like most poker websites which accept PayPal transactions, Pacific has connections in the UK. Here are some countries you can use Paypal to fund your Pacific Poker account.
- Switzerland
- Finland
- Portugal
- United Kingdom
- Sweden
- Belgium
- Italy
- Hungary
Betfair Poker and Paypal
Betfair is a London, England online gambling exchange which has made a big mark with “punters” (English term for gamblers) since its inception in 2000. Betfair Poker was hardly affected at all by the UIGEA gambling laws in the United States, as Betfair never accepted players or credit card numbers from the United States. It does accept Paypal payments, though, at least in the following countries.
- Switzerland
- Finland
- Greece
- Portugal
- Belgium
- England
- Sweden
- Spain
Paddy Poker PayPal Gamblers
I have also seen where Paddy Poker accepts PayPal payments. If so, that’s a half-dozen poker sites online which accept PayPay transactions, usually deposits and sometimes withdrawals.
