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Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands
This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.
Caesars Extends 888 Partnership
888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest
Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
Poker Revolution in Russia?
Generally speaking, it is very rare when Russia can clam being innovative and progressive in something not related to space or weapons technologies . Amazingly, it is poker where Russia made an advance which looks like a real revolution, especially by comparison with the US medieval approach to Internet gaming.
Last year Russian authorities made a very logical but highly unexpected move- they declared poker to be a sport game. It looks pretty simple, after all the decision about poker being a game of skill in US is a century old. But it has not been done yet anywhere in the world. What is really surprising about all this is a fact that poker is not so well known in Russia. When I was growing up we only knew about one version of poker-5 card draw, which is not a game of skill by comparison with other forms. But Russian bureaucrats smell big money from poker related taxation and do not have to worry about the anti-gambling lobby. This is an advantage of having a dictatorship – you can dismiss an opposition…or shoot them.
So the Russian decision to make poker a sport game resulted in the proliferation of poker clubs in major cities not associated with casinos. All this makes poker a very accessible game especially considering the general absence of reliable broadband Internet access in the country. We may expect many more Russian players similar to Ivan Demidov breaking the circle of high stakes professionals in USA and Europe.
