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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
Heroes and Zeros of Poker
Here is a list of some of my all-time heroes and zeros from the poker world.
My Heroes
Phil Ivey – For winning more than 17 million dollars from Andy Beal in a heads up poker match.
Billy Baxter – For defeating the IRS in the Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1980′s. The court ruled that poker is a game of skill and Baxter could report his winnings as earned income.
I don’t know if this really qualifies for this list…but I’m throwing it in anyway. Pamela Anderson lost a little more than $200K in a poker game to a well known professional poker player. Believe me, I would tell you who it was if I knew, but she wouldn’t say. Rather than collect on the debt, propositions were made… and someone got to make out with Pamela Anderson in exchange for writing off the 1/4 million dollars in debt. So, to that guy…who ever you are, you are my hero. I don’t know why because I would take the 1/4 million instead, but whatever.
Chris Moneymaker is a given for this list because most us wouldn’t still be playing poker if it wasn’t for him.
Zeros
The owners from Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet – For cheating their players
out of millions of dollars by using poker accounts that enabled them to
see other player’s hole cards at the table.
Full Tilt Poker’s support staff – For just sucking all around.
I will have to put out another one of these blog entries when I can think of some more folks to add.
