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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
Televised Poker News
The GSN television network announced last week that it will be producing a 5th season of it’s show; High Stakes Poker. This announcement came on the heels of speculation that the show would not continue for another season.
High Stakes Poker showcases one of the world’s largest cash games. In the previous seasons, some players have bought-in for as much as 1 million dollars.
The game is typically run with $300/$600 blinds and a $100 ante. Most hands also have a live straddle of $1200 and occasionally a 4th blind for $2400. The minimum buy-in has traditionally been $100K, but this past season GSN hosted a game with a minimum buy-in of 1/2 million dollars. I haven’t heard anything yet about the stakes for this year’s game, but I am gonna guess that the action will be just as crazy as it has been in previous years.
This isn’t tournament poker. It’s all real cash and these players can lose as much money as they can borrow. High Stakes Poker has provided us with a number of classic moments. GSN has been courteous enough to publish full length versions of all previous HSP episodes on their youtube page. Below is one of last season’s best episodes.
For those of you who read my blog of poker quotes and were intrigued by Gabe Kaplan saying “Phil Hellmuth has a strange look on his face like an ostridge looking to mate”…you can see what that looks like in this episode of High Stakes Poker.
The World Poker Tour also made a recent announcement regarding their broadcast future. After being cancelled on GSN, the WPT was temporarily being filmed without a broadcasting home. Last week it was announced that the WPT’s 7th season will be shown on the Fox Sports Network.
