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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
60 Minutes to Air Story on Cheating Scandal
It looks like the plot is starting to thicken in the scandal involving Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. It’s been known for a while now that 60 minutes has been preparing to air a segment about the UB/AP scandal.
I got an email back from the producers at CBS a few days ago. They declined to comment on when the story would be aired, and they basically gave me the run-around telling me to look on their website for news and updates… So I’m not sure that a date has been set for this story to air yet…but I know that they finished conducting the majority of their interviews a few months ago, so this should be shown on 60 minutes pretty soon.
If you haven’t been following this whole scandal and how things have played out, you can read about it in this recent MSNBC article www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26563848/
The independent commission that the Kahnawake Gaming Commission had assigned to deal with the scandal has finished their investigation. They named Russ Hamilton as one of the key figures involved in the cheating that occurred. Although Russ is a real person, he is somewhat of a ghost figure when it comes to the ownership of Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. There are people who have exhausted themselves over this issue, and they still cannot find out who owns some of these companies involved with UB and AP.
To be honest, it’s actually sort of impressive to see the lengths at which the owners of these companies have gone to in order to disguise who actually owns everything. It just makes things look even shadier in my opinion.
It’s hard to speculate as to the consequences that this story will have on the internet poker world. Up until this point, the majority of people that knew about the cheating that had occurred were frequent poker players. A lot of the new and incoming players which help to fuel the online poker economy either didn’t know about this, or they just didn’t care.
Now mainstream America is about to get a glimpse of what has been going on. Unfortunately, this will be a first impression for many of them, and I don’t think it’s going to look very favorable for poker players and the online poker world. The majority of Americans have no idea that you can sit down and play for millions of dollars on the internet, so I’m expecting a lot of people to have a reaction like; “Well, what did you expect would happen?”.
I’ll be sure to post here as soon as I find out when this story is going to hit the air. Feel free to leave some comments below. Do you think this story could lead to the downfall of online poker?
