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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
Patrick Antonius Turned Away From WSOP Main Event
Apparently almost everyone decided that they wanted to wait until day 1D to buy into the main event at the 2009 WSOP. The only problem was that the day was capped at 3,000 entrants. As a result, Patrick Antonius was turned away from the main event.
Patrick Antonius isn’t the only well known poker player who didn’t get into the event. Shannon Elizabeth has also reportedly been turned away from the WSOP due to capacity.
I’m not sure if any Main Event has ever sold out before for a certain day, but I know that this isn’t the first time that this has happened at the WSOP. I don’t say this to blame the WSOP either, I say this to fault the players because they really should have known that this was a possibility. Events reach their capped amount of entrants all of the time at the WSOP and this is not uncommon.
For an event like the WSOP Main Event where you can register several months ahead of time, there is really no excuse for a well known player to not get a spot in this tournament. For a lot of these folks, their public success depends upon getting some TV coverage at the Main Event each year. It’s not just stupid, but it’s a terrible business decision to not pre-register.
