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The Bodog Poker Open is Back!

2009-06-21T09:24:00.001-07:00

Bodog Poker Open II

Announcing: Bodog Poker Open II! It's BPO the sequel - but bigger and badder than ever. After a mightily successful Bodog Poker Open I in March 2008, where "phatcat" took home $76,280 - it's now your chance to grab that slice of the pie.

Satellites for the Bodog Poker Open II are now running so dig deep and pull out your best online tournament strategies and skills. Get ready for a run of more high stakes and huge cash prizes.

To play the BPO II qualifiers, just open up the lobby in the Bodog Poker Room and go to "Scheduled Tournaments". There you'll find a tab called "BPO" - click on that to register for the Bodog Poker Open Main Event.

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Unibet satellite tournaments are now live

2009-05-05T10:04:00.001-07:00

Unibet satellite tournaments are now live
London is a city full of fabulous sights and famous attractions, from Buckingham Palace to the Tower of London - and some hidden gems you’ve probably never heard of!

If you want history and culture London has it in spades, but you can also have a great time in the UK capital’s huge selections of nightclubs and bars. It is in this cosmopolitan hub that the next Unibet Open tournament will take place!

Considered by many to be one of the most famous casinos in Europe, the Grosvenor Victoria Casino offers one of Europe’s largest poker rooms. Here is where the excitement of the Unibet Open London live tournament will happen.

Unibet Open London will take place from 16 to 19 July 2009.

Unibet satellite tournaments are now live and you can now win your seat to the most exclusive live poker event this summer!

Packages won through satellites are worth €4,400 and will include:
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Spending money towards travel expenses - €350
Breakfast and dinner daily during the tournament

Click here for the Unibet Open London

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2009-04-19T03:07:00.000-07:00

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2009-04-12T02:28:00.000-07:00

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Jackpot payouts at JackpotCity Bingo

2009-03-20T12:22:00.001-07:00

Jackpot payouts at JackpotCity Bingo

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2009-03-09T11:44:00.001-07:00

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Win a package to the World Series of Poker!

2009-03-01T00:08:00.000-08:00

Win a package to the World Series of Poker!

The World Series of Poker is one of the the most exciting live tournaments in the world, and we're giving you your chance to win an all expenses paid trip to the WSOP in Vegas this year!

The prize package worth $6000 will include:

9 nights' accommodation in a 5-star hotel during the event

1000$ Money towards travel expenses

400$ Spending money

Should you win a package, you'll be in for the mst, memorable experience in Vegas and you will looked after by Unibet Poker's most experienced events hosts!

Here's how to win:

Play poker on our cash games at Unibet between 1st and 31st March 2009. Depending on the number of raked hands you play, you will be invited to one (or both) of 2 final tournaments. First prize in each tournament is a package trip to the World Series of Poker!

The Tournaments:

Tournament Name: WSOP Final 2

Date: 7 April 2009 - 21:00 CET

Tournament Name: WSOP Final 1

Date: 8 April 2009 - 21:00 CET

The requirements:

Play at least 2,500 raked hands (RH) between 1st and 31st March 2009 - get invited to Final 2

Play at least 7,500 (RH) between 1st and 31st March 2009 - get invited to Final 1 AND Final 2

The Prizes:

First prize in each tournament is a package trip to the World Series of Poker

2nd to 5th place winners will win 110€ buy-in to the Unibet Open Sunday final on Sunday, 12th April, 2009

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Poker: claim up to $1000 Welcome Bonus

2009-02-23T04:34:00.000-08:00

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UNIBET OPEN BUDAPEST 09

2009-02-21T05:26:00.001-08:00

UNIBET OPEN BUDAPEST 09

Unibet presents one of the most beautiful cities in the world – Budapest! After the last successful event in the Warsaw, this city is the perfect setting for the next Unibet Open!

Rich in natural and architectural beauty, Budapest has lots to offer: Thermal baths, Buda Castle, sightseeing tours, art exhibitions and of course, POKER!

Tropicana Casino, nestled in the heart of the city, offers a unique experience in tropical Jungle surrounds. Unibet Open Budapest will take place there from 4-8 March 2009.

Poker players can win seats in Satellites and many different promotions at Unibet. Seats can also be bought directly to this event. Qualify here!

This is your chance to show off your poker skills and challenge some of the best poker players in the world, while enjoying legendary Unibet Poker hospitality.

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Poker Players Take Flight To Destinations Worldwide

2009-02-17T05:11:00.001-08:00

Poker Players Take Flight To Destinations Worldwide With Bodog Flight Club

Next Departure: LAPT Punta del Este, Uruguay

For Immediate Release
Feb. 10, 2009

Flying off to exotic locations to play in the world's finest poker tournaments isn't just for the poker pros you see on television. Thanks to Bodog, amateur players can now join the club—the Bodog Flight Club, that is—for as little as $1. Right now in the Bodog Poker Room, the online poker powerhouse is giving away at least one Bodog Flight Club Package a month to major tournaments in Europe, South America and North America, with most events featuring prize pools over a million dollars.

Winners of a Bodog Flight Club package receive buy-in to the main event, travel expenses, spending money and instantly become a member of Team Bodog, complete with loads of Bodog gear and articles written up about their progress so friends and family can follow results from home.

"Take it from me, it doesn't get any better than playing in a major tournament in an exotic location as a member of Team Bodog," says Bodog Poker Pro David Williams. "The Bodog Flight Club is a once in a lifetime opportunity to compete for serious money against the best in the world, all while having an adventure only Bodog can deliver."

The next Bodog Flight Club departure is the LAPT event in Punta del Este, Uruguay, held Mar. 18-20. Qualifiers are running daily at Bodog Poker for as little as $1 or 100 Bodog Poker Points, and all lead up to the LAPT Uruguay Semifinal event on Monday, Feb. 16 at 9:00 p.m. EST, where at least two Bodog Flight Club prize packages to the LAPT Uruguay are guaranteed. The winners will join Bodog online player "Nate Avenson", who will be heading off to Uruguay in Bodog style after winning a prize package during Bodog's Super Bowl Special tournament.

Next up after Uruguay will be the "Flight Club - San Remo" event on Monday, Mar. 16 at 9:00 p.m. EST, where at least two more Bodog Flight Club prize packages are guaranteed to the event in San Remo, Italy, held Apr. 18-23. For more, visit http://poker.bodoglife.com/tournaments/events-schedule.html.

Not already playing poker at Bodog? Being new has its rewards as Bodog is giving all new players automatic entry into six exclusive qualifiers for the Sunday $100,000 Guaranteed tournament. Each week 25 seats will be given away for $100,000 qualifying tourneys. For more, visit http://poker.bodoglife.com/promotions/new-poker-player-tournaments.html.

The Sunday $100,000 Guaranteed is Bodog's big weekly tournament, and it is back from its break over Super Bowl weekend when Bodog hosted a special Sunday tournament for its players. A total of $20,000 in added prize money was awarded, or approximately $50 added per player, proving once again that no other online poker site gives its players greater value for their tournament dollars.

For more on Bodog Flight Club, visit http://poker.bodoglife.com/tournaments/flight-club-overview.html.

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2009-01-18T00:39:00.001-08:00

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2009-01-10T11:25:00.000-08:00

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Ladbrokes Offers Fixed Odds Financial Betting

2009-01-07T21:11:00.000-08:00

Ladbrokes Offers Fixed Odds Financial Betting

Posted by: admin / Category: sports betting

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The UK financial betting markets are some of the most liquid and volatile in the world and we offer betting on the most well known of all the “FTSE 100″. What’s more is that we make it as simple as possible for customers to play.

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2008-12-18T05:57:00.000-08:00

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2008-12-18T02:55:00.001-08:00

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2008-12-12T13:44:00.001-08:00

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EUROPEAN SPORTSBOOK OF THE YEAR 2008!

2008-11-29T19:08:00.001-08:00

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Bodog Continues to Service the US Market

2008-11-18T12:14:00.000-08:00

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The Caribbean Hold 'Em

2008-10-26T11:51:00.001-07:00

The Caribbean Hold 'Em
An unlikely trade dispute between the U.S. and Antigua over online gaming has turned into a David-and-Goliath battle, proving small nations can wield large digital sticks.

Sept. 24, 2007 issue - Antigua is better known for sandy beaches than international trade disputes. But next month this tiny Caribbean resort destination could compel the United States to legalize an industry that the Bush administration has been trying to eradicate since the beginning of the president's first term. Antigua—with a population of just 70,000 and a GDP of under $1 billion—could force the United States to embrace online gambling.

The ruling, which the WTO is expected to begin enforcing next month, could oblige America to overhaul its prohibitive stance on online casinos, not just in relation to Antigua but to a host of others—including the EU, Japan and Australia. That would double the size of the $15 billion-a-year online gaming industry almost overnight, says the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, a pro-gaming consultancy. And since the WTO might allow nations that have been hurt by U.S. gaming laws to flout American intellectual-property law in response, the dispute is already spreading to Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond.

The story dates back to 2003, when Antigua sued the United States at the WTO over America's prohibition of online casinos, which is the island's second largest industry, after tourism. The United States allows a number of domestic betting companies, like the horse-racing Web site YouBet.com, to offer online gambling to Americans (these are thrown into the odd basket of legal gaming operations that include Native American-run casinos and riverboat gambling). But foreign firms are prohibited from offering exactly the same type of service to U.S. citizens.

The American government requires foreign sites to block U.S. users by checking the Internet protocol addresses of their computers, a requirement that has been honored mainly in the breach, given that Americans represent some 60 percent of world online-gaming revenue. Last October, President George W. Bush upped the ante by signing a new bill preventing banks and credit-card companies from processing payments by American users of overseas sites. The result: top companies like Gibraltar-based PartyGaming (once worth $8.4 billion) saw the value of their stock sliced in half, and their revenues plunge by 70 percent. The U.S. government has arrested a number of foreign online-gaming execs, charging them with gambling-related offenses. In March, the London-based Web site Sportingbet.com was forced to pay the state of Louisiana $400,000 to settle charges levied against its chairman, Peter Dicks.

But that same month, the WTO decided that the U.S. approach was an illegal form of trade protectionism. The ruling may be enforced as early as next month. "I was laughed at when I first brought the case," says Mark Mendel, the long-haired, 51-year-old Texas lawyer who represented Antigua. "They totally underestimated me."

More important, the United States underestimated the remarkable power that even tiny countries wield in today's digitized global economy. Usually, when trade laws are broken, the WTO allows export sanctions to be imposed on the violating nation. But since Antigua hardly has the muscle to bring any meaningful sanctions against the United States, trade experts expect that the WTO will likely take another approach and allow Antigua to flout intellectual-property law.

If America doesn't fold on gaming, next year Antiguans could well be selling billions of dollars of legally pirated copies of everything from Microsoft software to Disney movies without paying the copyright owners a penny. "Intellectual property is the perfect sanction item," says Nao Matsukata, a former senior trade official for the United States. "It gives small countries like Antigua absolute leverage." The WTO has allowed the use of IP as a stick once before, in the famous EU-Ecuador banana squabble (the threat of it was enough to make the EU cut a deal). But experts expect it will become common policy in the future, and see online gaming as a test case for its effectiveness.

It's no surprise that lobbyists from Silicon Valley and Hollywood are now storming Capitol Hill, pushing for a deal. Last month the Motion Picture Association of America urged the U.S. trade representative to negotiate with Antigua in order to prevent bootlegging. But the Bush administration is staunchly refusing to bend on virtual gaming. The (surprisingly weak) legal line is that America never intended to include gambling under its WTO obligations, which were signed in the mid-1990s. "It is ludicrous [to assert that] our negotiators would have intentionally turned 40 years of criminal law against this type of gambling on its head," says U.S. Deputy Trade Representative John Veroneau.

No dice, says the WTO. "The United States has a legal commitment; they can't just say 'oops' and be done with it. What kind of precedent would that set?" asks one WTO insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to be quoted discussing an ongoing case.

Ultimately, this leaves the United States with a very weak hand to play. It could continue to deny that the WTO has legislation over its internal gambling laws. But that would undermine the overall credibility of the organization by showing it to be unable to enforce its rulings—and America needs a strong WTO to mediate prickly conflicts with, say, China, over things like Internet censorship and the mass manufacturing of fake designer goods.

Eight other WTO members, including the European Union, Australia and Japan, are now lining up to claim compensation from the United States over online gaming. "The EU is almost licking its chops," says Antigua's lawyer Mendel. "In total, this could come to $100 billion in sanctions. " Giant American bricks-and-mortar casinos like Harrah's and MGM are making plans to move into the online sector as soon as the U.S. trade stance becomes clear.

They could get a sign as early as this week. Sept. 22 is the first WTO deadline for America to cut a deal with Antigua and the other nations. But one WTO insider predicts that the only announcement on that day will be that the deadline has been extended. "This won't happen fast; America is going to dig its heels in," says Sallie James, trade-policy analyst at Washington's Cato Institute. "But if I had to bet, I would say that by this time next year America will have changed its laws." And in this case, that means all bets will be on.

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Tony G-poker

2008-08-17T06:22:00.000-07:00

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888com review

2007-12-07T03:46:00.000-08:00

888.com, whose company mission is "to be the best gaming company in the world, as measured by number of members and member satisfaction" is achieving its goal as a result of a strong commitment to create an exceptional gaming environment with its two brands Casino-on-Net.com and PacificPoker.com. With over 23 million registered member accounts in over 150 countries, 888.com is easily one of the most popular and reliable gaming providers on the Internet.

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Through its bid to be the best, 888.com’s Casino-on-Net is refreshingly user-friendly while at the same time packed with innovative gaming features. Games include Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, Baccarat, Keno, Pai Gow Poker, Video Poker and a wide variety of Classic and Video Slot Machines with an ever-growing Jackpot.

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All you need to do to become a member is download and install the free software (this only takes a few minutes), set up a player account, deposit money and start playing. Of course new players can also take advantage of the free Practice Play mode which allows them to play the same games for free with no obligation.

Mac compatibility

888.com has a Java, browser-based Mac casino and poker version.

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888.com offers some great incentives to the player. Collect a 100% Bonus up to $200 on your first Casino-on-Net deposit or a 25% bonus up to $100 when you sign up for Pacific Poker.

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888 offers customer support in up to 11 languages - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Support representatives can be contacted by phone or live online chat.

888.com Details Chart

Welcome Bonus:

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