What are your favorite things about playing poker over the internet? Is it the variety of poker games; the chance to play with such a versatile crowd; the extensive selection of tournaments? Sure, these are all great qualities, but if given a choice, the number one answer will forever be free cash.
Titan Poker, the pride and joy of the iPoker Network, has reinstated its MT3 Multi-Table Tournament promotion. The new Tournament Race is awarding $150,000 in prizes that include WSOP Experience prize packages for the top competitors. Beginning February 1, 2011, members of Titan Poker will have another chance to participate in the phenomenally popular MT3 Tournament Races at the online poker room. The promotion will run through the end of May.
Experienced poker players are well aware of the importance of calculating the odds, knowing your outs and being able to make a value bet at any given time. For novice online poker players, however, it is a concept that can take some time to use effectively.
As online casinos continue to look for new, innovative ways to promote their products, Royal Vegas has come up with an interesting new promotion. The most unique aspect is that anyone can participate; old members, new members, even non-members of the online casino.
Marketing directors all across the online casino industry have been spending countless hours in search of fresh new ways to promote their products. Big bonus offers for new players are nice, but players have begun looking for something a bit more substantial these days. Calida Gaming came up with a unique idea by choosing to crown a Miss Online Casino each month in 2011.
Imagine being seated at a poker table, playing in a tournament where you’ve spent hours protecting your chip stack, waiting for the perfect hand to make your move. That hand finally comes, and just as you prepare to push your stack, or a substantial part of it into the pot, the lights go out.
For the last few weeks, members of the leading online poker site Party Poker have had access to a brand new card game called Double Hold’em. The game was in beta testing mode, so to speak, available only for practice play, but was just recently introduced to the online poker room’s real money poker tables.
For more than four years, proponents of online poker in the United States have argued the legality of playing real money poker over the internet. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) does not specifically criminalize the activity, but rather the responsibility of financial institutions to prevent transactions between online poker sites and US citizens.
Online gambling fans in the United States finally have something to cheer about in recent weeks as it looks inevitable that the government, or at least certain states, will definitely be issuing licenses to online gambling operators. According to a report from Daniel Stewart & Co., those licenses could be going out as early as Fall 2011.
Nordic Gaming, the operators of the Nordic Bet online sportsbook, casino and poker room, has penned a software license agreement with Playtech to launch a new online bingo site on the gaming network. This will be the second major Scandinavian license of bingo software from Playtech’s Virtue Fusion brand.
How many of you are familiar with the opening line from EA Sports games? You know the one… “EA Sports – it’s in the game!” Well it’s not just "in the game" anymore; it’s "in the gamble". Electronic Arts (EA) has signed a deal with Virgin Gaming, a division of the Virgin empire, to incorporate gambling into its online gaming modules.
The Super Bowl line-up was locked into place yesterday as the Green Bay Packers conquered the Chicago Bears, and the Pittsburgh Steelers routed the New York Jets. The AFC Champion Steelers will take on the NFC Champion Packers in the ultimate Super Bowl XLV showdown on February 6, 2011.