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You can count Mike Sexton, the "Ambassador of Poker" himself, among those who feel the Exaclibur's move to an all-electronic poker room last week is a trend that is here to stay.

"I think it's the wave of the future, at least as far as low-stakes games are concerned," Sexton told Casino City on Wednesday. "It just makes so much sense for the casinos and I think once the players get used to it, this is something that could be seen in poker rooms up and down the Strip."

It's been a wild ride but ChanPoker.com is closing its doors on Aug. 21.

Chan Poker, which is headed by back-to-back WSOP world champion Johnny Chan, was launched in 2006 with a great deal of fanfare and snappy interface.

A part of the popular Ongame Network, Chan Poker's future looked bright at a time when numerous sites were entering the market and succeeding. Unfortunately, little more than a few months later the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was passed, and it's becoming apparent that Chan Poker was one of the hardest-hit online rooms.

There hadn't been much news from the Chan Poker camp in the last year, and yesterday, the site left a message for its customers on its front page.

An excerpt from the letter:

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PokerTime, a member of the Fortune Lounge gaming group, is offering a fantastic 125% two-part offer to new players. Firstly, any deposit recieves a guaranteed 25% return in cash immediately - for example, a $10,000 deposit would net you $2,500 absolutely free. In addition, PokerTime will then match your deposit 100%.

PokerTime, as a member of the Fortune Lounge group, is a trusted and well-respected online poker room. Fortune Lounge won the 'Top Casino Group for 2005' category from the Gambling Online Magazine Readers' Poll awards.

PokerTime's 100% match bonus is applicable to all bonuses up to $100. The 25% instant bonus can only be cashed out when a player has earned a certain amount of points in the poker room.

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SOUTH Sydney Leagues club has delivered a humiliating defeat to Peter Homes a Court and Russell Crowe's proposal to ban poker machines - just three members supported it among more than 100 who voted yesterday.

"This was a vision that a lot of people embraced," said Souths Leagues Club president Bill Alexiou-Hucker yesterday, after the vote.

"No one - not one charity, no corporations, no community that flooded the football club with congratulations over a no-poker machine venue - ever contacted me to see how they could help us.

"We were left to do it. It was going to be a very tough ask.

"The board felt it couldn't offer the members the sorts of things that it wants to without the poker machines."

Automated dealers have already invaded Donald Trump's Atlantic City casinos; now comes word that the program is preparing to begin trials in Las Vegas. Poker Pro, an automated poker table system developed by PokerTek, has been cleared by the Nevada Gaming Control Board to be field tested in the state.

PokerPro uses software to deal to actual players seated around a table. Because shuffling and actual handling of cards is not involved, more hands are available in a given period of time, and mistakes judging hands are eliminated. At Trump casinos, the rake has been lowered to draw players.

Players see their hands on screens set before them. The flop, turn, and river are displayed in the center of the table.

Trump Plaza, which towers 39 floors above Atlantic City’s Boardwalk, opened its East Tower Poker Room, featuring twelve, automated PokerPro® tables where hands are dealt electronically to players seated at a traditional-style poker table. There is a clear view of the pot size and chip count during this interactive game.

PokerPro® is expected to attract traditional poker players as well as those who have been curious about the game, but didn’t have an opportunity to get into some of the city’s bustling poker rooms—until now.

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) has announced that the Godfather of Poker, Doyle Brunson, will be attending the APT's Macau tournament.

Rather then trying to compete with online giants PokerStars & Full Tilt, Sun Poker have adopted a different philosophy for success.

As they write on their website: “We realize we may never be the 'biggest' poker room in the world, but our players know the mission of SunPoker.com is to make sure you have FUN!” This is certainly achieved through an excellent community atmosphere between management and players that is almost unrivalled in the modern poker industry.

PokerRoom have today confirmed the appearance of popular American pop group, Pussycat Dolls at the Poker Villa on Poker Island. The stunning quintet will be performing one show and challenging the residents to a game of poker on the grounds of the luxurious Poker Villa.

If you were in search of more evidence to the growing popularity of poker, the Venetian has announced that the poker themed stage show "the Real Deal!" will open in the fall. While it's not quite Blue Man Group meets the felt, audience members will not only get to watch some of the biggest names in poker history on the main stage, but play against the pros from their seats for cash and prizes.

The cast of pros includes Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen, Jennifer Harman, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Todd Brunson, Gavin Smith and Eli Elezra. The cast has combined tournament earnings nearing $50 million, 35 total WSOP bracelets and eight WPT titles.

Many detractors thought they might not have been around to celebrate it, but Party Poker are celebrating their 7th birthday on Sunday the 10th of August. The top European poker room has gone from strength to strength in the last few years and are topping off the celebrations with a $1,000,000 guaranteed Birthday Party bonanza tournament.

You can buy in directly to this $640 event with a championship style blind structure. As usual you can also win your seat on Party Poker from as little as $1 or even just 15 partypoints. For more information go to the main Party Poker website.

Entraction Holding AB Solna, Sweden (21 July 2008). Entraction announces that it has signed a deal with yet another established poker operator, Bet1128, to supply them with poker software and access to the Entraction poker network. Bet1128 is a successful poker site focusing on the Italian market, and will start the migration to Entraction in August.

Bet1128.com's players appreciate the Italian poker "32-card draw", which guarantees good action when Entraction launches its 32-card draw in the autumn.

Hevad Rain Khan kept his mouth shut as he walked away from his seat at the No Limit Hold’em World Championship at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Known among poker circles as the most animated and excitable player on the World Series of Poker circuit, Khan would shout some kind of nonsense and put a chair on his head, play invisible basketball, or just run around screaming each time he won a sizable pot.

Last weekend, there would be no screaming, no chair on the head, no invisible basketball, no running around — and ultimately, no sizable pot.

All he could do was quietly walk away as all of his remaining chips were passed to Tiffany Michelle.

LAS VEGAS -- Chris Gibbons and Scott Erickson are two of the best bowlers in the Madison area.

Gibbons is a former pro who won a title on the Pro Bowlers Association Regional circuit -- pro bowling's minor league. And he and Erickson are on the team that ended up third in the top event at the 2008 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships.

That said, neither has much interest in putting up the entry fee of a few hundred dollars to compete in tournaments against top pros like Walter Ray Williams Jr. and Pete Weber in the few open PBA Tour events.

As the final cards were being dealt  at this year's World Series of Poker* in Las Vegas , three Bodog online poker players were already being dealt seats to the  2009 WSOP* Main Event. The three seats are the first to be awarded by any  online poker site and were won in the final tournament of the Bodog Poker Mini  Series, a 25-tournament series mirroring the Holdem events at the World Series  in Las Vegas but with buy-ins equal to just one percent of the actual buy-in of  the WSOP* Main Event. 

Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, has improved its generous range of prizes for its new players. All first-time depositors are automatically awarded with free entry into one of Titan Poker's New Depositors Freeroll tournaments - which are staged five nights a week. Winning players were previously able to choose from one of five fantastic digital prizes, including an iPod Touch, 8.0 Megapixel Digital Camera and a Mini Home Theatre System.

The popular online poker room had an extraordinary day of awarding cash and prizes to its skilled players.

Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, awarded thousands of dollars and a trip to the Asian Poker Tour Macau to winning players as a part of its 'Day of Freerolls' on June 30th.

The first set of freeroll tournaments were targeted at first depositors from April or May 2008 who earned the required number of Titan Poker Points for entry. A total of $4,400 was awarded.

A retired judge who operates poker rooms in southern Arizona in defiance of state investigators says his organization is opening a new card parlor in Phoenix later this month.

Texas Hold'em games operated by Harold Lee of Tombstone have been referred for criminal prosecution several times by agents of the Arizona Department of Gaming, but he has never been charged.

The Attorney General's Office this week issued an e-mail statement saying it declined prosecution because there is "no reasonable likelihood of conviction."

Lee also is planning a new poker club in Tucson. The expansion of his league and the attorney general's opinion create questions about whether more private poker rooms could sprout up statewide.