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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."

With the World Series of Poker Main Event in a 100-day layoff until November, the poker world will turn to the World Poker Tour's Legends of Poker tournament, which starts on Saturday from the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Poker's top professionals will be in attendance along with a bundle of online poker players who are members of PocketFives.com. The tournament will be covered live on PocketFivesLive.com, the home of WPT coverage.

Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino announced this week that the downtown Las Vegas property has signed on to host the 2009 season of NBC’s Poker After Dark.

Sixty episodes of the hour-long show will be filmed Oct. 26 through Nov. 5 at the Golden Nugget's new event center.

“The Golden Nugget is thrilled to host the fifth season of NBC’s exciting, late-night poker program, Poker After Dark,” said Brett Kellerman, chief operating officer for the property. “The Golden Nugget has been home to several big poker productions, as well as hosted many poker tournaments and events, so bringing a top-rated program like Poker After Dark to the property just seemed like a natural fit.”

They might be one of the newer names in the industry, but BoylePoker.com are making the right kind of sounds so far. Here’s some news that will make them even more popular as well, having has added €20,000 to the prize pool of the International Poker Open 2008 as well as adding a percentage of the rake generated by players who pre-register for the tournament.

Judge Gino Camilleri of the First Hall Civil Court in Malta issued a ruling yesterday, August 18, that authorized online poker room POKERTRILLION.com to seize full control of Boss Media Limited Malta and Boss Media AB Servers, which includes the Boss Poker Network (IPN).

According to the ruling, Boss Media servers must cease all commercial enterprises no later than September 18, 2008; exactly one month after the ruling was handed down. Boss Media was denied the option to appeal the court’s decision.

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."

Poker, once nearly muscled off casino floors by gimmicky table games and flashy slot machines, is hotter than ever in Las Vegas, thanks to the game's popularity on TV.

Now, the Venetian Resort Hotel & Casino will try to build on those winnings by staging The Real Deal!, an audience-participation show, in its Venetian Showroom, starting in October.

The show will combine the elements of a game show with comedy and celebrities, all revolving around the now-familiar poker game of Texas Hold 'Em. Since this is Las Vegas, there will be prizes, including the long-shot possibility for an audience member to win $1 million.

Brendan Mahoney grew up with a golf club in his hand, and the 21-year old Milton resident has won his fair share of competitions on the golf course.

Mahoney's also pretty good with another kind of club - the kind that helps him win poker games.

So good, in fact, that he earned a spot to play poker at the highest level. He was in Las Vegas last month, where he played at the featured table in the World Series of Poker, the renowned no-limit Texas Hold 'Em tournament. His time in the spotlight will be broadcast on ESPN in September.

ANOTHER poker tournament could head to Singapore next year, in a bid to boost the card game’s growing popularity here.

The organisers of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) told my paper they hope to kick-off next year’s season in Singapore, in March or April.

The tour’s president, Mr Jeffrey Haas, who co-founded the tournament in 2006, was in Singapore yesterday to meet local partners Asian Poker Network, which publishes the regional poker magazine Poker Times.

This comes just after last week’s announcement that the final leg of another tournament, the Asian Poker Tour (APT), could be held here at the end of the year. It is likely to have a US$3,000 (S$4,200) buy-in fee and 700 players are expected to take part.

$1.2 million winnings claim abandoned in Isle of Man court
 
The Isle of Man-based online poker company Poker Stars.com will not have to face one of its players in court over a disallowed winnings claim worth $1.2 million after the plaintiff withdrew her case this week.
 
The case arose from poker action in the 2007 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) organised by Poker Stars and won by account holder TheVOid - an account owned by Natalie Teltscher, the sister of a poker professional. Main event winnings of over $1.2 million were disallowed when it appeared that tournament rules had been breached through someone other than Teltscher herself playing on the account.
 

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.

Time is running out to qualify for the largest guaranteed prize pool poker tournament in Bodog Poker history. The $250,000 Guaranteed online poker tournament takes place this week and qualifiers are running almost 24/7 for a chance to win a seat for as little as $1.

Between now and tournament time there are 12 Qualifier tournaments running that start at $1 and range up to $8. Then, there are 10 Semifinal tournaments before the cards are dealt on Sunday, with direct buy-ins running from $18 + $2 and $54 + $4 12 qualifiers. Add that to the PTS buy-in sit 'n' go tournaments that are running constantely and the opportunities to qualify for the event are almost endless.

VIENNA, Austria - For the abandoned US poker players whose online poker accounts were closed by the gaming operators as a result of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

There is now a new way to stay in touch with what is happening in the poker world. PlayPing.com of Austria is a new Web 2.0 gaming community, bringing together poker players from all over the world including the US.

Every member has various methods to communicate with other members at his disposal and receives additional member benefits like a welcome gift, personal profile webspace, blogs, private messaging box, picture sharing, live chat, instant messenger or free classified ads.

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.

The countdown has begun for hundreds of ordinary Australians trying to beat the cost of living doom and gloom.

Across the country, people from all walks of life are playing free poker to qualify for the last remaining seats available in the APL Tournament of Champions (TOC) - a three-day poker extravaganza set to take place in Sydney from August 8 to 10.

NSW man Rodney Davidson walked away with a $300,000 first prize last year, after qualifying at a free poker event in Bega.

Before the tournament Rodney had only $20 in the bank and had to borrow the money for his train fare to get to the event.

Hopefuls who have already qualified for this year’s APL TOC range in age from a 78-year-old grandmother to an 18-year-old student.

Russia may be listed among the countries likely to receive the most gold medals at the 2008 Olympics (+1400 or 14/1 odds at SBG Global), they have even better odds to win another big world even this coming November - The World Series of Poker.

That's because Russia's Ivan Demidov was listed with +425 odds at BetCRIS.com to win the 2008 World Series of Poker. Demidov had the second largest number of chips coming into the delayed final.

According to poker player Daniel Negreanu, The World Series of Poker has always attracted a competitive international field. Interestingly, this year's WSOP featured more players from Russia than ever before.

With the first event getting underway last night, the Party Poker Irish Poker Championship Tour has kicked off at Eglinton Card Room and Casino, its first stop of eight across the island.

 "The 2008 Irish Poker Championship was seen as a big success and still attracted 298 runners, despite the fact that Ireland was engulfed in a snowstorm at the time that limited the options of many to get to Galway." Said a spokesman from Party Poker.com.

"The introduction of the Irish Poker Championship Tour this year shows just how much this tournament is on the up-and-up. There are stops all over the Emerald Isle and online qualifiers will be introduced on PartyPoker.com later in the year that will give players from all over the world the chance to witness the famous Galway hospitality."

Winners, and set number of runners up, from each stop get an invite to the first major UK tournament of 2009, the 2009 Irish Poker Championships

A group of east Montgomery poker players got a surprise Friday night when police officers busted in.

They were playing inside a business at 64 Bell Road that was licensed as El Camino, a scooter sales company, police said.

However no scooters were being sold, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday night games of Texas Hold 'Em were being played, according to police. The poker games were illegal because the house was making a profit, police said.

The poker business was under the name Red Stag and was exclusive. It required patrons to fill out an application, have a membership card and ring a buzzer to gain entrance to the business near the intersection of Bell Road and Atlanta Highway, police said.

Poker in the Park will come to the heart of London for a two-day poker bonanza on August 15-16 from 4pm-9pm Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday.

The event, hosted in London’s Leicester Square Park, will draw 25,000 poker players. They will be taking part in freeroll tournaments, professional poker players’ lectures and buy books and merchandise from poker’s biggest names.

Dublin  -- New research by Card Player, in the form of the "World Tracker" global poker tournament tracking system, reveals that, per capita, Denmark has the most successful tournament players in the world.

Much like the Olympics, Card Player has used an extensive list of qualifying tournaments (including WSOP, WPT, and EPT events). World Tracker awards Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals to the countries whose citizens come first, second, and third in major international tournaments.

The top five countries in the poker tournament world are currently:

It is skill that differentiates the successful from the unsuccessful players over the long term

Surprisingly, there are striking similarities between successful fund managers and professional poker players.

Competition poker has become the latest global craze - the surge in popularity coincides with the advent of the lipstick camera, that allows viewers at home to see the cards of the players as the hands unfold.

This, and the remarkable sums of money at stake have made poker a popular spectator sport.

Senator concerned over scandal
The uncovering of two online cheating scandals at Absolute Poker and UltimateBet has not gone unnoticed by former US Senator Alphonse D'Amato. The New York politician who is the current chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has brought the incidents to the attention of the US Senate in an effort to legislate against this new breed of Internet crime. Both poker sites resided in the jurisdiction of the Kahnawake Gaming Commission which initially did not permit inspection of these sites in order to present a clean bill of health.

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Titan Poker, the pride and joy of the iPoker Network, is currently hosting Satellites and Super Satellites to the largest poker tournament in Africa – the Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament. South Africa’s sumptuous Super Bowl casino in the heart of beautiful Sun City will set the scene for the region’s premier poker event this September, guaranteeing a minimum prize pool of $1,500,000.

There are two ways to make money at poker: sticking to the tournament scene or grinding it out in cash games. You'll need to learn a vastly different skill set to consistently grow your bankroll in each environment because each venue tends to attract a specific kind of player.

Recreational players are more apt to play in tournaments, whereas higher-skilled players usually favor cash games. That's an important distinction because the better-skilled your opponents are, the more creativity and sophistication you'll need to bring to the table.

Online poker rooms AbsolutePoker.com and UltimateBet.com have announced the impending launch of the new Cereus platform, which will integrate the customers and features from both to create the world’s third largest Internet poker network.

The result of twelve months’ of development, Cereus will allow both operators to retain their unique assets while sharing more players, tournaments and features alongside new features and larger promotions.

“I am so excited to announce the launch of our new poker network, Cereus,” said Paul Leggett, Chief Operations Officer for AbsolutePoker.com and UltimateBet.com.

Candywriter today announced the release of Imagine Poker 3.6 for the Mac. Candywriter teamed up with Los Angeles-based Fearnot Music Studios to bring voices to all 21 Imagine Poker Mac characters as featured in the current iPhone/iPod Touch version of the game.

If a month and a half of World Series of Poker action in Las Vegas wasn't enough to slake your thirst for poker, but the Vegas lifestyle made you need a vacation, DoylesRoom has the solution.

The poker site is giving away a tropical package to the Costa Rica Challenge taking place at the La Condesa Hotel in Monte de la Cruz, Costa Rica.

For as little as $4.80+50¢, poker players at DoylesRoom can work their way up through satellites to win a $4,000 grand prize package that includes the $2,300 buy-in for the Costa Rica Challenge main event plus $1,700 for travel and accommodations.