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Friday 31st March 2006

Five Million and Counting! Los Angeles – March 30, 2006 – Three weeks ago, PokerStars.com announced the first $1 million guaranteed weekly tournament in history. Yesterday, the world’s largest tournament poker site made his...

Friday 31st March 2006

Blue Square re-launches its “new look” website March 29th 2006 saw the re-launch of www.bluesq.com. The re-branding exercise coincided with a complete overhaul of functionality and was as a direct response to customer feedback and future gaming...

Friday 31st March 2006

Publishers Look to Cash in On Poker Boom It’s a rule of big business: wherever there’s a boom, every other industry that can get a piece of the action is right there looking to clean up any of the loose change that’s floating around. And,...

Friday 31st March 2006

CasinoRoom.com Joins Leading Online Gaming Affiliate Program March 31, 2006 (London, UK) – CasinoRoom.com has now been incorporated into the world’s leading online gaming affiliate program – PokerAffiliate.com. Affiliate partners can now recruit players to n...

Friday 31st March 2006

Varkonyi Wins Extreme Poker Event in Freezing Conditions Having played under water in the Bahamas, the Extreme Poker Tour has just completed its latest stunt, with Robert Varkonyi winning the InterPoker.com held on an ice field in the Arctic Circle, Finl...

Friday 31st March 2006

National League of Poker Launch Free Poker Portal If you’re looking to get a bit of practice in and don’t want to unburden yourself of serious amounts of cash then the new National League of Poker website is the place to head. With the aim of prov...

Friday 31st March 2006

Mike Caro to Grace Irish Open with His Mad Presence Poker strategist, psychologist and all-round mad genius, Mike Caro is set to head over to Dublin for the 25th Irish Poker Open, which is taking place from April 14-17. In addition, the founder of t...

Friday 31st March 2006

Online Casino Hosts Extreme Poker Tournament Robert Varkonyi, 2002 World Series of Poker Champion, felt the chill as the latest InterPoker.com Extreme Poker Challenge forced him to heat things up in order to stay alive, let alone keep his fu...

Friday 31st March 2006

National Poker League Launch Legal Online U.S. Poker Games The National League of Poker has announced the formal launch of its free online poker portal, nlop.com. This will include the launch of the NLOP Spring Series, a 6-week promotion that will award ...

Friday 31st March 2006

Another Strange Piece of History Purchased by Online Casino The bathtub that James Earl Ray stood in when he shot Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been sold to online casino, Golden Palace for $7,600. “The 10-day ebay auction ended on Thursday afternoon wi...

Friday 31st March 2006

Bet4Aces.com Launch Aggressive Marketing Campaign Online casino and sportsbook, Bet4Aces.com, has announced the launch of phase one of a four part aggressive marketing campaign targeting the international online gaming market. As part of the camp...

Friday 31st March 2006

X-Factor Judge Wagers £1 Million for Charity Online bookmaker, Fred Done has accepted a £1 million wager on the Grand National from Simon Cowell – of American Idol and X-Factor fame – and friends on 40/1 shot, De Luc and 66/1 shot, Le Roi Mi...

Friday 31st March 2006

Online Casino Launch Aggressive Marketing Campaign Online casino and sportsbook, Bet4Aces.com, has announced the launch of phase one of a four part aggressive marketing campaign targeting the international online gaming market. As part of the...

Thursday 30th March 2006

Swedish Parliament Approve State-Backed Poker Service As ever, it’s come down to the forward thinking Swedes to push things forward and deliver a first for the online gaming community: state-backed internet poker. While other governments spend their t...

Thursday 30th March 2006

Charity Poker Games Raise Ire of Local Authorities Charity poker just can’t seem to get out of the headlines at the moment. This time, rather than philanthropist pros holding vast tourneys in Vegas, it’s the interpretation of a city law that’s caus...