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Jamie Gold and Aced.com part ways

Jamie Gold and successful online poker site Aced.com have benefited from a hefty eight-figure endorsement deal through the years but this deal has now fallen apart. The 2006 WSOP Main Event Champion is now left without a major endorsement deal.

The break-up deal seems to have originated from some non-payment issues that have been alleged between the two parties. This seems to include expenses that Gold and his agents incurred while he was representing Aced.com’s interests at an Oscars Night poker event and during an appearance overseas at the PaddyPower.com Irish Poker Open.

According to Gold’s spokesman, the site failed to bring home promises connected to a proposed six-month advertising campaign for the site and that a minimum of one written contract had been broken in the process. The Aced.com official did not comment, confirm or deny any specifics in the matter although one particular e-mail inquiry directed to Aced went unanswered.

Jamie Gold is now history on the Aced.com site. This is not the first time that he had to stop an endorsement deal such as when he was representing Bodog Poker for several months.

Gold was soon off to a rocky start as he got involved in a drawn out legal disagreement with Bruce Crispin Leyser. This was a controversy involving the procurement of players to represent Bodog during the ’06 WSOP Main Event.

Leyser tried to claim 50 % of Gold’s $12 million champion’s winnings and this followed in an undisclosed settlement for the two parties at a later date. The 2006 WSOP Main Event gave Gold a spectacular $12 million first-place win which still remains the single largest poker payday ever recorded. This crowned Jamie Gold as the WSOP’s all-time career tournament earnings leader.

IPN Welcomes their 3,000,000th Player

Boss Media’s International Poker Network (IPN) is well known as Europe’s most popular online poker network. Now, they have just announced another achievement; the registration of their 3,000,000th player.

The statistics are looking up as they have obtained a 14% increase in their active daily players and a 22% increase in maximum concurrent players.
They also proudly announce an unbelievable 28% increase in their daily registrations. Their poker network is rated as being the fastest growing autonomous European network during all of last year and the future looks good as they do not show signs of slowing down.

President of GTECH’s New Media & Sports Betting Co. Atul Bali commented; “This is a major milestone for the IPN,” “We are building on the strength of each company in the new media group and this is just the first of many achievements to come.”

GTECH’s New Media & Sports Betting Co is an umbrella that includes Boss Media, St Minver, Finsoft and Dynamite Idea.

Texas Dolly Wins $2 Million

Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson, now aged 74 is certainly not unknown for poker enthusiasts. Now, the talented online and land poker veteran has won again, this time against a bunch of younger poker professional players in the mixed games. This happened over the weekend at Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Bobby’s Room is originally named after Bobby Baldwin, world champion poker player himself and CEO of Mirage Resorts. This poker room has been the host of many exclusive poker games and mighty poker clashes. This time it was Texas Dolly’s big win that made the news.

Brunson was not shy to talk about $2 million profit he made over the weekend. He left messages on his Internet blog, where he wrote that he had decided to hit the cash games instead of the World Poker Tour $25 000 Championship event this year. An unusual move from Brunson, this did turn out as a great success as only a full win in the WPT tournament would have equalled the profits from this cash game win.

This involved Brunson facing up against the fearsome international poker master Phil Ivey. This ended up being an amusing episode as Doyle chose the game to be played. Brunson proceeded with a six card Razz and won over Ivey, who is regarded as a very mature and experienced opponent.

At the end, “I’ve got some more games for him if he wants to continue!’’ were Brunson’s words!

New Cake Poker Mobile Software Available

With an increasing demand for mobile gaming software, Cake Poker has answered the call of online poker players to have a mobile software platform. Cake has introduced a brand new mobile platform application that is fully-functional and completely user-friendly.

Cake Poker, the 10th busiest poker network on the Net, has released its full-service mobile software app for Windows Mobile operating system, permitting all Cake players to play real money online poker from anywhere that their cell phone can connect to the Internet. This move into the mobile realm is big for Cake, as their big competitors, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, have not yet taken the initiative to bring their poker platform to cellular users. Cake Poker Mobile is a unique and free app that can be downloaded from the Cake website, requiring only that Windows Mobile 5.0 be installed on your phone. Cake Poker features such as Gold Chips and Gold Cards operate in the same way as they do on your PC, and the mobile poker room requires no extra fees to play at and links directly to the player’s Cake account.

Unfortunately, Apple iPhone users are not supported on the new Cake Poker mobile software, and there is no hope for an iPhone poker app in the future. The problem lies among restrictions on Flash application development put in place by Apple through their Safari Web browser.

Another online gambling site that has recently gotten on board with the mobile gaming trend is Bodog Poker, which has developed a full sports betting application for mobile clients. This application is compatible with the SmartPhone, the Blackberry, Motorola’s Razr, and more. The Bodog mobile software features online slots, video poker, and blackjack, among other games. A Bodog mobile poker software application is in the works, as well.

Canadian Gambling addict accuses casinos

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp were recently sued by a Canadian woman. She states that she stole from her employer to feed a gambling habit and blames the two Casinos for this.

The Hamilton Spectator reported that Christine Papakyriakou, 52 of Hamilton is claiming in her lawsuit that the casinos and the regulatory firm changed her completely into what she has become; a compulsive gambler. The defendants are Casino Niagara and Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.

After stealing $7 million Canadian ($5.8 million U.S.) from Andres Wines, Papakyriakou will be sentenced this June. Andres Wines of Andrew Peller Ltd. Prosecutors are planning to ask for a prison term for their ex-employee.

Papakyriakou claimed in the legal documents that the casinos in question encouraged her frenzy habit by telling the employees to use her first name, allowing her to remain at the tables for hours on end and introducing her to celebrities.

Spokeswoman for the OLG, Allison Sparkes said, “The individual’s own statement of claim confirms she stole money to support her lifestyle, which included gambling extensively at many places outside of Ontario including in Las Vegas and Aruba and on the Internet.”

Bodog takes back control of Bodog.com

According to the reported sources close to the internet sportsbook Bodog, the legislative battle to regain control of its domain name Bodog.com has finally reached its end. The quarrel started back in August 2007 when Bodog lost its domain name Bodog.com after receiving a $48 million dollar default court ruling against them.

1st Technology were the ones to allege that Bodog’ s software infringed on the patents they had filed in the US and elsewhere in the world according to the lawsuit filed in the state of Nevada. On August 1, 2007 the representatives of Bodog failed to appear in court to answer to these allegations and a default judgment was issued against them.

Following that, Bodog was forced to pay $49 million in damages. The removal of all DNS servers associated with Bodog were also included in the judgment. For most online companies, losing its domain name on the eve of Football season would have been a final fatal blow but Bodog succeeded to launch newbodog.com within just 12 hours. Then they also launched the current domain bodoglife.com few weeks after losing control over Bodog.com.

According to sources close to the firm, the legal battle is finally over and the company has received its due full rights over Bodog.com. A formal statement should be released this week with more details about Bodog and if they reached a settlement agreement with 1st Technology or if they regained their rights by winning the legal battle directly.

PRWeb to stop promoting online gambling

A press release distribution site Ferndale, has announced that the Washington located PRWeb has been ordered by the Washington State to end their online gambling promotions. This press release service was the news according to some reports issued earlier on this week.

After over 72 hours, the emails and chasers repeatedly sent to the site and its parent group, Vocus Inc., in Maryland questioning confirmation of this ban and the grounds on which it is be based are still unanswered.

It was already a well known fact that the Washington state is harsh and uses a very hard-line approach towards its online gambling but are nevertheless lenient towards and allow the other forms such as land gambling. Class C felony punishment measures usually applied for the more serious and personal crimes of the State are now being used for online gambling misuse.

Vocus Inc, the parent group of PRWeb.com is a publicly held firm providing public relations, distributing press releases over the Internet via RSS with the on-demand Web-based software. Yahoo! News, Google News, Lycos News, Topix.net, Excite News and eMediaWire are acting as distribution partners.

Despite the Washington State threat to the human principle of free speech and the lack of details about the legalities and justifications for this ban, the State ban still has not received a lot of media attention.

PokerStars unbanns ZeeJustin

The world renowned internet online poker room, PokerStars, has re-instated Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo’ s account, a sponsored professional player of Bodog Poker. This was done just in time for PokerStars’ very first SCOOP / Spring Championship of Online Poker.

Bonomo, a 23 year-old, encountered the first problems back in 2006 on PartyPoker. Back then, PartyPoker was hosting U.S. players and Bonomo initiated multiple accounts at the same time thus setting off a number of other websites to follow and ban this young player from their virtual homes.

Bonomo’s multi-accounting appearing on the various sites, coincided together with the revelation that Josh “JJProdigy” Field had used numerous screen names, including “ABlackCar” After Field’s mischief was also listed through PartyPoker, the latter started to really tighten up their safety measures. Field went on to being banned from the Bluff Online Poker Challenge last month, a decision taken by the Cake Poker Network after staking a player to use his account.

It has been found that Bonomo was using a total of six accounts to log into PartyPoker and was at times using all these accounts at the same online poker event. Bonomo moved away from the media frenzy and $640 buy-in PartyPoker Sunday tournament winnings were revoked. Then PokerStars Poker Room Manager, Lee Jones announced on TwoPlusTwo on February 26th, 2006, that Bonomo had been “playing multiple accounts in several tournaments at PokerStars.” Following that, money was withdrawn from his account and used to pay back the “players who were harmed by his actions in those same tournaments.”

Joining “Survivor: China” castaway Jean-Robert Bellande, Evelyn Ng, and David Williams, Bonomo signed on as a member of Team Bodog in 2008. Bonomo started cashing out from the live poker back in 2007, when he placed second in a $3,000 buy-in HORSE tournament part of the WSOP / World Series of Poker Circuit festivities in Las Vegas Caesar’s Palace for $40,000. Bonomo got to the final table and came fourth in a $2,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em poker event, winning $156,000 during the 2007 WSOP. In 2008, he classified as runner up in a $5,000 Mixed Hold’em event for $230,000, a tournament that marked the first bracelet win for Erick Lindgren, Full Tilt Poker pro.

At the 2006 Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic, part of the WPT / World Poker Tour, Bonomo finished in seventh for $152,000 at the six-handed televised final table. In 2007, he also classified 11th in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event and 35th in the WPT Championship, for a combined total of $154,000. Bonomo took down the inaugural Dream Team Poker event held at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas as part of “Team Bluff.” Parvis and Eric Morris also participated at this event. Next, he will appear at the PokerStars SCOOP, which commences today.

Marking Bodog’s elite stable of poker pros’ new addition, Mohawk Gaming Group CEO Alwyn Morris commented, “Justin is one of the most feared and skilled players in poker today and we’re thrilled to officially have him join our team of world-class poker pros. Justin lives and breathes the Bodog lifestyle and is a perfect fit for us. We expect him to make a lot of noise this year for Team Bodog, beginning with the WSOP this summer.”

Poker Legend Chip Reese’ son Found Dead

Poker legend Chip Reese had died in December 2007, due to severe pneumonia. He died at the age of 56 and is still regarded as one of the most versatile and skilled players to have ever lived. His achievements include winning the inaugural $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at the 2006 World Series of Poker. The tournament is now dedicated to his memory, and the winner of the event receives the Chip Reese Trophy.

Now, the shocking news was announced this week that his son Casey Reese, has passed away. Phil Hellmuth informed the poker community via his Twitter account and soon enough news reached some online blogs and poker forums that the twenty year old college student had passed away due to drug overdose.

Casey was a promising student and baseball talent. He had just been appointed a scholarship to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and always excelled in school. There have been speculations about this overdose, with some saying it could have been an overdose of prescription drugs. The cause of death is still unknown and the toxicology reports are due in some weeks. Casey was found in his apartment on Monday at 17:15.

News soon spread amongst well known professional poker players as Doyle Brunson and Daniel Negreanu who were shocked, sad and even angry as they knew him well. Casey was in fact a highly regarded youngster. Rumour has it that he was having a very hard time dealing with the sudden passing of his father.

‘Total Gaming Services’ offered by 888’s Dragonfish

Dragonfish is a new white-label enterprise by Pacific Poker. This new business-to-business (B2B) launch was announced this week by 888 Holdings. B2B was named to make a difference from its traditional B2C business. Dragonfish’s work will be directly with the online gaming operators and media companies that are looking into brand loyalty and media assets as well as monetizing their existing database or enhancing existing internet gaming operations as poker, bingo, sports and casino.

‘Total Gaming Services’ is the motto for Dragonfish as they offers technological and operational services and ePayments, as well as management of affiliates, SEO, CRM, business analytics, online and offline marketing. Back in 2007, Israel-based 888 Holdings made the strategic move to accomplish their B2C experience in online gaming. Their aim was to become the largest B2C operator moving into the B2B arena. During 2007, contracts with Riley’s, Tower Torneos and LuckyAce were already signed.

More B2B deals were signed in 2008 in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, also including the innovative and strategic partnership with the UK Football Pools / Sportech Plc. Dragonfish is also the provider of the full managed service including all marketing, operational and technology of the Sportech’s Littlewoods brand.

An agreement was signed this week between Dragonfish and Racing Post. 888 is to provide the latter with a comprehensive online casino and poker product for the firm, this to include their customer support, back-end software and the payments processing.

888 had announced earlier this week that their poker revenues decreased by 4 percent in 2008. Pacific Poker believes that Dragonfish will be a good provider and support towards a considerable portion of 888 Holdings’ profits by the end of 2010 financial calculations.

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