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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 Dealers – It’s time to top up your income with Dial a Dealer

Dial a Dealer which recently launched in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand is a new website that connects dealers to customers wishing to host poker and casino nights in their local area.

Dial a Dealer, which is now inviting dealers in the USA and Australia to list on their site, allows listed dealers:

• The opportunity to supplement their income by picking up local freelance dealing jobs.
• The ability to create unique dealer profile which can be searched by thousands of potential customers.
• To manage customers and contacts through an online Dial a Dealer account.
• Access to the exclusive private Dial a Dealer chat forum and community centre.

Michael Needham, co-founder of Dialadealer.com, says, “This presents a massive opportunity for freelance dealers to make a decent living out of working the poker and casino events scene in their local area. We are now starting to market the Dial a Dealer brand to the wider population to ensure a constant flow of customers coming to the site to hire poker and casino dealers.”

Michael Needham goes on to comment, “The end customer also now gets a much more affordable poker night service as it is a direct transaction between him and his chosen dealer with no events agency involved in the transaction. Each dealer has total control over the prices they charge, and the packages they offer. Their profile is in effect their “shop window”. The more work they do and the higher the customer ratings they receive, the more they move up the pecking order. It is a total meritocracy. The best and highest rated dealers will be able to charge the most.”

Thousands of poker nights and casino events take place all over the world every day. Traditionally, freelance dealers depended on word of mouth to source dealing jobs in their local region. But for the first time, Dial a Dealer is aiming to bring together the fragmented poker dealer and casino events industry. Dial a Dealer now make it possible for customers looking to hire dealers to search for and contact freelance poker and casino dealers.

Dial a Dealer’s new site is being rolled out concurrently in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

About Dial a Dealer
Dial a Dealer is a London-(UK) based free to use website that connects users with professional dealers and casino events companies. Its easy to use search engine allows customers to find the best dealers at the best prices. So whether the goal is to organise a corporate casino night or a home poker night, users will find a wide choice of suitable dealers on Dial a Dealer.

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.

Carbon Poker and Merge Network get a new software update

Merge Network and Carbon Poker have just released a software update version to their poker client. The new release is version 4.5 and is bringing some exciting ideas to the poker room. This was done this week, together with new VIP program details.

Carbon Poker’s players can now choose from a selection of tech graphics including floors, different backgrounds, table rails, and card backs, by which they can individualise the skin look of their poker game. Through the new ‘Poker Game Mini Mode’, players are now in a position to run their poker games with minimal interface while being still legible. Such a feature was created with those players in mind who play at a multitude of tables at the same time, this giving them better visuals of all tables. The ‘poker game grid mode’ on the other hand gives players the possibility to specify grid combinations with up to 5×5 games, also allowing players to split poker games into the separate window or back into a grid window.

However, the best new feature of this new software release is the updates on tournament entries and payouts. The rebuys, bounties, addon, payout schedules and tournament entries were re-vamped now to include greater variant of options. As for the payment schedule, players now have the option between multiple payment options for tournament event entries.

There is the ability to have re-matches following after the end of the game through the Head’s up Sit-n-Go games. The site makeover also affected the loyalty reward system together with the VIP program and a brand new points system. This system allows for players to use their loyalty points to enter guaranteed poker events, exclusive VIP level freerolls, real money SnGs, live seat satellites, or even cash in their points for cash or clearing a deposit bonus.

Carbon Poker also added a new freeroll schedule. From now on a new $50,000 weekly guaranteed poker tournament along with more new freeroll and guaranteed games will be hosted instead of the old games.

PKR 3-D Poker adds new Games

The website PKR.com has just announced that they have added various online poker games. The popular website is already well known among players for its revolutionary internet poker. PKR Poker offers their members the opportunity to take part in 3D poker games in a virtual environment, quite a unique and innovative poker experience.

This involves the players to select their physical look including appearance, dress code and even manner of behaviour at the gambling table. Characters are varied; starting from the silent disguised look on till the loud and assertive characters.

Other new features on the site are the Omaha High/Low – Pot Limit and Limit constitutes and Roulette games, a time bank and brand new shop with poker articles. On the other hand, there is the time bank feature which permits poker players in the cash games a wider time slot to decide on their next move. This means that with the more hands dealt to one user, the more time the players get to decide on plays.

Clothing items can be purchased on the PKR.com shop and this has proven to be very successful with the users so far. Besides the clothing items, there are poker books, various new accessories and subscriptions for partner poker advice site at BluefirePoker.com that have just been added to the shop shelves as well.

Simon Prodger, as Marketing Director, stated, “Our community is highly valued and as we grow we like to make sure we provide our players with exactly what they need. Many of the features in our updates are in response to popular demand and we are constantly working on improvements for the future.”

At the same time we would like to inform players that do not yet have an account at PKR.com that they PKR Poker bonus code EASYPOKER600 will give them a free $600 bonus when creating their account.

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