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PokerTek expands in Nevada

The Mountain View Casino in Pahrump, Nevada has been the venue for the PokerTek Inc. ‘s installation of two PokerPro tables. With already 12 PokerPro set tables at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas strip, PokerTek already has established their field.

The financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed as yet. PokerTek is based in Matthews as a software-development firm that markets Texas Hold ’Em electronic tables for up to 10 players at one go. Casino revenues are hoping to get the necessary financial boost through this system with the increasing hands per hour and also reducing the usual labour costs of poker rooms. PokerTek is also marketing for the tables used in restaurants and bars.

Their PokerPro system deals the cards, displays them to the players on the relevant private screens and further displays general information on the larger screen at the centre of the table. This system also enables customers to set up betting accounts and holds the data and statistical information on the games.

Abramovich loses yacht possession during poker game

Roman Abramovich is a Russian billionaire and the owner of Chelsea Football Club. As reported by the Russian newspapers, last Monday, he lost one of his yachts in a game of poker. This news prompted a bustle and strong denial from the oligarch state governing members.

Following three Russian daily newspapers who published various versions of this story, John Mann who is a spokesman for Roman stated to the AFP, “The story is absolutely, completely, entirely false.” The story is said to have originated in the Italian press.

Moskovsky Komsomelets, a popular daily in Russia commented that Abramovich lost the 500,000- US dollar yacht, part of his considerable personal fleet during a poker game in Barcelona. Abramovich is said to have been in Barcelona to watch Chelsea, his team playing there.

Mann goes one to say that Abramovich was not in Barcelona for the Chelsea match and says that the whole story is a fabrication. He said, “We have instructed our lawyers to examine legal action”. Abramovich’s yacht collection is considered to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars even named “The Roman Navy” in Britian.

The Russian newspapers also stated that Abramovich was already in trouble with his girlfriend Daria Zhukova due to his existing poker habits. They had in fact been a sore point between the couple for a while now. Abramovich now a billionaire, had made his fortune in Russia’s sell-off of state assets in the 1990s but was now turning his attention to online gambling.

The newspapers still haven’t provided the name of the yacht in question nor the source names behind this information. Meanwhile, Izvestia and Trud, another mass-cirulation daily newspapers in Russia also reported the story. They cited La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper La Repubblica as the source of the information.

Full Tilt Poker will be the new Poker Million Sponsor

After a very recent announcement, Full Tilt Poker is confirmed to be replacing Ladbrokes Poker as the official sponsor of the high-status Poker Million Event.

The first six qualifying events to the Full Tilt Poker Million Tournament will be held in London in mid July. October will be the second round of qualifiers that will take place together with the second runner up heat and the two semi final events.After that, the actual tournament will be taking place in December.

The qualifying tables will consist of twelve lucky FullTiltPoker.com players at each table. The top prize for this year’s event is $600,000.

“Full Tilt and Poker Million together, it’s like my best mate marrying my sister. I am excited to see my pals from the States – edog, Phil Ivey and Chris Ferguson – the top boys from the best poker-only site in Britain’s finest knockout poker event, and after I’ve knocked them out I’ll take them around the sights of London”, were Roland De Wolfe’s words, professional poker player of the FullTilt Team.

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.

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