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Soldier jailed after lying to play poker

A soldier named Lee Wittekind has just been jailed and kicked out of the Army after he lied saying that his fiancée had been killed so that he could be granted paid leave. The real reason for the leave vacation was that he could play poker! Wittekind had been given sympathetic leave from his army bosses after telling them that his fiancée had been run over and killed.

The manipulative 31 year old soldier went as far as making contact with some anguished parents of a dead girl. He had never even met them or her but still begged the parents to back up his lie and terrible story. His colleagues realised that he was planning to take part in a pub poker game and told their army officers who followed to inform the police authorities.

WSOP $50K HORSE Event Update

Erik Sagstrom from Sweden will start as chip leader when the final table of the $50K H.O.R.S.E Event is going to resume later on today. Erik was in the lead for the most part of yesterday and he proved to be a really tricky opponent at the table.

Sagstrom will start with $3.6 Million in chips on the final table which is way more than any other player at the table. The player with second in chips have $2.5 Million and that is Vitaly Lunkin from Russia.

Here are the seating arrangements and the chip stacks for the final table:

Seat 1 – Ville Wahlbeck – 645.000
Seat 2 – Erik Sagstrom – 3.675.000
Seat 3 – John Hanson – 1.700.000
Seat 4 – Huck Seed – 1.380.000
Seat 5 – Vitaly Lunkin – 2.490.000
Seat 6 – David Bach – 2.345.000
Seat 7 – Erik Seidel – 965.000
Seat 8 – Chau Giang – 1.075.000

Vitaly Lunkin Chipleader going into day 4 of $50K Horse Event

For our Swedish poker readers out there we are happy to tell you that Erik Sagstrom is through to day 4 of the WSOP Event #49 which is the $50K buy in H.O.R.S.E Event. Erik has $1.3 Million in chip going in to day 4 which gives him a second place on the leaderboard.

The current chip leader of the tournament is Vitaly Lunkin from Russia with $1.5 Million in chips. Other players who are still very much in the game are Ville Wahlbeck from Finland and Full Tilt Poker pro Gus Hansen from Denmark.

This year the $50K H.O.R.S.E Event hit an all time low in terms of participants with only 95 players signing up for the event. Some players say that the reason for this is the fact that ESPN decided not to show the event on television this year while others blame the economy.

Out of the original 95 players only 19 are remaining at the start of day 4 and 16 out of these players will make it in to the money which will guarantee a $72.914 pay day.

Thw winner of this tournament will take a bracelet and a cool $1.276.802 for the first prize.

These are the standings at the start of day 4:

Vitaly Lunkin 1,527,000

Erik Sagstrom 1,315,000

Freddy Deeb 1,300,000

David Bach 1,265,000

Ville Wahlbeck 842,000

John Hanson 815,000

Gus Hansen 801,000

Mike Wattel 779,000

John Kabbaj 678,000

Huck Seed 672,000

Brett Richey 671,000

Tony G 650,000

Chau Giang 616,000

Steve Billirakis 576,000

Frank Kassela 499,000

Erik Seidel 464,000

David Chiu 397,000

Ray Dehkharghani 262,000

Todd Brunson 145,000

Buzzluck 3D Casino Launched

In the beginning of March this year a new online casino opened it’s doors. But this casino is not like all the other online casinos out there, the Buzzluck Casino refers to themselves as an online SuperCasino.

When you visit the Buzzluck website you will quickly see that this online casino is like nothing we have seen earlier. This is not only a place where you come to gamble a few bucks and then move on, you come to Buzzluck.com to be entertained…. And you will be.

The Buzzluck website is full of 3D animations and wherever you go on the site. There are also a couple of other 3D animated figures that you can meet and greet in the casino lobby at Buzzluck.

The actual casino games at Buzzluck are available both as a download version and as an instant play version on the website.

New players signing up at Buzzluck.com can enjoy a free €750 bonus that can be used at the various slots machines when making a first deposit.

The founder of Buzzluck.com had the following to say about his latest creation:

“Buzzluck.com offers a real entertainment alternative — that’s what makes it a ’supercasino.’ With everything going on, it’s never the same place twice.”

For more information about this new 3-D online casino we can recommend this Buzzluck Review.

Chili Poker launching an online bingo site

It had been reported by the owners of the big online poker site Chili Poker that they are now trying to enter the European online bingo market. Chili Poker is part of Chili Gaming, that was established back in 2006 and they have been offering online gaming, casino games and more to the emerging European market ever since. They have a database of registered players in countries world-wide and now they want to invest in the online bingo market for the very first time. They are following the lead of other major online bingo brands as the trend shows that online bingo is definitely proving to be going through a period of phenomenal growth at the moment The UK online bingo market is packed with the well established as well as the newer online bingo sites. This sector is very interesting to the European markets and particularly gaming companies. The established gaming companies are keen to enter this marker of online bingo and hope to reap the benefits and a good profit while the trend is strong.

Parlay Entertainment is the chosen online bingo software provider for Chili Poker. Parlay already provides for the well known online bingo sites such as Bingos.co.uk and Paddy Power Bingo. It is also used by the International online bingo provider St Minver who uses their services to power their network of the white label online bingo brands. These site brands include Chit Chat Bingo and Shipleys Bingo. Parlay is adequately ready to supply the best online bingo software available at the moment and they have also powered up the very first online bingo site that was launched ten years ago.

The Chili Poker online bingo site will be host to a wealth of side games and a social networking function. It will be available in multiple languages and multiple currencies options. This will all benefit Chili Poker in widening their future and expose their current brand. Alexandre Dreyfus, chief Executive of Chili Poker is looking forward into this venture with Parlay Entertainment. He feels that it will definitely enhance their global ‘brand recognition’ and will generate more income and more revenue throughout for the whole company. He has reportedly stated that “ChiliGaming is looking at the online bingo industry as we are aware of it being the fastest growing segment of the online gaming world, shown clearly in the number of bingo players, which doubled steadily in 2008 in spite of the global financial meltdown”.

New poker pro hails from Wimbledon

Celebrity Wimbledon sportsman star Mr. Boris Becker is now the newest poker celebrity on the scene. Becker is known for having been the youngest player ever to win the men’s singles final almost 25years back. Now at 42, he is showing his never-ending competitive spirit in the poker game and tables and has turned into a pro.

This all started after a tennis match being cancelled due to heavy rain and Becker resorting to playing a set of card games with his tennis colleagues. Becker now, looks forward to playing in Dortmund, his hometown city, this July and then also in the Tour de grand final located in Monte Carlo.

According to reports, Becker has wanting to enhance his poker skills for a while no in aim of becoming a real international poker star. We believe he has what it takes as Becker is used to a pressured tennis career and environment for the past 25 -30 years and Poker is certainly a pressured game with a poker pro lifestyle being like a second home to him. Poker might coincide with tennis skills as they are both sports that require a clear and calm head, collected and continuously anticipating your opponent’s further moves. It also, like tennis involves a lot if travelling from city to city.

Note: Boris Becker is a member of Team PokerStars and can be found playing online at PokerStars.com.

PokerStars Hit Hard by the Recent Asset Freeze

A couple of days ago the American Government froze $33 Million in player transactions coming from poker sites accepting US players. PokerStars is the poker room that got hit the hardest while Full Tilt Poker and Cake Poker takes this as an opportunity to build their player base.

The traffic at PokerStars went down by 7% during the month of June according to PokerScout.com. This is a direct effect of the US players having trouble making a deposit using eChecks which is the most popular deposit option for US players.

FullTilt and Cake Poker on the other hand have taken advantage of the current situation and they have seen their traffic rise by 3% each during the month of June.

Poker players at Full Tilt Poker were also hit these problems in the beginning but the people in charge of FullTilt have been able to set up alternative options for player transactions very quickly. On poker forums around the internet the public opinion seems to be that PokerStars have been taking a very long time to solve this issue and the players are not happy with this.

It will be interesting to see how the player traffic is going to be affected over the coming weeks. Unless PokerStars can find a solid solution to this issue soon they are likely to lose even more of their market share to FullTilt and Cake Poker.

Facebook and AlertPay agree to stop selling poker chips

Latest news according to reports on the eCommerce Journal, has it that Facebook, the enormous social networking online site and AlertPay, an online payment firm have just agreed signed an agreement. This states that they will be terminating numerous online gambling operations that have been selling virtual poker chips for use on Facebook’s “Texas HoldEm Poker” application.

This setup was potentially illegal and according to a statement on AlertPay’s official blog, the two firms have now negotiated the basis issue on the following structure: “Facebook does not permit online gambling on its platform and some sellers attempted to convert the Texas HoldEm Poker application into monetized online gambling.

The blog added, ‘Sites offering for sale virtual poker chips for use with Texas HoldEm Poker are in violation of AlertPay’s User Agreement and in potential violation of state and United States federal law prohibiting unlicensed and/or online gambling, as well as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 31 U.S.C ‘.

DIN_FRU Goes from Hero to Zero at Full Tilt Poker

Before last week started the Swedish poker player DIN_FRU (rumoured to be Erik Sagstrom) was the biggest winner of the year at the Fixed Limit Texas Hold’Em tables at Full Tilt Poker. But after two huge losing sessions last week he is now on the list of the top five biggest losers on the same list.

In these two losing sessions he has been playing against Phil Ivey and Niki Jedlicka in high stakes heads-up matches at FullTilt. After last weeks sessions Ivey and Jedlicka are now the top two winners in Fixed Limit Hold’Em at FullTilt. DIN_FRU lost lost a whopping $415.000 on Sunday and he is now down $110.000 for the year playing FL Hold’Em.

Hopefully he is not completely busto after these two sessions as we are hoping to see some more insteresting clashes between these players.

New WSOP Bracelet for Jeff Lisandro

Poker professional Jeff Lisandro joins Phil Ivey and Brock Parker as the only three player this year to have won two bracelets in this years WSOP.

The second bracelet was won in the Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Event after a 4 hour long heads-up battle against Farzad Rouhani. The win awarded him the $431.656 first price but more importantly his second WSOP bracelet of the year. Lisandro has now won three WSOP bracelets in total over the years and his total tournament carrier winnings are above $3.8 Million.

At the final table of this tournament we could also find familiar faces such as Doyle Brunson (finished 7th) and Justin “BoostedJ” Smith (finished 8th).

Here are the results from the final table in the Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo event of the 2009 WSOP:

1. Jeff Lisandro – $431.656
2. Farzad Rouhani – $266.804
3. Mike Wattel – $176.605
4. Frank Mariani – $124.684
5. Yan chen – $93.513
6. Abe Mosseri – $74.258
7. Doyle Brunson – $62.234
8. Justin “BoostedJ” Smith – $54.896
9. Anthony Rivera – $41.885

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