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Wynn Resorts Team Up with PokerStars in Case of Regulation

A new direction has formed as of late in the ongoing saga that is US online poker with the alliance of established online poker sites and established Las Vegas land-based casinos. Up first is the collaboration of PokerStars and Wynn Resorts in the hopes of possible regulated online poker in the US.

Right now, the companies are mainly going to push for a federall bill that will legalize and regulate the online gambling industry on a federal level. “The companies will first work to secure the passage of federal legislation that will finally and conclusively define illegal internet gambling, provide law enforcement with the tools necessary to stop illegal internet gambling, protect consumers by establishing a robust regulatory environment for the safe operation of online poker by experienced operators, and establish a regime for the assessment and collection of taxes,” stated a press release.

Once legislation passes, the business relationship will transform into a new type of partnership as the two corporations would mutually launch an online poker site fairly named PokerStarsWynn.com, which would provide legal and regulated online poker to US players.

Ironically Wynn Resorts had formerly opposed the regulation of online gambling, as had other land-based casinos who feared the competition of online gambling would ultimately hurt their businesses. However, owner of Wynn Resorts, Steve Wynn, has now joined forces (if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em) and accepted that online gambling is here to stay and isn’t going anywhere. He now believes regulation is the best alternative and has devised a plan to tap into the industry’s sky high revenues.

“As a company that has safely conducted gaming in the US for more than 40 years, we believe that the same can be done for poker on the internet,” he says.

Ultimately, the alliance would provide benefits to both parties should the game of online poker become legal in the US, whereas they both may otherwise suffer without the alliance. Wynn now has a leg in the door with the PokerStars brand, which already has the player base, the software, the expertise, the pros, and the infrastructure to keep it all afloat. At the same time, PokerStars can use the Wynn name to protect itself from being scorned for allowing US players to continue to play on their site after the UIGEA went into effect.

60 Billionth Hand Dealt at PokerStars

PokerStars foresaw their 60 billionth hand to be dealt before the month’s end, and so it came. The lucky 60 billionth hand winner was “Pogo650,” who took an added $102K on top of the winning pot that consisted of $150. The hand was dealt at a $5/$10 Limit Texas Hold ‘em cash game, and there were five other players in the hand. Each of them divvied up an additional $100K prize pool, four earning $21K and one getting $11K, based on their frequent player points earned while seated at the table.

It all went down on PokerStars at the reasonable hour of 9:35 am. EDT on a Tuesday morning. Pogo650 was holding a Q/3 offsuit when he won the hand with a 3 on the flop for a pair. He had re-raised before the flop forcing “DrPepel,” the following player, to fold, taking himself out of the running for any prize money. The remaining four opponents called, and then all players checked the flop of K/3/2. Pogo650 bet; the others called. Then this all happened again on the turn, a 6 and the river, a 9. By then, the pot was up to $150.

Pogo650 said after winning, “I think I can afford to change my old banger of a car now.”

This wasn’t the first milestone hand for Pogo650 though. He was actually lucky enough to hit two, commenting, “I’m possibly the biggest luckbox alive over the last week or so. Two losing sessions ended in milestone hands.”

Round 2: Blom v. Negreanu PokerStars SuperStar Showdown

After the beat down suffered by Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu in the first round of the SuperStar Showdown between him and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom of only 1,439 hands, Blom had pocketed $150K of Negreanu’s bankroll. Negreanu promised to return a week later better prepared. The rematch held the same rules: four tables of $50/$100 heads up NLH for up to 2,500 hands. It wasn’t long before spectators saw a repeat of the first round. Blom dominated for the first half of the session taking $120K of Negreanu’s bankroll in just about 1,300 hands.

But that wasn’t the end of the story this time, Negreanu managed to turn it around, coming back and finishing $26,500 in the positive direction and ending the five-game winning streak by Blom.

At the end of the session at PokerStars, the chat window read:

Isildur1: gg, nice comeback!
KidPoker: I won? wow sick! gg man thanks
KidPoker: I broke so much stuff in this room the first half
KidPoker: my assistant has lots of cleaning to do lol jkjk

Negreanu’s final words were “Isildur is incredible. I hope to do a training lesson with him one day. He’s the best.”
Negreanu may have walked away with his pride mended, but across the two sessions, he still lost $123,500 to Blom. However, according to match rules, Round One was one match in itself that Blom did in fact win. Round Two was in fact won by Negreanu, so technically they are even.

ESPN Nominated for Sports Emmy for WSOP Coverage

Poker fans across the world look forward to ESPN’s coverage of the World Series of Poker each year, and now again, for the third year, the broadcasts have been nominated for a Sports Emmy. This year, the category is “Live Event Turnaround—World Series of Poker Final Table.”

ESPN receives numerous nominations every year for their far reaching sports coverage. This year they received exactly 52 nominations for Sports Emmy Awards including 12 nominations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup event in South Africa and five nominations for NFL broadcasting.

Not surprisingly, this year ESPN earned the most nominations of any other submitting brand for the tenth time in 11 years. The Sports Emmy Award nominations are decided by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Winners will be presented with their awards on May 2, 2011.

Possible Underage Player Places in Sunday Million

When PokerStars awarded sixth-place finisher, “zeurr” with a $518K payout for the Sunday Million earlier this month, it didn’t take long for the chatter regarding the player’s age to start. The 17-year-old Jimmy Jonker is technically not of age to play, or win for that matter, online poker at PokerStars. Now Jonker’s father, Jos Jonker, 47, is claiming he was actually the one playing, although Jimmy was allegedly tweeting and commenting on the poker forums during and right after the Sunday Million tournament about playing in the event, himself.

It is still not clear exactly who the account is registered to. If it’s in Jimmy’s name, then he would have had to lie about his true age when he registered, as the minimum age requirement at PokerStars is 18.

The tournament in fact set a new record for biggest prize pool at $11.8 million, and the final nine players struck a deal and took a nine-way split of the remaining prize pool, which is how player zeurr ended up with the $518,204 payout.

Whether the account was in the elder Jonker’s name or not, if in fact it is proven that it was the younger who played in the event, then they both violated PokerStars T&C anyway. Stars reserves the right to deny payment to a fraudulent account anyway, as stated in their Terms & Conditions.

Terms state: “If a User breaches in whole or in part any provision contained herein, PokerStars reserves the right to take such action as it sees fit, including terminating this Agreement, immediately blocking access to the Service to such User, terminating such User’s account with PokerStars, seizing all monies held in the relevant PokerStars account and/or taking legal action against such User.”

PokerStars has not made a statement regarding how they will handle the situation or how they will redistribute the payment if it is confiscated.

Negreanu Reflects on the SuperStar Showdown vs. Blom

This weekend, Daniel Negreanu and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom will go up against each other for the second phase of their SuperStar Showdown. Last Sunday on PokerStars, Negreanu was no match for 20-year-old Blom, who took the max $150K from Negreanu in only 1,439 hands that spanned a mere four hours. Thirty-six-year-old Negreanu, though, claims he’s been working on his game ever since he was obliterated last weekend and will be ready to go this Sunday for the next match. The four-table, $50/$100 No Limit match will consist of up to 2,500 hands.

Negreanu, known as Kid Poker, is one of the best live poker players the sport has ever seen. In fact, he’s second on the list of all-time money winner, but he admits that Blom is a better online player than he is. However, Negreanu does not plan on letting Blom get in his head again and promises that the second half of the showdown will be a much better match.

Negreanu wrote about his match on his Full Contact Blog. He says he has reflected on the match and claims he’s been experimenting with some new things. He also stated that he’d reclaimed $85K of the $150K losses within 24 hours of the first showdown with Blom.

According to Negreanu, the Swedish poker phenom was able to figure Negreanu out and develop a counter strategy fairly quickly. By the time Negreanu had prepared himself to counter attack, the match was over. He claims that if he hadn’t already committed to the showdown and it had been a normal cash game, he would have quite way before he got down that badly.

Negreanu is prepared for the rematch and is very excited to recover some of his pride and mend his reputation, though he doesn’t claim to have improved so much in a week to be “better than” Blom. Negreanu wrote on his blog, “I can’t do much about the bad luck, but I can do something about him outplaying me. Whatever happens next Sunday, whether I win or lose, the fact that Isildur1 is the better player won’t change.

Cake Poker Signup Code March 2011

Cake Poker Bonus

At Cake Poker during March 2011, you can get the 110% Cake Poker Bonus eligible for new players only. Just open your new account and make your first real money deposit using Cake Poker Signup Code PBSPOKER and start playing poker to clear your online poker bonus. By playing cash games and tournaments at Cake Poker, you will start earning Frequent Player Points (also called FPPs) that you will need to clear your bonus. You will receive your bonus in $5 increments as you earn the points. You can also spend your points at the Cake Poker store where you can buy into freerolls and big money tournaments, as well as purchase Cake merchandise.

Cake Poker New Depositor’s Freeroll

You will also get one shot at the Cake Poker New Depositor’s Freeroll when you make your initial deposit. Here you will compete with other new Cake Poker players for a share of the $500 prize pool. This event takes place once per week and also allows you to get comfortable playing on the Cake Poker Network skin and software.

Two for the Money

If you like multi-tabling, you’ll love Two for the Money, the multi-table challenge running all month long with a $2,000 prize pool up for grabs each week at the kamikaze tourneys. Multi-tabling allows you to play more hands at one time to enhance your bankroll even more. Each week during March, you will be assigned a target to meet. If you meet the target in the right time, you will get entry into the kamikaze tourney for that week.

You must meet the following conditions for your hands to count towards the target:

1. Be seated at least two tables with stakes at or higher than $0.10/$0.20.
2. You can’t be sitting out; you must participate.
3. All hands must be real money across all combined tables.

Kamikazes take place weekly on Thursdays at 17:57 p.m. GMT.

March 2011 PokerStars Marketing Code

Poker Bonus

The month of March is the perfect time of year to join PokerStars. If you join today with PokerStars Marketing Code PSP11903, you’ll get a 100% deposit bonus on your first three deposits, up to $600. Just use the code to automatically receive your bonus, then play real money poker at the cash tables and tournaments at PokerStars online to earn frequent player points. These points are all you need to clear your bonus. As you earn $10 increments, that money will appear in your account just like you deposited it yourself. You’ll need 17 times the bonus in frequent player points to earn the cash. These points are also eligible to use in the PokerStars store on things such as Stars merchandise, electronics, gadgets, and other great stuff including tourney buy-ins.

The Big Game

Throughout 2011, PokerStars is running the Big Game promo. This gives everyday players who play poker online at PokerStars the chance to make it big and appear on national TV to play poker on the Big Game television show. If you make it through Round 1 (Round 1 tournaments will run through December 31st), you will advance to the second round. The top 300 players from Round 1 will advance. The top 1,000 players in Round 2 will advance to the Final Round. If you make it through this round, you will be asked to make a video explaining why you would be a good candidate for the Big Game show. If PokerStars picks you, you’ll be on your way to your 15 minutes of fame!

SuperStar Showdown

Now that Isildur1, aka Viktor Blom, has signed with PokerStars, the poker site has put a new promo out there to celebrate their new poker pro. The SuperStar Showdown lets anyone who dares go up against Blom, as long as they’ve got the bankroll or can win their way through the qualifiers. Once seated with Blom, both players will have a $15K bankroll to complete the showdown. After 2,500 hands, the player with the bigger profit takes the title.

Full Tilt Poker Referral Code March 2011

Full Tilt Poker Bonus

During March 2011 at Full Tilt Poker, get a 100% bonus on your first time deposit worth up to $600. All you have to do to claim this bonus is register a Full Tilt Poker account if you don’t already have one and deposit for the first time with Full Tilt Referral Code PRULESNET. This will retain the bonus for you, but you will then need to clear it by playing cash games and tournaments at Full Tilt Poker. This will earn you Full Tilt Points (FTPs). As you earn points, your bonus will clear to your account automatically. For every dollar you pay in rake, you get points. For every dollar you pay in tournament fees, you get points. The bonus clears in $20 increments, and is good for 120 days from the date of your first deposit.

Mini FTOPS XIX

There is still one week left of the Mini FTOPS XIX. The mini tournament series that takes the FTOPS and scales it down by 90% with a total of $8 million in guaranteed cash prizes runs through March 20th. What makes the Mini FTOPS, and the FTOPS for that matter, extra cool is that each of the 45 events are hosted by a different Full Tilt Pro. Some of the remaining events follow:

Monday, March 14, 2011: Mike Matusow hosts the 9:00 p.m. ET NLH Event #27 featuring a $109 buy-in and a $350K prize pool.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011: Matt Jarvis hosts the 1:00 p.m. ET PLOHi Rebuy with an $11 buy-in and a $75K prize pool.

Events run through Sunday, March 20, 2011 and run from $22 buy-ins up to $216 buy-ins, but every single event has satellites running right now, so sign up at Full Tilt Poker and don’t miss out on the Mini FTOPS XIX!

Absolute Poker Referral Code March 2011

Poker Bonus

Get a 150% deposit bonus on all any first time deposit at Absolute Poker, up to $550 when you register a new account or make your first deposit with the Absolute Poker Referral Code PSITEORG. Sixty days from the date of your first deposit, your bonus will expire, so make sure you clear your bonus in full before then. Clearing your bonus is easy. Just play real money tourneys and ring games to earn Status Points. For every 20 Status Points you clear, $1 of your bonus will be awarded, but you will receive your bonus in $5 installments for every 100 Status Points you earn.

Toe-to-Toe with Absolute Pros

There are lots of reasons to join Absolute Poker, but one of the coolest things is that every day, you can have the opportunity to play against real poker pros in the Toe-to-Toe with Absolute Pros promotion. These events garner massive guaranteed prize pools with lots of celebrity poker action at your table to keep you occupied. Some of these include Hollywood Nights, Roothlus Rebuy Rumble, Maria Ho’s Amazing Tuesday, Tuesdays with Trishelle Cannatella, Wednesday Sniperbok, and lots of other exciting events. Knock these poker pros out and get even more cash at Absolute Poker.

Power Hours

If clearing your poker bonus is important to you, then play at Absolute Poker during Power Hours when you will earn two times the Status Points. Play from 1:00 a.m. ET to 4:00 ET and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day and on Sunday through 5:00 p.m. ET.

Bad Beat Jackpot

The Bad Beat Jackpot at Absolute Poker gets up pretty high! If you are prone to bad beats with a hand of four 8s or better (using your hole cards), then you should play at the Absolute Poker Bad Beat Jackpot tables. Even if someone else at your table gets it, you will get paid too.

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