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Cash Machine Pays Out $100 Bills Instead of $1 Bills

A Mississippi Casino cash machine was found to be spitting out $100 bills instead of $1 bills over the weekend, and some Magnolia Bluffs Casino patrons took advantage of the accidental jackpot. The error was later found to be that the machine was wrongly loaded by a casino employee, who had inadvertently put the $100 bills into the $1 bill slot.

Before the problem was realized, a man put $5 into the machine and received $500 back. Others tried the same tactic and were delivered the same fate, until the money machine was empty of $100 bills.

But later, other casino patrons, who were trying to cash out legitimate tickets, were being given $1 bills for $100 payouts. Once the casino was notified of the problem, the local Natchez Police Department took over. Public Relations Officer Jerry Ford explains, “Instead of giving out change like $1 for change for a five [dollar bill], it would give you $100 bills. For people who were cashing a ticket in [to get] $100, they were getting a dollar.”

After watching the video surveillance footage from casino security cameras, six people were found to be involved in the incident. The casino was very fair and gave the people a timeframe to return the money, which was declared stolen. If they didn’t return the money, they would face grand larceny charges. Five people returned the money and were cleared of all charges. The sixth suspect is yet to be identified.

Ford says, “If a machine malfunctions and the money that it gives out is incorrect, that [doesn’t] give you the right to take it.”

Nevada Approves More Gaming Licenses

The Nevada Gaming Commission issued two more interactive gaming licenses this week. Out of Rome, Italy, Lottomatica, and a subsidiary of Golden Gaming, Sartini Synergy, have both received approval to operate out of Nevada’s intrastate online poker agenda.

Golden Gaming owns Golden Route Operations, which happens to be Nevada’s biggest slot route operator. Golden Gaming also owns PT’s Entertainment Group and three casinos in Pahrump, Nevada.

Lottomatica owns subsidiaries across the globe as well, including Spielo slot machine maker, whose headquarters are located in Vegas, as well as GTECH, based out of Rhode Island.

Progress is being made in the cause for US online poker, as Nevada lawmakers have introduced new legislation that will allow an intrastate online poker compact between all states that are regulating intrastate online poker, so that players can play among state-licensed online poker sites. Right now, the only other state that has passed this type of legislature is Delaware, buy other states have similar bills on the floor including Mississippi and California. More states are expected to jump on the intrastate online poker bandwagon.

While the Nevada online poker program was expected to be up and running last fall, and then again by the beginning of the year, has yet to kick off. But once it does, many are hopeful that other states will follow suit.

NBC National Heads-Up Championship Returns

NBC’s Heads-Up Poker Championship will return after a yearlong hiatus. The NBC HHUPC is an invitation only live tournament that amasses 64 of the biggest players in professional poker.

2013 NBC NHUPC producer Mori Eskandani believes that the return of this event is a good sign for US poker and shows progress for the industry.

The $25K buy-in makes the event prestigious, as the made-for-tv format, will hopefully stir up online poker interest again in the mainstream poker community.

Eskandani says, “When [NBC is] bringing poker back, it’s good news.”

And even more good news is that for the first time since the inaugural National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2005, Caesars Interactive Entertainment Inc. will market WSOP.com banners, as the Caesars brand just recently received licensing privileges to operate intrastate online poker in the state of Nevada.

The first round of the tournament will begin today at 2:00 p.m. at the Caesars Palace poker room. One of the thrilling matchups includes Antonio Esfandiari against Jennifer Tilly. Esfandiari is the best friend of Tilly’s boyfriend, Phil Laak.

Tilly says of her opponent, “He’s the only one I can’t read.”
Laak will face off against Phil Ivey, while Justin Bonomo will go up against Ike Haxton. Mike Matusow goes up against Michael Mizrachi and Gaelle Baumann will play Liv Boeree.
2009’s Phil Hellmuth vs. Mike Sexton, in which Hellmuth was the victor, will return for a re-match. Daniel Negreanu has declined his invite due to a prior engagement.

In order to cash, players must win at least two matches. To win the $750K first place prize, the champion will have to win six matches. The event will culminate on Saturday

Six consecutive two-hour episodes will air weekly beginning in March on NBC.

Fertitta Entertainment Lines Up Online Poker Payment Processor

The new Ultimate Poker platform by Fertitta Entertainment signed a deal this month with Central Account Management System (CAMS) to accept online payments via their future Nevada intrastate gambling site.

Ultimate Poker is one of the many online poker operators recently licensed by Nevada to offer intrastate online poker once the program is free of kinks and up and running. “From stacking chips and talking trash to pushing to the top of custom leader boards, Ultimate Gaming brings excitement every day,” says a press release from CAMS announcing the partnership between the two entities.

CAMS states that they will “provide Ultimate Gaming’s new online poker brand, Ultimate Poker, IP Geo-Location services, Mobile Geo-Location, Device Intelligence, Player Age Verification, payment connectivity, chargeback representment and tokenization through a single integration to its centralized platform.”

CAMS was approved by Nevadan authorities last year and given a Class Two gaming license so that the company can assist online poker operators in processing online gaming site payments that will adhere to the strict regulations set forth by the Nevada Gaming Commission and the licensing they’ve issued to the future intrastate online poker providers who will provide online poker services to Nevada residents.

Matthew Katz, Chief Executive for CAMS, says, “CAMS supports the creation of a safe and secure payment environment for casinos, lotteries, brands and players and helps meet or exceed regulatory and compliance requirements. Our solutions are specifically tailored for partners like Ultimate Gaming and will become increasingly critical as new United States regulatory markets continue to develop for the online gaming world.”

Chris Derossi of Ultimate Gaming believes that the partnership with CAMS will ultimately decrease the cost of internal programming, centralize day to day operating overhead, while reducing upfront and monthly expenditures from vendors by almost 30%.

PCA Zoom Poker Event Causes a Stir

After another successful PokerStars Caribbean Adventure with a record number of participants, an issue remains unresolved for some players who participated in the Zoom Poker promotional event at this year’s PCA.

While PokerStars is admitting to poor planning and is working out a plan to rectify the situation, many are unsatisfied with the results of the Zoom event.

Players were allowed to pay $1K+$25 in entry fees to play Zoom Poker against real players on the site’s play money counterpart. Players began with 20K in chips and they were to see who could accrue the most chips within 12 minutes, and players could enter over and over. The issues began as the event drew to a close, as multiple players were allowed to participate, falsely inflating the chips available. This made opportunities for chip dumping and multiple players getting caught in all-in jams.

There has been a lot of buzz on the online poker forums regarding the complaints, and PokerStars execs are addressing them directly, but no statement has been made as to affected players getting refunded for the operator error.

PPA for State-Level Online Poker Legislature

Many people in the online poker community were disappointed when an bill that would legalize and regulate online poker was not passed during the lame duck session of Congress. After 2012 did not see a federal online poker bill passed, the grass roots organization for legal and regulated online poker, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is now shifting their focus to the state level. Nevada has had success passing an intrastate online poker bill and has in fact already passed out licenses to many online poker brands hoping to open up shop to Nevada residents.

Delaware has also passed intrastate online poker legislature, and other states that are expected to pass similar laws include Iowa, and New Jersey. Others will hopefully follow.

Executive director of the PPA John Pappas says he doesn’t anticipate leaving his headquarters in Washington DC, but has explains that “the fight for Internet poker is moving to the states.” He was also quoted to say, “We will be largely focusing our efforts on passing player friendly bills in the states.”

After the DoJ re-interpreted the Wire Act of ’61 that excluded online poker and online casino from the law, leaving it to only apply to online sportsbetting, states started “sending strong signals that they intend to push for Internet poker legalization,” says Pappas.

Senators Harry Reid and Jon Kyl did push strongly for online poker legislation that would regulate and legalize Internet poker, but it just didn’t work out.

Pappas says, “It has become clear that last year’s dysfunctional Congress was a huge obstacle in our mission to secure safe and regulated Internet poker. Sadly, the prospects of the partisan Congress working together in 2013 do not look promising.”

Online Poker Pros in an Upswing for 2013

Online poker sensation Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has had good luck this year. Within the first few days of the year, he had already won around $1 million playing online poker at the newly re-established Full Tilt Poker, only to win another $3 million by the ninth day of the year, making his 2013 winnings total more than $4 million. The Swedish pro is the biggest winner to play at the online poker site since it reopened back in November of last year.

Unfortunately fellow Full Tilt Poker pro Gus Hansesn’s luck has not been as good this year. Hansen has lost another six figures since the New Year, sitting on losses totaling more than $3.3 million since November.

Blom has made most of his money playing limit Omaha eight or better, pot limit Omaha, and limit deuce to seven triple draw, winning a massive pot from Scott “mastrblastr” Seiver, but he also crushed Phil Galfond and 25-year-old Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky from New Hampshire, the most profitable online player of 2012 (on all sites), who was up about $50K for the new year that has resulted from less than 10 sessions before Blom got a hold of him at the $400/$800 PLO tables.

Another big winner from last year, Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene is also in the black for 2013.

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