WPT Championship Leaders: Sternberg and Kelly
Top Respective Pro Poker Players Alan Sternberg and Steven Kelly. This two man started at the Bellagio in the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship and the two biggest stacks for its Alan Sternberg (875,000) and Steven Kelly (860,000).
Way back in March, Sternberg and Kelly went heads up for WPT Bay 101 title, with Sternberg coming out on top for more than $1 million.
According to Sternberg ” I have a ton of respect for Steven’s game during a break here at the $25,000 WPT event. “He is impossible to play against. He just doesn’t stop raising, ever. I think he got pretty card dead when I beat him heads up in March. That was the only time in the 12 hours I played with him when he wasn’t raising every single hand.” Kelly had Phil Hellmuth on his immediate left, before he busted shortly into level 14, and had given the 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner two walks during the day. “I never thought I would give those to Hellmuth, considering how tight he plays, especially with a short stack. Overall, he had respected my raises.”
Kelly said that he hasn’t gone to showdown too much on day 3, and won’t say what he had in the pots that helped give him a mountain of chips. “I haven’t had to show a lot of my big hands, which is always good for a table image.”A few tables over, Kelly’s former final table foe is also amassing a stack to make a run for another WPT final table. Sternberg got most of his chips thanks to flopping a set in a three-bet pot early in the day, and recently eliminated Phil Laak. Laak hit the rail after shoving for about 15 big blinds over a Sternberg cut-off raise. Sternberg tanked for a while before calling with A-3, and ended up being way ahead of Laak’s 5-2 off suited. “I had seen him squeeze all in for 30 big blinds earlier in the day with 10-8 off suit, so I am never going to fold A-3 there,” Sternberg said. Despite having the top stack in the room and admitting that there were a few soft spots at his table that he could take advantage of, Sternberg, like Kelly, said he was generally staying out of the way of tricky situations and gradually chipping up.
source: yahoo news
Full Tilt Poker And PokerStars To Recover Domains And Pay U.S Players
After the controversy that was tackled by the well known online poker site, Full Tilt and PokerStars, a new report has been stated coming from the Department of Justice. They have actually reached a deal with the DOJ, which allows the two poker sites to recover their domain names in return of blocking the U.S real money play and pay back those American players. Three of the largest and renowned online poker site had been cover up with regards to this issue: PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker where operating in the United States before the issue came up.
The return of the domains will “facilitate the return of money so that players can register their refund requests“, quoted from the DOJ press release.
Washington DC: The First US Jurisdiction to Legalized Online Gambling
It was last week when Washington DC was entitled to have its first jurisdiction in the United States which allows online gambling in the country. The online gambling implementation was planned according to the outline of the executive director of D.C Lottery, Buddy Roogow.
As the legalization implies, the D.C Lottery which has signed 50-50 revenue share agreed with the Intralot USA for the purpose of developing and managing the internet gambling website. Last January, Washington Mayor Vincent C. Gray had signed up a law approving the 2011 budget, provided to generate revenues through the legalized online gambling.
Club Red VIP: New Program Launched by Red Flush and Casino La Vida
Red Flush and Casino La Vida revealed their brand new VIP program namely Club Red VIP. After being awarded as casinos with safe and fair seals by eCOGRA, the two prominent casinos have created new program which is designed to provide players with high profile a bit of prosperity. The new VIP program show off the good qualities of the two casinos by simply establishing platform that host an excess of exclusive services.
The new VIP Program was launched last week, April 3, 2011, as also to give pleasure with the Red Flush and Casino La Vida Staffs. According to Casino La Vida promotions manager, Mandy Barrington, “The launch of Club Red VIP demonstrates our commitment to our loyal players, and we’ll continue to re-evaluate our service offering to attend to their every need.”
The newly launched VIP program is projected to only Platinum and Diamond profile players or it may be accessible by special invitation, incorporating both new and old features. Surrounded with the dedicated VIP host to provide the needs of the players, other incentives such as cash-backs, free withdrawals and exclusive VIP promotions.
Special Royal Wedding Bets – Prince William and Kate Middleton
There are only a few days to go before the Royal Wedding. The wedding will take place at the Westminster, Abbey. Since the official engagement has been announced by Prince William and Kate Middleton, bookmakers online have also started offering odds on all manners of novelty betting which is relevant to the royal wedding itself on the 29th day of April, 2011 at the Westminster Abbey.
Gamblers are gathering to place their bets on the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, therefore bookies are expecting to make millions.
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Online Casino Promotions for Easter, Choose Your Bet
During the month of the holy week, it’s been a tradition for online casinos to launch different Easter promotions. For this year, as of this moment many online casinos have already launched their Easter surprises for their beloved players.
Compiled below some of the Easter promotions of some online casinos and their requirements:
A new promotion and special tournament that will provide Easter holiday celebrations a new shine has been announced by the Casino Tropez, powered by Playtech. Beginning on April 9, they will be providing the opportunity to their players to get unlimited bonuses on all deposits made. The promo will run until April 12. A special scavenger hunt has been also set up with extra bonuses awarded for those who will find the golden egg.
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Christchurch Casino Employees Option: To Leave Or To Stay?
The casino management of Christchurch had decided to extend the deadline to give their employees more time whether to stay or leave their jobs from April 5 to April 11 after the meeting done with the Service and Food Workers Union representatives.
Workers have given more time to consider if they wish to continue or end their job until Monday. Those who will not contact the company on Monday at 5 pm will supposed to have left their jobs. They will be paid out a four-weeks-notice-payment along with the annual leave entitlements.
In a report, the Industry Representative, Len Richards, said that the union requested for the extension to give workers longer time to consider on what option to choose.
Quoted from the national news of the website: http://tvnz.co.nz:
Richards stated: “We’ve been told that the casino may be operating sooner than previously expected. However, the workers still face weeks, if not months, of uncertainty about their income and could well be forced to live on the unemployment benefit for a lengthy period.”
Richards also said that the workers on the casino company will be covered with wages until April 5, (supposedly the last day of workers who decide to leave), which got from the business-interruption insurance.
With this being the case workers who choose to stay will still be paid their holiday pay. This pay will be of either a weekly amount or a lump sum where they will remain employees on leave without pay.
On the other hand, the co – owner of the Christchurch Casino, which is the SkyCity, have projected to create a profit of $130 million plus this year.
Las Vegas Tourists Prefer Playing At Internet Casinos
Based on the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, people in Las Vegas today often spend less time in gambling at brick-and-mortar places.
The report came from the agency which promotes tourism at the Sin City that 80% of the tourists spent gambling on an average of $466 per person in the year 2010, while a bit higher on 2009 that amounts to an average of $482 per tourist. The fact that the amount cost for their gambling activities at their land based area becomes too low.
It was proven that it was due to the increasing growth of online casinos today. Las Vegas tourists are more preferable to play their favorite casino games at their laptop’s, PC and even mobile phones. Where they feel the same excitement at those land based, they are generally wagering lower amounts in games like slots, craps, poker and blackjack.
Android Mobile Gaming to Entail Encryption Software
Mobile gaming is now the latest trend which many gamblers are engaging in. This platform has truly improved and continue to boost its popularity in the gaming industry. The growing number of mobile casino and the games available in it are now increasing as it started to pop up in the market.
In view of this fact, there is no doubt that most of those rouge casinos will try to cheat valued customers, by which the encryption software has been made. Luckily, the Android mobile casinos are offering their newest full security disk encryption.
In a report, it was the Whisper System Inc., who had made the encryption software along with the purpose of securing the gaming at your mobile casinos. By which, it becomes the first public beta program “WhisperCore”, which provides an encryption for the whole personal data partition by default. In addition, there is an option to encrypt the hand held memory card.
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Internet Poker: To Propose Legalization in Nevada State
After some vetoes of the online gambling bill into different states, Nevada legislator was then trying to propose another bill that will legalize online poker. This will be added into the raising number of states that consider online gambling bill legalization. The said bill is supported by a Nevada Democrat, Senate Majority Harry Reid.
Last year, it was the state who propose to create a federal law that will legalize online poker and has been supported by many casino companies but then, failed in the Congress.
Iowa, California and Florida are some of the states that considered online poker bill to be legalized in their respective area. But then it was last week when Gov. Christie vetoes the New Jersey bill, which is the first bill to pass a state legislature. However, it was then failed to be legalized.