PKR.com has rolled out an exciting package which delivers over $4,500 through the Vegas Nights offer. Lucky players can find their way to Vegas by indulging in the WSOP tournaments. With the first promotional period of Vegas Night ending on 15th April, players can look forward to the second promotional period which is between 16th to 3rd June, 2012.

Ever since the launch of YouTube channel of PKR TV, players are in for a treat as they can feel the action live. New PKR.com players are provided with the flexibility to choose from three bonuses along with added gifts like the PKR points, club upgrade and 7 tickets to the top PKR tournaments.

Players can earn the chance to be at the poker party at Las Vegas by participating in the WSOP 2012 package. They can win an amazing $4,500 package under $1 which is a seven day trip to the gaming capital of the world.

With the World Series of Poker 2012 on its way, Ladbrokes Poker has enabled players to qualify for the series with a minimum of €0.50. Two different packages are offered for the players to choose from, which includes the Vegas packages of €3500 and €10,500.

Ladbrokes Poker is back with an enhanced and better version- ‘Ladbrokes Team Championship II’. In this poker championship, players can team up to win amazing individual prizes and over €65,000 as a team. The championship covers over 6 weeks with the winning team bestowed with a Los Angeles package of €42,000.

The VIP Vegas Superstack offered by Ladbrokes Poker is an excellent opportunity to players to stand a chance to win a fancy VIP trip to Las Vegas.

Poker players can also take advantage of the Grassroots promotions, where they can participate in the live poker tournaments held in May and earn the chance to be one of the lucky players among the top 40 players to win £10,000 deal.

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One of the most exclusive offers which has been attracting players to this poker site is the chance of a lifetime to win tickets and also book a berth to play premier on-site tournaments. Poker Time offers its players the opportunity to win spots at premier poker tournaments such as the PTT Tournaments.

While playing online poker at Poker Time, players can also win a seat at the final event of the much acclaimed Irish Open 2012 to be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. The winners get an entry pass worth €3,500 , 5 nights’ accommodation, and €775 as traveling allowance. 

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Utah’s anti-gambling legislation will effectively exclude the state from ever joining any federal online gambling ruling stating that “If any federal law is enacted that authorizes Internet gambling in the states and that federal law provides that individual states may opt out of Internet gambling, this state shall opt out of Internet gambling in the manner provided by federal law and within the time frame provided by that law.”

It is likely that this legislation relates to the fact that about 60% of the Utah population belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a faith which totally disowns all types of gambling.  As per Rep. Stephen Sandstrom: “We want to keep Utah free from the negative impacts of legalized gambling.” “Many gambling critics see the DoJ’s recent interpretation as another major crack in America’s moral foundation.”

While Utah is standing its ground, other states including New Jersey and California have Internet Poker Bills in the pipeline while Nevada, where online poker regulations were approved in December last year, could legally be offering online poker by autumn this year.

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The scheduled has been moved ahead a couple of weeks this year so that participants can better enjoy the weather in Cannes as well as the tournament itself. At this point is time it is already estimated that about 1,000 players will participate in the main event.

The WSOPE 2012 will start on September 21st with a six-handed €2,700 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament with a three day structure.  Other events will include no-limit hold’em, no-limit hold’em shootout, pot-limit Omaha, six-handed pot-limit Omaha and a mixed-maximum no-limit tournament.  As for the main event, it will be a €10,450 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament.

The WSOPE was a big affair last year and organizers are already doing whatever it takes to make this edition even better for the biggest enjoyment of all poker players.

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The Everleaf Gaming Network has pulled out of the U.S poker market, following an investigation made by the U.S Department of Homeland Security.The authorities have suspended and taken funds from one of the main payment providers servicing Everleaf Gaming Network.

Everleaf Gaming Network was warned of legal actions should they continue their U.S operations.

As Everleaf is registered under the Lottery and Gaming Authority of Malta (LGA), they sought advice from LGA and the latter instructed them to terminate their U.S poker business.

Everleaf has now put a ban on play from the U.S.A and France.

It is said that their U.S players’ monies are safe and will be refunded. But it is not yet confirmed by when those U.S players have to withdraw their funds. Once all U.S. players leave Everleaf, the network will use Euros as the only currency.

There are not many Networks catering for the U.S market anymore. The happy few are Cake Poker, the Merge Gaming Network and Bovada.

This story will surely remind us of ‘Black Friday’. In April 2011, the U.S Department of Justice cracked down the U.S operations of Full Tilt, PokerStars and Absolute Poker which were then the largest online poker sites. Those companies were indicted on charges of bank fraud, money laundering and running illegal gambling operations. PokerStars has since then refunded its U.S. players and is still one of the most solid online poker sites. But the same cannot be said for Full Tilt and Absolute Poker, whose players have not seen a single cent yet.

This new application is unique to PokerStars.it and provides a complete real money poker environment; multi tabling, table chat, hand histories, tournament and cash games, etc. This mobile application works with all Android 2.2 or later phone and tablet devices and is at present only adapted to phone resolutions.

The application has been licensed under the Italian gaming commission.Pokerstars is also now licensed in the Isle of Man, France, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium and most recently Malta. They have also applied for a license to offer their poker room services in Spain.

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Back in October 2010, Circus Groupe teamed up with Poker Stars, this allowed for Belgium residents to play online but this was all done on a test basis under the careful watch of Belgian Gaming Commission.

As PokerStars.be is now fully licensed, they are now permitted to provide online gambling to the Belgians.
Partouche.be is also licensed and currently operating in the country.

However, other gaming operators have not been so lucky. The Belgian Gaming Commission has published its first official online poker operator blacklist. Chilipoker.com, 888.com, Titanpoker.be, and Everestpoker.be amongst others have been banned from running their operations in Belgium. The Belgian government will be asking Internet Service Providers to prevent access to those sites.

Etienne Marique, chairman of the Belgian Gaming Commission said that it is a stepping stone in regulating the online gambling industry. And it allows operators to propose their services and to prosper in Belgium. But at the same time, as it is done in a secure environment, it ensures that players are well protected.

In November 2011, Josef Rantamäki, Bwin’s SEO Manager announced on Tweeter “Wow! www.pokerroom.com will be relaunched and once again offer real money poker games.”

A representative said that they were making use of Pokerroom.com as an affiliate but as it was generating traffic, they simply decided to relaunch it. Pokerroom.com is currently in a soft-launch stage as the Company wants to see how it will perform.

PokerRoom.com was founded in 1999 as an online poker cardroom and licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. It was the first online poker site to offer multi language customer service support.

PokerRoom.com had been operating for 10 years when it was closed down in April 2009. This was due to the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. Due to this legislation, the Ongame network and therefore PokerRoom.com decided to move out of the business, which then made way for PokerStars, Full tilt and Ultimate Bet to prosper in the US market.

Apart from the main event, the Aussie Millions is also home to High Stakes event where the best and most wealthy players on the planet struggle to win this priceless or should I say this pricy title. Last year’s Aussie Millions tournament gave way to the inaugural Super High Roller event which is considered the highest Super High Roller event with a buy-in of $250,000.

Last’s year event saw 20 players fight for the title including the cream of the cream in the poker world with the likes of Phil Ivey, which is undoubtedly the most talented poker player of his generation, Chris Ferguson, one of the brains in the poker world who holds a Ph. D in computer science and Tom Dawn one of the most fearsome young players of the past few years.

Other prestigious names that took part in the tourney were Erik Seidel, John Juanda, David Benyamine and Annette Obrestad. The 2011 Super High Roller title event was awarded to Erik Seidel, who bagged a $2.5 million first prize.

Currently various online poker rooms are offering satellites towards winning a package including the entry fee for the $10,600 Main Event, such as Betfred, Virgin Poker, 888 Poker and Bet365 with buy-ins as low as $1 giving the opportunity to poker players worldwide of winning a life changing money prize.