Poker author, commentator, radio show host, and professional Bernard Lee linked an agreement to represent Foxwoods. The deal brought together New England’s most prestigious poker venues and the area’s top media personality.
Chiaradio told reporters that Lee’s professionalism and personality showed that a relationship would benefit both parties. Lee will be a valuable asset in bringing more energy and excitement to top poker rooms. Lee has also a vast experience from his career in business, particularly in marketing and new business development. He was a former marketing and new business manager for Fortune 500 company. Foxwoods will sponsor Lee’s radio show and as he will represent the casino’s World Poker Tour (WPT) room.
Lee is expected to appear in marketing campaigns for Foxwoods for two years. Lee made his mark in the poker scene in 2005, when he took the 13th WSOP Main Event for $400,000. Foxwood found the perfect candidate in the person of Bernard Lee. Chiaradio said that Foxwood Casino Resort is the premiere gaming destination and Lee is the top poker personality so the relationship is a perfect match. Lee has crashed tournaments around the United States. The question now is whether other casinos will follow Foxwoods’ idea of signing up with Lee to find the best match.
Most people have been wondering if the existing poker sites in New Jersey will continue to operate despite the new legislation in New Jersey. Recently, a bill was proposed in the New Jersey that would offer legalized interstate Internet Poker and sports betting through Atlantic City casinos.
Joe Brenna Jr. is the Chairman of the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association. He claims that his clients from the trade association are in favour of the new bill in New Jersey. There is nothing in the bill that will prevent in the residents of New Jersey from continuing their game at different poker sites like Full Tilt and PokerStars.
The $100,000 fine would not apply to existing offshore sites for New Jersey has no jurisdiction for offering Internet wagering without the approval of the New Jersey Gaming Control Commission outlined in the legislation.
Brennan recommends a partner for the New Jersey with existing operators that have the expertise and software to run a successful poker site so that casinos only need to add their brand and can start immediately with minimum over head. Today, New Jersey already held a hearing on the sports betting bill about the State Government, Wagering, Tourism and Historic Preservation committee.
King Solomon is the small online poker room with accounts from the old Boss Media Network has now moved to International Poker Network. The move is now almost complete and can no longer have any access to the Boss Media-powered tables.
King Solomon players can no longer play starting the 1st of February but can still access their accounts to cash out before the closure. An email to all the players was sent by the Boss Media administrators last week to inform their players.
King Solomon was first under the Boss Media Networks, a Swedish company that controls and operates by the IPN. They have an average of 2,000-3,000 cash game players at any given time in their small playroom for the past six months. It is believed though that the site is not going to stop for good but will only switch networks.
Now, the new mover in the IPoker network, King Solomon, will be powered by the Playtech software. Other poker sites under the IPoker Network are the Chili Poker, Titan Poker, CD Poker, Mansion Poker, and Boyle Poker.
It was posted in the website of King Solomon that they will continue to offer its weekly $250,000 Guaranteed as well as the monthly event worth $1 million in the prize pool to all their players. In addition, this small poker room also offers poker variants like Omaha, Omaha High-Low, and Seven Card Stud in addition to No Limit Hold’em.
Las Vegas Hands is planning to bring the gaming action in Florida according to the Miami Herald. The giant casino is planning to build a $3 billion resort casino in Miami.
Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands CEO has been very busy for the past few days and for being hired as a Tallahassee lobbyist. He has made a lot of important contributions in Florida in regard to the pro-casino political campaigns.
Recent reports confirmed that Ft. Lauderdale legislator Ellyn Bogdanoff left with the plan of the expansion despite his early disagreement on the expansion of the State. He seems to side to the other side now.
The poker gaming industry has been looking for different markets to help them survive the stress they are undergoing for the meantime. Stress was brought about by the major investments that gaming industry has provided in places like Las Vegas and Macau.
In recent times, Miami has been attracting more and more companies to invest in their state. Miami is becoming on the target market of other big companies who wanted to invest in a different state. Big companies are targeting Miami in order for them to increase their stock values due to Miami’s economy at this point.
Ciaran O’Brien, spokes person of the Ladbrokes claim that they have experienced a security breach with all the personal information. According to the Australian website, their files have been seen by someone who does not work for them.
Their client’s home addresses, gambling histories in the poker site, account numbers, date of births, phone numbers and email numbers are the personal information of each client that are affected by the security breach.
Security breach from Ladbrokes is directed to Dinitha Subasinghe who happens to be the former Ladbrokes consultant and a Sri-Lankan-born IT expert. However, all the accusations were denied by Subasinghe.
It was believed by the Ladbrokes that the security breach happens through Mail Online. They have already passed all the files to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a British data watchdog that investigates the case.
O’Brien assures all their clients that they are doing the best that they can do to protect all the personal information of the clients. Their company has been working diligently t to find out the real culprit behind it. ICO together with the company are now working together to solve the case. Since it is considered as a criminal case, police as well as newspapers are working to identify and arrest the culprit.
As of the moment, Ladbrokes is working to reach out to all their clients to apologize for the said incident and reassuring them that their personal information is being protected.
Doyle Brunson was known to be a Twitter Aficionado. He has been twitting to feed updates about the happenings in the DoylesRoom. Through his Tweeter feed, he can update the poker industry with his prop and sports betting and providing everyone a seemingly endless stream of blonde jokes.
Brunson, ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner made a comment to President Barrack Obama made from his twitter account. In response, he received a barrage of Tweets in response to his post that say “The Democrats say ‘give Obama time.’ Us Republicans [sic] agree, 25 to life seems appropriate!”
Some persons commented on Brunson’s post that it was stemmed from racially motivated feelings towards the President. However, after a couple of hours, Brunson made a new statement that his post has nothing to do with the color of the skin of the President. He also added that he may not like the 1st year of ruling of Obama but this has nothing to do with his physical features.
As of the moment, Brunson appears to be laid off the political Tweets for a while. The Full Tilt Red Pro and the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen disagreed with the Tweets of the poker legend.
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians formed a group called the California Tribal Intrastate Internet Poker Consortium. It is one of the largest casino gaming tribes. According to recent reports lately, the California Indian tribes will be pushed next month.
The deal from the Commerce Casino together with the Bicycle club is being worked out by the Morongo to pursue the online poker in California. According to the Morongo’s spokesperson, Patrick Dorinson, they have been asking added support from different tribes to pursue with the deal that fell apart due to the issues that risen that it was rush through the legislative process.
One of the most influential groups, California Tribal Business Alliance has shown their disagreement in the proposal. They claim that it could violate the exclusivity clauses in gaming compacts with the casino tribes.
There are around 1.4 million Californians enjoying poker in an online poker via offshore websites. The proposal seems to gather potential revenue streams for the state and the Senate Governmental Organization Committee will take up all the questions about this online poker on the 9th of February.
Invitations have been distributed and speakers for February 9 are all ready to support the hearing. However, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) prohibits the use of credit cards and all fund transfer for the illegal online gambling except for the intrastate internet gambling.
Poker Pro Magazine has been circulating in the United States and Canada for the past five years with more than 150,000 copies per month. It was already announced that the company will offer a special issue for their Canadian readers.
John “JohnnyQuads” Wenzel, Canadian Poker Pro executive editor of the magazine made an elaboration behind their launching of a regional version of the popular magazine entitled Poker Pro Canada. As the games in Canada are exploding, they want to provide all the updates, in-depth profiles of Canadian players, news, scenes, strategy and even tips from the pros. Read more »
HR 2267 is the bill for online poker legislation still remains on a rocking chair if it will be passed or not. People has been talking on Capitol Hill in the year 2010 is more about regulation and not prohibition. This news is good news to all poker players in the world. Read more »
Online poker players that enjoyed mining capabilities will soon end due to the announcement of the Microgaming Network. They have been caught up by the times and will eliminate the data mining capabilities of the online poker sites.
Data-mining occurs when poker players’ uses third-party tools that isolate the common weakness in their game by the display of hand histories and gain an edge over their opponent. In line with this, the company decided to make an immediate action to stop these players from having any access to damaging hand histories. Read more »
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