February 8th, 2010 | Online Bingo
Online bingo site GiggleBingo.co.uk made one lucky player richer to the tune of £2,010 as January drew to a close thanks to its rollover New Year Jackpot Promotion. The Microgaming-powered site’s New Year Jackpot Promotion began on January 1 and ran each evening in its Snickers 90-ball room with a guaranteed pot of £20.10 their promotion for the year 2010! In addition the online bingo room offered an additional prize of £64 on offer for players that could complete a full house in 36 balls or less. For each night thereafter, every time this special jackpot went unclaimed, a further £64 was added.
Because no player achieved this feat, the next full house was going to be awarded with a rollover prize of £2,010. One lucky lady scooped that and hit the jackpot on the very last game of January 31st! So there you there it is, you have to be in it to win it, so get playing online bingo now folks.
February 5th, 2010 | Poker, Poker Players
Amazingly two players that qualified for the main event of last week’s 2010 Aussie Millions tournament have walked away with a total of over $2.76 million after finishing in first and second spots. 23-year-old Tyron Krost from Sydney outlasted 748 competitors including 42 other PartyPoker.com online qualifiers at Melbourne’s Crown Casino to take first place and its $1.78 million prize.
Second prize of $981,000 went to Frederik Jensen from Copenhagen. The two online qualifiers dominated a final table that included star names such as Annette Obrestad and Sorel Mizzi while luminary Gus Hansen lost to winner to Krost earlier on. This is quite different from working in the family business quoted Krost and the psychology graduate says that he is looking forward to a future in poker!
February 2nd, 2010 | Online Casino, Online Poker
Jesse Metcalfe of Desperate Housewives fame struck a pose on the red-carpet proving why he has the earned the name as one of the sexist men on television and the big screen. He was amongst “King of Spin” Shane Warne, World Champion Boxer “Marrickville Mauler” Jeff Fenech, just some of the celebrities celebrating through the night. The event celebrated a new way forward for online poker site 888poker, a brand under online entertainment expert group 888.com.
The 888 name has redefined its outlook on poker for 2010 and beyond, actively promoting the site for just what it is, safe, social and fun way to play the game, as an individual or with friends. This is just the start to what is more to come from the 888 group and new announcements and will be made later in the year.
January 29th, 2010 | Bingo Hints and Tips, Online Bingo
The recession coupled with the smoking ban had a serious effect on the fortunes of the local bingo hall with more and more people deserting these traditional venues for our favourite game. However, the misfortune of the traditional bingo club worked in the favour of online bingo sites which have gone from strength to strength with more players registering daily.
There are some big names in the online bingo community, William Hill, Cashcade and 888 as some examples. Fresh out of the 888 Holdings group for 2010 is 888Bingo which is targeted towards a more male market and it looks set to be just as popular as its sister site. To coincide with the launch of 888Bingo, 888Ladies Bingo is currently running its biggest game ever, with a massive £5,000,000 jackpot up for grabs.
January 22nd, 2010 | Online Poker, Poker, Poker Players
Shane says that it is the fun side of poker and that draws him to it, but you can bet your life, that just as he did at cricket he goes into the game to win, which is why Warne is representing 888 Poker at the internationally renowned and celebrity-studded Aussie Millions poker championship being held at Melbourne Crown Casino from 14 to 31 January 2010.
Spin king Warne has proven his all-round sporting expertise since making a seamless and successful transition from cricket to poker in recent years, partnering with 888 Poker, a brand under online entertainment expert group 888.com. As Shane says, “anyone can play, whether you are the CEO of a company, a car salesman or a sportsman and you can sit around a table and play. That’s one of the fun things about poker; it’s a really accessible sport,”.
January 18th, 2010 | Bingo Hints and Tips, Online Bingo
It would be great if we could try something before we buy it, for a lot of things you can, the new car and the pair of shoes, but how about playing online bingo without it costing a single penny?
Well at Mecca Bingo you can, they are giving new players the chance to play without spending anything! Go into the Newbie room between 12-2pm and 7-9pm for free everyday for the rest of January. To qualify you must register a new account and your payment details but there’s no need to deposit a penny, that’s right all for free!
There’s £20,000 to be won every week, so kick start the New Year in a big way, with Mecca Bingo who are giving away £20,000 every week. To win, just play bingo in any 90 ball room in 33 calls, plus everyone who’s bought a ticket in the winning game will win a share of £1,000!
January 15th, 2010 | Casino Hints and Tips, Online Casino
Well who wouldn’t want to be is what most people would reply and playing at your favourite casino site could mean that you could join those ‘city slickers’ and be driving around in your very own Porsche! The game is an exciting an exciting five-line slot game with a gigantic progressive jackpot called Clover Rollover.
The jackpot is initially funded at £10,000 and each day at around midnight it increases based on stakes for the previous day. To qualify for the progressive jackpot, you must stake a maximum bet which is £1 on any one line or more to be eligible to win on that particular line or more. Now the casino operators William Hill, has revealed that it is also set to make one lucky player an instant millionaire after the progressive jackpot, because its Clover Rollover slot surpassed the seven-figure sum over Christmas. The prize for winning the five-line game has been growing since June and will continue to build until it’s won.
January 11th, 2010 | Online Poker
Away from the icy grip of the European winter the PokerStars Caribbean adventure is drawing to a climax with 24 players’ battling it out on day 5 of this tourney, which is being held at the prestigious Imperial Ballroom in the Atlantis resort. After less than six hours the field of 24 had been pared down to a final table of 8 players which has set the stage for what should be a gripping final day.
Currently Ty Reiman and Ryan D’Angelo have traded the top spot which ended up being occupied by D’Angelo. The final table of 8 is laid out with seat 1 occupied by Zachary Goldberg, 2 by Ryan D’Angelo, 3 Aage Ravn, 4 Tom Koral, 5 Harrison Gimbel,6 Barry Shulman, 7 Benjamin Samani, and 8 occupied by Ty Reiman. The starting gun is noon and we look forward to what should prove to be an exciting final day.
January 5th, 2010 | Online Casino, Online Poker
Following the lead of Italy, Belgium is to defy an order from the European Union and is proposing to nationalise online poker operations by preventing outside companies, such as casino 888poker, from being able to court Belgians. If it goes ahead, online poker rooms would have to set up a separate operation that would be licensed by the Belgian government and located inside of the country, much like what Italy has done with its online poker operations.
This defies an order from the EU that was issued in June 2009. After receiving details on Belgium’s plans for online poker regulation from its government in March of last year, the EU decided that the plan violated several areas of the free trade treaty that all 27 member nations had signed. We shall watch this development with interest.
December 22nd, 2009 | Poker, Poker Players
The schedule for next year’s World Series of Poker, or the WSOP as we like to refer to it as, has been released with the 41st edition of the world-famous tournament series set to cover 57 events spread over 51 days. Beginning on May 27th at using the entire convention centre of the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, this is exclusively dedicated to poker for the very first time. The first four days will also see games of limit Hold’em, Omaha high-low split-eight or better, seven-card razz, seven-card stud, seven-card stud high-low split-eight or better, no-limit Hold’em, pot-limit Omaha and two to seven triple draw lowball.
With only one day off, July 4th, the 2010 WSOP will conclude on The 2010 WSOP will conclude beginning on July 5 with a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold’em championship, the final 9 should be know by July 17th for the grand finale which will take place from the 6th to the 9th November. This looks like being a great event again and no matter the state of you game or your bankroll, the 2010 WSOP schedule looks like offering something for everyone.