The site leader of the poker on line proposes free tournaments for the players who carry out a deposit by using the code of Freerolls300k promotion. 100 Freerolls are then available these players and propose each one 2000$ of profit. 5 finales will gather the best players of these tournaments with a prize pool of 20.000 $ each one.

Macau, the Las Vegas Asian, had resisted the crisis better up to now than its alter American ego. But the results are degraded. The group Galaxy Entertainment indeed lost 1,5 billion dollars in 2008. The previous year, in 2007, the group had known a loss of 60 million dollars. The sales turnover of the group melted of 20%. The group decided to re-examine its policy of investment consequently.

Betfair is one of the leader of the market of the sporting bets while Playtech is one of the leading vendors of solutions for the sites of plays. The objective of the bringing together relates to gambling as well as the bingo. The poker is on the other hand excluded from this partnership.

Poker Chanel proposes a program devoted to the poker with its televiewers. The English channel is already diffused in 20 European countries, of which Cyprus, Poland, Germany, Croatia and Portugal. The programs also will evolve/move: a crenel from now on will be devoted to the hyppic races.

To celebrate the 40 years of the WSOP, the tournament birthday of one buy-in 40.000 $ gathered 201 players. If French Bruno Fitoussi were chip leader at the conclusion of the first day of the test, it will be eliminated well before the final table. It is Russian Vitaly Lunkin who will assert itself at the end of face to face final with Isaac Haxton on a pair of ace. Lunkin thus gains its second bracelet of the WSOP after its victory to the 1.500 $ No Limit Holdem in 2008.

The casinos are reinforced out of machines with under to 1,2 or 5 centimes. The objective is to increase the time of play of the players. In this way the casinos adapt to the crisis by proposing more accessible plays with their customers. In Nice, the casino the Princes for example installed 35 machines with under known as “with low denomination”.

HandCrawler is a new site making it possible to find discussions on parts of poker. By indicating your criteria (starting hand, position, etc…), the search engine lists all the discussions found on the forums of poker evoking the situation of play which you described. Admittedly the base of the engine contains only one about fifty thousands of hands, but it should be packed quickly.

In order to position on the market of the poker on line as of the opening of the French market at the beginning of 2010, the Francaise des Jeux would have signed a contract with CyberArts to carry out her platform. The site should open its front doors the end of the year 2009 in play money.

At the beginning of May 9 people perished at the time of a fire in a casino of Dnipropetrovsk. The responsibility being allotted to nona respect for the security measures, the Ukrainian Parliament decided the closing of all the gaming rooms and casino. This legal text must still be ratified by president Iouchtchenko.

At the time of the last tournaments certain great names of the poker were accustomed to communicating some information via Twitter in connection with their participations in the greatest tournaments of the world. The WSOP amended their payment to prohibit this practice. The cellphones, them, remain authorized.

Tournaments will proceed from June 8th to 22nd between the members of the famous Community site. 18 qualified will clash June 29th and 30th at the time of a final tournament. The 2 first will fly away as of the following day for Las Vegas.

25 finales out of the 57 tournaments of edition 2009 of the WSOP will be retransmises in very recorded moments before (for reasons of integrity of the play). These parts will be diffused for certain on bluffmagazine.com and others on espn360.com. A good news for the fans of the pros and the amateurs who wish to improve their play by studying that of largest!

17 billion euros: it is the budget planned for the project of a Las Vegas in Spain. The site selected would be located at the limit of the provinces of Lerida and Huesca. The project is led by ILD (International Leisure Development), consortium of which form in particular part the Tranchant casinos. The preliminary draft envisages 10 hotel-casinos, 7 amusement parks, 250 shops and 200 bars and restaurants. Its structures should be ready for 2012. Their number would double (even would triple) at horizon of 2022…

It thus left for one month tournaments poker! 2009 are the fortieth edition of the WSOP. 57 tests are envisaged with the program. First is reserved to the employees of casinos. A tournament with 40.000 $ of buy-in will come then celebrated the 40ème birthday from this institution of the history of the poker.

Encasing the step with some of its european partners, Denmark abdicates in its turn. The market of the Danish money plays was the prerogative of the company Danske Spel since an about sixty years. The sales turnover concerned is of a billion and half euros for a benefit of almost 400.000 €. The market will extend to the poker and the casino. The interested companies, which will have to respect a schedule of conditions, will be able to be based on publicity to develop.

The Swiss Confederation decided to soften its legislation in order to allow the emergence of casinos on line. 5 to 10 concessions would be thus allotted with rules comparable with those of the terrestrial casinos. The government hears thus proposed an offer of play on Internet in order to limit the illegal plays.

BetClic has just set up commercials on Europe 1 as well as postings in the free written press. Unibet is further proposing an emission of bets on RMC. But SCUMS required of the radio not to sign such an agreement with Unibet, judging the activity of the company of bets in dissension with the actual position of the legislation. These two episodes are likely to harden the position of SCUMS on the subject.

The first woman of the father of Barack Obama is fan of bingo and hopes well to benefit from her visit with close to the former president to South Africa to share with him her passion for this play. The purpose of the action of Kezia Obama is to collect funds for the association Operation Hunger which fights against malnutrition in South Africa.

Young 21 year old Ukrainian east demolishes of all his adversaries for empocher the 2.150.000 $ promised to the winner of this tournament of one buy-in 25.000 $. He beats Ran Azor finally. Before the heads up, it is French Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier who had had to abdicate in 3rd place, in spite of very a good hand (Have-servant matched). Timoshenko thus adds a new line to its prize list provided already well in spite of its young age, after in particular the victory with the APT Macau in 2008, and to that of a side vent of Irish Open in 2007.

The sales turnover of the games of chance in Belgium rises to 3,3 billion euros for the year 2008, which constitutes a rise compared to 2007. The pillars of the market are the National Lottery (1,14 billion euros) and them agencies of bet (1,3 billion euros). The gaming rooms exceed the 170 million euros and the casinos are allocated nearly 120 million euros. The plays on Internet border the 230 million euros.

This event proceeds from April 28th to May 3rd, 2009. Fourteen events are envisaged throughout this week. The hand vent, a buy in 10.000 $ which had gathered 842 players the last year, will gather the best players of the world.

BingoDay proposes an original and practical promotion with its players in these times of crisis. Each deposit of 20 £ gives right a ticket of tombola which allows each month to the winner to obtain 100 fuel £ each month during one year. Other silver prices are also planned for gaining lower row.

The first tests of the championships of poker onlin of spring started with a satisfactory multitude thanks to buy-in varied of which some very accessible. These championships constitute an excellent opportunity for the amateurs of Omaha poker.

A new series of tournaments of poker is about to be born in France. 53 stages would proceed in France between May 2009 and May 2010 to end in a final which could take place with the casino of Marrakesh for one buy-in 5.000 $ and a prize pool of a million dollars. The casinos had a presentiment of to accommodate these stages are the casinos of Lacanau, Barbotan, Megève, Evian the Baths, Saint-Gilles Croix of Life, Cannes Mandelieu, Cape D' Adge, Granville, Aix the Baths.

Playtech the supplier of software game of casino and poker decided to extend its offer of service while being interested in the sets of sporting bets. The casinos using Playtech technology can thus from now on propose in more with their customers of the sporting bets. In the same way the players having their practices in one of the casinos or one of the rooms of Playtech poker will be able to take part in the plays of bet without having to be registered on another site.

The WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic proposes a prize pool of almost 2.500.000 $ with its 259 registered voters. The 30 first will gain between 20.713 $ and 731.079 $. At the time of the first edition, this same tournament proposed a million dollars to its winner Hoyt Corkins. Gaining this seventh edition will empochera much less. In these times of crises the players are less and less numerous to pay nearly 10.000 $ of buy-in.

The university of Guelph undertakes a study in order to measure in what the environment of play impacts the behavior of the players. Volunteers are plunged in a virtual decoration which the scientists vary. The latter could establish that the level of dependence of the player is directly influenced by the environment, in particular the sounds, the colors and the lights. This study thus shows that it is enough to slightly modify the conditions of play to avoid the dependence.

The newspaper Interview and Bwin renew their association by organizing the second Interview Poker Turn. The qualifications proceed from March 30th to May 23rd, 2009 every evening with 21:00. 15 players are qualified each day for a final during which 800 players will dispute the 2 places to be gained. The 2 winners will fly away for 4 days in Las Vegas in class VIP.

Tournament ECOOP IV (European Championship of online poker) will proceed from May 25th to June 7th, 2009. 14 tournaments of Texas Hold'em and Omaha will make it possible to decide between the best players of poker on line, for one buy-in 109$ to 1590$. The major event will propose with him only a kitty of 1500000$.

The group Las Vegas Sands announced the opening at the end of 2009 of the first casino of Singapore. This project was made possible by the evolution of the legislation 4 years ago. At that time the establishments of play were prohibited on this Asian territory.

Following colossal losses in 2008, Cryptologic was constrained to find a solution to save the pieces of furniture. The owner group of Intercasino and Interpoker decided to turn to BossMedia to amalgamate. The players will be thus to rock towards the BossMedia network starting from March 17th, 2009.

The countable cabinet Pricewaterhouse Cooper has to make a study which indicates that the legalization of the online games in the United States would make it possible to take 52 billion dollars of levies additional. The bill voted by the Republicans into 2006 could thus be soon abolished…

The qualifications for the tournament of the WPT of Marrakech will begin in April on ChiliPoker. Gain your place for the tournament as well as lodging and the voyage.

Up to now the PMU and the Française des Jeux shared the monopoly of the online games up to now. But as from the 1/1/2010 of other companies will be able to propose plays under reserves to observe very strict conditions. Unfortunately it is not particularly with the advantage of the players since one of the imposed conditions is to respect a ceiling of the profits redistributed with the players… The State intends to take 7,5% on the sporting bets and 2% on the poker.

Devilfish Poker publishes its accounts 2008, which is rather rare in the world of the online games. Over the second six-month period 2008, this English small room of poker generated a sales turnover of 237.599 £, for a base of 8000 players including 2400 credits.

A final private conversation of more than five hours allowed the American Cornel A. Cimpan to finally triumph over Binh Nguyen of WPT LAPC 2009. Mike Sowers, Chris Karagulleyan and Chris Ferguson supplement the prize list. Cimpan gains thus its first World Poker Turn and empoche on the occasion more than 1.600.000 $.

The last quarters of the Partouche group showed a turnover of more than 116 million euros, in retreat of more than 14%. The fall is explained by the conjunction of the current context with the crisis and prohibition to smoke in the public places issued in France with the beginning of the year 2008. The gross product of the machines with under rises to 157 million euros, while that of the traditional plays is stable with a little more than 20 million euros.

The Barrière group aims at the users of game console while wishing to equip its very next site with poker in LeCroupier.com line of a version PS3. The last generation indeed technically makes it possible to adapt this kind of software. Barrier would profit thus from a new source of players and could decline his offer with sporting bets or gambling.

Mickaël, a young French player, gained more than one million euros thanks to the machine with under Gold Rally de Casino Europa. This player is usual fact since it had gained a first jackpot of more than $150.000 with the play Diamond Valley a few months before over this same casino. The jackpots fall one by one on Casino Europa, since a few weeks ago nearly $400,000 were gained in Bonus Bears.

After NRJ Las Vegas Poker, NRJ 12 prepares a new program of TV-reality where all turns goshawks of the poker. 16 candidates will clash. 8 of them will be selected by satellite tournaments on Internet while the 8 others will come from a casting. You have until May to register you, with the key a contract of sponsoring of 200.000 $ for the winner.

The debt of treasury of the Partouche Group reached 353 million euros at the end of October 2008. To regulate these problems and to give a little air, Partouche will solicit its shareholders to obtain the authorization to proceed to this operation of a par value of 500 million euros. The group also considers the transfer on the one hand its credits.

The poker room in PokerHost line used the Microgaming network up to now. It is from now on on Cake Poker that the players of PokerHost will be recorded. PokerHost thus intends to continue to accommodate the American players while Microgaming adopts a more careful attitude by blocking its access to a certain number of States. PokerHost thus follows the same way as Doyle' S Room.