Pacific Poker powered by 888.com is amongst the leading online gaming companies in the world. It was launched in 1997 but quickly grown in one of the largest online poker rooms on web. They are offering its players a quality entertainment by providing reasonable, cool and safe poker environment.

Promotions are one of those entertainment features that can entice a huge number of players and compels them to play. Therefore Pacific Poker also offers many exciting promotions for its players daily.

Some of the promotions offered at Pacific Poker are

Welcome Bonus: Pacific Poker gives their players a 25% Welcome Bonus once you start at your first table while the remaining 75% you can use for wagering purpose.

$50K First Depositors’ Challenge: As a part of your welcome package now you can play for your share of a huge $50,000.

First Depositors’ Free-roll: Once you deposit your deposit as a new Pacific Poker member, then you will be given a chance to increase your bankroll with a share of $3,500 for free.

Exclusive $500 free-roll for Twitter followers: Do you want to win a share of $500 every week then follow Pacific Poker on Twitter and you’ll get access to an exclusive weekly Twitter $500 free-roll.

Pacific Poker Rewards: After signup with Pacific Poker you not only will you soon be cashing in on a whole host of exciting rewards and top prizes, but you get the chance to move up a level straight away with some special rewards tournaments.

Leo Margets bounty: As we all know that Leo Margets is one of the hottest female players on the poker circuit. So now if you think that you can beat her to cash in on a bounty of $1,000? Then here’s your chance!

$1,000 Depositors’ Freeroll: Want to have a share of $1,000 for free each week at Pacific Poker? Your deposits can really give back in big ways because they’ll score you a free ticket to a $1,000 Depositors’ Freeroll.

Casino Games: Pacific Poker offers you some excellent ways to integrate your poker play with casino play. You can play a diverse range of casino games to play for big prize pools in Blackjack, Video Poker, Roulette and Slot games!

Poker Cruise: Pacific Poker is giving you the opportunity to be on the Royal Caribbean’s ‘Freedom of the Seas’ cruise liner for the World Poker Showdown Caribbean Poker Cruise coming up this April. For this you simply play your way to a $5,000 package via a satellite from as little as $3.55 or buy straight into one of the Qualifiers.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » April 22nd, 2010

Yesterday Everest Poker, the biggest sponsor for the World Series of Poker has claimed in a Las Vegas federal court against Harrah’s Entertainment, the owner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) brand.

Ultra Internet Media (UIM), which is the owner of Everest Poker is operating out of the island of Nevis in the West Indies, come into a deal with WSOP in 2008. They also agreed to sponsor the tournament series to the amount of $6.2 million in 2008, $7.9 million in 2009, and $8.4 in 2010.

According to contract, the Everest Poker logo should be displayed prominently on the felt of all tables used in the competition, plus on the inner rung of the WSOP feature table during the finals.

According to the proceedings, “Every material breach of the agreement represents lost potential future profits, erosion of goodwill and compromise of UIM’s international business reputation.”

The 2010 tournament kicks off on May 27 at Harrah’s Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas, and UIM wants to pull out. So they are claiming that in last few years, Harrah’s desecrated the sponsorship agreement when ESPN broadcasts of the event shown in France failed to show the Everest Poker logo on the tables, instead replacing it with competitor Full Tilt Poker. The claim hopes to use this break to make the contract invalid.

It’s a serious objection because Ultra Internet Media and its subsidiary Everest Poker claim to generate the majority of their profits by offering online poker in France. When televise of past WSOP events play on France’s RTL9 television channel bearing Full Tilt’s logo, UIM Ultra Internet Media does not get their money’s worth. Ultra Internet Media had also claimed that they do not make revenue from players in the US “by way of the Internet or telephone.”

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » April 9th, 2010

Several online poker sites are offering their players different opportunities for participating in the 2010 World Series of Poker. Everest Poker is one of the world’s top poker service providers which are offering an additional $1,000,000.

Yes its right!! Everest Poker’s standard prize packages weren’t enough; but each qualifier who nets a seat in either the Main Event or Side Event #54 will also receive a share of up to $1,000,000 in additional prize money.

Everest will allow players to participate in both, which means you’d be eligible for an incredible 11 shares.
Once both events are completed, Everest Poker will add up the total WSOP winnings garnered by their online qualifiers. They will then put forth a 100% money match, creating a brand new prize pool for them to distribute.

This prize will be shared according to the event participants. Those who sat in on the WSOP Main Event will receive ten shares of the profits, while the Event #54 participants will earn a single share. And you have done the entire relevant math, you account will be credited the amount of bonus.

Everest Poker is one of the world’s leading online poker rooms. Everest Poker is  truly a multilingual poker room with a solid player base and plenty of growth potential. Everest is actually one of the few sites that has profited from U.S. online gaming restrictions given its international focus and seems to attract new players from all corners of the globe every minute. The recent addition of high-stakes play has also attracted a new audience playing the $25/$50 blind Hold’em games.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » April 5th, 2010

Pokerstars has announced a new live tour dubbed the France Poker Series and there will be seven stops as part of the series, each with €1,200 buy-in events and end in the Grand Final in Paris, which will be a €2,500 buy-in tournament. And if you want to participate in France Poker Series event through freerolls and cash satellites then log onto Poker Stars.

France Poker Series’ first season is being advertised as the most thrilling live poker events ever to hit the European country. These tournaments will take place all over France with a buy-in of €1,200 and each boasts a guaranteed prize pool of €300,000. The winner of the main event of the France Poker Series will also receive a package for the Grand Final in Paris.

Members of Team PokerStars France consist of GoDaddy spokesperson Vanessa Rousso, Arnaud Mattern, World Poker Tour, Cyprus winner Thomas Bichon, and sports hero Sebastien Chabal. Rousso is a French-American dual citizen who was born in New York, attended Duke University, and graduated with honors. Arguably the most accomplished member of Team PokerStars France is Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, who has won millions of dollars playing online and live.

This is the once in a life time opportunity for the players to avail and giving them a chance to play in some of the most beautiful cities of the world.

The France Poker Series is going to introduce a leaderboard in which players will qualify for the Grand Final in Paris. The players ranked first through fifth on the leaderboard will get an entry pass for the Grand Finale.

The Morocco event, which takes place outside of France in the North African country, such a place which no one, would like to miss! While the satellite qualifiers are already running on PokerStars, allowing players to win a prize package that consists of the buy-in, hotel accommodations, and other expenses.

There are also cash satellites available only for the players of Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The freeroll qualifiers are only open to players in mainland France. Therefore it means that players in the United States are not eligible for the freerolls.

Freerolls and cash satellites for the Beaulieu-sur-Mer stop are running now and start at €5.50. Players can find the satellites from within the PokerStars lobby by clicking on “Tourney” and then “Regional.”
The France Poker Series is the newest in live tour for PokerStars, following such successful ventures as the Latin American Poker Tour, European Poker Tour and the recently launched North American Poker Tour.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » April 2nd, 2010

Online Poker giant Party Poker has recently signed a new arrangement through which they are going to enter the French market in coming few months.

Poker in France has become very popular over the last two years with famous players such as Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and Antoine Saout leading the way on the world stage.

Therefore, many young players have taken to the virtual heights with the aim of making their fortunes in the potentially rewarding online poker world.Party Gaming have been keen to take advantage of the recent wave of poker passion sweeping across France that is why they have signed an exclusive deal with PMU. The arrangement will see Party’s poker software being used in combination with the pari-mutual horse racing company PMU to provide a new gaming site for French players.

Now both the parties are waiting for their licenses to be permitted as the projects are in transit. But once the formalities are finalized the site should be operational very quickly.

Party Gaming CEO, Jim Ryan, was satisfied with the company’s recent business deal, stating that it is reliable with their plans to develop and secure the services of a number of high-value partners.

Party Poker is one of the best online poker rooms available, offering quality promotions, good game variety and excellent customer support on a fast and reliable software platform.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » March 26th, 2010

888 Holding earn almost 30% hit on poker revenues last year; therefore the online gambling operators said that it was sure beating into its well of social players and expected a return to poker growth in the second half of 2010.

888 saw a decrease of 4% to $246.7m (£164m) and pre-tax profit decline of 31% to $27.6m, while their Poker revenues fell from $71.6m to $51.6m in  2009.

Gigi Levy, chief executive of 888 Holdings, said poker is an established market, with all its rivals suffering from falling liquidity. “It’s a tough market,” he said. The shares fell 9p on Tuesday to close at 103p.

Recently 888 have built up a database of 2 million players on social networking site Facebook. The amazing part of it is that those players are not real money players but Levy was confident of converting some of those into paying customers at Pacific Poker .

Dragonfish, the group’s B2B division, saw revenues go up by a third to $51.3m and on Monday added to its client Bwin and it recently announced it would provide casino games for the Italian arm of Bwin, the Austrian-based online gambling operator.

However, Mr Levy said that Dragonfish was “moving slower than we had hoped”, with some potential clients unwilling to switch to new providers.

“Everybody is arming themselves with small acquisitions to improve their position,” he said. 888 itself bought Wink Bingo in December.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » March 25th, 2010

A group of Canadian researchers found some time to do other than watching Olympic hockey. They wanted to conduct a study on the effects of playing poker on stress. You will be amazed to see the results of this study. Their earlier study showed that online gambling like poker is very beneficial to the brain and presently researchers are very excited to be able to report that poker is a stress buster as well. This study consisted of many people playing a game of poker.

These researchers have found significant evidence to make the claim that playing poker online actually reduces stress. That means indirectly they have proved that if you are stressed then you should start playing poker it will reduce your stress.

This study is all about cortisol. It is a hormone that is termed as the stress hormone. If level of these hormones increases in your blood this means you are stressed. And during the players being monitored playing online poker showed decreasing levels of cortisone as they became more engaged in the game. These findings add to the previously known findings that online gambling improves cognitive function and can reduce the aging process.

This means that science is telling us that gambling and playing poker online not only makes you smarter and gives you’re a younger look. But it also reduces your stress levels.

The results of this poker study is really amazing, because according to this, playing poker can be one of the most stressful and nerve racking activities to engage in. You would think that with money on the line, and the tension involved in competition would increase stress levels, turns out that engaging oneself so deeply into the game actually relieves stress by forcing the individual to forget about the stresses of everyday life.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles | No Comments » March 2nd, 2010

In the past year, poker world is the industry which continued to provide their players excited gaming events full of drama and controversy. Many poor states of the economy have affected the majority of businesses, and the big buy-in tournament poker is also the part of that dilemma. In 2009 tournament poker took a hit at the highest buy-in levels.

Aside from the main events, the $10,000 world championship events at the world series of poker saw their turnout to be decreased 13%, by the combined total of 1,786 entrants from the 2,053 entrants the year before. And the number of tournament attendance was down in $10,000 buy-in-events but overall some attendance numbers were up and according to trend it shows that the interest in highest buy-in amounts took a hit overall, and live tournament poker is still famous.

At the start of 2009, an online high flier Tom Dwan issued Million Dollar challenge to the online world. This challenge was for the opponents to come out on top after the required number of hands. If Dawn were ahead by #1 or more than his opponent must fork over $500,000 and if the Dwain’s opponent were ahead by $1 or more Dwan’s would cough up $1.5million.

The WOSP set an overall turnout record with 60,875 players in 2009, with an increase of 4.5% over 2008. It was a success year for EPT that found major live poker tournament poker in 2009, also become the most consistent performer. The 7,847 players that enters EPT main events in 2009 and represented impressive growth over the 6,443 players that entered 11 EPT main events in 2008.

Those tournaments that adjust buy-ins downward for the poor economy were major success stories of the year. Overall, WSOP’s performance was better, with total attendance increasing to 60,875 during the year 2009 from 58,720 players of 2008. And it was because of two bracelet events to bring total up to 57 in 2009 from 55 in 208, but the average was very close. In 2009 WOSP averaged 1,067.98 players per event while the average for 2008 was 1,067.64 players per event.

In 2008 H.O.R.S.E world championship depicts 148 players and but that number was down to 95 in 2009.The $40,000 no-limit hold’em event. This was new for 2009, drew 201 players a respectable field that may show some player’s preference for the strongest game when playing for the highest takes. Number of attendants at WPT North American events fell the most in 2009, down to 4,489 at 11 events. While there were 6,025 players who attended almost 14 events in the year 2008, and this average decreases as well, with 430 players attending event in 2008 and 408 attending in 2009.

Due to the enhancement of UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act) which is scheduled to be started in December 2009; has made the players left the game. And is assumed that it will continue till mid of 2010. According to PokerScout.com, the poker industry is increasing by the rate of 30%.

Finally, the WPT put the world back by hosting several tournaments in Europe. These tournaments were warmly received, with strong European contingents filling out fields alongside many of the best poker from the US.

Eurolinx and BetOnBet are closed because of some mysterious reasons which are being investigated by police and Pitbull is also closed after this outrage. But aside from these scandals it’s presumed that online poker world will prove themselves more efficient to attain big heights and earn huge earnings by competing online behemoths as PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles | No Comments » January 2nd, 2010

The online poker usa world is undergoing constant change. It has now been heard that real card deals are to be introduced to replace random number generators.

It is possible that many poker players will argue that the type of hands dealt and general poker statistics tend to have a different feel when playing online poker as compared to playing live poker. Although many players have argued that this is not the case, and that both produce random card distributions, there are valid arguments to suggest that there are possibilities it could be real.

For instance, in online poker cards are dealt using what is known as a pseudo-random number generator. For all intents and purposes this generates truly random deals. When cards are dealt by a live dealer, shuffling the deck does not randomize the cards. However a great deal of research has been carried out on how many times a deck needs to be perfectly shuffled in order to produce an essentially random sequence and it turned out to be approximately seven ruffle shuffles.

A brand new poker website is being launched in real cards are dealt. The system uses what is called a deck matrix system. Real decks of cards are automatically shuffled numerous times and the shuffled decks are recorded and encrypted to be used in dealing. Every hand is played using a single deck, and the player on the button can chose whether or not to cut the deck. Burn cards are also used. The deals are audited and certified, and there is no possibility of cheating or any kind of fraud. In addition to this the system makes it impossible for online poker bots to be used.

It is expected that Realpoker will commence games in February 2010, although it is already possible to sign up. This will create a major change in the online poker industry and will definitely set a benchmark for other poker sites.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles | No Comments » December 5th, 2009

Online poker gaming softwares have long been based on the same formats which are easy to use no matter who the player. Among the most well known ones are Microgaming Poker Network and Ongame Poker Network which license their software to hundreds of different “skin” sites. These companies usually plaster their own logo and color scheme over the original client.

Austrian gaming giants Bwin have now moved from the stereotypical format. They are currently testing a new program that integrates social media into online poker. The company aims to increase connection between players. This innovation will help you share information like your most recent victory on facebook or make you challenge another player to a wager.

The product is still in the testing stage, although it has been heard that the new system seems to revolve around a Shoutbox. Unlike a typical chat area this new feature will contain a whole raft of social media options. You can make comments on specific bets and hands, as well as invite your friends to the table. These comments will be viewable by all, enabling other users to come in and interact with your behavior. These functions will intertwine with Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. This new technology brings a new connectivity to online poker where players can create their own friends list with special alerts. More at bwin!

Bwin owns the Ongame network, which recently completed their new P5 poker platform. The new software was a solid modern poker client but not so creative.

According to the Chief Technological Officer Thomas Kiessling “It’s really the customer experience that’s key. That is a major priority for me,” he said. “Customer relationship management, customer intelligence, usability studies. That is a major priority for me.” Bwin have already sunk €45 million into the creation of this new software, which looks ready to become a core part of their already solid online offering.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » November 15th, 2009