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
Titan Poker always has something new and exciting for its poker players. This time Titan Poker will be rewarding all of its new depositors since October 1st. This will involve inviting them to a special $2000 freeroll!
This fabulous event is called the November Invitational 2009 and there is quite a hype about it going on at Titan Poker. This freeroll takes place on November 29th at 20:05 GMT. For the event all qualifying players will receive invitations from Titan Poker itself.
This mega event will not only be an enjoyable experience but it will also be a chance for players to make tons of money. If you are a player who has never made a real money deposit on Titan Poker, there is still time to qualify and start minting quick cash! You can make the deposit right up until the day of the event in order to receive your invite. To sign up you can go to FlopTurnRiver.com. Here you will also receive an exclusive 150% up to $600 first deposit Bonus and gain access to the exclusive FTR400! The FTR400 is a monthly $400 Money Added event that is held just for members of FlopTurnRiver.com’s forum.
Apart from these few reasons, there are dozens of other great reasons to sign up at Titan Poker. Currently at the Titan Poker the European Championship of Online Poker is going on with the Main Event coming up on the 6th of December. In addition to this they also have weekly point’s races and satellites to some of the largest live international major poker events around!
So, don’t wait and watch, because it is worth the money you bet. If you haven’t already, make your account at Titan Poker today and you will find even more reasons to be glad that you did. Click here to play for free at Titan Poker!
Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » November 28th, 2009
Part Poker is always up to some poker partying in action and this time it has come up with ‘The Gladiator’ promotion which is on the go and there has already been a large number of entries. According to a PartyPoker spokesman’ “Almost 200 people collected 1000 PartyPoints on day one alone!
If these fearless warriors keep this up we’ll have to give away over 200 Aussie Millions packages! ‘The Gladiator’ is about endurance, however, and only the strongest will survive! Only few will have the stamina to follow the long and winding road to glory! It isn’t too late to enter the arena now!”
During November, PartyPoker.com has become the ‘in place’. From the 1st till the 30th November players who hit the daily minimum target of 10 PartyPoints for just five days claim the fabulous reward of an entry into a $5,000 poker freeroll.
The more days a player earns points on, the bigger the prize will be; there’s up to $3,000 cash to be won. Along with this PartyPoker has also added a huge incentive; Earn 1,000 points every day for the full 30 days and a player secures a seat at next year’s Aussie Millions worth AUD$10,500. The first prize at the main event in Melbourne is around AUD$2 million.
When it comes to the number of days of earning points, PartyPoker.com will just count up the number of day’s targets that have been made during the promotion. For example, earn 10 points for 10 days; take five days off and then earn 10 points on 10 more days of the promotion and PartyPoker.com will award the prize for earning 10 points on 20 days.
Party Poker has introduced online qualifiers for the 2010 Aussie Millions in Melbourne. PartyPoker.com Australia Ambassador Stewart Scott is the defending champion and there is a chance to follow his success in Melbourne next year. The group is offering the chance to win one of 25 luxury Aussie Millions main event packages. These are in reach with $600 plus 40 satellites on Sunday 13th December.
Click here to take part of this promotion at Party Poker!
Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Promotions | No Comments » November 7th, 2009
With Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth offering entry into their team heading to the World Series of Poker now you can polish up your skills and join them by playing at ultimate bet who are currently celebrating their 10th anniversary. With the chance to battle some of the most valorous gladiators of the poker world the roman themed promotion offers a chance to grab a $10 million dollar bonus.
One of these exuberant promotions features a unique game called “From a dime to a $10 Million Dream†in which players get a chance to win a seat to the World Series of Poker. If you only have 10¢, you can easily manage to work your way up through Ultimate Bets Featured 10 steps to land yourself a $12,000 World Series of Poker Prize Package. In order to achieve that all that is required from the player is a first or second position at each level.
As an added incentive the first 10 players who achieve the highest standards from step one to step ten in this promotion will be awarded a $5,500 Aruba Poker Classic Main Event plus a whopping $3,000 for travel as well as accommodation. Duke recently state that their10¢ World Series of Poker Step participants who manage to qualify are considered as the beginning of a turn of exciting events that are destined to capture the eyes of players across the globe. The prizes don’t stop here as Ultimate Bet has gone overboard, presenting the players who register with Ultimate bet an opportunity of a life time, a $10 million sponsorship.
A player who is successful in winning the Main Event at Ultimate Bet.com will be offered a bonus worth a staggering $10 Million with a predetermined payout period of 10 years. The player will also be awarded the honor of being the newest Ultimate Bet Pro with a chance to play alongside Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke.
Also planning on hosting a World Series of Poker free roll for players Ultimate Bet starting from April25th to June 20th will be paying out a $12,500 prize package to the winner including a $2,500 cash prize from the prize pool. The first free roll is planned to be held on 25th April commencing at 3 p.m. ET.
Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WSOP | No Comments » March 30th, 2009
Considered to be quite a sensation among the ardent gamblers of the online world a player going by the name of ‘Boku87’ recently surfaced at PokerStars.com and swooped everyone off their feet by standing triumphant in one of the most astounding Proposition bets found in the chronicles of the online gambling arena. Transforming a stake of $100 into $10,000 by playing only sit and go games is not only considered to be lucky, but also quite phenomenal.
According to the pre-determined rules set forth by PokerStars.com ‘Boku87’ was informed that the only way to win the bet was to achieve the winning mark of $9,900 and the only take he was allowed was worth a $100. With only 15 days to accomplish this task Boku87 was permitted to play games offering a maximum buy-in of $16 not to mention he was advised to avoid confronting 90 and 180-player tables. Documenting the entire challenge by utilizing a webcam several players at this exuberant sit and go gaming tournament held by Poker Stars.com were witnessed to be engaged in a grueling battle against ‘Boku87’. With $40,000 at stake Boku87 received odds of 3/1 with the renowned online poker room PokerStars safeguarding the bets using an escrow account.
By the time the first day of the challenge at PokerStars com had concluded ,’Boku87’ had already played against a total of 50 individuals 18 and 45 player tables coinciding with a wagered bet of only one dollar to elevate the initial $100 stake to $422. Over the next few days Boku87 was seen to gradually increase his bankroll by slowly increasing his stake, initially starting with three dollars moving on to six and twelve with a mixture of 18 and 45 player games.
Suffering for two period where his bankroll fell below the $1000 mark Boku87 quickly recovered so that no player can cash on that opportunity. After a week his strategy changed and Boku87 decided to play at only 30 tables at once before attaining his ultimate target with a generous amount of time to gloat. Despite being victorious ‘Boku87’ announced that he had no future plans to repeat this act. However PokerStars.com did offer to carry on his legacy by announcing a $10,000 freeroll tournament for the disappointed players who lost when the ingenious players hit the required target.
Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » March 27th, 2009
Reeferpoker.com in association with the Canadian affiliate management company CanAffco.com announced today that the US Player-affable poker sites are proud to be hosts to one of the largest Forum challenge events in recent history, the Online Forum Challenge’s “Really Really Big $5,000 Freeroll.”Promoted as a free tournament for all players and forums alike the online poker players will battle each other out for thousands of dollars. Winning this freeroll tournament would result in the ultimate approval of bragging rights at their favorite respective forums. Sponsored by ReeferPoker.com the tournament will commence on Saturday, January 10th, 2009.The enthusiastic players will have a chance at winning their share of $5000 in cash for themselves as well as their online poker forum in this extravagant inter-forum challenge tournament. The players with the best profile and performance report will be rewarded with $2000 in prizes.
Jim Krazy Kanuck commented that most of the best online poker players utilize these forums to enhance their game play and he is grateful to be part of this highly admired poker tournament. May the best man or woman win.
The simple procedure of being eligible for these events is to register at Reefer Poker.com Players must then pre-register at www.OnlineForumChallenge.com by 3:00pm EST on Thursday January 8th. Entire tournament details, as well as prizes and registration, are available at www.OnlineForumChallenge.com for your disposal. Jason “Wolf” Rosenberg the Online Forum Challenge owner stated that to be awarded the honor of being the premier catalyst to these multi-forum events has placed them under a debt of gratitude towards Reefer Poker and CanAffco. He also quoted that they are looking forward to witnessing this great event where the players and forums will win their share of $7,000 in cash and prizes.
In relation to this broadcast the Bad Beat Jackpot on Reefer Poker continue to reach new heights, with the jackpot now surpassing $860,000 and Reefer Poker partners are set to earn a portion of this huge Bad Beat Jackpot. In accordance with this situation the Reefer Pokers’ Poker Room Manager Dave Ishere said that at this very moment in time the Bad Beat Jackpot is sizzling hot and they are highly appreciative of their affiliate(s) for routing the jackpot winners to them. It’s uncomplicated! If a Reefer Poker player is marked to an affiliate account and wins a portion of the Bad Beat Jackpot, then that affiliate will be entitled to receive a percentage of that amount.
Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » January 17th, 2009
The Race Rake is back at both Absolute Poker and UltimateBet. However, They are putting up twice the amount for a whopping $200,000. The largest online Rake Race in history.
$220,000 is waiting to be won
From December 1, until New Years Eve, the race is on. You have 31 days to to earn as many STATUS points as possible playing at any ring game. STATUS points earned playing Blackjack do not count for this promotion.
Top 200 Players
The top 200 players will all enjoy a slice of our massive $200K prize pool, with $15K going to the player who takes the checkered flag.
The top ten players will win the lion’s share of the pot – worth $105,000 – but even the player finishing at #200 will pocket a tasty $200 prize.
In addition, every player who finishes in the final 1,000 will each receive an invitation to our Race Cards II $20,000 FreeRoll in January.
Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Promotions | No Comments » November 30th, 2008
