Massive ISPT Satellite today - and more links to check out

Right, let's get started. The links:

• Potential Oregon Legislation Would Shut Down Live Poker Rooms - "A recent bill in the Oregon legislature is an example of this type of attack" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
  
• "If you fancy taking part in the massive ISPT event at Wembley next month then you can get a step closer later today courtesy of DuskTillDawnPoker.com which is hosting a massive online satellites" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
  
  
  
• LGA: Everleaf Complaints From "Affiliates Disguising Themselves as Players" - "The Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta issued a short press statement Friday that states many of the complaints against the Everleaf Gaming Network are from "non-genuine players."" - [pokerfuse.com]
  
• Bingo Overtakes Poker in Playtech's Q1 Figures - "Bingo now produces more revenues than poker for iPoker owner Playtech according to a Q1 trading statement" - [pokerfuse.com]
  
• Harrah's Cherokee WSOP Circuit: John Bowman Wins Main Event - "NC Native Collects Gold Ring and $250K in First Cash If ever there was a poker fairytale with storybook ending, it happened April 15 at the Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Resort, nestled in the majestic Smoky Mountains" - [www.pokerplayernewspaper.com]
  
• "What was expected to be a quick Day Five that would determine the final table turned out to be a long battle at the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin, Flag of Germany on Friday" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
  
  
  

Hawaii Considering Online Gambling - and top links

We have got a load of online poker related links to look through and a variety of topics covering Annie Duke, South Africa, Premier League, Delaware, Revenue and Online gambling.


OK, the links are:

- "Annie Duke might not be the poker community's favourite person anymore, but for mainstream TV in America she still seems to have some relevance" - [www.bluffeurope.com]


- WSOP South Africa Begins - "The World Series of Poker's South African circuit event kicks off at the Emerald Casino today" - [www.bluffeurope.com]

- "PartyPoker Premier League IV: Laak Does it Again Phil Laak might not have been able to win three times in a row, but winning three out of the four heats still counts as something beyond impressive" - [www.pokernewsteam.com]


- Delaware Lottery: Launch Online Gaming by September 30 - "Delaware gaming officials have taken another step toward launching online poker" - [pokerfuse.com]

- "Revenue at 888 Holdings in 2012 spiked 13% and company representatives have attributed part of the rise on an increase in mobile gambling. The company also cited expansion in Italy and Spain as another reason for the impressive jump in revenue that resulted in 2012 showing a fourth quarter increase of seven percent to $97 million, while revenue for the entire year climbed to $376 million" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]


- "Hawaii Considering Online Gambling" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]

Poker Players Alliance Turns Lobbying Efforts to States - and top links

We're speaking about people (Viktor Blom), places (Utah) and everything in between.


OK, the links are:

• "Another dismal year at Atlantic City casinos that saw revenue fall 8% from last year may persuade Gov. Chris Christie to approve online gambling legislation. The New Jersey state legislature overwhelmingly voted in favor of making New Jersey the third state to approve Internet gambling in December" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]
  
  
  
• "It's no secret that I feel the poker food chain has grown unbalanced in recent years (Evidence 1 and Evidence 2), and it's safe to say that the online poker world is finally catching on to this problem and making the necessary changes" - [pokernewsboy.com]
  
  
  
• "After a heavy losing session on Wednesday that saw him drop half a million dollars, Viktor Blom was back to winning ways on Thursday" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
  
  
  
• Poker Players Alliance Turns Lobbying Efforts to States - "The Poker Players Alliance will be focusing its efforts on state regulation of online poker in 2013, rather than on federal regulation, the lobbying group's executive director said this week" - [www.parttimepoker.com]
  
• Utah Attorney General Linked to Johnson Bribery Scheme - "The saga of Jeremy Johnson, a central figure in the SunFirst Bank of Utah online-poker payment processing business at the heart of the "Black Friday" crackdown, continued this week with new allegations of the attempted bribery of US Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) by John Swallow, who was subsequently elected Utah's Attorney General" - [pokerfuse.com]
  

PokerStars Rescues Full Tilt's Overseas Poker Victims Is DOJ On Track To Do Likewise In America? - and top links

Right, why don't we get going. The links:

- "PokerStars Mobile Released in Canada" - [pokerfuse.com]
- European Poker Tour IX Starts Today in Barcelona - "The PokerStars sponsored EPT starts its ninth season at the Arts Hotel in Barcelona while the first online qualifiers are launched for the Caribbean Adventure Eight years ago next month, Swedens Alexander Stevic won the first ever PokerStars European Poker Tour The Main Event in Barcelona and collected the princely sum of 80,000 for his victory" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]

- "The United States Department of Justice is looking for a third party to process claims by Americans for Full Tilt Poker funds" - [www.parttimepoker.com]


- "With a half-month left in California's legislative session, the proposed online poker bill may land in the muck due to lack of agreement among gaming interests. A major culprit in the bill's probable failure in advancing are the Indian tribes who still can't seem to agree on whether online poker will benefit or harm the existing revenue stream of their land-based casinos" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]


- PokerStars Rescues Full Tilt's Overseas Poker Victims Is DOJ On Track To Do Likewise In America? - "Initially, the media flares of July 31, 2012 put out by PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker (FTP), and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), announcing a deal amongst them that would allow PokerStars to acquire the assets of FTP, ignited only a modest amount of fanfare; the poker community had already learned that the parties were poised to close the deal" - [www.pokerplayernewspaper.com]

- New Pokerstars.com Reload Bonus Code - "New Pokerstars.com Reload Bonus Code It's back!" - [www.pokernewsteam.com]

- HNR 8/14: DOJ and Full Tilt Poker; Zynga Not Buying Ongame - "The DOJ wants help with Full Tilt Poker funds, and Zynga isn't buying Ongame Network" - [www.parttimepoker.com]

Poker News: Delaware Legalizes Online Poker, Black Friday Sentencing and more - and my top collection of links

We've got a load of Poker related links to take a look at and various topics covering iPad, Revenue, Americans, Europe, Delaware, Italy and World Series of Poker.


Ok, let's get going. The links:

• 888poker Mobile Goes Live on iPad, Adds SNG Support - "888 has extended its mobile offering by recently launching an app for iPad" - [pokerfuse.com]
  
• Italy Hopes to Reinvigorate Gaming Revenues with Fast-Fold Poker - "Last month's meeting of regulators from Italy, Spain, France and Portugal indicated the possibility of sharing player pools to increase liquidity and halt the decline in tax revenues from poker" - [pokerfuse.com]
  
• "Americans played well at the World Series of Poker, play money poker tracking launches, and Party Poker talks about dumping high stakes games" - [www.parttimepoker.com]
  
  
  
• PokerStars MicroMillions - Europe dominates - "However, so far Europe appears to have the most successful players, with Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and, of course, the United Kingdom taking plenty of cash ins" - [www.pokerblog.com]
  
• "DELAWARE APPROVES ONLINE POKER AMID GAMBLING EXPANSION A broad-based expansion of gambling opportunities was signed into law by Delaware Governor Jack Markell one day after Delaware's state Senate passed a House bill authorizing several forms of online gambling, including online poker" - [www.pokerplayernewspaper.com]
  
  
  
• "* 89% The percentage of American poker layers at the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event final table (8 out of the 9 players are from the US)" - [pokernewsboy.com]
  
  
  

Team Betfair At The WSOP: Another Amazing Experience - plus my links selection

A lot of exciting stuff today, from people like Marcel Luske and places like Nottingham.


Ok, let's get started. All the links:

- "888 Poker has seen revenues increase 88 percent year-on-year as it takes a major slice of the Spanish market and looks forward to further growth in the States. It was a case of all the eights for 888 Poker, as the companys revenue in the first quarter of 2012 showed an 88 percent year-on-year increase, prompting investment bankers and stockbrokers - Panmure, Gordon & Co. - to upgrade the companys profit forecast by a staggering 22 percent. The companys growth has been attributed to the shutdown of Full Tilt Poker coinciding with the launch of features intended to attract recreational poker players - such as the player-focused Poker 6 Platform and the popular PokerCams. Other promotional initiatives offered by 888 Poker have also increased its market share, especially the no deposit poker bonus of 5.00/$8.00" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]


- "On the morning of the 5th July six luxurious limousine's pulled up outside the Palazzo and shuttled our team to the Rio" - [betting.betfair.com]


- "The 2012 World Series of Poker The Main Event has reached its official Day 3 and 1,765 players of the original 6,598 are still in with a chance of becoming this year's champion" - [www.pokerchanneleurope.com]


- WSOP 2012: Zen & the art of being Marcel Luske - "At 11:58am, Marcel Luske's WSOP ammunition sits in a bag of orange and yellow chips" - [www.pokerstarsblog.com]

- Money Bubble Looming In The WSOP Main Event - "David "doubledave22" D'Alesandro At the start of play there were 1,738 players eager to get into their seats but by the time the curtain came down on another day of intense poker action more than 1,000 of those were no longer in the Main Event's field; just 720 players now remain Day 3 of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event has been completed, after five 90-minute levels were played out in the vast tournament area of the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino At the start of play there were 1,738 players eager to get into their seats but by the time the curtain came down on another day of intense poker action more than 1,000 of those were no longer in the Main Event's field; just 720 players now remain. Of these 720 players just 666 of them will receive any prize money for their efforts meaning 54 players will be leaving the Rio - on Friday 13th of all dates - empty handed. One man who is almost guaranteed to be walking away with a share of the massive $62,021,200 prize pool is the overnight chip leader Dave "doubledave22" D'Alesandro who managed to end the day with a huge stack of 1,100,000 chips" - [betting.betfair.com]

- "LCI UK Poker Tour Nottingham Main Event starts today" - [www.bluffeurope.com]

Team Betfair In Las Vegas: Pros Away From The Felt - and my top selection of links

So without further ado, here are all the links:

• Team Betfair In Las Vegas: Pros Away From The Felt - "Jet-skiing on Lake Mead (This is not John Tabatabai despite what he tells you) Team Betfair are currently out in Las Vegas, New Mexico for the 2012 World Series of Poker but it is not all riffling chips, running bluffs and winning pots for our heroes Team Betfair are currently out in Las Vegas for the 2012 World Series of Poker but it is not all riffling chips, running bluffs and winning pots for our heroes; as this article will show. Our Canadian pro Jonathan Driscoll is a regular at the WSOP and when you take a look at his results in "Sin City" it is easy to see why" - [betting.betfair.com]
  
• Zoom Poker Causes Decrease in Revenue for Bwin.Party - "A recently released Bwin.Party trading update focuses attention on PokerStars' Zoom Poker as the reason for a decline in revenue. The July 10 update from the parent company of PartyPoker alludes to "continued pressure" in the online poker marketplace as being the result of the launching of Zoom Poker, which has taken a huge chunk of the fast-fold Internet poker market" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]
  
• "PokerStars Communications Chief yesterday failed to quash rumors that talks between the DoJ and PokerStars over the future of Full Tilt Poker had stalled. A rumor developed yesterday (Wednesday) that PokerStars had pulled out of negotiations with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) over their proposed takeover of Full Tilt Poker" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]
  
  
  

Bally Technology, IGT Granted First Nevada Online Gaming Licenses - and more links for you

Okay, the links are:

- "The rival firms, Bally Technologies and International Game Technology (IGT), were both unanimously approved for online gaming licenses" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]


- "5050Poker contract terminated by Microgaming" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
- Online Poker Bill In California Still Alive - "Despite California's online poker bill being pulled from the agenda before being voted on by a Senate committee roughly two weeks ago, the measure is currently being amended by its sponsors in preparation of a possible hearing on the issue prior to a legislative summer recess set for July 6. The bill's sponsors, Senators Roderick Wright and Darrell Steinberg, are meeting with the state's gambling interest groups this week to hear their concerns and work on amending SB1463 in an effort to appease all the parties involved. A difficult task to accomplish considering that tribal casinos, cardrooms and horse racing interests all want a piece of the revenue that online poker legislation would bring to the Golden State" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]

- "Battle of the Planets: It's summertime, everyone in the pool! Nine-way chops ends the June freeroll" - [www.pokerstarsblog.com]
- "Fiscal Uncertainty" Causing High Volume Players to Spanish Online Poker Rooms - "Andrs Nieto Porras, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Professionals and "high value" customers are still steering clear of Spanish online poker rooms, according to Sacha Michaud, president of Spanish gaming association Jdigital" - [pokerfuse.com]

- "Ongame skin Hollywood Poker abruptly closed today, updating its website to state only that it had stopped offering online poker and players would be migrated to fellow Ongame poker room RedKings" - [pokerfuse.com]