* At the end of the World Series of Poker last Thursday the 5th July, was the third annual Ante Up for Africa tournament Wohltätikeits instead. Invented by Ultimatebet Pro and Celebrity Apprentice participant Annie Duke and actor Don Cheadle and Norman Epstein, this tournament collects money to the victims of the Darfur crisis. 138 players paid $ 5000 in order to be able to participate, and although no money for the prize pool for the donation has been removed, is expected to promise that players at least part of their profits to the charity donation. The 19 players on the money places were, did exactly that and donated a total of $ 360,000. There were poker and other stars underneath. The Rounders star Matt Damon participated, Ben Affleck, Sarah Silverman, Jason Alexander, Brad Garrett, Charles Barkley, Cedric the Entertainer, Nelly, Dean Cain, Dukes and Co-Star in Celebrity Apprentice, Herschel Walker. At the final table then sat poker pros Rafe Furst, Phil Gordon, Erik Seidel, John Hennigan, Jennifer Harman and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson. Alex Bolotin Brooklyn, which has a total of $ 2 million in the Life has won the tournament circuit, also won this tournament and donated nearly his entire prize money – $ 176,449 for Ante Up for Africa.
* Party Gaming CEO Jim Ryan, held on Wednesday at the Gaming Executive Summit in Madrid, Spain a lecture on a topic which he said he considered the greatest threat to his and other online gambling companies view: “… the proposed regulations regarding market access and competition. And here I refer to less competition from other direct competitors as they sit in this room. I refer to companies with Regierungslizensen and media companies in the future of their own markets. “This” direct competitor “to the Ryan referred were bwin (Ongame network), 888 (Pacific Poker), and Play Tech (Ipoker network). He added that Party Gaming Online Poker Party Poker daughter, worked harder in Europe need to communicate with other poker rooms continue to customers from the USA and accept these revenues in the development of the European market advantage to be able to keep pace.
* Full Tilt Poker this week has a software upgrade was released, several major changes at all. The window that displays the last hand, now includes a console with which they are each hand of the previous session can retrieve. Even existing tables. The hand-Viewer has a practical Re Flash player. Mixed-limit ring games, including Mixed Hold’em Mixed Omaha High-Low, and a 7-Game Mix, have been added and give players more choices. And to the delight of some and frustration of others are hand histories are not automatically granted to the user’s hard drive is stored. This makes the work of the so-called data mining. Full Tilt says that customers can rely on an improvement in software performance can be happy, because the tables are updated and a lot of little weaknesses have been ironed out.
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