 Full Tilt Poker is holding ‘Rush Week’ and it will go on for four days. Taking advantage of the status of Rush Poker, Full Tilt Poker is also giving away up to $250 in cash for each player with the entries for a special $50,000 Rush Week Freeroll. In respect of Rush Week, which totes ‘Seven Days of Speed’ as its punch line, various guaranteed tournaments at Full Tilt Poker will provide a Rush Poker structure.
This means when the player’s in a hand concludes, the player is then moved to another table with new contestants to start with fresh hand. The shortage of downtime means continuous decision making and the potential to witness more than two hundred hands per hour. Rush Poker ring games first came into existence on Full Tilt back in the month of January and after two months Rush Poker tournaments were rolled out.
As a part of Rush Week, there are different methods in order to gather cash. All those players who manage at least ten FTP (Full Tilt Points) per day by playing Rush Poker games on any of the four days will bank five dollars. If the players are capable enough to perform in the same manner all seven days of Rush Week, then they can earn ten dollars. The players who accumulate 100 FTPs each day on any four days during Rush Week will get $25 and those who can make 100 FTPs per day then can earn fifty dollars.
In the end, the members of Full Tilt Poker who are able to accumulate 1,000 FTPs per day on any four days they will get $125. Those players who can make up thousand FTPs per day on seven days they can win the mega prize of $250. Only FTPs earned in Rush Poker cash games and tournaments are entitled for gathering rewards and various bonuses as part of Full Tilt’s Rush Week.
Just like other promotions of Full Tilt Poker, the players have to choose into Rush Week to become eligible. The players can log in to Full Tilt client and then can click on the button of Cashier, select My Promotions, and then select Rush Week. Meeting the criteria for $50,000 Rush Week Freeroll is not very difficult.
Full Tilt has increased the number of Rush Poker tournaments so that maximum number of players can get a chance to reach the freeroll. The players are entered on its own to the $50,000 freebie which removes the hassle of getting registered manually.
Full Tilt Poker Holding Rush Week
Full Tilt Poker is holding ‘Rush Week’ and it will go on for four days. Taking advantage of the status of Rush Poker, Full Tilt Poker is also giving away up to $250 in cash for each player with the entries for a special $50,000 Rush Week Freeroll. In respect of Rush Week, which totes ‘Seven Days of Speed’ as its punch line, various guaranteed tournaments at Full Tilt Poker will provide a Rush Poker structure.
This means when the player’s in a hand concludes, the player is then moved to another table with new contestants to start with fresh hand. The shortage of downtime means continuous decision making and the potential to witness more than two hundred hands per hour. Rush Poker ring games first came into existence on Full Tilt back in the month of January and after two months Rush Poker tournaments were rolled out.
As a part of Rush Week, there are different methods in order to gather cash. All those players who manage at least ten FTP (Full Tilt Points) per day by playing Rush Poker games on any of the four days will bank five dollars. If the players are capable enough to perform in the same manner all seven days of Rush Week, then they can earn ten dollars. The players who accumulate 100 FTPs each day on any four days during Rush Week will get $25 and those who can make 100 FTPs per day then can earn fifty dollars.
In the end, the members of Full Tilt Poker who are able to accumulate 1,000 FTPs per day on any four days they will get $125. Those players who can make up thousand FTPs per day on seven days they can win the mega prize of $250. Only FTPs earned in Rush Poker cash games and tournaments are entitled for gathering rewards and various bonuses as part of Full Tilt’s Rush Week.
Just like other promotions of Full Tilt Poker, the players have to choose into Rush Week to become eligible. The players can log in to Full Tilt client and then can click on the button of Cashier, select My Promotions, and then select Rush Week. Meeting the criteria for $50,000 Rush Week Freeroll is not very difficult.
Full Tilt has increased the number of Rush Poker tournaments so that maximum number of players can get a chance to reach the freeroll. The players are entered on its own to the $50,000 freebie which removes the hassle of getting registered manually.
 Few days back Cake Poker collaborated with CTXM (a European based online casino software provider) in a plan through which they will be marketing their services together to the games sites across the world. Both CTXM and Cake Poker will be sharing newly launched online poker site AdamEvePoker.com, PowerPoker.com, along with Comeon.com which will be launched soon.
Mr. Yosha who is the Chief Executive Officer of CTXM said that since both CTXM and Cake Poker manage non-competitive businesses within the online gaming space and they also have identical model, this seems to be the perfect beginning. He added that their alliance with Cake Poker completely matches their strategy for providing the complete solutions for their partners.
CTXM offers complete solutions for the online casinos which comprises of a wide variety of card games, video poker, table games, mini games, soft games, and video slots. The casino operator has wide range of marketing, operational, and promotions tools which are completely put together into the games and casino lobby.
Mr. Turner who is the director of marketing of Cake Poker said that Cake Poker is highly pleased to associate with CTXM because of their past record in the online gaming, their advanced innovations, and top shelf alliances. They are also excited as they will be launching two new associates to the Cake Poker Network in Comeon.com and AdamEvePoker.com both offer some of the unique and advanced marketing ideas. They are looking forward to a booming alliance.
Cake Poker has recently declared that they are soon launching new features in their modernized poker software, Cake 2.0. The new modernizations comprises of tournament notices, a calendar, and a theme editor to alter the form of the game window. It is anticipated that the changes will be to develop the visual appearance of the site and increase the overall gaming experience.
The information came soon after one of the oldest room, Intertops advanced towards Cake Poker Network. Formerly of Microgaming Network, Intertops was a gambling company in year 1983 and it was in year 2003 that they opened their poker room. With the adding up, the Cake Network anticipates to draw the much required traffic after witnessing their numbers drop down in the recent months.
Cake Poker Network enjoys the 11th position in online poker traffic across the world. The network, which is having its headquarters in Dutch Antilles comprises of 53 different rooms, which comprises of famous sites like Unabomber Poker, Doyles Room, and accepts American players.
 Two years after in Flandreau Royal River Casino declined to pay of $96,000 ‘bad beat’ jackpot to ten players at their poker room, the group hasn’t given up on their struggle to have the casino pay the money. The event took place two years ago when ten players were enjoying a game of Texas Hold’em at a Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe casino.
The main characters in the hand were Mr. Williams holding pocket A’s and Mr. Brian with pocket Q’s. With the Ac-Qd-x being dealt on the flop, both players had successfully made a set, but Qs on the turn offered Mr. Brian four of a kind to his rival’s full house.
According to Royal River jackpot that their bad beat is paid in a situation when a full house of aces over 10s or better is beaten by a straight flush or four of a kind. At this point, the loser of the hand would have collected $48,000, the winner $24,000, and the remaining eight players have collected around $3,000 each; that is until one more players on the turn uttered the words ‘bad beat’, in infringement of rules of casino, and the dealer banned the hand from the bonus.
Telling more about his excitement turning into displeasure Mr. Williams said there was no doubt that he was thrilled and it was the best feeling which anybody can have. Then to have it deprived of is surely the worst feeling. The players chose to wait into the evening hoping that the casino might change their decision and at one stage the security guards had to be called in.
In spite of taking their case to Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s gaming commission, after that through tribal court and tribal appellate court, the group have found the decision of the casino upheld and as Ms. Sherry; the General Manager at Royal River at the time of the incident clarifies, everything was rightly in position and that is the reason they won the case. According to her the result would be surely different if the things were not rightly in position. They were totally acquainted with the rules.
Mr. Williams has promised to continue to fight to restore Royal River jackpot and he has also requested to American Civil Liberties Union to investigate the case.
 Mr. Tom made a great start in 2010 but lately the situation has turned unfavorable for him, which includes last week’s seven figure loss at Full Tilt’s high-stakes tables. At one point, Mr. Tom was up by more than $7 million. But in the last month, things have turned against Mr. Tom, as he has returned $2.3 million over the last month dating back to April 8th. This comprises of this week’s downfall of around $1.2 million loss. It just took him just over 3,800 hands to register the big loss.
You’d imagine Patrik Antonius might have been responsible for a lot of that loss, seeing as the “durrrr Challenge” between the two players had been raising the steam. But momentum has diminished once again, and no sessions were logged for the Challenge this week.
Over the last week, no player had a seven figured loss. The next major loser was Mr. Ashton was down $530K in just under 3,800 hands and after him it was Mr. Cole at $414K.
This week Isildur1 who is a player from Sweden made a comeback to the virtual felt but it was not for long. He registered a loss of $198K for the week and he has used all his funds. Previously, this year at one point after reaching up to $1.4 million profit, Mr. Isildur1 is down around $40K. He has witnessed a downfall of around two million dollars over his unstable career.
In the meantime, this week Mr. Gus played aggressively at the tables, registering new earnings of $1.1 million over the course of 7,244 hands. After hanging around at about break even, Mr. Gus moving in on the profit of seven figures for the year 2010 once more.
Second in the weekly positions was ‘jungleman12’ who made a large amount of his profits for the week by playing with Mr. Tom. Mr. Patrik made a neat profit of $430K in spite of playing only 2,500 hands.
In spite of the vicious week, Mr. Tom is in the lead at Full Tilt, registering profits of $3.1 million. This year no player has crossed profits of more than $2 million.
There are around nine players which are piled up behind Mr. Tom who has more than one million dollars in profits. Mr. Dang is in the second position with $1.7 million and Mr. Alexander with $1.5 million. Mr. Townsend continued to lead all losers as he is down at $2.1 million for 2010.
Full Tilt Poker will be hosting a $200+$100 charity tournament. This tournament will take place to raise the funds for Ms. Doan who is suffering from cancer. Ms. Doan has paid most of her medial expenses and now she requires a prosthetic leg. The poker community has decided to lend her a helping hand.
One hundred percent of the rake in $200+$100 event will be going for Ms. Doan’s operating expenses. In Full Tilt Poker lobby under the ‘Private’ tab, the tournament can be easily found with the ID 158232539. The players who are interested, they can make a click on ‘Requests’, ‘Find Tournament by ID’, and then typing the nine digit number. Ms. Doan is a 23 year old player and many charities are doing the best they can do to help her.
Mr. Robl who plays for Video Poker and UB.com main player Mr. Sebok were two organizers of the fundraiser. Mr. Sebok along with Mr. Lederer worked together to bring the tournament to Full Tilt Poker. In an interview Mr. Robl said that they anticipate raising at least $15,000. He added that Ms. Doan is a charming person and everyone really appreciates her.
In December, WSOP golden bracelet winner Mr. Brunson, Mr. Greenstein, Mr. Dwan, and Mr. Elezra shaved their heads to support Ms. Doan who was undergoing chemotherapy. Ms. Doan made an appearance at one of the poker shows where she told Mr. Sebok and host Mr. Huff that she is quite excited to make a come back into poker. Recently, Ms. Doan left leg was surgically removed.
Mr. Robl said that he’d give his entire winnings to help Ms. Doan if he were to cash in this fundraising tournament. He said that these poker tournaments really play an important role in raising money for charity. He has played in various live events organized by GreasieWheels. Just in case, Full Tilt Poker is not able to generate $15,000 then Victory Poker has volunteered to donate the remaining amount.
Ms. Doan is loved by everybody in the industry. Mr. Robl said that she used to participate every year in WSOP. He added that they have some mutual friends in poker. Last year during the series, she lived with two of his friends and every year she was seen in Las Vegas. Ms. Doan is currently living with her mother in Virginia.
 BVMG (BolaVerde Media Group) has recently released their report on the amount spent on lobbying in Washington D.C. by the online gambling industry. The Q1 Internet Gambling Federal Lobbying Report includes the first quarter of 2010; the months which are included are January, February, and March. According to the report, BVMG estimates that 35 different parties spent a joint amount which is estimated at $5.15 million.
Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. is the highest spender. The expenses on lobbying for online gambling by Harrah’s were estimated at $1.21 by BVMG. The report also stated that Harrah’s has increased their lobbying spend by 72% from the 4th quarter of year 2009. This is clear because Harrah’s has staked a great deal in online gambling. It is a well known fact that Harrah’s does not expect to show profits till online gambling becomes officially permitted in America. Harrah’s has made a complete division which is known as Harrah’s Interactive and operates both an online poker room and an online casino for the players of Britain.
The next four top spenders are Poker Players Alliance at $785,000, JC Group at $17,238, USCC (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) at $664,441, and Interactive Gaming Council at $412,579. In spite of Harrah’s increased spending, the total for the first quarter of the year 2010 was inferior by 15% from the previous quarter of year 2009. This is because USCC decreased their spending by 65%, which was previously on the top spot of the spenders list.
The Q1 Internet Gambling Federal Lobbying Report is quite big and by following which company has spent how much; BVMG can easily conclude as which companies are in a leading position to influence the decisions concerning the online gambling in Washington. For instance, the report shows the companies which have continued to lobby in the year 2010. Some of the well-known companies are MGM Mirage, Gtech, PartyGaming, Wynn Resorts, MGM Mirage, PokerStars, Harrah’s, the American Gaming Association, and the National Football League.
In the list the number of land casino delegates shows that land casinos have now started to support the authorizing of online gambling. This is the reason why Ms. Dina has become a sponsor of Barney Frank’s bill. As per the report Betfair US has become a well-known spender in year 2010.
At the release of the report, Mr. Balestra who is MD of BVMG said that if anybody is concerned with the international online gambling industry, they need to be aware of some things in America which includes who is planning to make entry, the amount of funds being added, and who might be reassessing their positions. This way, the study of lobbying strategies and spending trends provides good understanding of how things will turn out in Washington.
 Thunderstruck II is finally here. All Microgaming online casinos will make use of this slot game in various promotions. The royal figure of Thor with the lights flashing in the background calls the players to play the famous game. The players can win a share of fifty thousand dollars.
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 Seeing the number of the online casinos which are providing promotions, bonuses, and online tournaments based on Cinco de Mayo, one can say that the Latin American players offer major association strength to the online casino industry. And All Star Slots online casino is the new one to provide the players with such a bonus.
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 There is no doubt that Cleopatra is one of the famous online slots. With the addition of ‘MegaJackpot’ to an already famous online slot it has gained more popularity. Now, by just taking a spin on MegaJackpots Cleopatra, the players can win over £2,500,000 at Quicksilver Games.
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MegaJackpots Cleopatra is one of the different slots offered at QuickSilver, many of which are available for free play and also for cash gaming. 2010 has witnessed interesting developments in the online gaming industry which comprises of accepting multi-currency payments and a wide variety of promotional prizes. It is believed that the rulers of Egypt were very rich and now the players can also become rich by just spinning the 20 line reel and winning Cleopatra’s MegaJackpot.
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 The famous provider of marketing software and solution for iGaming industry, Income Access has declared that they are going to provide an affiliate marketing platform to Casino Espresso. This will help the casino and their associates in having an access to comprehensive tracking reports, custom features, and different marketing tools to optimize their campaigns.
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 Roxy Palace online casino has launched Bonus Slots Magic promotion. This time around the online casino has raised the monthly prize pool to $50,000. The promotion is split into preliminary rounds and a final round.
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