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It's been a long, frustrating road for the man known as the Poker Brat, but Phil Hellmuth finally secured bracelet #12. Hellmuth has been battling the oft-mentioned fact that he'd never won a bracelet in a non-hold’em event. Three times last year he came close but fell shy of grabbing the gold every time. Thankfully, this past Sunday was finally the day. At just before 2:00 in the morning, he finally earned it with Event #18, the $2,500 Seven Card Razz tournament.

Hellmuth's latest bracelet was presented to him by his son, with family and friends surrounding him. He gave an impromptu, emotional speech after the win that included a nice shout out to fellow Phil, Mr. Ivey. Hellmuth may relish the role of villain in the poker community, but it's impossible for anyone to deny the man his achievement. Hellmuth now holds a comfortable -- and some might say insurmountable — two-bracelet lead over his two closest rivals, poker legends Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan. As Hellmuth is now a mere 47 years old, there are still plenty of opportunities for him to win more gold from the biggest event in the game.

In fact, when asked how many bracelets he thought he'd have before his career was over, Hellmuth replied with a confident "24," doubling his current holdings.

Benjamin Scholl took down the $5,000 limit hold’em championship for $206,000 and Michael Gathy topped a 2,799-player field to win the first $1,000 no-limit hold’em event in this edition of ‘Battle for The Bracelets’ on Card Player TV.


Video: Benjamin Scholl and Michael Gathy Win Gold At WSOP - Poker News Video

The Bovada Online Casino is always dishing out the big paydays and this time the lucky player was Brian T. of CA, taking in $14,977 in Double Deck Blackjack.

So what is Double Deck Blackjack exactly? Double Deck Blackjack is another fun spin on the old school game that has dominated casinos for over a century. The big difference is instead of going one-on-one with the online blackjack dealer, you can use another deck, or another teammate to team up and better your results.

Everyone knows that when more than one player attacks the dealer properly good things can happen. Brian T. knew exactly how to make Double Deck Blackjack work, because he has taken home a cool sum of cash.

But hey, there are more big casino winners, check the rest of the list below:

-We are happy to announce that Travys U. of CA won $12,775 playing Tea Cup Dragon.
-Travys U. of CA was once again a big winner playing Reel Blood winning $10,825.
-James K. of CA was playing Blackjack playing winner $7, 250.
-David S. of IN won $7,227 playing Rain Dance.
-Travys U. of CA won $6,985 playing Joker Poker.
-Allan M. of IN playing Dragons won the amount of $6,045.
-Travys U. of CA was playing $5,000 playing Blackjack.
-Silvia L. of CA was playing Crystal Waters and won the amount of $4,662.
-Last but not least was Craig F. of CA winning $4,527 playing Pick EM Poker.

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The CEO of Caesars Entertainment has been crusading to legalize online gambling, and he makes some good points.

Online poker will become legal, Gary Loveman said in an interview with CNN. Already, several states are inching toward making it legal.

"I can say with tremendous confidence that people will be able to play play online legally in the United States in many places very soon," he said in the interview.

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The major casino companies are using Nevada as online gaming insurance. The Silver State is close to an intrastate industry, but everyone wants more.

The industry sees Nevada’s effective population (residents plus tourists) as just not enough to make web poker worthwhile. A federal bill authorizing the activity nationwide or a state-by-state patchwork are solutions to the liquidity issue.

The American Gaming Association, the industry’s top lobbying group in the Beltway, is still pushing hard for a federal bill. On Thursday in Las Vegas, Nevada, the group’s President, Frank Fahrenkopf, presented the Nevada Gaming Policy Committee with an update.

Fahrenkopf began by telling the 11-member panel, headed by Gov. Brian Sandoval, that state compacts for Internet poker might not be so easy in the absence of a federal regime. According to Fahrenkopf, the U.S. Congress has authority to approve or deny any state-to-state deal, although it historically hasn’t interfered.


Read More: Nevada Casino Companies Ready for Intrastate Online Poker, But Federal Measure Still the Holy Grail

Coming finally to a stadium near you is what is being dubbed the International Stadiums of Poker Tour. Credibility was on the line for a considerable time as announced were made and then retracted or refuted. Most claims seem a little out on limb such as the one the Groupe Bernard Tapie presented to the public saying there will be 30,000 players playing online at Wembley Stadium using their electronic devises. The rolls will be reduced to 3000, who will challenge one another in an opportunity to take home a part of the €20,000,000 in prizes. Real felt tables will be placed on the playing field at Wembley which sounds somewhat strange indeed.

Well the dates for the first of the International Stadiums of Poker Tour have been announced as May 31st to June 6th 2013 at the Wembley Stadium with 2119 players who are now officially ready to compete for the €20,000,000 prize pool.

Calvin Ayre.com took the liberty of contacting the organizers behind this unusual concept. They have stated that officials at Wembley have “confirmed” the first poker event will take place from May 31st May to June 6th 2013 and they are expecting to have at least ‘20,000 to 30,000’ in attendance.

With this project there is still a certain amount of speculation the event is going to be a massive fail but there are actual bookings being made and there is advertizing being done and as some think when you build it they will come approach can work. “Ideas are a dime a dozen” someone once said but making an idea a reality happens all the time. Poker is about skill and gambling and that’s what the organizers of this dream are doing, using their entrepreneurial skill and gambling with someone else’s money. Nothing short of brilliant if it all comes together and good luck trying.

The World Series of Poker is premiering a number of new events this year, including the first ever WSOP $2,500 four-max no-limit hold’em event. Card Player TV caught up with early chip leader Tony Dunst on the day 1 dinner break to get his thoughts on the new event.


Video: Tony Dunst On WSOP $2,500 Four-Max No-Limit - Poker News Video

With Phil Ivey’s elimination in third place, play has been suspended with Scotty Nguyen and Joe Cassidy set to play heads-up for the WSOP $5,000 Omaha eight-or-better championship title. Thursday’s heads-up match will resume at 2:00 PM PST and will feature a five-time bracelet winner in Nguyen doing battle with a talented high-stakes limit specialist in Cassidy for the gold bracelet and the first-place prize of $294,777.


Read More: Phil Ivey Falls Just Short of Ninth WSOP Bracelet Again - Poker News

It’s been a rough 18 months for Chinese Internet tycoon Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Early in 2011 a fraud scandal hit his business-to-business e-commerce site, Alibaba-com.

At about the same time, the U.S. government publicly shamed Alibaba-owned Taobao, a hybrid of Amazon-com (AMZN) (AMZN) and EBay, for enabling the sale of counterfeit merchandise. Last fall, thousands of small merchants protested online and outside Alibaba’s headquarters in Ma’s hometown, the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, against an increase in Taobao’s listing fees.

“I was so lonely at that time,” said Ma, who presents himself as a champion of local entrepreneurs and added the higher prices were necessary to fight piracy. “Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.”

Read More: China?s Loneliest Billionaire Ma Dabbles in Tai Chi, Poker - Businessweek

I´ve been "working" on an on-line Betting Concept since early -08 (actually, the Idea started growing then, but since I know nothing about programming I´m stuck with the Idea as such). The Conept does not exist on the Market today, but I believe it will become a success if I manage to bring it to the point of actually reaching the Market as a ready Product.

I now have some Funding to do this, PROVIDED I can present a "Winning Team" to the Investor, so I wonder if anyone here knows about any skillful Programmer, specialized in Betting Software and with the capacity to integrate several different sets of Software into one working Unit?

If you have any such advise, please e-mail me at [email][email protected][/email]

Regards,
Patrik

Phil Ivey, who has been avoiding the poker media of late, has made it to another WSOP final table. A few days back, he had attracted attention by emerging as the runner up of the $10k PL Hold’em event. So far, Ivey has made it to three WSOP final tables and has won cash prizes four times. Ivey, who has won WSOP bracelets eight times in the course of his career, was once a sponsored player at Full Tilt Poker, a glorious online poker room that is now no more. Full Tilt Poker is believed to have loaned millions of dollars to its sponsored players, who have not yet repaid around $10 million to $20 million, according to Group Bernard Tapie (GBT), a French investment company that had once mulled over the idea of acquiring the beleaguered online poker room and pulling it to its feet. However, the acquisition deal fell apart as the GBT could not come to an agreement with the US Department of Justice. Behn Dayanim, legal representative of GBT, said that debts owed by Layne Flack, Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, David Benyamine, Mike Matusow, and Barry Greenstein to Full Tilt Poker were “a serious obstacle to the completion of the deal.” Currently, PokerStars is examining the pros and cons of acquiring Full Tilt Poker.

Read More: Phil Ivey Becomes WSOP 2012 Finalist Thrice

Have you ever dreamed of playing in online poker's biggest weekly tournament — the PokerStars Sunday Million — but the $215 buy-in is a little too much for your bankroll? Well this weekend PokerStars is slashing the entry fees for the Sunday Million — and other Sunday Majors — by 50% but 10 lucky PokerNews readers could be playing in this weekend's Sunday Million for just $3.30!

At 14:00 ET PokerNews ia running a no-limit hold'em tournament that costs just $3.30 to enter but despite the low buy-in we are adding 10 tickets to the Half Price Sunday Million to the prize pool! You really could be playing in the $1,000,000 guaranteed Sunday Million for just $3.30!


Read more: Win One Of 10 Tickets To The June 17 PokerStars Sunday Million | PokerNews

Bwin.party has failed to get its name removed from the Belgian Gambling Commission’s blacklist of operators whose IP addresses must be blocked.

The Commission’s legal representatives ALTIUS issued a statement applauding the decision of the Court of First Instance in Brussels saying, “In a judgment delivered today, the President of the Court of First Instance of Brussels has denied a request by BwinParty, operator of the online gambling website -bwin-com, to order the Belgian Gaming Commission to remove bwin-com from its blacklist and to unblock access to it. The President found that BwinParty’s request had no legal merit."


Read More: Belgian Court Upholds bwin.party Blacklisting - European Poker News

We’re getting closer to the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event* but you can still qualify for it with Bovada! The best place to play poker has over 2,000 daily qualifiers scheduled for this year’s event and you can get in on the action for as low as a buck! Bovada’s running an aggressive tournament program that lets everyone get in on the action with regular, turbo and Sit and Go tournaments that let you win a seat in the next four-seat satellite, taking place on Monday, June 18 at 9:05 PM (ET) starting at just $1

Can’t fit the cheap seats qualifiers into your schedule? Want to get in on the action faster? On top of the regular series of tournaments leading up to the satellites, Bovada also hosts a series of Last Chance qualifiers in the hours before the weekly satellite that feature buy-ins ranging from $25 + 2.50 to $100 + 9. That means you can get the chance to play in the $470 + 30 Main Event Satellite for a fraction of the usual buy-in.

Bovada’s known for their awesome live event prize packages and if you win, you’ll live large in Sin City thanks to a $12,000 prize package that includes the $10,000 main event buy-in along with money for airfare, accommodations and a healthy dose of their famous hospitality.

Visit Bovada's WSOP Main Event online qualifiers and satellite page and find out just how easy it can be to find yourself in Las Vegas for the big show. You’ve got the next three days to get ready to play before this Monday's four-seat satellite, so get started now. Bovada Poker

The US-based Poker Players’ Alliance (PPA) has posted a new petition to US legislators, urging them to legalize and regulate the US online poker industry at the earliest possible. The petition attempts to draw the attention of nearly a dozen lawmakers to the urgent need to create a proper regulatory framework for online poker in the US.


Read More: www-tightpoker-com/news/ppa-posts-new-petition-for-legalization-of-us-online-poker-3551/

The organization acquired various websites that were gambling-entitled, significance that major casinos can be developed at that position without additional approvals. There are only a restricted number of such sites accessible in the Las Vegas location.

It is a known fact that one of the most important traits needed for a professional poker player is an unreadable poker face. This is due to the fact that from the reactions of the player’s face, the opponent can tell if the player is bluffing or not. This is why WowWee Inc has released an application that would help the players achieve that.


Read More: A New Poker App Can Beat the Best Poker Face : ADI News

Something about the Sunday Million was off. It wasn't the $1 million guarantee; that remained the same as usual. It wasn't the thousands of players signing up to participate, as crowds always gather around the largest weekly tournament in online poker. The starting time hadn't changed, and some of the biggest names in online poker were registered.

You got it; the buy-in was slashed in half. In honor of Half Price Sunday, PokerStars opted to reduce the buy-ins of some Sunday majors by half, and that included the Sunday Million. So for a chance at the same $1 million as every week before and after this, players had the chance to buy in for the low, low price of $107.50. That, friends, is a deal!

And the registration number that resulted from the sale was impressive, as was the prize pool as it soared over the $2 million mark:

Players: 20,216
Guarantee: $1,000,000
Prize pool: $2,021,600.00
Paid players: 3,150


Read More: Success for Sykoen in Half Price Sunday Million - PokerStarsBlog-com

Legislation in New Jersey that would authorize online casino games, including poker, has survived committee and now goes to a full Assembly vote, The Star-Ledger reported.

Gov. Chris Christie reportedly is on the fence about the current proposals (a companion Internet gaming bill sits in the Senate). According to a blog from John Brennan, the governor has “sidestepped” the issue in recent weeks. He also shot down an attempt at legalization last year, citing concerns with Atlantic City’s tourism.

Read More: New Jersey Online Poker Goes to Assembly Vote

There is no denying that Mike “The Mouth” Matusow is a unique talent in the live tournament poker arena with 3 WSOP bracelets and $7,907,302 in cashes to his name.

Playing online and especially cash games, however, is a different matter entirely and the outspoken 44 year old doesn’t mince his words when describing his lack of love for the format. As Matusow explained recently to pokerlistings-com:

“To me, I think they’re a bunch of criminals [online poker sites]. I just keep myself low. I don’t want to be around it. I’ve seen the downside of it. I’ve had millions stolen from me from Ultimate Bet. I’ve had my name smashed through the mud. God knows how much I had stolen from me by Full Tilt. I don’t need it. It’s disappointing to me.”

Read More: Mike Matusow Attacks Online Poker