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Wrestling and Gambling don't usually go hand in hand, but it's recently been announced that online poker site, Ultimate Bet, will be sponsoring WWE's WrestleMania.

(This year's WrestleMania will take place in Houston, Texas, and Ultimate Bet will offer their players the chance to win tickets to the event which will be held at the 75,000 Reliant Stadium).

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Poker players at Ultimate Bet is giving players the chance to compete at this year’s (2009) World Series Of Poker (WSOP) for an investment of only ten cents. As part of it’s tenth anniversary festivities, Ultimate Bet is holding it’s Step Tournament giving poker players a shot at qualifying for this year’s $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event, alongside $2,000 for travel and accommodation............

Read more: World Series Of Poker at Ultimate Bet

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Poker Host - which currently makes its home on the Microgaming Network, may soon depart for one that accepts players from the United States. The revelation came from *John* at Poker Host’s Customer Service Department. The move follows a similar one made by Doyle’s Room, which left the Microgaming Network for the Cake Poker Network last month.

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I hate Wrestle Mania 😡

I hate Wrestle Mania 😡

You don’t need to look!

Poker stars announced their newest online poker challenge, a spring break treat for online poker players, the Spring Championship of Online Poker.

According to an announcement from Pokerstars, the new SCOOP poker series will offer each and every cash poker player a shot at competing. Whatever level you’re playing at, no matter the stake, no matter the game.

Pokerstars has 66 tournaments on offer, at around 22 events. Each SCOOP event consists of three tournaments that are all based on buyin. Every tournament has it’s own guaranteed prize pool, and there’s no limit on how many of these things you can play.

(Satellite qualifiers are available from the Pokerstars lobby, under Events > Scoop. Buyins for the SCOOP qualifiers are as little as .25 or just 10 Pokerstars Frequent Player Points).

There’s a guaranteed prize pool of 30 million dollars

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British pop star Robbie Williams, who has been on a musical hiatus, is getting into poker. Williams is getting more passionate about poker but he is going for less glamorous locations like Swindon. He is also frequenting a club near his mansion in Wiltshire.

(He’s getting a reputation as a serious adversary around the poker tables)

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Bodog Poker's Sunday $100,000 Guaranteed online poker tournament once again drew out a mass of players to fight for part of one of the largest guaranteed prizepools available online. Last night's event was taken down by online poker player "deadmoney627," who took home the $23,600 first-place prize for his efforts.

Full final table results the $100k event:

1. deadmoney627 - $23,600
2. ET1 - $13,600
3. ballgame777 - $9,100
4. JmfinD - $7,000
5. jdrocks1967 - $5,700
6. La_Crankiole - $4,500
7. Ace2theJ - $3,300
8. mannyg16 - $2,200
9. Skeeeter - $1,300

Play for a chance to win your part of the more than $5 million in cash prizes awarded every month at: Bodog Poker

Welcome:

UltimateBet today launched online poker qualifiers for its once-in-a-lifetime Texas Hold'em tournament featuring rock stars, poker pros and a $10,000 prize pool.

(20 spots in an exclusive poker game featuring rocks stars and poker pros are on the line at UltimateBet).

Slated to play in Scott Ian's Home Game, an online poker tournament, are Ian, Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, Vinnie Paul of Pantera, and rock legends Kirk Hammett and Slash. Online poker players will be able to chat with the rock stars through the UltimateBet software's chat feature.

A full rundown on the tournament schedule for Scott Ian's Home Game can be found at Ultimate Bet


Welcome:

No matter which operating system you use, Bodog offers a huge signup bonus and some of the largest tournament overlays in the online poker world.

I would like to meet Slash :dance:

If you're looking for a slower-game than Craps or Blackjack and want to spend a lot of time gambling without losing an outrageous amount of money, play Pai Gow Poker. It's fun!!

PokerStars announcement that it had received official approval to begin offering real-money online poker tournaments to Italian residents. PokerStars is among the first wave of online poker sites to receive official regulatory approval from the Italian government.

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433 people made the cut and turned out to compete for their share of the $200,000 prizepool and coming out on top was poker pro Freddy Deeb, who gets $100,000 for his efforts.

With his $100,000 win at the WPT LA Poker Classic Celebrity Invitational, Lebanese born Freddy Deeb now has career live tournament winnings of just over $6 million. This is his second WPT title.

The final placements in the WPT LA Poker Classic Celebrity Invitational:

1st Freddy Deeb $100,000

2nd Nick Gonzalez $50,000

3rd Tom Hall $20,000

4th Scott Clements $15,000

5th Ottavio Tassone $10,000

6th Jose *J.J.* Tavares $5000


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PokerStars has announced that it has just signed up its 20 millionth player.

The lucky number 20,000,000 was a Slovakian who uses the screen name “piposko”. For being lucky enough to sign up at just the right moment, PokerStars gave him a $215 tournament ticket to use however he likes.

(In December 2007, the online poker site went into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most amount of players online playing at one time: 151,758.)

Regards: Poker Stars

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Cake Poker are going mobile. The relatively new poker room are launching a facility for windows based mobile devices to play poker for real money.

How sophisticated the games and technology remains to be seen, but this is certainly a sector that has huge growth potential and will be very interesting to monitor over the next few years.

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Everyone loves brackets, hence the popularity of the NCAA March Madness, and the visceral head-to-head combat where the underdog can pull out a win against the overwhelming favorite. Well, NBC is bringing that same feeling to the poker world, and Bodog is giving poker and gaming enthusiasts alike a chance to get in on the action with their NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship prop bet.

Featuring 64 of the best heads-up poker players in the world, the NHUPC takes place at Caesar's Palace this weekend - March 7-8 - and will pay out $500,000 to the winner. Bodog oddsmakers have been busy with their calculators and complex algorithms coming up with lines for the participants and they are now up and available in the Bodog Sportsbook.

Welcome:

Bodog Poker is giving online poker players the chance to channel the luck of the Irish this St. Patrick's Day with the "St. Paddy's Lucky 7 Special" online poker tournament.

The $77 + $7.77 buy-in No Limit Holdem tournament will take place on March 17th at 7:17pm ET, and Bodog Poker is guaranteeing a prizepool of $7,777 with starting chip stacks of 1,777 and 17 minute blind levels.

The top seven finishers in the St. Paddy's Lucky 7 Special win a seat to Bodog Poker's Sunday $100k Guaranteed online poker tournament on March 22nd. The player that lasts longer out of those seven winners during that March 22nd $100k wins a seat into another $100k Guaranteed, valued at T$109.S

Starting today - Tuesday, March 10th - Bodog Poker will be running daily qualifiers for the St. Paddy's Lucky 7 Special. There are three different buy-in levels for the qualifiers: The "Lucky 7 Cheap Seat" at $1.77, the "Lucky 7 PTS Qualifier" with a buy-in of 77 Bodog Poker points and the "Lucky 7 Semifinal" at $7+$.77. On the day of the tournament - St. Patrick's Day - there will also be a series of "Lucky 7 Last Chance Qualifiers" running throughout the day with a buy-in of $17 + $.77.

Like all Bodog Poker tournaments, the St. Paddy's Lucky 7 Special will provide online poker players with amazing value and give them plenty of reason to celebrate this most Irish of holidays.

Welcome to: Bodog Poker

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It seems even the very conservative leaning Fox news is coming around to the benefits of legalizing online poker. Miraculously, not one of the hosts becomes hostile about the possibility of legalized online poker.




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He also got in what seemed to be a little shot at some of the members of Congress who are opposed to all forms of Internet gambling and their regulation.