ParadisePoker The three founders of Paradise Poker was yesterday 20,000,000 £ more on your private accounts between. The three founders of Paradise Poker, all of whom come from Canada, these profits due to the excellent operating profit of paradise poker.

The news magazine “Do Guardian” reported: “The three Canadian founders of Sportingbet’s Paradise Poker yesterday a payoff amounting to £ 20,000,000, after operating profit defined one of the milestones achieved.”

“The payment was due that Paradise Poker in the last two years (since Paradise Poker has been taken over by Sportingbet) a corporate profit in excess of $ 150 million has achieved. This milestone was a month before the entry into force of the amended laws in the U.S. reached, which led to the U.S. market broke away and thus one of the largest sports betting markets in the world only very limited as a source of income is available “.

The three Canadian technology experts received payment to your company named Bonaire, which is based on the Virgin Islands is registered.

The identities of the three Canadians are still not known, although most of the founders of Paradise Poker, with 11.5% of the total shares, the second largest shareholders of Sportingbet.

Since Sportingbet from the U.S. market had to withdraw, it was reported that Sportingbet in this process, a loss of 80% of the revenue from poker had reported. It is expected that the Pokerrrom a profit amounting to £ 10Millionen generate per year. Last year was assumed that the profit amounted to £ 60 million.

The value of Bonaire rose at the beginning of the year to £ 65 million, 17 million Sportingbet shares at a time were sold when the shares were traded with 365P. When you consider that the share of Sportingbet PLC at the moment with 47P in the FTSE traded, was the sale of Sportingbet shares at this time, due to the timing of the three first-class Canadians, certainly a very profitable transaction.

VC Poker has developed through its online poker offering in the online poker world already been a great reputation. VC Poker uses the industry’s most popular Tribeca software platform. Now VC Poker surprised us with a new, exclusive offer: Live poker without rake!

Yes, you read that correctly, VC Poker will offer live poker, that the House without its share of the pot collects! In addition to the incentive to increase a little, organized VC Poker a live poker event, in which up to £ 25,000 and supplements can win the prize pool also with 5000 £ cash.

They will ensure ask where they rake-Free live tournaments organized? The answer can be found in the heart of London, in the “Loose Cannon Sports Bar and The VC Players Lounge” directly under the arches of the Victorian railway terminus in the Cannon Street, which for a very special atmosphere in the newly opened “Loose Cannon Club” provides . The operator of the club is the U.K. Poker legend Roy Hougthon.

The realization of this project was only through the support of Roy Hougthon possible because the VC Players Lounge on the experience of Roy completely novel was conceived. It is the first live poker room poker live completely “Fee-Free”. There are no hourly fees table in cash Rake Games is not retained and tournaments must be no “fee to be paid, so you have this money available immediately in addition to your bankroll for the increased actual game!

In addition, the VC Players Lounge offers its players a little on what you normally only very rarely in live poker rooms finds – The poker cash games are variations in the limit; Pot Limit and No Limit. The VC Players Lounge offers games for 450 players, there will be live tutorials offered, there is a space for online poker to play and there is a private room for “High Roller cash games.”

To the players a little spur and to attract new clients, organized VC Poker “Founder Members Grand Prix”, a series of 4 qualifier Freeze out tournaments, what your conclusion in a grand finale with a prize pool of around £ 25000 find. VC Poker is the £ 5000 prize pool, making for an interesting player overlay.

The tournament schedule is as follows:

Qualifier 1 to 7 November 2006, 7pm
Qualifier 2 to 14 November 2006, 7pm
Qualifier 3 to 21 November 2006, 7pm
Qualifier 4 to 28 November 2006, 7pm
Big final – 5 December 2006, 7pm

For members of the VC Poker Online’s Room, there is a temporary job through which VC online poker players in the VC Poker Lounge to enjoy various advantages. If you are not yet a member of VC Poker are you can do this on the homepage of VC Poker – www.vcpoker.com – any time.

The benefits for members of the VC online poker rooms are:

You will receive for a period of 3 months once £ 25 in cash and in addition each time you visit the VC Poker Lounge £ 5 in cash. Alternatively, you can use your VC Poker Action Points to use one or other advantage to provide – for 250,000 Action Points deleted entry into the VC Poker Lounge in the amount of £ 5

Here NBA superstars like Jason Kidd and Tracy McGrady, and former NBA stars, like Spud Webb and Julius Erving, sports – they are for a good cause at the poker tables.

Phil Hellmuth, the 11-time winner of the WSOP Bracelet and favourite of the media, agreed to act as “Master of Ceremony” for mood. He simply has a large
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With a glamorous reception at the red carpet on Saturday were the sports stars welcomed.
Then, on time by 14 clock (20 clock CET), set in the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas participants in the poker tables. In addition to a welcome cocktail were all players on the after-party at the trendy night club JET pleased. However, it was “the cause” the most important thing for everyone, albeit a prize money of $ 50,000 bereitstand and the title “Old School vs.. New School Celebrity Poker Champion “strengthens the ego.

The real winners are the organizations “Operation Smile” and the American Cancer Society them, the money collected will benefit. “Operation Smile” takes care of children from developing countries, which face disfigured, as a Hasenscharte or other deformations. This is not a cosmetic effect, but the possibility of a normal life, since untreated Verwachsungen bad health damage left behind.

The party is likely but not yet passed and how often the message is… WHO because now the lucky winner is not yet on the pond geschwappt, but once we have all the results we add it like this article. So stay tuned!

The field can handle some Topprofis aufwarten and Liz Lieu is a favourite in the tournament. PartyBets.com gave Lieu chances of 6:1 at a tournament victory. A spokesman for PartyBets said: “Liz is one of the gefürchtesten Spielerinen in the world, so we had to explain favourite. Katherine Hartree from the UK lies with the chances but not far behind. In recent years, Katherine was one of the most consistent poker players in Europe and she has the knowledge and experience in this
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Katherine Hartree’s name is not quite as well known as that of Liz Lieu, but you can not deny that they have an excellent year. Hartree was far from the Aussie Millions and they reached the final table at the Vienna Spring Poker Festival. Hatrees chances were exactly like those of Pippa Flanders (she already has the PartyPoker World Open won) to 7:1. Lucy Rokach, currently in seventh place with the most money placements, stands at 8:1 and the winner of the 2005 WSOP Lady’s events and Oscar-nomminierte Actress Jennifer Tilly is 9:1 traded.

Other well-known name, the PartyPoker Women’s World Open each other are Xuyen “Bad Girl” Pham, actress Shannon Elizabeth, European Ladies Champion Jackie Meecham, Jackie Vaswani, Deborah Rogers, Beverly Pace, Jen Mason, Maria Demetriou and Kara Scott.

The 2007 Everest Poker European Cup (EPEC) is the picturesque town of Algarve in Portugal. A prize pool is 100,000 € and Everest Poker is 200 players from across the European continent to send Portugal to attend and participate in the EPEC for fame and honor to fight. From now until the end of August, Everest Poker offers all German Poker News readers several EPEC
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Each 1,100 € EPEC Online Qualifier package consists of the buy-in for the Everest Poker Main Event Europa Cup in Portugal (with a value of 500 €), three nights in the value of 300 € and a further 300 € for travel expenses and pocket money. The Everest Poker Europa Cup we lavishly equipped Vilamoura Casino in the city of Algarve, Portugal out.

If your opportunities to participate in use, you must react quickly, because only 2 online qualifier tournaments left – one in July and one in August. All satellite tournaments and online Qualifiers find the clock at 19:00 GMT. The satellite tournaments for Germans held on Tuesday, the tournaments for Swiss and Austrians will be played on Thursdays and for the rest of Europe, the satellite tournaments on Friday. For every German satellite can be 100 seats for the online qualifier win in the Swiss / Austrian satellites are awarded 20 seats, while the rest of Europe has the opportunity to 100 seats to play.

In the last two remaining Online Qualifiers for the Everest Poker Europa Cup will be at each tournament a number of price packages to win. For every German online qualifiers will be five EPEC € 1,100 prize packages to win. Austrian and Swiss players will be a price packages or three can play, while the rest of Europe by five prize packages will play.

To participate in Europe’s largest freeroll participate, you need to just 10 points erspielen Everest Poker. They missed their chance and do not qualify up today and play with the EPEC 2007 in Portugal.

News poker players have the exclusive option on five $ 5000 Poker News Australia Cup Freerolls participate, all organized by Everest Poker. Each $ 5000 Poker News Cup package consists of the buy-in for the Australia Cup News Poker Main Event in the amount of AUD $ 3000, six nights at the luxurious Crown Promenade Hotel, plus $ 1500 cash for travel expenses and pocket money. To participate in this freeroll participate, you must simply Everest Poker software through our special link to download a new account opened and a deposit. They must also be a special bonus code, Freeroll on our website you can find all necessary information. If you live in the past already have an account at Everest Poker on Poker News had opened, you can also participate in this Free Rolls, when you all further participation requirements.

In addition, new players at Everest Poker, which is about Poker News have, in our exclusive monthly $ 1000 New Player Freerolls. Which players in the previous calendar month of Poker News at Everest Poker had logged a deposit, and have made are entitled to one of these 1000 $ Freerolls participate, which always at the 8 days of the following month organized. You must also a bonus code, all the necessary information can be found on our special freeroll website.

Everest Poker Freerolls organized and lucrative competitions specifically for the European market. Everest Poker offers all its players excellent chance of winning and is also unique bonus offers and exclusive promotions. Join us!

The casino royale team of the Casino Royale Poker is a lot to invade their user capacity of 600 persons best record.

The daily tournaments are already known, now runs the Royal Casino poker more special “jackpot tournaments.” The specific point are guaranteed prize money, thereby financed, that every regular tournament 8% of the prize money forfeited. 3% of which are used for the monthly standings, and 5% for the jackpot tournaments. ” Because the number of participants provided cover the full amount of prize money does not deny this “Jackpot tournament pool for the prize money guarantee used.

The first “jackpot
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So many are on 25 August not be a good opportunity to hunt for the € 40,000 prize money and to ever warm to play. Because the prize money for 8 September we probably much higher now than next Saturday. If really so many players who participate as expected can be seen from a six-sum prize money than expected.

The tournament jackpot is on the list Poker Royale website ready for you.
And the seating of 600 seats, the participants Poker Royal team also increase, because it looks like it will be fully and very exciting.

Those who are already registered (including the forum) can just log in and edit their profile. For the remaining states – “create new account”.

Once done, there are three main buttons: “Start your blog, upload photos” and “Meet Friends” – the functions of the areas are self-explanatory.
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In the “Home”, it is possible to the existing members alphabetically view or only the new members.

In the area of “blogs” there are several sub-categories by the last, the meistkommentierten, the most popular or the person selected entries with a click can be – the same principle also applies to the category Photos.

The advantage of this community site is that you can quickly and clearly can maintain his contacts and new friends pokerinteressierte. And above all, the platform internationally, thus mixing the nationalities and languages, was an additional incentive.

The stories in the blogs are different, many members are personally, Others report regularly on their poker success. The members determine the quality of the site, therefore we welcome any interesting history.

We want you to point out that this feature is still in the “initial phase”, say it is constantly being improved, and soon also a German version, you will soon say “MyPokerNews” with German description and buttons.

After the “Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act in October in force, there were a lot of different opinions and speculation concerning the resulting impact on the live poker tournament scene. If the number of participants, especially at events like the World Poker Tour or the WSOP (in particular the Championship tournament), due to withdrawal of some PokerRoom’s from the U.S. market and due to the fact that it is many players in the U.S. is no longer possible to get ready for this online tournaments to qualify suffer? I have decided not easy for them speculation, but I am concerned directly with the companies in To contact him to discuss the possibility to have by the companies to learn how the state of things from their point of view.

The World Poker Tour has decided not flat-rate assessment of the current situation must, but expect those responsible for the WPT, that the affiliated casinos this item on the agenda and related solutions are developed. In an e-mail to the spokesman for the WPT, confirmed that the casinos, which tournaments under the WPT events, have the right players (which are affected by the UIGEA) and through online Qualifiers for the events have qualified after own targets to accept or reject. “Since the decision whether a player can participate or not, now at the casinos, it is in the hands of the individual players and the Poker Room’s clarified in advance what casinos players accept applications by third parties and how the individual casinos to online Qualifiers behave “: WPT said the spokesman.

It has been possible with a directly responsible for the WSOP to talk. Gary Thompson, WSOP Director of Operations, told me what the impact of this situation to the WSOP and how Harrah’s attitude: “We will do our business continue as usual, the legislative changes have no impact on our poker rooms”. During the phone call said he continues: “We have since 2005, no applications for our tournaments by” third party “accepted”. Thompson also said that he did not know what the impact of the UIGEA in the long term the industry will have. The World Series of Poker will continue to grow, with the growth trend of the WSOP in 2006, as a clear sign of the further positive development of the WSOP to evaluate. The reduction of the buy-ins for the main event of 10000 $ to $ 5000 has led to a significant increase in the number of players.

While the big poker tour operators still continue to record numbers to write, of course the question of what impact this situation to the players themselves? Many newcomers, especially younger players, women and players from abroad, had in the past the possibility of online poker the necessary experience to successfully later live poker tournament to play. If this target group is now no longer online poker can play (because of restrictions on payments, which by the UIGEA, or because the poker players of Rome no longer accept the U.S.) can come of course, that the number of players in the future more vigilant so great and that therefore the increase by less new players.

The idea that the impact of the new legislation in the U.S. on the live tournament poker scene could have (especially in the high-profile events such as the WPT or the WSOP), has in the poker world caused some excitement. The leaders with whom I spoke said that the legislative changes in the United States no major impact on the players’ game, and the business of the WPT and the WSOP continue as usual. It may still take months before the true impact of the current situation on the “live poker business.

If the statements of the organization of tournaments persons responsible are correct, and the impact will be felt only minimally, is the course for the poker game throughout as positive measure. If the statements are true, we can assume that we, instead of the expected decline of activities in the live poker scene, with a further growth in the sector in the next few years can expect.

Texas Holdem poker – which includes versions of the popular Texas holdem, Omaha holdem and the lesser known variants Yukon holdem and Royal holdem. In casinos is also partly the variant Easy poker offered.

Learn rules of Texas Holdem poker

Texas Holdem rules can be translated into German with think they translate. With this name is usually the version called Texas holdem, but there are also other variants of holdem family. The original form of holdem games, the game is wild Widow, which at the beginning of the 1920s and emerged with a card for every player was disclosed. holdem is typical of that in the course of a round one or more community cards to be disclosed to the players for the education of their hand may use. In addition, each player will receive the hidden hole cards, each of which only they can use. It depends on the variant, how much cards a player can use. Thus, for example, a player at Omaha holdem four hole cards, but must ultimately responsible for the formation of a hand, only two and three community cards used.

British government looks for ways to ensure fair taxation of online ensure Gambling’s
The attempts by the British Government on-line gambling companies to move their headquarters to relocate to England and thus will also have to levy taxes to pay in England, seem doomed to be. The Ministers have admitted that there are serious problems have occurred.

John Healey, the Finance Minister said the problems last week during a meeting with responsible from the tourism industry. In his speech he said that the government is very large problems would have a tax system to develop, which is for the online gambling companies (which at the moment mainly in tax havens are established and on minimum tax rates look) would make it interesting, headquarters to relocate to England and also to pay the taxes.

Official government representatives have indicated that only a small chance that online gambling companies settle in England. And this despite a “certification”, which by the competent Gambling Commission in prospect.

Ladbrokes has provided the Commission with an additional proposal. The Gambling industry should be a part of your earnings into a fund deposit, which should be used to better serve and treat them. This fund would help the seriousness of gambling companies. This measure would make the certification to gain credibility and it would be for online gambling companies interesting the basis of your business processes through a certification scheme for the general public, transparent and straightforward to make.

John O’Reilly, the director of Ladbrokes Online Gambling, said: “Great Britain enjoys the reputation of always good compromise in the legal regulation to be able to offer, which applies not only for online gambling, but also for the financial sector and for many other areas. Certification is an advantage for which we are prepared also to pay. ”

The takeover and merger rumors in the online gambling industry, provide at the moment for some excitement in the scene. Last week we had about a possible merger of Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker reported. And today there are new to report. There is a rumor of a takeover / merger of Ladbrokes by 888 Holding (the holding company is the owner of Pacific Poker and 888 casino). PartyPoker PLC. , as part of its efforts to take over smaller suppliers (to your market position to strengthen), also an eye on Ladbrokes thrown. Due to the legislative changes in the U.S. and the ensuing price slump in many of the publicly traded on the stock traded online gambling companies, it can be assumed that one or other online gambling at the moment with huge liquidity problems and the bankruptcy vultures slowly begin to circle in the sky.