Celebs to Play Poker for a good cause

Funny man Brad Garrett will be buying into an impending charity tournament.

The wonderful day of Jan 17, 2008 will register another game in the record of charity Poker Tournaments. Celebrities will play poker for charity to promote the Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind (TLC).
The episode is going to be termed as "All-In To Win" and will happen at Commerce Casino in California, which is also the resolute location of WPT L.A. Poker Classic.
The rising popularity of the tournament has already made it successful in grabbing the attention of celebrities like Adam Baldwin, Brad Garrett, Daniel Baldwin, Judd Nelson and Chris McDonald.
Garrett is supposedly, one of the most experienced players to play at the Event, as he has numerous appearances previously also at the WSOP.
The grand prize for the event embraces a place at the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational and a handsome amount of $2,500 in cash.
Others, who are anxious to make decent donations to the TLC and to enter into some serious poker action can buy into All-In To Win for a total of $200. Also there will be a re-buy for $200. The tournament is assistance to blind infants, toddlers and preschoolers with developmental disabilities.
TLC has been in existence from 30 years and offers interminable care services for people challenged with both blindness and developmental disabilities.

PokerStars Holds the Guinness World Record for Arranging the Largest Online Tournament

A huge assemblage of 35,000 players acquired in to the $11 world record tournament presented on PokerStars, this Sunday, offering a striking prize pool of $500,000.
The tournament continued for an extended period of 9.5 hours with 8,750 players all making it into the money. Interestingly, the 2006 WSOP, the biggest live tournament in the history, only had 8,773 entrants in total. This way, the tournament formally made its way to the Guinness World Record for largest online tournament.
According to Team PokerStars Pro’s Daniel Negreanu it is quite a big thing for the site to procure yet another record-breaking tournament against its name.
"No other site brings the level of excitement, skill and challenge that poker players crave," Negreanu has said. "The Sunday tournaments on PokerStars provide an unrivaled opportunity to prove your poker prowess with a lucrative prize pool that matches the highest level of competition."
With the closing of the day, the top four players procured at least $10,000 with stan34powa clearing out 34,999 players and receiving $30,000 to register victory for the largest poker tournament ever held. Stan34powa, a French player with an investment of only $11 in the tournament had rolled through the giant field, which marked an extensive inventory of 3,500 tables in progress at its beginning.
Regardless of the massive field size, the players made their way to the money in less than three hours. While hand-for-hand play, 80 players got eliminated, letting the opening of the certain dash to the final table.

PokerStars Kicks Off the Caribbean Adventure

December 29, 2008: How eventful is the poker world these days? When poker game is sensing the heat of economic downturn, PokerStars alone represents between 20-40% of the total business in the entire online gaming industry. Its representation is further intensified, at times when most of the action is stateside; PokerStars has arranged Caribbean Adventure (PCA), which begins on Monday, January 5th at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

The PokerStars event represented the perfect convergence of live and virtual poker will host several tournaments during the PCA, letting players to assemble at the Atlantis Hotel and witness the largest online poker event ever held. The prize structure of the event is appealing with some of the top players will be up for grabs. Here is a look at the schedule of tournaments that will take place in the Island:

• Monday, January 5th: $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Main Event
• Wednesday, January 7th: $2,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em
• Wednesday January 7th: $25,000 buy-in High Roller No Limit Hold’em
• Thursday, January 8th: $5,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em
• Thursday, January 8th: $2,000 buy-in Battleship
• Friday, January 9th: $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em

It is expected that in the PCA, gambling legends like Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, Ryan “Daut44” Daut, Steven Paul Ambrose or John Gale can be taken down by unknowns as the PCA has become a favourite destination for young poker players. However, the $10,000 buy-in events as well as a Team PokerStars Pro Championship Match are also part of the PokerStars’ Bahamas tour.

Bwin-Harvard problem gambling research collaboration extends for next 5 years

Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG has extended its cooperation with Division of Addictions at the Cambride Health alliance and announced a five-year contract to carry on researching online gaming, with the motive to identify and prevent gaming-related troubles and thus offering a secure online gaming platform. Bwin is an Austrian-based online company.

For the past three years, The Division on Addictions at the Cambridge Health Alliance which is a Harvard Medical School Teaching Affiliate has been in collaboration with Bwin. Mutually, they have offered a number of dependable gaming initiatives while providing tools and information intended to push accountable gaming. The latest agreement thereby states an advance extension of a partnership that has already fetched decent results proved to be quite historic in its scope.
The collaboration has also produced many scientific studies evaluating the data of over 47,000 Bwin customers' activities for 36-month period.

"Through its relationship with the Division on Addictions," Dr. Howard Shaffer, Director of the Division on Addictions, "Bwin has supported numerous scientific inquiries, including the first ever scientific longitudinal study of actual internet gaming behavior." Shaffer, also praised Bwin for encompassing "integrated responsible gaming efforts into its business practices and made empirically-supported self-help resources available to its subscribers."

Manfred Bodner, co-CEO of Bwin, on focusing the realistic benefits of the research, says, “the need to understand what goes on in consumers' minds and be able to answer fundamental questions about online gaming are based on scientific evidence -- and not based on speculation." Bonder further adds, “the idea is ultimately to be "capable of identifying risk patterns associated with disordered gambling so that we can prevent them."

Tokwiro releases statement on erroneous recognition of Hellmuth by UltimateBet Software

Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, owner of UltimateBet, offered a statement on Tuesday, admitting a bizarre software malfunction and stating a repair that was immediately taken in order to prevent any such disorder in future.

On December 20, Novel CEREUS network of Tokwiro had encountered a breakdown that erroneously paid out UB pitchman Phil Hellmuth with the losing hand rather than the player with the winning hand on Ultimate Bet. The hand, being played at $200/400 heads-up limit hold'em, received huge interest from the poker world due to the involvement of UB spokesman Phil Hellmuth. Post the software malfunction examination, Hellmuth held one pair whereas DOUBLEBALLER strikes trips as the new software passed the pot to him anyway.

Tokwiro, the owner of Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, in his statement, has said, “We have concluded that the malfunction occurred because the winning player disconnected from the table at the precise millisecond when the software was awarding the pot, in conjunction with the ‘player’s state’ data being cleared from the memory cache.” He further adds, “We introduced a new defect that caused 36 hands to award incorrect payouts. All players have been reimbursed for these hands as well.”

Paul Leggett, the COO of Tokwiro mentions that such kind of an issue has occurred for the first time and we have strictly reviewed our database and application logs for the months of December and November and so far, have been unable to dig out any past happenings

Norwegian Cruise Line teams up with PokerTek, Inc. for a 90 day Field Trial

PokerTek has brought a wonderful offer for all cruise lovers. The company has decided to start a 90-day field trial on Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Pearl and if all goes well and the trial becomes a hit, tables will get installed to all 11 of Norwegian Cruise Line’s ships.

Earlier also, PokerTek has experimented this sort of an arrangement with dealerless, automated PokerPro tables placements on all 22 of Carnival Cruise Line’s boats.

Jim Abbas, Vice president of casino operations, Norwegian Cruise Line has said, “We are eager to see how successful PokerPro is on one of our newest ships, Norwegian Pearl”. He further adds, “The ship offers tremendous choices already, from bowling to rock climbing, and automated poker is one more exciting entertainment option. PokerPro was recently installed within our casino, which offers an array of traditional table games, along with a wide variety of slots not offered by any of our competitors.”

According to Robert Perry, Vice president of Sales, PokerTek, Cruise ships and Poker tables are a perfect match. “Our previous installations on cruise ships have proven to be profitable for our customers and well-received by their vacationers onboard,” Robert Perry has said. “We're hopeful that Norwegian Cruise Line will see the same results. PokerPro allows cruise ships to offer an extra amenity to their guests in a cost-effective manner.”

The company has installed numerous machines in different geographies all over the world, and most recently regions to receive its services are Louisiana and San Diego.

Smyth and Eastgate Ready to Steal 2008 European Poker Awards

Aviation Club in Paris is all set to stage the 2008 European Poker Awards with the UK once again is confident enough to steal the show in the Award function. The judging and presentations will take place on January 15th, 2009 during the Euro Finals of Poker series.
On Friday, the nominees for the 2008 European Poker Awards, which are categorized into seven segments, were announced with prominent players representing more than one nomination category for their achievements in the past and current year. To top the list is Marty Smyth and Peter Eastgate. Smyth has been nominated under both the “Player of the Year” and “Tournament Performance of the Year” categories, and Eastgate has two nominations up his sleeves: Rookie of the Year and Best Tournament Performance.
“I'm very flattered to be nominated," said Smyth. "It's a great honour but I'm up against some very tough and worthy competition. Winning one of the awards would really be the icing on the cake for what was a very special year for me.” Both Smyth and Eastgate have won some of the major series this year including the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship at the WSOP and WSOP Main Event respectively.
Other poker players nominated for various categories are Neil Channing, Bertrand Grospellier, David Benyamine, Jesper Hougaard, Channing, Stephen Chidwick, Ivan Demidov, Davidi Kitai, Stefan Ruthenberg, Alexander Kostritsyn, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Andreas Krause, Sandra Naujoks, Isabel Mercier, Kara Scott, Annette Obrestad, Svetlana Gromenkova, Thomas Kremser, Sylvie Berlanger, Jonathan Raab, Simon Trumper, Madeleine Harper, Rob Yong, Gene Gioia, Jonathan Raab and Poker Stars Team: Francine Watson/Conrad Brunner/Mad Harper.

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