PartyPokers third Monthly Million, 1 million dollar guaranteed tournament will take place on Sunday 5th April. The second Monthly Million played out on Sunday 1st March after 1,591 players competed for the one million dollar prize pool, with an amazing 200 places paid. Russian online player “SuperTight31” took first place with a prize of 163,114.08 dollar. The Million Dollar Hand promotion, which finished last Friday, saw a total of 83,931 winning hands, which paid out more than 700,000 dollars.

Players can qualify for the 600 plus 40 dollar buy-in event in a number of ways and for as few as one dollar. Qualifiers include 64 plus 6 dollar daily satellites with 18 seats guaranteed, a mega Friday 50 plus 5 satellite which has 30 seats up for grabs, and finally a 32 plus 3 dollar super satellite the day before the event, offering 25 seats. On Wednesday, The Gladiator, a brand new promotional action starts off and will run until April 25th. A PartyPoker spokesperson said: “Hot on the heels of paying out over 700,000 dollar through the Million Dollar Hand promotion comes the third running of the Monthly Million and the launch of ‘The Gladiator’. We challenge you to carefully study both the mega money guaranteed tournament and endurance promotion as you will definitely find juicy value.”

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Lady Luck hit Coachella Callifornia last week as a La Quinta man magically turned pennies into more than a million dollars playing at Spotlight 29 Casino. The retired man became the biggest winner in Spotlight 29 Casino history.
He only played about 30 minutes when his wife wanted to leave, he said: “just one more spin.” And then became a millionaire with a staggering amount of 1,086,636.60 dollars. As the bells and lights went of the man couldn’t believe it, as he was just about to leave, he told his wife one more spin. He plans on saving the money for his children and grandchildren.

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An announcement on BluefirPoker.com, challenges the president of the states Barack Obama or members of the congress to a game of poker. They would face a poker pro in order to make clear, poker is not a game of luck, but a game of skill. The site is ready to bet 1 million dollar against 1 dollar just to prove a point.

The game specifics where not mentioned but they do state that the money will go to various charities. According to the website, each player will receive the same amount of chips, and the game has to last long enough to demonstrate the advantage of skill because poker valour and experience demonstrate themselves over time, in the long run, the better player wins. They don not immediately think Obama will respond, but it is good for government officials who are against the UIGEA to respond, to prove their point, that poker is a game of skill.

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Today, within an hour, the Senate Regulated Industries Committee authorized 1 billion dollars to expand gambling in Florida. Governor Charlie Crist can now negotiate the compact with the Seminoles Indian tribe, allowing them to have roulette wheels and crap tables and slot machines in dog and horse races.

Senator Dennis Jones sponsor of the bills and chairman of the committee said: “Don’t kid yourself. We are a gaming state, so why wouldn’t we want to be the cream of the crop rather than losing citizens going somewhere else?” The plan involves new gaming options for 25 facilities, a full-fledged casinos for Seminoles, a change of legal gambling age from 21 to 18, the option to run electronic slot machines outside Miami-Dade and Broward county and a tax reduction on slot machines from 50 to 35 percent.

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Card counters has always been a problem in land based casinos, but the problem got out of hand. With the new card counting application for the iPhone anybody is capable of counting cards. As soon as they found out the iPhone had this application, all iPhones where banned from land based casinos.

Online casinos has seen a great increase in revenues the last year. One of the reasons is that consumers visit land casino a lot less then before the economic crisis, in order to save money on the trip, drinks and tips. The second reason has been the smoking ban which has caused a massive decline in visitors for the land casinos, and an increase for the online casinos. So now iPhone users join the list of people trading in land based casinos for online casinos.

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Yesterday, the Australian government started banning thousands of websites which are included on their blacklist, in the fight against child porn, including less offensive sites like poker sites and even dentist’s site. The site who published the blacklist, WikiLeaks.org, is now also banned by the Australian government.

Communications minister Stephen Conroy said the list was not authentic, it contained some common URL’s and stated a couple of links which were not investigated. He also said that whoever leaked the information, faces prosecution. Opposition spokesman Nick Minchin said: “The regrettable and unfortunate reality is there will always be explicit and illegal material on the web and regardless of blacklists, filters and the like, those with the means and know-how will find ways of accessing it.”

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The site WikiLeak.org released a blacklist of 2.395 sites, that the Australian government is planning to permanently remove. These sites are offensive sites such as childpornagraphy, extreme violence or bestiality. But also non-offensive sites such as YouTube videos, WikiLeaks entries and poker sites.

In 2001 the Australian Internet Gambling Act came in place, but only recently the Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) became more strict about restricting offensive and illegal sites. Including in the blacklists poker sites are PokerStars who sponsors two large poker tournaments in Australia yearly, and Full Tilt Poker. But also sites who include hyperlinks to banned sites are banned. The government is said to expand the number of sites on the blacklist to more than 10.000.

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Last year revenue’s for mobile casino’s grew exponential, expectations for 2009 are even higher. Mobile gaming seems to explode while mobile technology is improving. Casino Tropez Mobile is on of the mobile casinos building on the future.

The mobile casino of CasinoTropezMobile has raised their welcome bonus, giving new members more bonus money. Through the mobile phone handset or their sister company, Casino Tropez. The sign up bonus is now $3.000 and include $100 free on the first deposit made, $200 free on the second deposit and an extra $2.700 free Sunday bonuses.

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Paul Kusznirewicz was on the 8th of December the luckiest and unluckiest man on earth, the 55 year old retired man could not believe his eyes, as he hit the jackpot at a Buccaneer slot machine in Georgian Downs Casino in Innisfil Canada, “Call attendant, you have won $42.9 million” the machine said as it was ringing its bells and whistles.

When a casino employee arrived at the machine he first congratulated Paul with his win, but then said “oh, but look at how big, I’ll have to call my supervisor.” Two supervisors, security and a few mechanics arrived at the machine, taking pictures. Then someone said: “We can’t pay you that money because that machine is broken.” They offered him four buffet tickets instead.

Yesterday, Pauls lawyer served the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) with legal papers. OLG calculated that the maximum payout for a Buccaneer slot game is $9.025. “It malfunctioned. It clearly malfunctioned, each machine has a posted sign that says malfunction voids all pays and plays.” said spokesperson Allison Sparkes. But the maximum payout is not posted, plus OLG’s legal team couldn’t prove the machine was broken.

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario is investigating the allegations.

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Today, CryptoLogic announced a multi-year contract with film studio Paramount Digital Entertainment, that will bring some of the most world-famous superhero’s come to live on the internet casino world beginning in the final quarter of 2009.

With this contract CryptoLogic gains exclusive rights to offer online slot machines based on more than 20 Paramount films, including Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Beowulf, Beverly Hills Cop, Ghost, Ferris Bueler and many more. Also CryptoLogic gets the opportunity to build a dedicated gaming site which hold all of their movie-based games.

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