PKR’s Valentine Gift to Poker Players
PKR’s Valentine Gift to Poker Players
Date With Nuts Magazine Cover Star Lindsey Strutt for Winner of Sunday Tournament
PKR and partner Nuts magazine have joined forces to create a $10 buy-in Valentine’s promotional tournament this Sunday with a twist.
In addition to the winner taking down the prize pool, he (or she) will win a date with Nuts magazine cover star Lindsey Strutt.
The tournament takes place at 8:15 p.m. on Sunday and the winner will get to enjoy a champagne reception on Sunday Feb. 27 followed by dinner and drinks at a top London restaurant with overnight accommodation thrown in for good measure.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
PARTYPOKER PREMIER LEAGUE IV LINE-UP COMPLETE - IAN 'THE RAISER' FRAZER WINS TEAM PARTY SEAT
Las Vegas – 11th February 2010 – Team Party pro Ian ‘The Raiser’ Frazer has secured the final place in the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV Main Event, which gets underway tomorrow at 12pm (PST) at the M Resort in Las Vegas. Frazer, known as the ‘King of Six-Seater Shootouts,’ conquered the six-seater play-off that also featured fellow Team Party members Bodo Sbrzesny, Remy Biechel, Felipe ‘Mojave’ Ramos, Poker Hall of Fame inductee Mike Sexton and special guest player Dragon Galic.
Frazer now joins the 12 player field for the $100,000 buy-in Premier League IV alongside defending champion JC Tran, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Vanessa Rousso, Roland de Wolfe, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Phil Laak, David Benyamine, Luke Schwartz and fellow Team Party member Tony G. Also in the field is 44-year-old Italian lawyer Giovanni Safina, from Palermo, who takes his seat in the elite event after qualifying online at PartyPoker.it for just 100 euros!
‘The Raiser’ admits he hasn’t had the best run of form recently and after conquering Party tournaments over the years has had a quiet 12 months by his standards. He was invited to the first two Premier League events but didn’t get the call for the third season.
“I came, I fought, I conquered,” said Frazer. “I’ve really got a feeling I can win this and I am so delighted that I have made it into the Main Event.”
Frazer started the day fourth in chips, with Felipe ‘Mojave’ Ramos the chip leader. “I cannot express how hungry I am now. I didn’t deserve an invite to the last Premier League and it is amazing to be back!”
Ian is a very successful 50-year-old building contractor from London with live tournament winnings of over $1.5 million. The link to his success and Party is strong as he started playing online at the site in 2004 and he has finishes on the final table of five offline Party tournaments. He is a valued member of VIP club Palladium Lounge. His biggest live successes are scooping $500,000 by taking down the UK Open in 2005 and winning the first prize of $125,000 at the PartyPoker.com European Open II in 2006. Ian has cashed three times in six handed events at the WSOP and is known and feared as a specialist in that format.
The unlucky runner-up was French Team Party professional Remy Biechel, who went into the heads-up almost level but was rocked by ‘The Raiser’ in just a few hands. Full details on all the hands and eliminations can be found at: PartyPoker.com
The first heat of the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV Main Event takes place tomorrow with Frazer joining JC Tran, Daniel Negreanu, Luke Schwartz, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Roland de Wolfe, Phil Laak and Vanessa Rousso on the felt for heat one. Last year’s winner Tran goes in as favourite to take down the tournament as a whole.
TEAM PARTY PREMIER LEAGUE IV PLAY-OFF – 11th FEBRUARY 2010 – M RESORT – LAS VEGAS
1st - IAN FRAZER (UK)
2nd - REMY BIECHEL (FRA)
3rd - BODO SBRZESNY (GER)
4th - FELIPE ‘MOJAVE’ RAMOS (BRA)
5th - DRAGON GALIC (GER)
6th - MIKE SEXTON (USA)
Las Vegas – 11th February 2010 – Team Party pro Ian ‘The Raiser’ Frazer has secured the final place in the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV Main Event, which gets underway tomorrow at 12pm (PST) at the M Resort in Las Vegas. Frazer, known as the ‘King of Six-Seater Shootouts,’ conquered the six-seater play-off that also featured fellow Team Party members Bodo Sbrzesny, Remy Biechel, Felipe ‘Mojave’ Ramos, Poker Hall of Fame inductee Mike Sexton and special guest player Dragon Galic.
Frazer now joins the 12 player field for the $100,000 buy-in Premier League IV alongside defending champion JC Tran, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Vanessa Rousso, Roland de Wolfe, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Phil Laak, David Benyamine, Luke Schwartz and fellow Team Party member Tony G. Also in the field is 44-year-old Italian lawyer Giovanni Safina, from Palermo, who takes his seat in the elite event after qualifying online at PartyPoker.it for just 100 euros!
‘The Raiser’ admits he hasn’t had the best run of form recently and after conquering Party tournaments over the years has had a quiet 12 months by his standards. He was invited to the first two Premier League events but didn’t get the call for the third season.
“I came, I fought, I conquered,” said Frazer. “I’ve really got a feeling I can win this and I am so delighted that I have made it into the Main Event.”
Frazer started the day fourth in chips, with Felipe ‘Mojave’ Ramos the chip leader. “I cannot express how hungry I am now. I didn’t deserve an invite to the last Premier League and it is amazing to be back!”
Ian is a very successful 50-year-old building contractor from London with live tournament winnings of over $1.5 million. The link to his success and Party is strong as he started playing online at the site in 2004 and he has finishes on the final table of five offline Party tournaments. He is a valued member of VIP club Palladium Lounge. His biggest live successes are scooping $500,000 by taking down the UK Open in 2005 and winning the first prize of $125,000 at the PartyPoker.com European Open II in 2006. Ian has cashed three times in six handed events at the WSOP and is known and feared as a specialist in that format.
The unlucky runner-up was French Team Party professional Remy Biechel, who went into the heads-up almost level but was rocked by ‘The Raiser’ in just a few hands. Full details on all the hands and eliminations can be found at: PartyPoker.com
The first heat of the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV Main Event takes place tomorrow with Frazer joining JC Tran, Daniel Negreanu, Luke Schwartz, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Roland de Wolfe, Phil Laak and Vanessa Rousso on the felt for heat one. Last year’s winner Tran goes in as favourite to take down the tournament as a whole.
TEAM PARTY PREMIER LEAGUE IV PLAY-OFF – 11th FEBRUARY 2010 – M RESORT – LAS VEGAS
1st - IAN FRAZER (UK)
2nd - REMY BIECHEL (FRA)
3rd - BODO SBRZESNY (GER)
4th - FELIPE ‘MOJAVE’ RAMOS (BRA)
5th - DRAGON GALIC (GER)
6th - MIKE SEXTON (USA)
PartyPoker News: Kara Scott: My America’s Next Top Model obsession - 11th February 2010
Its been a really interesting few days here at the M Resort in Las Vegas. We’re here to film the Premier League and yesterday we finished up with the Qualifier’s heats.
This is the first year that the Premier League has saved one place for an online qualifier and it’ll be interesting to see how Giovanni Safina copes with facing the pro line up!
Earlier in the week we had a photo shoot for the newly expanded Team Party Poker Pro’s and it was my first really ‘official’ job as part of the team. The photographer Brian was absolutely awesome and I barely recognise myself in the photos.
I think it was the most fun I’ve ever had doing photographs and the guys kindly indulged me in my ‘America’s Next Top Model’ obsession as I pouted and posed.
The guys on the Team are really cool and I’m glad that I’m having a chance to get to know them a bit better through this event, especially as we’ll all be playing in tournaments together on the live circuit this year.
Remy had me in stitches although between his French and my English – we only managed to have half a conversation. It was the funny half though!
The Pros are already starting to arrive in preparation for the Main Event kicking off and once we get stuck in, I’ll try to get some photos to post up here for you guys.
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Its been a really interesting few days here at the M Resort in Las Vegas. We’re here to film the Premier League and yesterday we finished up with the Qualifier’s heats.
This is the first year that the Premier League has saved one place for an online qualifier and it’ll be interesting to see how Giovanni Safina copes with facing the pro line up!
Earlier in the week we had a photo shoot for the newly expanded Team Party Poker Pro’s and it was my first really ‘official’ job as part of the team. The photographer Brian was absolutely awesome and I barely recognise myself in the photos.
I think it was the most fun I’ve ever had doing photographs and the guys kindly indulged me in my ‘America’s Next Top Model’ obsession as I pouted and posed.
The guys on the Team are really cool and I’m glad that I’m having a chance to get to know them a bit better through this event, especially as we’ll all be playing in tournaments together on the live circuit this year.
Remy had me in stitches although between his French and my English – we only managed to have half a conversation. It was the funny half though!
The Pros are already starting to arrive in preparation for the Main Event kicking off and once we get stuck in, I’ll try to get some photos to post up here for you guys.
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Are the Feds Cracking Down on Online Poker? - 11th February 2010
The biggest stars of poker are playing the ultimate bluffing game with the U.S. government. At stake is the future of online poker and $30 billion of betting.
But it wasn't until 2006 that federal legislators started moving against online operators. That year Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which was aimed at preventing credit card companies and banks from processing fund transfers for unlawful Internet gambling but only loosely defined what constituted unlawful gambling.
Lawyers for the online firms interpret the law to exclude poker. But that certainly wasn't the view held by PartyGaming, a Gibraltar company that was once the world's largest online gaming company. In 2005 the firm, listed on the London Stock Exchange and included in the FTSE 100, reported earnings of $293 million on $977 million in revenue, a performance driven almost entirely by its dominance of the online U.S. poker market.
But on the September 2006 weekend in which Congress passed the anti-online-gambling bill, PartyGaming's then chief executive, Mitchell Garber, arranged a call with his U.S. lawyers. They advised the company's board of directors to cease its U.S. poker operations, which it did. The stock collapsed and remains at one-seventh of its peak. Other companies followed PartyGaming's lead out of the country.
Initiating the talks, PartyGaming last April struck a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, paying $105 million and admitting that its U.S. operations had for years violated U.S. criminal laws. By then Garber had moved to Montreal to run the online gaming unit of Harrah's Entertainment.
Unencumbered by public shareholders and skittish directors, Full Tilt and PokerStars stepped into the U.S. void created by PartyGaming's departure. These were companies driven by men who were used to making serious bets, like Chris Ferguson, a famous poker player with a computer science Ph.D. who, a few years ago, started tinkering with the software that now powers Full Tilt. Howard Lederer helped organize a group of famous poker players, like Phillip Ivey, to promote and play on the Full Tilt site. Full Tilt even sponsored a late-night program on NBC.
The financial connections between Lederer and Ferguson and Full Tilt are fuzzy. But the links are strong. The two men are listed in registration papers of an online software company called Tiltware, in Pacific Palisades, Calif., which claims it is the exclusive software provider and consultant to Full Tilt. Details of civil cases, including Tiltware's own filings, suggest that Tiltware and Full Tilt are nearly indistinguishable and driven largely by Lederer and Raymond Bitar, who has been Tiltware's chief executive and got to know Ferguson when the two traded securities together at the Los Angeles office of a stockbroker.
For Full Tilt, which eventually moved operations to Dublin, the decision to keep taking U.S. play and promote the site with famous players has so far paid off. Like PokerStars, Full Tilt has used the cash generated by the U.S. market, which as recently as three years ago represented nearly half of global online poker revenue, to expand worldwide. But there are constant reminders that Full Tilt is on dangerous ground with the U.S. government. "There is a guerrilla war going on," says Ian Imrich, a lawyer for Lederer, Ferguson and Bitar, in brief comments.
Indeed, last summer federal prosecutors in New York froze $34 million owed to at least 14,000 players from companies that processed payments for poker games hosted by Full Tilt and PokerStars. The two poker companies reimbursed the players. But the feds made it clear they were playing tough: After one of the payment processors, Douglas Rennick of Canada, tried to contest the seizures in federal court in San Diego, he was indicted for bank fraud conspiracy. Rennick has not come to the U.S. to confront the charges.
The Justice Department is also using three older laws, most importantly the Wire Act, to go after online poker operators. The most significant precedent: In December 2008 Anurag Dikshit, an Indian-born founder of PartyGaming, pleaded guilty to violating the Wire Act for helping direct PartyGaming's online U.S. poker operations. Dikshit, who had reached out to the feds, agreed to pay $300 million and faces up to two years in jail when he is sentenced in December 2010. His fellow cofounders, including Americans Ruth Parasol DeLeon and Russell DeLeon, who, like Dikshit, live overseas, have neither settled nor been charged.
The online poker firms have at least one important card up their sleeves--Representative Barney Frank (D--Mass.). He is backing a bill that would make online poker legal and taxed. In the meantime he has played a role in getting implementation of the 2006 law delayed, most recently in November, when he helped convince the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department to put off implementation for financial firms until June.
Why hasn't the government yet cracked down on the poker firms? One possible explanation is that prosecutors figure they are better off bluffing than having to show their hands before a jury. "The federal government is not going to take any action against them because they would stand a chance of losing it," says Frank Catania, who used to run New Jersey's Division of Gaming Enforcement and now advises online gaming firms.
The case law on online poker is mixed. The Wire Act was enacted in 1961 to suppress interstate gambling and bookmaking. It clearly makes online sports betting illegal. But for online poker the Wire Act's wording is less clear. Another law the feds have used, the Illegal Gambling Business Act, requires a violation of an underlying state law--and many state laws say gambling is only illegal if the outcome rests largely on chance, as opposed to skill. Poker is, to some degree, a game of skill. "In poker the skill elements of the betting and folding usually determine the winner," Lederer argued in an article published online.
In the end what the government usually cares about most is whether gambling is providing a mechanism for other criminal activity, like money laundering, underage gambling or cheating. If it isn't, maybe there are bigger things for the police to worry about. For his part Doyle Brunson insists: "The poker industry as a whole is ready to have a fight."
By The Numbers: The Big Bluff
The owners of PokerStars and Full Tilt are betting that they can keep dominating the online U.S. poker market.
$4.8 bil Size of online global poker market
$1.4 bil Size of U.S. poker market
70%Estimated U.S. market share of PokerStars and Full Tilt
Source: H2 Gambling Capital.
(Credit: Forbes)
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The biggest stars of poker are playing the ultimate bluffing game with the U.S. government. At stake is the future of online poker and $30 billion of betting.
But it wasn't until 2006 that federal legislators started moving against online operators. That year Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which was aimed at preventing credit card companies and banks from processing fund transfers for unlawful Internet gambling but only loosely defined what constituted unlawful gambling.
Lawyers for the online firms interpret the law to exclude poker. But that certainly wasn't the view held by PartyGaming, a Gibraltar company that was once the world's largest online gaming company. In 2005 the firm, listed on the London Stock Exchange and included in the FTSE 100, reported earnings of $293 million on $977 million in revenue, a performance driven almost entirely by its dominance of the online U.S. poker market.
But on the September 2006 weekend in which Congress passed the anti-online-gambling bill, PartyGaming's then chief executive, Mitchell Garber, arranged a call with his U.S. lawyers. They advised the company's board of directors to cease its U.S. poker operations, which it did. The stock collapsed and remains at one-seventh of its peak. Other companies followed PartyGaming's lead out of the country.
Initiating the talks, PartyGaming last April struck a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, paying $105 million and admitting that its U.S. operations had for years violated U.S. criminal laws. By then Garber had moved to Montreal to run the online gaming unit of Harrah's Entertainment.
Unencumbered by public shareholders and skittish directors, Full Tilt and PokerStars stepped into the U.S. void created by PartyGaming's departure. These were companies driven by men who were used to making serious bets, like Chris Ferguson, a famous poker player with a computer science Ph.D. who, a few years ago, started tinkering with the software that now powers Full Tilt. Howard Lederer helped organize a group of famous poker players, like Phillip Ivey, to promote and play on the Full Tilt site. Full Tilt even sponsored a late-night program on NBC.
The financial connections between Lederer and Ferguson and Full Tilt are fuzzy. But the links are strong. The two men are listed in registration papers of an online software company called Tiltware, in Pacific Palisades, Calif., which claims it is the exclusive software provider and consultant to Full Tilt. Details of civil cases, including Tiltware's own filings, suggest that Tiltware and Full Tilt are nearly indistinguishable and driven largely by Lederer and Raymond Bitar, who has been Tiltware's chief executive and got to know Ferguson when the two traded securities together at the Los Angeles office of a stockbroker.
For Full Tilt, which eventually moved operations to Dublin, the decision to keep taking U.S. play and promote the site with famous players has so far paid off. Like PokerStars, Full Tilt has used the cash generated by the U.S. market, which as recently as three years ago represented nearly half of global online poker revenue, to expand worldwide. But there are constant reminders that Full Tilt is on dangerous ground with the U.S. government. "There is a guerrilla war going on," says Ian Imrich, a lawyer for Lederer, Ferguson and Bitar, in brief comments.
Indeed, last summer federal prosecutors in New York froze $34 million owed to at least 14,000 players from companies that processed payments for poker games hosted by Full Tilt and PokerStars. The two poker companies reimbursed the players. But the feds made it clear they were playing tough: After one of the payment processors, Douglas Rennick of Canada, tried to contest the seizures in federal court in San Diego, he was indicted for bank fraud conspiracy. Rennick has not come to the U.S. to confront the charges.
The Justice Department is also using three older laws, most importantly the Wire Act, to go after online poker operators. The most significant precedent: In December 2008 Anurag Dikshit, an Indian-born founder of PartyGaming, pleaded guilty to violating the Wire Act for helping direct PartyGaming's online U.S. poker operations. Dikshit, who had reached out to the feds, agreed to pay $300 million and faces up to two years in jail when he is sentenced in December 2010. His fellow cofounders, including Americans Ruth Parasol DeLeon and Russell DeLeon, who, like Dikshit, live overseas, have neither settled nor been charged.
The online poker firms have at least one important card up their sleeves--Representative Barney Frank (D--Mass.). He is backing a bill that would make online poker legal and taxed. In the meantime he has played a role in getting implementation of the 2006 law delayed, most recently in November, when he helped convince the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department to put off implementation for financial firms until June.
Why hasn't the government yet cracked down on the poker firms? One possible explanation is that prosecutors figure they are better off bluffing than having to show their hands before a jury. "The federal government is not going to take any action against them because they would stand a chance of losing it," says Frank Catania, who used to run New Jersey's Division of Gaming Enforcement and now advises online gaming firms.
The case law on online poker is mixed. The Wire Act was enacted in 1961 to suppress interstate gambling and bookmaking. It clearly makes online sports betting illegal. But for online poker the Wire Act's wording is less clear. Another law the feds have used, the Illegal Gambling Business Act, requires a violation of an underlying state law--and many state laws say gambling is only illegal if the outcome rests largely on chance, as opposed to skill. Poker is, to some degree, a game of skill. "In poker the skill elements of the betting and folding usually determine the winner," Lederer argued in an article published online.
In the end what the government usually cares about most is whether gambling is providing a mechanism for other criminal activity, like money laundering, underage gambling or cheating. If it isn't, maybe there are bigger things for the police to worry about. For his part Doyle Brunson insists: "The poker industry as a whole is ready to have a fight."
By The Numbers: The Big Bluff
The owners of PokerStars and Full Tilt are betting that they can keep dominating the online U.S. poker market.
$4.8 bil Size of online global poker market
$1.4 bil Size of U.S. poker market
70%Estimated U.S. market share of PokerStars and Full Tilt
Source: H2 Gambling Capital.
(Credit: Forbes)
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Australia Internet Censorship Issue at Breaking Point, by Greg Tingle - 11th February 2010
Special contributor to the Gambling911.com website, Greg Tingle, looks at the continuing uproar over censorship attempts in Australia as they apply to the Internet and ultimately online gambling websites, some of which appeared on a much publicized "black list" some months ago.
Was it Hollywood's Elvira who said "All is fair in love and war"? Whatever the case that seems to be the mindset of "Anonymous" who is blasting Australian government websites in protest to the proposed Australian Internet filter also with its bastard cousin, the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) "blacklist".
Welcome "Operational Titstorm".
It's fair to say that some Aussies are bloody pissed off that their endless stream of "vice" such as porn, gaming and other "questionable material" may be cut off thank to the intenet filter cum post Australian election time.
As we know know too well, often when a a government tries to smother and cover up a news story the story becomes bigger. This is a classic example. It's now a red hot international news item and the more Senator Stephen Conroy and his team try to smother it, the more fuel gets added to the fire! The news story is up there with China's "Great Wall Of China" censorship matters, along with human rights, freedom of information, freedom of speech, Hillary Clinton and friends.
One needs little imagination to see that some parallels can be drawn to what will happen in Australian when certain things become illegal... they will go underground, likely get more popular and sought after, however some consumer protection will be lost.
In the igaming industry I would recommend that people stick to brands they know and trust, be it PartyGaming, BetUS, Betfair, Virgin Games and I understand that both Playtech and Microgaming powered online casinos currently have a clean bill of health.
If you're an Aussie reading this, my "spies" tell me that in approx 6 months Australians won't be able to access popular porn sites RedTube and YouPorn (unless they have some sort of whiz bang anti censorship - anti filter device)... something that could well end up on the black market (i.e: pubs and clubs, "mates rates" and items that "fell off the back of a truck"). Over a decade ago when pay TV was introduced to Australians one used to be able to purchase a device to plug into the standard pay TV equipment and get pay TV for free! This allowed consumers to get more variety of channels, unscrambled (and for free)... things could very well end up going in a similar direction for Australian internet users based on recent developments.
News just in... The Australian government is trying to pursue Google to voluntarily censor YouTube videos in Australia. Google have refused the government's request thus far.
Media Man thanks and praises American and Canadian news media and igaming media news websites for bringing the news to the people and we applaud Gambling911 in their fearless commitment to educating and informing the masses on internet censorship and other important matters pertaining to the igaming, betting and political arena.
Australian government spooks and contractors are trying to get the defaced websites back on the air as of the time of writing.
Greg Tingle, Media Man International
http://www.mediamanint.com
Special contributor to the Gambling911.com website, Greg Tingle, looks at the continuing uproar over censorship attempts in Australia as they apply to the Internet and ultimately online gambling websites, some of which appeared on a much publicized "black list" some months ago.
Was it Hollywood's Elvira who said "All is fair in love and war"? Whatever the case that seems to be the mindset of "Anonymous" who is blasting Australian government websites in protest to the proposed Australian Internet filter also with its bastard cousin, the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) "blacklist".
Welcome "Operational Titstorm".
It's fair to say that some Aussies are bloody pissed off that their endless stream of "vice" such as porn, gaming and other "questionable material" may be cut off thank to the intenet filter cum post Australian election time.
As we know know too well, often when a a government tries to smother and cover up a news story the story becomes bigger. This is a classic example. It's now a red hot international news item and the more Senator Stephen Conroy and his team try to smother it, the more fuel gets added to the fire! The news story is up there with China's "Great Wall Of China" censorship matters, along with human rights, freedom of information, freedom of speech, Hillary Clinton and friends.
One needs little imagination to see that some parallels can be drawn to what will happen in Australian when certain things become illegal... they will go underground, likely get more popular and sought after, however some consumer protection will be lost.
In the igaming industry I would recommend that people stick to brands they know and trust, be it PartyGaming, BetUS, Betfair, Virgin Games and I understand that both Playtech and Microgaming powered online casinos currently have a clean bill of health.
If you're an Aussie reading this, my "spies" tell me that in approx 6 months Australians won't be able to access popular porn sites RedTube and YouPorn (unless they have some sort of whiz bang anti censorship - anti filter device)... something that could well end up on the black market (i.e: pubs and clubs, "mates rates" and items that "fell off the back of a truck"). Over a decade ago when pay TV was introduced to Australians one used to be able to purchase a device to plug into the standard pay TV equipment and get pay TV for free! This allowed consumers to get more variety of channels, unscrambled (and for free)... things could very well end up going in a similar direction for Australian internet users based on recent developments.
News just in... The Australian government is trying to pursue Google to voluntarily censor YouTube videos in Australia. Google have refused the government's request thus far.
Media Man thanks and praises American and Canadian news media and igaming media news websites for bringing the news to the people and we applaud Gambling911 in their fearless commitment to educating and informing the masses on internet censorship and other important matters pertaining to the igaming, betting and political arena.
Australian government spooks and contractors are trying to get the defaced websites back on the air as of the time of writing.
Greg Tingle, Media Man International
http://www.mediamanint.com
Thursday, February 11, 2010
PartyGaming selects Phil ‘Tuffers’ Tufnell; PartyCasino to get more games and Avatar type technology
Reality TV, Celeb and Cricket Star "Tuffers" signs with PartyCasino.com
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Leading listed online gaming operator PartyGaming has hired former England cricket player turned television presenter Phil ‘Tuffers’ Tufnell to be the first celebrity ambassador for its PartyCasino.com domain.
One of the industry’s leading firms, PartyGaming owns the World Poker Tour land-based poker tournament series while also operating popular websites such as PartyPoker.com PartyBingo.com GetMinted.com and FoxyBingo.com
In 2003, London-born Tufnell won the I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here reality television show and has been hired to boost PartyCasino.com’s gross-gender appeal. He will front a television, press and outdoor advertising campaign in the UK created by Leeds-based advertising agency Home highlighting the range of casino games available on the site.
“I had a lot of fun making the ads,” said Tufnell.
“I'm hoping this is the start of a long relationship with PartyGaming. I have advertised PartyCasino.com but I am also a keen poker player so have huge interest in sister site PartyPoker.com.
“I understand Shane Warne is ‘down under’ playing in a big poker tournament at the moment. I wish I was there to take him on. He may have been able to turn a ball further than me but I can certainly turn a card better and, if I don't, at least I've got my own hair. Warne is the only player who can lose his chips and his hair at the poker table.”
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Reality TV, Celeb and Cricket Star "Tuffers" signs with PartyCasino.com
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PartyCasino.com PartyPoker.com PartyBingo.com
Leading listed online gaming operator PartyGaming has hired former England cricket player turned television presenter Phil ‘Tuffers’ Tufnell to be the first celebrity ambassador for its PartyCasino.com domain.
One of the industry’s leading firms, PartyGaming owns the World Poker Tour land-based poker tournament series while also operating popular websites such as PartyPoker.com PartyBingo.com GetMinted.com and FoxyBingo.com
In 2003, London-born Tufnell won the I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here reality television show and has been hired to boost PartyCasino.com’s gross-gender appeal. He will front a television, press and outdoor advertising campaign in the UK created by Leeds-based advertising agency Home highlighting the range of casino games available on the site.
“I had a lot of fun making the ads,” said Tufnell.
“I'm hoping this is the start of a long relationship with PartyGaming. I have advertised PartyCasino.com but I am also a keen poker player so have huge interest in sister site PartyPoker.com.
“I understand Shane Warne is ‘down under’ playing in a big poker tournament at the moment. I wish I was there to take him on. He may have been able to turn a ball further than me but I can certainly turn a card better and, if I don't, at least I've got my own hair. Warne is the only player who can lose his chips and his hair at the poker table.”
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
China Plans Online Gambling Crackdown, by Greg Tingle - 10th February 2010
China plans to crack down on the online gaming and gambling industry, including the banks, financial institutions and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security advised in a statement posted on its (official) website.
The campaign will "concentrate on investigating major and important cases of online gambling, knock out domestic and foreign groups that organize online gambling, and severely punish the criminal elements".
The so called "crackdown", to be conducted in the February - August period, was agreed to by eight (lucky in many parts of Asia) government bodies including the Supreme Court, Propaganda bureau, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Gambling in its traditional form was banned in mainland China after the Communist takeover in 1949, the exceptions being two state lotteries... one run by the sports ministry to fund the building of facilities. Experts point out that this could be seen as a monopoly, and even boarding on racism of sorts in the business sector, as gaming and gambling is a world wide industry, these days the internet being the preferred global medium.
Underground casinos, overseas conglomerates and illegal syndicates have sprung up to fill the gap.
The statement said it will severely punish those who run underground banks and third-party payment platforms that provide banking services needed for gambling. As in pornography crackdowns, website operators will also be targeted.
The move is the latest in a series of curbs on the country's relatively free-wheeling online world, one of the few arenas for people from across China to interact in large groups, share information and criticize the government.
A long-running anti-pornography drive has netted many sites with politically sensitive or even simply user-generated content, in what many see as an effort by the Chinese government to reassert control over new media.
Widespread protests in Iran after a contested presidential election alerted Beijing to the potential for protesters and dissidents to use social media to spread their message.
China has banned Google's YouTube since March 2009, when a Tibetan exile film documenting the injuries and death of a Tibetan protester was published on the video sharing site. The government began blocking Twitter, Flickr and Facebook last summer.
Media and gaming analysts advise that this latest news is a "non coincidence" and "strategic" relating to U.S giant Google accusing China of cyber terrorism and of course internet censorship. In addition the internet, gaming and political world ponders what effect these developments may have down under in Australia, as Senator Stephen Conroy still plans to introduce the internet filters (along with "internet blacklist") after the next Australian election. The news also comes as documentary "Casino Jack and the United States of Money" attracts substantial mainstream press. The documentary focuses on the relationship between politics, lobbying, money and strong Native American casino themes.
Macau remains the regions hotspot for legal gambling, where recently Australian casino king James Packer has seen his Melco-Crown Entertainment City Of Dreams, Macau, achieved record profits and visitors, a development that insiders are calling the gambling "comeback of the decade". Asian gambling tsar Stanley Ho will be looking for some of Packer's recent good fortune as Ho is said to be struggling to regain his full health since suffering a stroke and undergoing brain surgery last August. Media and gaming commentators remain divided as to the current health Status of Ho. Macau's casino district has borrowed one page out of Vegas's book... they now have a Cotai Strip (but it is unclear if they are legal or illegal strip clubs in downtown Cotai). What is known however is that when things become "illegal" they go underground and usually become more popular and profitable.
Numerous high profile American, European and Australian media and internet companies have been seen to be pro actively targeting Asia in recent years and insiders suspect that this has raised the ire of the Chinese government. Macau remains the regions casino and gambling hotspot (where gambling is legal).
In a strategic move Australian founded Media Man today launched http://www.MediaMan.Asia to coincide with the Chinese crackdown on media, entertainment, internet and gaming. Media Man did not pursue .hk, .tw, .mo or .ch domain names as they preferred the more global nature of a .asia. Technically Australia is part of the Asia Pacific according to sources such as Wikipedia, Websters and The World Atlas. Internet portals and publishers, World Casino Directory and Global Gaming Directory, competitors of sorts, are monitoring the developments closely.
*The writer is the founder and director of Media Man, primarily a media, publicity and internet portal development company. http://www.mediamanint.com
*The writer owns shares in Crown Limited
*The writer is a special contributor for Gambling911
China plans to crack down on the online gaming and gambling industry, including the banks, financial institutions and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security advised in a statement posted on its (official) website.
The campaign will "concentrate on investigating major and important cases of online gambling, knock out domestic and foreign groups that organize online gambling, and severely punish the criminal elements".
The so called "crackdown", to be conducted in the February - August period, was agreed to by eight (lucky in many parts of Asia) government bodies including the Supreme Court, Propaganda bureau, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Gambling in its traditional form was banned in mainland China after the Communist takeover in 1949, the exceptions being two state lotteries... one run by the sports ministry to fund the building of facilities. Experts point out that this could be seen as a monopoly, and even boarding on racism of sorts in the business sector, as gaming and gambling is a world wide industry, these days the internet being the preferred global medium.
Underground casinos, overseas conglomerates and illegal syndicates have sprung up to fill the gap.
The statement said it will severely punish those who run underground banks and third-party payment platforms that provide banking services needed for gambling. As in pornography crackdowns, website operators will also be targeted.
The move is the latest in a series of curbs on the country's relatively free-wheeling online world, one of the few arenas for people from across China to interact in large groups, share information and criticize the government.
A long-running anti-pornography drive has netted many sites with politically sensitive or even simply user-generated content, in what many see as an effort by the Chinese government to reassert control over new media.
Widespread protests in Iran after a contested presidential election alerted Beijing to the potential for protesters and dissidents to use social media to spread their message.
China has banned Google's YouTube since March 2009, when a Tibetan exile film documenting the injuries and death of a Tibetan protester was published on the video sharing site. The government began blocking Twitter, Flickr and Facebook last summer.
Media and gaming analysts advise that this latest news is a "non coincidence" and "strategic" relating to U.S giant Google accusing China of cyber terrorism and of course internet censorship. In addition the internet, gaming and political world ponders what effect these developments may have down under in Australia, as Senator Stephen Conroy still plans to introduce the internet filters (along with "internet blacklist") after the next Australian election. The news also comes as documentary "Casino Jack and the United States of Money" attracts substantial mainstream press. The documentary focuses on the relationship between politics, lobbying, money and strong Native American casino themes.
Macau remains the regions hotspot for legal gambling, where recently Australian casino king James Packer has seen his Melco-Crown Entertainment City Of Dreams, Macau, achieved record profits and visitors, a development that insiders are calling the gambling "comeback of the decade". Asian gambling tsar Stanley Ho will be looking for some of Packer's recent good fortune as Ho is said to be struggling to regain his full health since suffering a stroke and undergoing brain surgery last August. Media and gaming commentators remain divided as to the current health Status of Ho. Macau's casino district has borrowed one page out of Vegas's book... they now have a Cotai Strip (but it is unclear if they are legal or illegal strip clubs in downtown Cotai). What is known however is that when things become "illegal" they go underground and usually become more popular and profitable.
Numerous high profile American, European and Australian media and internet companies have been seen to be pro actively targeting Asia in recent years and insiders suspect that this has raised the ire of the Chinese government. Macau remains the regions casino and gambling hotspot (where gambling is legal).
In a strategic move Australian founded Media Man today launched http://www.MediaMan.Asia to coincide with the Chinese crackdown on media, entertainment, internet and gaming. Media Man did not pursue .hk, .tw, .mo or .ch domain names as they preferred the more global nature of a .asia. Technically Australia is part of the Asia Pacific according to sources such as Wikipedia, Websters and The World Atlas. Internet portals and publishers, World Casino Directory and Global Gaming Directory, competitors of sorts, are monitoring the developments closely.
*The writer is the founder and director of Media Man, primarily a media, publicity and internet portal development company. http://www.mediamanint.com
*The writer owns shares in Crown Limited
*The writer is a special contributor for Gambling911
Virgin Games Refer-a-Friend
Virgin Games, a leading online gaming company, has launched its Refer-a-Friend scheme, which gives both existing and new players the opportunity to earn 1000 V*Points (equivalent to £10), simply by providing a friend’s name and email address.
The offer is available to all Virgin Games players that have made a deposit. To refer a friend the existing player simply needs to add a name and email where prompted and can refer up to five friends every month, earning 1000 V*Points for every friend.
V*Points is Virgin Games’ unrivalled loyalty scheme - unlike many other online gaming loyalty schemes it is transparent and easy to calculate; each V*Point has a cash value of 1p or one Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Mile and can be redeemed for cash, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles or Virgin experiences such as rally driving days.
Simon Burridge, CEO of Virgin Games, commented “In a recent survey over 80 per cent of our customers said that they would recommend a friend to Virgin Games, so we thought it was about time we incentivised our players to put this into action. Our ‘Recommend-a-Friend’ scheme is an excellent way for us to grow the Virgin Games community whilst rewarding our players for their loyalty.”
In order for the referrer to earn their V*POINTS the new player needs to play one of the following:
- Poker: Player must rake a minimum of £30
- Casino games: Player must wager a minimum of £500 (excludes roulette, baccarat, multiplier)
- Bingo tickets: Player must spend a minimum of £20
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Virgin Games, a leading online gaming company, has launched its Refer-a-Friend scheme, which gives both existing and new players the opportunity to earn 1000 V*Points (equivalent to £10), simply by providing a friend’s name and email address.
The offer is available to all Virgin Games players that have made a deposit. To refer a friend the existing player simply needs to add a name and email where prompted and can refer up to five friends every month, earning 1000 V*Points for every friend.
V*Points is Virgin Games’ unrivalled loyalty scheme - unlike many other online gaming loyalty schemes it is transparent and easy to calculate; each V*Point has a cash value of 1p or one Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Mile and can be redeemed for cash, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles or Virgin experiences such as rally driving days.
Simon Burridge, CEO of Virgin Games, commented “In a recent survey over 80 per cent of our customers said that they would recommend a friend to Virgin Games, so we thought it was about time we incentivised our players to put this into action. Our ‘Recommend-a-Friend’ scheme is an excellent way for us to grow the Virgin Games community whilst rewarding our players for their loyalty.”
In order for the referrer to earn their V*POINTS the new player needs to play one of the following:
- Poker: Player must rake a minimum of £30
- Casino games: Player must wager a minimum of £500 (excludes roulette, baccarat, multiplier)
- Bingo tickets: Player must spend a minimum of £20
For further information got to: www.virgingames.com
Sorry, no U.S or Australian players. See World Casino Directory
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Punter boosts gaming firm's profits
A punter who pumped almost half of a £3.1m jackpot win back into slot machine games has helped to boost the revenues of online betting firm PartyGaming.
The anonymous player scooped the roll-over prize on PartyCasino after it overhauled jackpot rules earlier in the year to tempt in punters with bigger payouts.
The recycled winnings helped the company push up fourth-quarter revenues 32%, while the sports betting business gained from a higher number of draws after a historic low at the start of the Premier League football season.
The PartyPoker owner said all four of its divisions - poker, casino games, bingo and sports betting - showed growth in the three months to December 31 as revenues jumped by almost a third to £87.2 million over a year earlier.
Shares rose 3% on Wednesday as the firm said underlying earnings for 2009 as a whole would be "slightly ahead" of board expectations.
The fourth quarter is traditionally better for the online gaming sites due to poorer weather but the firm added that casino and sports betting revenues had been "particularly strong".
The group's PartyPoker website - which had 438,000 active players during the three months to December - now boasts the biggest pool of players behind PokerStars and Full Tilt.
The business is also eyeing growth opportunities in Europe this year as well as potential acquisitions and mergers. The company was reported in December to be in talks over a potential merger with Austrian rival Bwin, which would create a £2 billion internet gaming giant.
Chief executive Jim Ryan said: "With some of the world's largest gaming sites in poker, casino and bingo, and opportunities to further consolidate the online gaming sector, we are confident about our future prospects."
Investec analyst Matthew Gerard said: "An increasing focus on casino and bingo will drive robust revenue growth."
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A punter who pumped almost half of a £3.1m jackpot win back into slot machine games has helped to boost the revenues of online betting firm PartyGaming.
The anonymous player scooped the roll-over prize on PartyCasino after it overhauled jackpot rules earlier in the year to tempt in punters with bigger payouts.
The recycled winnings helped the company push up fourth-quarter revenues 32%, while the sports betting business gained from a higher number of draws after a historic low at the start of the Premier League football season.
The PartyPoker owner said all four of its divisions - poker, casino games, bingo and sports betting - showed growth in the three months to December 31 as revenues jumped by almost a third to £87.2 million over a year earlier.
Shares rose 3% on Wednesday as the firm said underlying earnings for 2009 as a whole would be "slightly ahead" of board expectations.
The fourth quarter is traditionally better for the online gaming sites due to poorer weather but the firm added that casino and sports betting revenues had been "particularly strong".
The group's PartyPoker website - which had 438,000 active players during the three months to December - now boasts the biggest pool of players behind PokerStars and Full Tilt.
The business is also eyeing growth opportunities in Europe this year as well as potential acquisitions and mergers. The company was reported in December to be in talks over a potential merger with Austrian rival Bwin, which would create a £2 billion internet gaming giant.
Chief executive Jim Ryan said: "With some of the world's largest gaming sites in poker, casino and bingo, and opportunities to further consolidate the online gaming sector, we are confident about our future prospects."
Investec analyst Matthew Gerard said: "An increasing focus on casino and bingo will drive robust revenue growth."
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Casino News Media - Media Man - News Update - 8th February 2010
PartyCasino.com remains most popular online casino in Australia - Asia Pacific
PartyPoker players and management enjoying rewards of Aussie Tyron Krost winning 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship
Sinatra Slot is the Casino News Media slot game of the month
Cleopatra online slot game still world's most popular online slot; Sinatra, Rambo, ISIS, Hellboy, Tomb Raider not able to crack Cleo's #1 position
3D Casinos - PartyCasino Live Dealer stays popular with "Avatar" type technology rumored to be on the way; PKR upgrades front-end and back-end and introduces sports betting
PartyGaming sales up 32% from last quarter
New Games - Microgaming powered Casino Splendido and Roxy Palace get Hellboy online slot; Virgin Casino gets Monty’s Millions; PartyCasino.com gets Melon Madness jackpot slot
Playtech follows up business deal with Sega with a deal with Richard Branson's Virgin Games; Interested in expanding service to United States
Microgaming Announces Lord of the Rings Licensing Deal
Microgaming - Captain Cooks Casino loosing some ground to Casino Splendido and Roxy Palace in Asia Pacific region, as Captain Cooks doesn't have Hellboy slot
Reality TV - iGaming connection: PartyCasino signs up Phil Tufnell to front campaign
Bingo: PartyBingo, Foxy Bingo and Virgin Bingo continue to enjoy growth
Table games likely to become more popular online as new technology is released
Jackpots - PartyCasino's "The Big One" Jackpot rises in popularity however Marvel Hero Jackpot and Gold Mega Jackpot games preferred by many
PokerStars remains world's most popular online poker website but PartyGaming's PartyPoker making ground
Noble Casino gets a boost with $4000 player bonus and Incredible Hulk and Iron-Man slots
Thor movie sees Marvel themed online slot games remain some of world's most popular; Spider-Man, Captain America and The Hulk also likely to get boost from Marvel movie headlines
NextGen Gaming: Andre The Giant and pro wrestling themed slot game rumors continue
Wrestling News: Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair to feature on new American Gaming News and American Casino News website portals; Flair keen to build on NC Education Lottery deal and Hogan open to boosting igaming business following Hulkamania slot
Hitwise rankings get cred with industry, players and potential advertisers
Google organic search results more credible with players and industry than sponsored and paid listings; Google continues to react well to new, fresh and unique content
Apple keen to build upon mobile gaming and gambling success; Cleo game may be path forward
Social networking websites continue to play increased role in igaming business
UFC sports betting battle heats up between PartyBets and BetUS; as PartyGaming continues talkers with bwin
City Of Dreams Macau makes impressive comeback; Bottom link and visitor numbers up
Crown Casino, Melbourne, Australia continues to come down hard on criminals and bad behavior; Assisting police efforts in cracking criminals
Tabcorp Holdings bottom line results not impressive with 1% profit increase from last year; May revamp its Gold Coast based Conrad Jupiters casino, following Sydney's Star City Casino renovation
Casino Legal - Australian Productivity Commission due to release details of gaming report this month
Casino Legal - Harrah’s Entertainment and PartyGaming leading the way in U.S lobbying
"Casino Jack" movie documentary has industry on edge and Yankee and Aussie politicians concerned
World Casino Directory format remains popular with players, industry and portal developers
Multi currency casino format a winner with punters
Macau's casino sector enjoys boost while Las Vegas Strip still hurting
Las Vegas industry and politics continue to investigate ways to see comeback to Vegas
Events - iGaming Business to return to Sydney, Australia this March
Community News - Media Man assists Virgin Unite; Calvin Ayre shows awesome leadership in Haiti relief effort and James Packer Crown Casino king plays it forward to UNICEF
HollywoodSlotGames.com to do cross promos with American Gaming News and American Casino News websites
Media Man launches more website portals: American Gaming News; American Casino News and Media Man Asia
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PartyCasino.com remains most popular online casino in Australia - Asia Pacific
PartyPoker players and management enjoying rewards of Aussie Tyron Krost winning 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship
Sinatra Slot is the Casino News Media slot game of the month
Cleopatra online slot game still world's most popular online slot; Sinatra, Rambo, ISIS, Hellboy, Tomb Raider not able to crack Cleo's #1 position
3D Casinos - PartyCasino Live Dealer stays popular with "Avatar" type technology rumored to be on the way; PKR upgrades front-end and back-end and introduces sports betting
PartyGaming sales up 32% from last quarter
New Games - Microgaming powered Casino Splendido and Roxy Palace get Hellboy online slot; Virgin Casino gets Monty’s Millions; PartyCasino.com gets Melon Madness jackpot slot
Playtech follows up business deal with Sega with a deal with Richard Branson's Virgin Games; Interested in expanding service to United States
Microgaming Announces Lord of the Rings Licensing Deal
Microgaming - Captain Cooks Casino loosing some ground to Casino Splendido and Roxy Palace in Asia Pacific region, as Captain Cooks doesn't have Hellboy slot
Reality TV - iGaming connection: PartyCasino signs up Phil Tufnell to front campaign
Bingo: PartyBingo, Foxy Bingo and Virgin Bingo continue to enjoy growth
Table games likely to become more popular online as new technology is released
Jackpots - PartyCasino's "The Big One" Jackpot rises in popularity however Marvel Hero Jackpot and Gold Mega Jackpot games preferred by many
PokerStars remains world's most popular online poker website but PartyGaming's PartyPoker making ground
Noble Casino gets a boost with $4000 player bonus and Incredible Hulk and Iron-Man slots
Thor movie sees Marvel themed online slot games remain some of world's most popular; Spider-Man, Captain America and The Hulk also likely to get boost from Marvel movie headlines
NextGen Gaming: Andre The Giant and pro wrestling themed slot game rumors continue
Wrestling News: Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair to feature on new American Gaming News and American Casino News website portals; Flair keen to build on NC Education Lottery deal and Hogan open to boosting igaming business following Hulkamania slot
Hitwise rankings get cred with industry, players and potential advertisers
Google organic search results more credible with players and industry than sponsored and paid listings; Google continues to react well to new, fresh and unique content
Apple keen to build upon mobile gaming and gambling success; Cleo game may be path forward
Social networking websites continue to play increased role in igaming business
UFC sports betting battle heats up between PartyBets and BetUS; as PartyGaming continues talkers with bwin
City Of Dreams Macau makes impressive comeback; Bottom link and visitor numbers up
Crown Casino, Melbourne, Australia continues to come down hard on criminals and bad behavior; Assisting police efforts in cracking criminals
Tabcorp Holdings bottom line results not impressive with 1% profit increase from last year; May revamp its Gold Coast based Conrad Jupiters casino, following Sydney's Star City Casino renovation
Casino Legal - Australian Productivity Commission due to release details of gaming report this month
Casino Legal - Harrah’s Entertainment and PartyGaming leading the way in U.S lobbying
"Casino Jack" movie documentary has industry on edge and Yankee and Aussie politicians concerned
World Casino Directory format remains popular with players, industry and portal developers
Multi currency casino format a winner with punters
Macau's casino sector enjoys boost while Las Vegas Strip still hurting
Las Vegas industry and politics continue to investigate ways to see comeback to Vegas
Events - iGaming Business to return to Sydney, Australia this March
Community News - Media Man assists Virgin Unite; Calvin Ayre shows awesome leadership in Haiti relief effort and James Packer Crown Casino king plays it forward to UNICEF
HollywoodSlotGames.com to do cross promos with American Gaming News and American Casino News websites
Media Man launches more website portals: American Gaming News; American Casino News and Media Man Asia
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Sunday, February 07, 2010
PartyGaming jumps after sales surge, by Greg Tingle - 6th February 2010
Investors in PartyGaming which owns the PartyCasino.com PartyPoker.com PartyBingo.com World Poker Tour and other online gambling sites, are celebrating after it said fourth quarter sales surged 32% from the year before and it remains confident about the full year outlook.
PartyGaming is the world's leading online gaming and igaming company, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was established in 1997.
The company has a number of awards and commendations to its name including from eGaming Review, Poker News Daily and Casino News Media.
The writer has a b2b relationship with a number of PartyGaming brands, as they do with dozens of companies in the igaming, gaming, entertainment and media sector.
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Investors in PartyGaming which owns the PartyCasino.com PartyPoker.com PartyBingo.com World Poker Tour and other online gambling sites, are celebrating after it said fourth quarter sales surged 32% from the year before and it remains confident about the full year outlook.
PartyGaming is the world's leading online gaming and igaming company, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was established in 1997.
The company has a number of awards and commendations to its name including from eGaming Review, Poker News Daily and Casino News Media.
The writer has a b2b relationship with a number of PartyGaming brands, as they do with dozens of companies in the igaming, gaming, entertainment and media sector.
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