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Bahamas Next Stop on WPS Poker Tour

2007-03-14T12:30:00.000-07:00

March 14, 2007- World Poker Showdown will host the first major poker tournament at Cable Beach Resort in the town of Nassau in the Bahamas May 6-16. There will be two daily poker tournaments with buy in’s from $150- $300, with a main event of $2,500.

The Bahamas event which will run May 6- 16 promises to be one of the highest-attended WPS events to date. A special arrangement has been negotiated with the Wyndham Nassau Resort to give WPS players special room rates as low as $90 per night during the event. This is an early bird special and the low rates are only available for a limited number of rooms booked during March.

The concept of the WPS is to provide fun, affordable women poker tournaments in exciting destinations with more starting chips and longer levels to the recreational and serious poker players. The WPS organizes four poker tournament events per year in exciting destinations such as Costa Rica, St. Maarten, the Bahamas, and Caribbean poker cruises. WPS events are professionally directed by renowned tournament director Warren Karp and the WPS staff of professional circuit dealers. Each event is from 7- 10 days, always culminating in a $2,500 multi-day main event.

WPS events in the past have been co-hosted by WSOP champions Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker. Just prior to the Bahamas event, the WPS crew will be hosting a Caribbean poker cruise April 22-29. In October, the WPS will find itself in tropical Costa Rica, hosting a 9-day tournament in Jaco Beach.

Full information on the Bahamas event, the poker cruise, and the Costa Rica event can be found on the official WPS website, www.worldpokershowdown.com.

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2007-03-08T16:03:00.000-08:00

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300 000 PLAYERS AT PKR POKER

2007-03-08T15:37:00.000-08:00

March 8, 2007 - UIGEA hasn't held this venue back! PKR currently advertises in Poker Hispano Magazine. Poker Hispano targets 14 Central and South American Countries. Call PMG today at US 305-677-9905 and we'll your poker advertising campaign up and running for next issue.

A poker site that has shown remarkable growth despite having to blockade US players claims that since December last alone its player base has grown by 200 000, reaching a total of 300 000 players already this year.

Despite predictions that its graphics-heavy 3D nature would work against it, PKR.com has been packing the poker players in.

"We're thrilled to be seeing these kinds of numbers," says Simon Prodger, Marketing Director of PKR, "and it proves that PKR has taken a very strong hold of the online poker market. What's more, our growth is continuing to accelerate, so this is just the beginning."

Prodger reports that daily play rates have reached almost 7 000 players during peak periods, ensuring players find both opponents and action in cash games and tournament activity. PKR uses privately developed software and is not a part of any poker network.

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Poker Marketing and the Rise of Europe

2007-03-05T20:51:00.000-08:00

March 5, 2007 - I am wondering how many poker groupies there are presently, but I do believe I am turning into one! The Rolling Stones used to have a professional team of fixers, their role was simply to go out into the audience and choose the best babes for the aftershow party. Professional footballers have unlimited choice, but for some unknown reason they always end up on the dark side, e.g Wayne and the Granny etc. So, do our poker pros have a fleet of prime babes quivering in their very footsteps? Well, not yet, our pros go to play poker, but there is indeed a very new poker groupie, he's big, bald, ugly and purrs. Yes, Liz Lieu (pictured with me!) now has the opportunity to have a slave at her beck and call!

I managed to get back down to Maidstone for a key round at Party Poker's Premier League event, one that Liz badly needed to win. After my proposal of marriage, I seem to have inspired the stunning Liz to victory that night, when she outplayed the not quite so sexy Kirill Gerasimov to gain a more solid place in the league title race.

Liz and I spent some considerable time discussing her outfits on her sensational Myspace and her own website (built with her own hands). I naturally invited her to take me shopping but her cooler decided poker took precedence. The relevance of all this to poker is that Liz, presently unsponsored, is here to start to make an imprint on the ever developing European poker market. "It's happening here Catman, I am focusing on Europe and Asia." said the ever smiling Liz. "Bingo!" The Americans are coming!

So the posts on the forums missed the point; for poker groupies and the non-playing public, TV is about entertainment and educating the uneducated with the glamour and excitement of the game. Agreed, most of it is so damn boring (by the way if you want some fun, look at Sky TV this Monday – "Naked in Westminster" for chuckles and giggles) but TV poker is only at its embryonic state. The cast for the Party Poker women Premier League will provide some of the most entertaining poker yet. Is poker becoming WWF? I hope so. Eventually, most of Europe will know who Phil Hellmuth is, just like they know Big Daddy (the wrestler that is). It's a bit like the car industry, I am happy with my Smart but Ferrari are not happy with the Enzo; you can never go over the top with glitz.

Entertainment and glamour has been missed in poker TV, full stop, but now I do believe we will see shedloads of entertaining TV to develop our game further. If we are lucky enough to have some beautiful women, like Liz Lieu, Vicky Coren and up and coming pro, Alina Salnikova, who can play top flight poker and light up the game, then all the better. "Poker is a game of people" said Doyle Brunson in Super System, and I believe that eventually women will consistently beat the men. It is presently only a numbers game; the more glamour, the bigger the game. Keep the Hollywood coming.

The 5th and 6th March sees Party Poker's High Stakes cash game that is being filmed as a side bar to the league event, this time for Channel 5. It is going to be 24 hours of cash – initial sit downs start at $5,000 for the first session; players can then sit down with $10k and $20k the later they take their seat. Expect to see Phil, Tony, Devilfish and Roland sit down at the later stages. Unfortunately, no logos are allowed on this one so "the missus" will have to give it a miss.

The Party Poker lush tells me that so far at least 50 people want to sit down in this High-ish stakes event, well bloody ridiculously high for most of us, but if the sit down was $50k upwards, then probably half of America would attend. I cannot tell you how exciting life is going to become. Phil Ivey, according to the Poker Data Miners and Full Tilt's site, is up around £2 million through online play and Mike the Mouth is down around $550k in No Limit Hold'em swings. Who cares, the story goes on.

Europe will become the new Vegas, well for a good few years until the USA works out how to tax the poker companies, that is. Naturally WSOP will always be the Mecca for poker, as Phil explained to me, but to add to the icing on the European cake, the WSOP circuit is on its way here. I for one will be storing the pennies for the £2,500 HORSE event, Sept 2007 at LCI's new Leicester Square Casino. London has been waiting for this moment. I cannot say more, but my enthusiasm and belief is that sooner or later poker players and the game will get the Hollywood treatment. God bless America.

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Asian Market Penetration by Mahjongclub.com

2007-03-04T22:03:00.000-08:00

4 March 2007 - Dynasty Gaming Inc. (TSXV: "DNY" and OTCBB: "DNYFF") today announced that its Mahjong Mania gaming software is soon to be utilized to power a new consumer-facing Mahjong site (mahjongclub.com) that will specifically target players across Asia Gambling. Mahjongclub.com will be owned and managed by Adriaan Brink, acknowledged as a pioneer in online gaming and formerly president of Mahjong Systems Limited. Advertise Poker Pro Magazine.

"I believe Mahjong is about to explode, becoming the new poker," said Brink. "With the online gaming industry looking to gain access to Asia, Mahjong poker news is increasingly looked upon as a necessary component of every company's product offering. I see a time, in the very near future, when Mahjong is as commonplace at online casinos or poker rooms as blackjack is today." As the largest online operator of the game, mahjongclub.com will position itself as the Party Poker of the Asian world.

Albert Barbusci, chief executive of Dynasty Gaming, stated, "The focus of Adriaan's initiative is complementary to our strategy for developing the China online gaming market. As we have previously announced, Dynasty has entered into various marketing and distribution agreements with leading Chinese partners including Junnet, Sohu, Sun Media, Betex and Sino Strategic International. As well, we have expanded our product offering through a cross-licensing agreement with Las Vegas From Home.com Entertainment Inc. that provides us with a number of Asian poker-style games. By providing Adriaan with our Mahjong Mania software for his mahjongclub.com site, we are taking yet another step to realize the enormous potential of the China market."

Mahjong is regarded as a national sport in China but it is also hugely popular across the globe. In traditional Mahjong, four players play a game similar to Rummy, but with tiles instead of cards. "The basic Mahjong tile set consists of 136 tiles in 10 suits, so it is somewhat more complex and more interesting than Rummy," said Brink. "Players look beyond simply making a hand, concentrating on the value of the hand they create. With rich pickings for the player with a difficult hand to produce, the game has a depth and element of psychology that makes it much more similar to poker than rummy in terms of the playing environment. Add to that the huge pots that are played for over kitchen tables all across Asia and you have a game with enormous potential that has yet to be tapped on the Internet."

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difference between online poker and traditional poker games

2007-03-03T22:42:00.000-08:00

March 4, 2007 - Probably the most obvious difference is that player's do not sit right across from each other, which removes the ability for player's to observe their opponents reactions and body language. Where online poker games are concerned the player learns to focus more on the betting patterns, the other player's reaction times as well as any other behavioral patterns which are not physical in nature. As the game of poker requires a person to adapt a successful online player will learn to master their skills. Good Luck. Poker Players.

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WSOP advertising guidelines

2007-03-02T22:18:00.000-08:00

March 03, 2007 - Detailed guidelines for 2007 World Series of Poker advertising will become available sometime in the next two weeks, WSOP Advertising Guidelines Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack told Casino City Monday.

Advertising guidelines became a key issue in the 2006 event when WSOP officials forced players to turn their shirts inside out or cover their .com advertisements with duct tape to comply with U.S. online gaming regulations.

This year, Harrah's will take it one step further, banning advertisements that come from any Web sites affiliated with online poker rooms that accept U.S. players, including the free-money dot net sites.

Players won't have to adhere to the same ban however. They will be allowed to advertise and promote sites on their person, but how much or how big the ads are allowed to be is yet to be determined.

"I would rather get into the specifics of this once the guidelines have been announced," Pollack said. "But I can tell you there will be some liberalized guidelines for what players will be allowed to wear."

Pollack said the ambiguous nature of the 2006 guidelines came about because he was hired too late in the season to create and enforce a strict policy.

Now that he has been at his post for a year, the confusion will be removed.

The coming guidelines are expected to remove all doubt about what can be advertised and what players will be allowed to display on their person.

Pollack also said the new guidelines will be strictly enforced.

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