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Ladbrokes Poker Freeroll Billionth Hand Awards $300K WSOP prizesThu, May 22nd, 2008 @ 12:00am To celebrate the forthcoming milestone of Ladbrokes Poker's 1,000,000,000th hand and being the largest team of European players at this year's WSOP, Ladbrokes Poker will hold a Billionth Hand Freeroll which will award $300,000 of WSOP prizes. Ladbrokes Poker says that he billionth hand will be dealt during June, and that the tournament will be held on the first Saturday that is at least 48 hours after the Billionth Hand is played. Prizes to be awarded will include: To take part in this tournament, all players need to do is earn 50 Player Points (Cash games, MTT's or STT's) on the day the Billionth hand is dealt, and they will automatically be invited to enter this tournament. This promotion is limited to a maximum of 6,000 players which shall be treated as a first come first serve basis. For more information, click here. ADDS $1 MILLION BONUS FOR REACHING FINAL TABLE Also, in response to Harrah's historic decision to delay the final table of the 2008 WSOP Main Event from July to November, Ladbrokes Poker announced that they will offer a revised bonus of up to a $1,000,000 sponsorship package to Team Ladbrokes players who reach the final table. Ladbrokes Poker Managing Director Edward Ihre commented: "Should any of the 100+ European Players we are taking to Vegas this year make it to the Final Table, not only will they receive a guaranteed $250,000 sponsorship package which will include $100,000 of buy-ins in the 117 days, they will also receive the full support of Team Ladbrokes throughout the period, including coaching from the stable of Ladbrokes Sponsored Players, which includes Jon "Skalie" Kalmar, who finished 5th in the Main Event in 2007 collecting $1,250,000." For more information, click here: Read Related Article:
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High Stakes Poker Re-ups with the Game Show Network Just when it looked like the Game Show Network would shift to a pokerless schedule, it has been announced that High Stakes Poker will be back for another season. HSP will begin filming Season Five episodes in September.
SirWatts Electric at World Poker Tour Bellagio Cup Just as the World Series of Poker Main Event left on a 117-day break, a new World Poker Tour millionaire was being crowned at the Bellagio. Some 446 entrants ponied up the $15,000 buy-in, creating a prize pool worth $6,489,300. More than $1.6 million will go to Canadian Michael "SirWatts" Watson, winner of Bellagio Cup VI.
World Poker Tour Finds New Home on Fox Sports Net It was announced Thursday that World Poker Tour Enterprises has reached an agreement with Fox Sports Network (FSN) to broadcast Season VII of the WPT series. Tournaments are already underway for the new season, which will consist of 26 one-hour episodes.
EGBA Sets New Best Practice Standards for Responsible Gaming The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA), in support of their mission to promote fair competition for European-licensed operators and consumer choice in a regulated European online gaming market. has launched a new set of best practices to ensure consistent standards of player protection, fair gaming and responsible operator behavior in the European online poker, Internet gaming and betting environment.
World Poker Association Changes Membership Terms The new leadership under Founder and present Chairman of the World Poker Association (WPA), Jesse Jones, has taken immediate measures to address the needs of the over 1400 members who have joined the WPA to date, through several key membership changes. These changes include:
Stanley Ho's IPO Reveals Setbacks Since Macau Regulation, Competition Arrive The delayed listing of Stanley Ho's Sociedade de Jogos de Macau Holdings (SJM) group on Hong Kong's Stock Exchange until today, 16 July, is characteristic of the many challenges the firm has faced since 2002, when foreign operators were allowed to build casinos, and regulations increased. Since then, the 86-year old billionaire's four decade dominance of the Portuguese colony's gaming market, determining where and when you could play poker has waned.
'November Nine' Final Table of the World Series of Poker Is Set From 6,844 to nine, the players for the final table of the Main Event of the 39th World Series of Poker have now emerged after nearly two weeks at the tables. The so-called 'November Nine' will return on November 9 after a 117 day hiatus as the most well prepared final table in poker history, as well as being guinea pigs for this first-ever delayed final table experiment.
Poker Tournaments in Bars -- The New Prohibition? While the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) has devastated internet poker, separate, quiet battles are being fought, and won, to make poker legal in bars under state laws.
'November Nine' Emerge Today at World Series of Poker, Hellmuth Places 45th Today, July 14, is a big day at the World Series of Poker, when the three remaining tables of the Main Event will be trimmed to one, from the 27 players starting play today Day 7. That means that today we will learn the identities of the 'November Nine', the nine finalists who will return November 9 to play out the final table under the television spotlights.
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