Foxwood Finds The Perfect Match In The Person Of Bernard Lee

Poker author, commentator, radio show host, and professional Bernard Lee linked an agreement to represent Foxwoods. The deal brought together New England’s most prestigious poker venues and the area’s top media personality.

Chiaradio told reporters that Lee’s professionalism and personality showed that a relationship would benefit both parties. Lee will be a valuable asset in bringing more energy and excitement to top poker rooms. Lee has also a vast experience from his career in business, particularly in marketing and new business development. He was a former marketing and new business manager for Fortune 500 company. Foxwoods will sponsor Lee’s radio show and as he will represent the casino’s World Poker Tour (WPT) room.

Lee is expected to appear in marketing campaigns for Foxwoods for two years. Lee made his mark in the poker scene in 2005, when he took the 13th WSOP Main Event for $400,000. Foxwood found the perfect candidate in the person of Bernard Lee. Chiaradio said that Foxwood Casino Resort is the premiere gaming destination and Lee is the top poker personality so the relationship is a perfect match. Lee has crashed tournaments around the United States. The question now is whether other casinos will follow Foxwoods’ idea of signing up with Lee to find the best match.

Full Tilt Online Poker Series on its New Event

On February 10, Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) will begin their next instalment of Satellite. With this, twenty seven events will be conducted and will be given the chance to win up to $17 million in the prize pool.

Full Tilt desires to offer all their poker players a new series that offers enormous cash prizes. Erik Seidel will be hosting the first event of the FTOPS that will have a buy-ins that ranges from $200+ $16 no-limit hold’em tournament that guarantees players a prize pool worth $1,000,000.

There are at least 200 seats are guaranteed by the Full Tilt Poker to be given away during the event. The first one is to be held on February 9 and the bets one will be on the said date, February 10. Another day of event of the cheaper satellites will be held on Feb 14. They will have the no-limit hold’em knock out tournament that will offer a prize guarantee worth $800,000.

Prior to the event on February 14, there will also be huge events on February 12 that will be hosted by Gavin Smith and on February 13 that guarantees 50 seats with $50+ $5 satellite. All of the satellites mentioned above have required usage actually money to buy-in.

Las Vegas Sands Plans to Open in Miami

Las Vegas Hands is planning to bring the gaming action in Florida according to the Miami Herald. The giant casino is planning to build a $3 billion resort casino in Miami.

Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands CEO has been very busy for the past few days and for being hired as a Tallahassee lobbyist. He has made a lot of important contributions in Florida in regard to the pro-casino political campaigns.

Recent reports confirmed that Ft. Lauderdale legislator Ellyn Bogdanoff left with the plan of the expansion despite his early disagreement on the expansion of the State. He seems to side to the other side now.

The poker gaming industry has been looking for different markets to help them survive the stress they are undergoing for the meantime. Stress was brought about by the major investments that gaming industry has provided in places like Las Vegas and Macau.

In recent times, Miami has been attracting more and more companies to invest in their state. Miami is becoming on the target market of other big companies who wanted to invest in a different state. Big companies are targeting Miami in order for them to increase their stock values due to Miami’s economy at this point.

Full Tilt Latest Update on Rush Poker Receives Holdem Manager Supports

Full Tilt Poker’s latest update on their new introduction, Rush Poker, receives the supports of the Holdem Manager after one week. Holden Manager is the popular tracking program that crates a workaround for the new edition of Full Tilt.

Holdem Manager provides their support to the latest introduction of Full Tilt as the tracking program sees the Poker Rush tables they have included in the site. Players need to click for the “Options” menu to see the “Rush FTP Notes Export”. They can proceed with the process by simple clicking “Go” and players need to update their note time to time.

If the Heads-up Display approach for some players did not work, they can review some notes provided by the Rush Poker to continue with the work. When players can’t hold their momentum, they can easily click on the “Start Auto Import” within the Holdem Manager to be assured you have up-to-date stats.

According to the poker review site, Holdem Manager is the best piece of poker software for it is leading poker tracking programs in the industry that weighs $55 for a Small-Stakes Edition and $80 for a Professional Edition. Aside from Full Tilt, Holdem Manager is also compatible with numerous online poker sites that include PokerStars, PartyPoker, RedKings, Titan Poker and Everest Poker.

Barack’s Obama Tweet Receive Criticism from Doyle Brunson

Doyle Brunson was known to be a Twitter Aficionado. He has been twitting to feed updates about the happenings in the DoylesRoom. Through his Tweeter feed, he can update the poker industry with his prop and sports betting and providing everyone a seemingly endless stream of blonde jokes.

Brunson, ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner made a comment to President Barrack Obama made from his twitter account. In response, he received a barrage of Tweets in response to his post that say “The Democrats say ‘give Obama time.’ Us Republicans [sic] agree, 25 to life seems appropriate!”

Some persons commented on Brunson’s post that it was stemmed from racially motivated feelings towards the President. However, after a couple of hours, Brunson made a new statement that his post has nothing to do with the color of the skin of the President. He also added that he may not like the 1st year of ruling of Obama but this has nothing to do with his physical features.

As of the moment, Brunson appears to be laid off the political Tweets for a while. The Full Tilt Red Pro and the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen disagreed with the Tweets of the poker legend.

Is Online Poker in California Going To Be Legal

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians formed a group called the California Tribal Intrastate Internet Poker Consortium. It is one of the largest casino gaming tribes. According to recent reports lately, the California Indian tribes will be pushed next month.

The deal from the Commerce Casino together with the Bicycle club is being worked out by the Morongo to pursue the online poker in California. According to the Morongo’s spokesperson, Patrick Dorinson, they have been asking added support from different tribes to pursue with the deal that fell apart due to the issues that risen that it was rush through the legislative process.

One of the most influential groups, California Tribal Business Alliance has shown their disagreement in the proposal. They claim that it could violate the exclusivity clauses in gaming compacts with the casino tribes.

There are around 1.4 million Californians enjoying poker in an online poker via offshore websites. The proposal seems to gather potential revenue streams for the state and the Senate Governmental Organization Committee will take up all the questions about this online poker on the 9th of February.
Invitations have been distributed and speakers for February 9 are all ready to support the hearing. However, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) prohibits the use of credit cards and all fund transfer for the illegal online gambling except for the intrastate internet gambling.

Poker Players Alliance Contributes $1.5 Million to Haiti Victims

According to the press release by the Poker Players Alliance, the online poker community contributes $1.5 million for the victims of the Earthquake that hit Haiti with 7.0 magnitudes.

Full Tilt Poker, as the world’s second largest poker online site raise a total of $586,423 from all the donations of the poker players from the site together with the funds from the no-play tournaments and aid for Haiti programs that they have made. In addition, Full Tilt created a special user account to accept incoming donations for the Haiti victims. This account allows the poker players all around the world to send their contributions easy. Read more »

Kentucky Quest to Seize Domain Names will Soon End

The Kentucky Supreme Court will be issuing written decisions this coming January 21. It will include their pointless quest to seize 141 domain names from internet gambling such as poker. They have been pointing this for a very long time already and now the decision could soon come to end. Read more »

Full Tilt Poker Guarantees Doubles for a Week

Starting on January 25 until January 31, Full Tilt poker players can enjoy competing at different tables for twice the payouts. All players of the Full Tilt will have the opportunity to participate at the double guarantees they offer for only a one week.

The pool prize of the poker game is the only factor that has changed but the game schedule everything else remains the same. The prize at stake for the entire week will reach $25 million. Highlights if the game will include the promotion that offers $1K tournament that will happen on January 25, 2010 at around 9pm with $600K prize pool guarantee. Read more »

Daniel Alaei Grabbed the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Title

Daniel Christopher Alaei was named the grand prize winner of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker classic that ended this week. He had outdone the other 328 players who are on the field and take home an astounding $1.4 million in bag money.

He’s known specialty is the cash games in the NLHE wherein he amass a whopping $3.7 million dollars all through out his poker career. He owned 2 WSOP bracelets to be proud of and also had been successful in winning the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better tournament. He has a record of cashing in 18 events in the WSOP which gain him $1,533,917 take home pay. Read more »