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Poker Takes Center Stage At G2E 2013 with “Players’ View” Panel
Star-studded player panel at Global gaming Expo to be “historic for poker.”
- Marco Valerio to host player-centric panel at G2E.
- “Poker has never been the best understood or the most appreciated game by the casino industry, so to receive this kind of attention and respect by the biggest gaming conference in the world is unprecedented.”
Thumbs Up for Golden Gaming, 888 Marketing Partnership
NGCB recommends deal approval, which would see Golden Gaming marketing a poker room on 888’s All American Poker Network to its patrons.
- Under the terms of the partnership, Golden Gaming plans to sign up online poker players at its three Pahrump casinos and its taverns.
- 888 and TI have both been approved for online gaming in Nevada.
- “It’s unique and allows Golden Gaming to market 888’s platform to its customers,” Golden Gaming attorney Michael Alonso told the Gaming Control Board.
A Message from the US to France: Your Land-Based Casino Brand is Not Enough
The closure of Partouche’s and Barriere’s online poker sites is a wake-up call to US land-based operators expecting to parlay their brand into online success.
Barriere Poker Closing Online Poker Room in France
French independent poker room to shut down at the end of month.
- After 3 years of operation in the French poker market, BarrierePoker.fr anounces the end of its commercial operations.
- It is not the only recent causality in the French market this year; Partouche announced its closure earlier this year, and many other rooms have closed up shop in the three years since French online poker was regulated.
PartyPoker, WPT Unveil New 5-Stop UK Tour
“Accumulator” main events at each stop will allow a player to enter into all the Day 1’s.
- Dubbed the World Poker Tour National Series, the tournaments look to put incorporate a new twist on each of their Main Events, for each stop, by making them “accumulator” tournaments.
- At the end of each day, the chips are bagged, tagged and advanced to Day 2 where all of the chips that a player won are combined to give players their Day 2 starting stack.
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SrslySirius and Bluff Magazine steal the show (and today’s DNR) once again with this fab spin-off of Carter Gill’s WSOP bad beat vid. The original video went viral last week in mainstream media thanks to a beautifully crestfallen response to his Main Event bustout.
September’s US online payment processing report pokeraffiliatesolutions.com
Poker Affiliate Solution’s monthly payment processing report is back for its September edition, this time sponsoring a revamped design and extra details.
Bovada slips from an A+ to A due to slightly slower Western Union and MoneyGrab cashouts, with some players waiting ten days and others reporting increased fees. However, it still tops the charts for offshore US cashout speeds.
Joining Bovada with an A grade is WPN, unchanged from last month. Intertops remains an A- and Merge is up to a B+.
Still failing to make any real commitment to player cashouts, Lock and Juicy Stakes remain F-graded.
Are hotels secure enough to host poker events? pokerstrategy.com
With revelations stemming from the laptop thefts at EPT Barcelona still unfolding, and with more players coming forward with similar stories at previous EPT stops, Barry Carter asks whether more can be done.
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UKGC Announces Consultation into Protection of Customer Funds
Six potential options—from fund segregation, to trust funds, even reserves held by the regulator itself—are proposed, and the industry has until December to respond. The UK Gambling Commission has launched a consultation on the protection of customer funds. Responses are required by December 4, and the resulting license condition amendments will come into force at the earliest in April next year.
Traffic Watch
A weekly review of the online poker market: This week, PokerStars Italy, PartyPoker, Full Tilt and Winamax.
