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$8m Main Event Headlines PokerStars’ “Biggest Ever” WCOOP
$40 million guaranteed over 66 events.
- $10 million more is guaranteed in prize money this year.
- The schedule features buy-ins ranging from $109 up to the 3 High Roller events of $10,300, with 14 of the tournaments guaranteeing $1M or more.
- The main event guarantee has been increased by $3M over last year.
“The Beast” Promo Drives Traffic Spike at WPN, Moving it Ahead of Merge
Traffic spike of 50% this month moves it into the third place spot.
- The Beast has run every month for the last year, and is available to anyone playing on designated jackpot tables.
- To celebrate its first anniversary, WPN is giving away over $50,000 added to the prizepool.
- The promo has resulted in 50% traffic spike in the last week.
- Whether WPN can hold its position over Merge once The Beast concludes remains to be seen.
WPT Season XII Gets Underway Monday with WPT Cyprus Classic
$4 million guaranteed across 35 events in 13 days marks the beginning of WPT’s 12th season.
- The $4000+$400 main event starts on August 16, with a $1M guarantee.
- $10k WPT High Roller event aims to has $400k guarantee.
- PartyPoker Big Game to run in conjunction.
Tropicana, Gamesys Confirm New Jersey Partnership
UK-based JackpotJoy team to provide real-money online gaming software for Tropicana in New Jersey.
- The pairing was widely reported in July, but until now had remained unconfirmed by either party.
- UK-based software developer GameSys is best known for Jackpotjoy.com, an online real-money bingo and casino site which operates internationally under a Gibraltar license.
- GameSys is working to develop online poker software.
Top Spanish Politician Says EuroVegas Can be as Good for Spain as the Bikini
President of Madrid’s People’s Party lends her support to EuroVegas.
- Esperanza Aguirre, a senior and influential politician, has come out strongly in favor of the EuroVegas project.
- To those objecting on moral grounds she replies that they should remember the creation of the tourist industry.
- Moral objections to the bikini were soon forgotten and an economic boom resulted.
- EuroVegas can do the same, especially in this time of economic need.
Ronaldo to Play at EPT Barcelona
Spanish PokerStars players can win a seat next to The Phenomenon in a special $5k Sit & Go.
- Freerolls feed to satellite for live $5k SNG at the EPT Barcelona for two players.
- Ronaldo will also play the tournament, along with five other Pokerstars pros.
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UKIPT Galway main event gets underway pokerstarsblog.com
The main event of the UKIPT Galway kicked off today. You can follow all the action on FTP’s official blog.
UKIPT Galway: A Guided Tour
The PokerNews team has also just arrived in Ireland, so if you’d rather watch than read, check out their Youtube channel for all the updates. This intro video with host Laura Cornelius gives a nice quick tour around the purposely-constructed Galway festival village.
FTP Galway 'changes the face of poker events’ pokerlistings.com
One final Galway update: PokerListings published an interesting article about how the series has tried to do things differently—from the large socializing area and stocked bar, pool and foosball tournaments, arcade machines and non-poker events.
'The Hangover: Geriatric Edition’? 'Last Vegas’ begins production insidemovies.ew.com
The hangover trilogy may be complete, but that won’t stop hollywood trying to milk a good idea bone dry. The “Last Vegas” plot: Four friends decide to take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas. Sound familiar? The twist: They’re all sixty-something.
But before you move on, this has quite the cast: We’re talking Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas and Kevin Kline. So this will be one to keep an eye on.
Lock’s 2+2 forum locked, but remains online twoplustwo.com
Following its decision to move over to a private forum, Lock Poker’s 2+2 forum has apparently been closed. The forum remains online, but no new threads or posts can be created. Presumably now Lock complaints will spill into the zoo.
888 signs two brazillian pros onlinepoker.net
A news nugget from late yesterday we missed—two Brazilian Pros, Kawauti And Villa-Lobos, have signed on with 888poker. The pair “will now represent Team 888poker at tournaments around the world, including the 2013 WSOP Europe scheduled to get underway in October,” OnlinePoker.net reports.
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Ladbrokes Looks to Playtech Partnership to Drive Digital Growth
Online poker revenues down 25%. Ladbrokes is looking to establish a more competitive position in online poker with its planned move to iPoker, the group reports.
New Research Urges Companies to Design Video Games with Addiction Prevention in Mind
A British study into addictive gaming has warned that online gaming companies should take more care with game design to minimize the risk of addiction.
Vietnam: No Gambling Unless You Can Afford a Five Star Hotel
New casinos will be restricted to five star hotels open only to tourists under a new law proposed in Vietnam. A new bill in Vietnam will restrict new gambling operations to casinos attached to five star hotels. The new law, expected to pass, will shut down many facilities and deny live poker to Vietnamese citizens.
France Proposes to Merge ARJEL with Anti-Doping Agency
ARJEL plus AFLD equals AISJEL as French bill proposes the merger of two regulators. French regulator ARJEL has apparently done such a good job that its responsibilities may be expanded with the addition of anti-doping agency (AFLD) to its bureaucratic structure.
