At the moment when the 2008 World Series of Poker tournament is coming nearer to the final event, Harrah’s Entertainment, the casino gambling corporation and owner of WSOP, states that for the 39-year history of WSOP the event of this year will be the wealthiest.

It is necessary to say that tournament poker is popular and reliable nowadays. Actually, if you have a share in Harrah’s or any other casino-poker related companies it is perhaps one of your best investments for a long time. And even if this year the gambling revenue has dropped a bit, 2008 WSOP final will boost a lot Harrah and the gambling industry all together.

Only for the final event, the $10,000 buy-in NL HoldEm World Championship, about 6,850 gamblers create a $64.3 million prize pool. It’s the second biggest event in the history of the tournament.

In comparison with 2007, overall, 2008 saw an 8 percent rise in entries, and almost a $21 million rise in total prize pool for the poker tournament consisted of 55 events for 47 days that took place at the Rio Casino on the Strip. The winner of this year’s final event will win about $1 million more in winnings, $9.12 million.

Tournament play continued till Thursday, so less than 2,000 gamblers left. By next Tuesday, the field will be narrowed down to nine participants of the final table. After that the tournament will be stopped till November for about 2 months. The final table will be in November 9 when 9 players will start to fight for head-to-head action that will be held on the 10th of November.

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This week after Party Gaming gambling group announced the company’s results for the second quarter some investors lost a little bit. However, in general the online casino company is still doing well. The second quarter report showed good expectations from the online casino gambling operations of Party Gaming whereas other operations did a bit poorer. All in all Party Gaming has stated that the weak second quarter results of the company do no indicate full-year numbers and that they still expect good financial results for end-of-year.

In any way Party Gaming’s second quarter report was not miserable but the stocks of the online casino gambling group fell down an 8% after releasing the second quarter report. The drop values Party Gaming at £1.98 billion with £ 234.25 of a trading value. The low results of the last quarter were attributed to the online group’s online poker and online sportsbetting sectors, on the other hand the internet casinos performed in accordance with expectations. Sportsbetting dropped in the first two quarters of 2008, but the company expects the Euro 2008 Championships to pull out this sector out of a bog in the third quarter.

Speaking about the long-range company’s development, all here is moving just right as it is expected. Party Gaming has recently announced that they made an exclusive licensing deal with Paramount. They will have launched a number of popular slot games by the end of this year. The results of online casino gambling sector were below the company’s expectations in the first and the second quarters, so it is expected that the release of the company’s games will give a new impulse to this sector of Party Gaming.

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There are a lot of land-based and online poker players who look forward to competing in the World Series of Poker. And now they can use a new device on their site which is likely to be able to help them to get a cherished WSOP bracelet. The WSOP is held in Las Vegas every year and it is the most prestigious of the land poker events in the globe and poker pros and new players can come to Las Vegas in order to try their wings against the best of the best. Since the fifty-five smaller events of the WSOP have completed for the year, everybody is eager to know which of the skilled online and land-based casino poker players will sit at the final table event that will be in November.

Since the excitement concerning the WSOP Main Event keeps on over the following several days, and some main brick-&-mortar and online poker players are out of the running, other pros are using a prime chance to offer WSOP tutorials and products. Though those who reach the final table event in the end will be the best poker players in the world, always room is left for growth. And the line of poker products from Phil Hellmuth just could probably grant the hopefuls at the Final Table the advantage they need.

Not only has the legend of the land-based and online casino gambling, Phil Hellmuth won eleven WSOP bracelets not counting top prizes in other important world’s tournaments, but he remains an active player at present offering strategies, advice, tricks and tips to the poker players. His hottest a video tutorial series “How to Win the World Series of Poker” offer poker players necessary strategy and tips for playing against the top world’s poker players.

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It was announced last month that Everest Poker was going to sponsor officially Germany’s Bar Poker League. But now Everest Poker is going to hold affiliated events which launch of the idea of a land poker league with ties to the online poker industry. Being a sponsor Everest Poker will be the only major logo at all the land poker tournaments held via Germany’s Bar Poker League. Thanks to this partnership the poker company also gets exclusive access to a prominent part of the land poker industry.

The name of Everest Poker has often appeared in news headlines from the beginning of this year due to the fact that the online poker company has been showing an explosive growth in the online gambling market. Though the gambling market of Europe has not saturated yet, there is time when the small gambling companies are united with or acquired by the big brands in the industry. Though, it should be noted that Everest Poker has managed to find a unique corner in the online gambling market of Europe.

The partnership with Germany’s Bar Poker League is sure to be a profitable and useful sponsorship deal for Everest Poker. It also lets the company be noticed in the land poker tournament industry. Jennifer Joyce, the chief marketing officer of Everest Poker, says that short term company’s aim is primarily to give every gambler a personalized and exclusive experience. And of course the benefits from the deal will improve visibility of the online poker company in the market. However, the band’s long-term plans are a Pan European Championship or other land poker tournaments.

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The poker boom seems to begin to decrease at PartyGaming. Despite the fact that the gambling group is able to indemnify mainly their lost poker revenues by means of increasing income from online casino and bingo gambling activities.

PartyGaming Plc is one of the leading online gambling companies, famous for its poker room, PartyPoker. The headquarters is in Gibraltar. The company was founded in the year 1997. Before passing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act by the North American Congress, PartyGaming was the biggest online poker company in the world. But in spite of the fact that the company’s total quantity of active users has decreased after losing its US players, the company keeps growing.

Since late April the overall gross revenues of PartyGaming group have fell down, and though the company expected some drop-off just at this time they said that the fall has been a little larger than expected.

The company accused Euro 2008 and keen competition from operators who can still allow the US players in on their websites. Since the US suppressed poker sites that are based outside the USA, PartyGaming has lost its leading position in the online gambling market. Such poker rooms as iPoker and Full Tilt Poker have overtaken it in recent months whereas PokerStars has doubled the number of users.

The strong performance in casino has been caused by a growing amount of players and up-selling from the poker websites. Thanks to lower marketing costs and operational efficiencies Clean margins of EBITDA are expected to be considerably higher than last year.

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A new dual promotion for affiliates and gamblers has been released by the Fortune Lounge online casino and poker room network. For July and August, Fortune Lounge is awarding more incentives for its players and “Vault of Mystery” bonuses for players as part of Fortune Lounge’s promotion called “Xmas in July”. Platinum Play Casino that is likely to be the most popular internet casino of eight in the Fortune Lounge network is a site in which players may already start taking participate in promotional tournaments.

At first the “Vault of Mystery” was aimed at affiliates to generate gamblers who deposit real money, above 100,000 casino credits are offered by the promotion. For weekly promotions more than 60,000 credits are given away, and 100,000 are given in the final vault. 20,000 credits will be given to the top winner. In addition, every week there are fifty hidden keys that can be used in order to unlock the final vault, which contains 100,000 real money credits. Everybody can already see a list of winners on Fortune Lounge’s “Winners Wall” site page.

It works in the following way: players can enter tournaments through e-mail messages or via the “Message of the Day” logging online into the casino software platform. However, the simplest way to go into is to download the Fortune Lounge Personal Manager, with a small application that is on your PC’s desktop and tells you when a new message has come.

Press releases are sending out by Fortune Lounge to all its affiliates that are promoting their online casinos to draw attention to this promotion.

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Online casino and poker players all over the USA are uniting for message of change of Barack Obama. The Bush administration is certain not to be popular with online gambling enthusiasts in the country because of the extremely disputable Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, and restrictive legislation and severe tactics of Bush towards online gambling at offshore internet casinos. And all this could cause McCain to lose a good deal of votes, and some maybe from Republicans. The basic situation in the country is that over a million Americans expect the next president of the USA to legalize and regulate online casino gambling, and a McCain in power doesn’t promise any positive changes with regard to the issue.

Regardless of the fact that neither the McCain nor the Obama campaigns have stated an official position on the online casino and poker gambling activities, the Poker Players Alliance and main poker pros have publically endorsed the Obama campaign. North American poker gamblers hope that Obama will deliver on his promises of new positive changes in the federal government. During his nearly eight years in office Bush as president and his administration have made a number of extremely questionable decisions, and since his reign is coming to its end many Americans are waiting for an sudden change in the policies and tactics of the government.

Some of the main land-based and online casino poker pros who officially endorse Obama are Doyle Brunson and Andy Bloch. Recently Bloch stated in his interview to The Sunday Telegraph not only his support of Barack Obama but he also said that a lot of his fellow countrymen and the poker community are backing Obama.

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For the past few years the mobile online gambling industry has grown enormously and continues growing successfully day after day all over the world. New companies entering the European gaming market offer fresh, new game releases. One of the fast growing mobile gaming software developers is Astraware that will rival some of the recognized providers in the industry as the company is growing. Spin3 is likely to be the biggest of the mobile software developers, and the company almost has a monopoly on the mobile online gaming industry in a number of established markets. However, Astraware has the unique chance to provide mobile platform alternative for players in new markets.

Astraware is Handmark Inc subsidiary. Handmark Inc is a company with already established positive reputation in the online gaming industry, it specializes in handheld computers. Since the internet casino mobile gaming industry launched over the past couple of years, Astraware offers Handmark access to an entire new area of the industry, specially mobile devices such as smartphones, PDAs, and lots of other mobile devices.

Astraware provides players with a whole row of already developed mobile online games and starting from this week mobile gamers of Astraware have a new feature - Texas Holdem NL Poker. This latest release of mobile online casino game is added to the Astraware’s growing suite of popular games and will only enhance viability of Astraware in the market. Astraware also includes Video Poker, Slots, Video Keno, Blackjack, Roulette, and so on.

Currently the Astraware gaming platform is available and is a downloadable game which works only on mobile devices equipped with an actual computing operating.

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In order to help non professional online blackjack players and after the lapse of less than a month after first launching, Blackjack Radar Casino 21 Blackjack strategy calculator has appeared with a new improved free version to its popular with players blackjack strategy calculator.

According to Greg Smith, a product development manager of Blackjack Radar, everybody knows that all online casinos choose different Blackjack 21 casino game rules, which very much affect the players’ odds and their strategy decisions in the end. The majority of players are not sure of the precise rules of the online blackjack they’re playing and as a result can’t make the right decisions. In the new improved version of Blackjack Radar players can choose the strategy calculations base especially on the particular online casino where they are playing.

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Blackjack Radar has been a colossal success since it was launched in the middle of June. Hosts of players are already using it while gambling blackjack online in their preferred online casinos. Its new improved version that is able to select an optimal blackjack strategy to each online casino is sure to make the calculator even more popular for online casino players of different levels and to make it the top Blackjack Strategy calculator that is in the market in the present day.

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