Loyal Heartland Poker Tour players received an early holiday gift last week when HPT officials announced a new tournament structure. Posted at HPTpoker.com, the new structure provides longer levels, additional rounds, and adjusted payouts.
“As our prize pools have grown over the years,” said HPT Co-Founder Greg Lang, “players have consistently asked for more time to get their chips in good. We listened.” more
By popular demand, Heartland Poker Tour announced a tour stop in the company’s home state of Minnesota. The nationally-televised poker show will film two episodes at Canterbury Park Racetrack and Card Casino in Shakopee April 20-30, 2012. The event, which could offer the largest poker tournament prize pool ever in the state, is open to the public. more
Few days before the nation observes Veterans’ Day, Heartland Poker Tour honored Vietnam Vet Ken Rosheisen as the latest champion of the nationally-televised poker show. The weekend tournament was Rosheisen’s 10th HPT attempt, second TV table, and his most profitable. Investing just $360 to play, the retiree takes home $90,598 to Janesville, Wisconsin.
HPT has a long history of supporting veterans through a commitment to the non-profit organization, Disabled American Veterans. The tour donates one percent of each prize pool to DAV and airs public service announcements in the show 52 weeks each year. more
The FBI has long been targeting to ban online poker and gambling sites from tapping the US player base.
The ban imposed by the FBI on the domain names of the famed 3 sites serving the US market like the FullTiltPoker.com, PokerStars.com and AbsolutePoker.com, as being responsible for initiating illegal gambling activity and fraud charges for allowing players to sign and play for real money games in their sites.
It is indeed a bold move by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. more
Famous online poker sites that have been allowing US residents to play in their sites are facing FBI seizure of their business domains.
Players who are visiting to Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker, UB Poker and Absolute Poker are heading to get a seizure notice from the FBI.
This is not the first time. A similar seizure of Bodog Poker has occurred in the past where the domain owners had to work via the court to get the domain name back and working in shape. more
Picking a Poker Site:
There are many online poker sites too choose from, some well known by all, like party poker and some known by only the best because they have a few donks and fish (some are like sea world!) like for example cake poker but once you have picked your poker room that suits you, you are likely to stay there. Download a few clients, try the play money games. It costs nothing to try them. I would personally recommend poker stars because of the range of games they offer but that is for more advanced player, I will cover that in a later article. more
The industry is changing pretty fast theses days, the US government decided to close all the top illegal gambling operators.
from full tilt poker, pokerstars then ultimatebet and now Absolute poker .
Who’ll be the next?
As far we understand from the blacklist the next one could be Bodog and certainly Carbon poker.
If you are already a player of theses rooms, we are suggesting you to withdraw your funds as fast is possible and before they will be shutdown. more
Today is a big day for the Poker world, the FBI did close down most of the biggest poker website such pokerstars, fulltiltpoker , ultimatebet and many more…
Most of the players will certainly look for a new poker room to keep playing illegally.
While the law is changing it will be hard to keep playing in the same room for while, so it will required players to check often for new rooms .
at Rio WSOP we’ll do our best to keep you updated about new poker rooms and casinos. more
The players of Play Now have got the excellent opportunity of playing online poker games now. The leading gaming site has recently introduced the game poker. One can play peer-to-peer poker with the players of BC and Quebec now. Players can also compete in various online poker tournaments over there. The arrival of poker has created a churning in the online casino world.
The online expediters are aware that Play Now is the leading portal that boasts with bountiful of games and gambling. They have earned extreme recognition in its various offers like Online Casino, Lottery, Sports and Interactive Games. Finally they have completed the circle by adding poker games in their offers. At the beginning, they have started offering 8 attractive poker variants. more
Card player offers to train players with poker rules, tips and strategies. Cardplayer is one of the leading portals for poker information consisting of poker news, poker blogs, poker videos, poker tournaments, information about poker players, free poker games, and offering information about free poker bonuses.
They publish Card Player Magazine and Card Player Europe, details Las Vegas Poker, offers poker books authored by famed real time poker players, runs a poker store where one can get poker articles, and advertise poker tools. more
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