Luckily the pain was short lived as Gedney received a monster $276,979 for meeting the Bad Beat Jackpot payout requirements which was 50% of the full $553,958 paid out to the table. Dobrzanski took $138,489 (25%) with the remaining 7 players at the table netting $19,784 each.

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This new poker format is designed to minimize your wait time between hands and keep you in the action. You’ll join a large player pool and face a different table of opponents every hand you play. When you fold your hand, you’ll be rushed to another table for a new hand right away.

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Ever increasing in player popularity, CasinoJoy boasts even more games putting the newly launched site amidst the very best of casinos online.

Players can choose from a variety of slots jackpots including the hugely popular Millionaires Club, experience the nightmare of Frightmare, go classic with Progressive Keno, and live the greatest of dreams in Rags to Riches.

Lovers of Blackjack can play their favourite game with a twist in Progressive Blackjack and players fancying themselves as an action hero can experience the ultimate in creative game play with the fabulous Marvel Hero Jackpot and newly launched modern warfare classic Call of Duty 4.

They recently launched their instant play casino with over 40 of the most popular casino games online.

And the site will soon be available in Finnish and in Dutch.

Head of Casino, Tom Richards said

With over 200 game titles and an ever growing portfolio of slots jackpots, we provide a variety of entertainment classics that keep our players wanting more – CasinoJoy also prides itself on giving players some of the best online gaming bonuses on the net.

New players to the site will receive the CasinoJoy bonus to help get started, whilst loyalty is also recognised with generous monthly bonuses and offers on player’s favourite games including rewards in the form of cash giveaways.

Starting on April 6th, the first 1000 players who rake €500 will receive a €50 cash bonus in the €50,000 Cash Giveaway. The free bonuses will be credited directly into the player’s account which means there will be no need to claim, all you will need to do is hurry up and start playing as the prize pool might run out quickly!

Get pocket aces cracked three times in the same period and players will receive a €100 bonus or, win a pot with four of a kind to receive a Magic Hand bonus of 100 times the Big Blind, to a maximum of €250 in PokerHeaven’s Magic Hand promotion.

The €10,000 Gadget Giveaway is back by popular demand with 100 more prizes for 100 new winners. The final will play out on 6th May at 18.30 GMT and PokerHeaven will be running 13 daily freerolls throughout April where all players can qualify completely for free.

The fourth and final promotion revolves around Poker Heaven giving away a wide variety of electrical goods, based on how much rake players can generate throughout April. The 4th birthday gifts range from iPod Shuffles all the way up to a Sony Vaio laptops, and to claim this gift all players have to do is login to The Player Zone and click the “Activate Offer” button to choose from the number of presents on offer.

For each promotion, PokerHeaven will provide daily updates on the PokerHeaven website and cash bonuses are payable to all players regardless of the current bonuses, and until the total prize pool has been paid out. PokerHeaven will also give more power to its players with its newest software upgrade giving the ability to resize and rearrange tables, making it easier to keep track of the action when multi-tabling.

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The Grand Casino Helsinki offers great entertainment off and on the green felt with top class shows and acts guaranteed to make your poker holiday even more enjoyable. So, whether or not you go on and win the main tournament, you’re sure to have a truly memorable time in the Finnish capital.

Poker Heaven have packages worth €4,000 to the main event, which includes the €3,000 tournament entry and €1,000 travel and accommodation money. To be in with a chance of winning one these highly sought after packages, simply take part in our daily Rebuy and Satellite tournaments.

Last week MGM made the announcement that it was tapped out of their $4.5 billion revolving credit facility, as it was down to only $842 million. After the announcement the 3 main credit reporting agencies, which are Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s, all downgraded the credit rating as well as individual debt ratings of MGM.

Recently the owner of the Bellagio, Mirage, and MGM Grand properties announced that they were not able to submit financial findings to the SEC, as they were still in the process of assessing their condition financially. In their notice to the SEC, MGM reported that they thought it would be a breach of their loan agreements this year, which would be a default on their senior debt and it would also potentially bring on defaults on other debt instruments.

The filing also stated that MGM was in current negotiations to amend their senior debt agreements. However, they did not have any assurances that the negotiations would amount to anything. March 17th of this year is the new date that MGM will release their earnings announcement.

The 3-year deal allows the partners to create televised broadcasts every year around the poker events. The inaugural WPT Main Event will be held in October of this year and there will be several satellite poker tournaments on Chilipoker.com, as well at other online casinos on the iPoker Network, that will allow poker players to qualify for the WPT Marrakech as soon as this month.

The WPT Marrakech will take place at the famous Casino de Marrakech, which has been a fantastic casino since it was established in 1952. Currently the casino organizes the Marrakech Poker Open with the Es Saadi Gardens & Resort’s palace and 5-star hotel. The beautiful and popular tourist town is a perfect venue to attract poker players from not only Europe, but from all over the world. Chilipoker.com will take full advantage of the draw of Marrakech in order to organize other poker events, including a Ladies tournament as well as the Main Event.

Alexandre Dreyfus, Chilipoker CEO, recently stated,

Chilipoker is delighted to be associated with a world-renowned brand like the World Poker Tour in the creation of this unique and attractive event. With the creation of WPT Marrakech, Chilipoker also intends to emphasize Marrakech’s attributes as a highly desirable destination for European and African poker players.

Under the terms of the new certification, which comes for the Italian Monopolies of State (AAMS), real money poker tournaments for players in Italy were made available back on February 25th and these tournaments now are available with buy-ins that range between the amounts of €0.50 to €100.

Angeli Bufalini, who is the PokerStars Italian Country Manager, recently stated,

The online poker phenomenon has seen a huge growth recently and with the launch of PokerStars.it we aim to recreate in Italy the success that PokerStars has achieved worldwide. This is thanks to our industry renowned software and security which guarantees players a high level poker experience and support 24 hours a day.

These special events in Italy will be offered over the next several weeks in a in a multi-phase expansion.

The suit is Pick-Up Poker Inc. vs. the State of Texas and the City of Dallas, is seeking a judgment of declaration to relieve Tucker’s business, which is Pick-Up Poker, from “uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations” in regards to live poker.

Founded in December of last year, Pick-Up Poker is planning to lease poker rooms that are furnished to private parties of poker players to use them in the player’s home games that would be legal.

The lawsuit was filed by Tucker in order to clarify the business plan and its standing as being different from Texas underground poker games, as well as to fight the state’s gambling statutes that are currently in place in Texas. The current statutes in the state see poker games in the state as “public nuisances.” Pick-Up Poker is trying to position themselves as being a “cashless poker system” where poker players would deposit money with the company, play with their chips, and then have refunds issued on the chips later. This approach, which is quite unique, is set up in order to set it apart from underground poker games.

Many underground poker games have been victimized by robberies in the past few months.

1.Chris Karagulleyan — 4,080,000
2.Mike Sowers — 2,405,000
3.Pat Walsh — 2,200,000
4.Binh Nguyen — 1,895,000
5.Cornel Cimpan — 1,740,000
6.Chris Ferguson — 1,565,000

The first player to go down was Chris Ferguson, who went out in 6th place ($240,538) after 66 hands of play. Pat Walsh doubled up on his chips a couple of times before going out in 5th place ($310,694). After that the pace quickened as the blinds went up and after that
Chris Karagulleyan went out in 4th place ($430,963) and Mike Sowers went out in 3rd place ($654,797).

Leading into the heads up match Binh Nguyen had the chip lead. The heads up match lasted 5 hours long, as Ngyyen had the advantage over Cimpan at the beginning, but then Cimpan flopped a 2-pair to stay along even though Nguyen had him beat before the flop. This happened 3 more times, as Cimpan kept doubling up his chips until he eventually became the chip leader. At the end of the heads up match Cimpan won the poker tournament a little before 3 in the morning. With the win at the L.A. Poker Classic Cimpan won $1,686,760 and Nguyen won $935,424 for placing second.