This year The USA will elect a new president, so everybody is watching the election campaigns of different level. Steve Beshear, recently elected Kentucky Governor and William Yung III, the Columbia Sussex Corporation head, and rich casino owner, are being placed under the spotlight at the moment. Yung appeared to contribute one million dollars to a political group which helped Beshear. Beshear occurs to be pro-gambling. He has just started to lift the question on prohibition of a casino in the state.

Yung has affirmed that he won’t apologize for helping Beshear to get elected, reporting that to give the political group the money was his First Amendment rights.

At the moment Beshear is writing an amendment to the constitution of Kentucky permitting to build seven casinos in combination with the actual horse tracks, and 5 others neighboring Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and Tennessee. All these casinos could help to make estimated 600 million dollars in tax revenue that would relieve the poor state. At present a lawmaker from Cincinnati, Ohio, is in process of writing an analogous proposal of building casinos in Ohio so that people of Ohio and tourists wouldn’t cross the Ohio River and would spend their cash in Ohio.

If they should happen to pass this proposal, it’ll be a shock since Kentucky is considered to be a Bible-belt state that has rejected lots of similar proposals for the last decade. Yung said if the law comes into force he will built a new casino on the northern Kentucky land bought by him in January. Alas, as Yung helped to pay for the inaugural party of Beshear, he may not get rights to build his casino. The opponents are already claiming Yung’s attempts to pay money for his way into the market, though Beshear rejects any favouritism. He claims that Yung must apply for the license like the others.

Columbia Sussex Company that belongs to Yung owns 13 casinos and 80 hotels already in the U. S. and abroad. He doesn’t think the land investment was too early; he claims that if it needs he can resell the ‘prime real estate’. At this time his company is being investigated in Indiana and New Jersey thanks to dubious employment practices when Aztar Corporation took control of the Indiana casino. Trying to stop the investigations in these two states, as well as keeping one casino from launching in Las Vegas, he has placed the Indiana and New Jersey casinos up for sale.

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New games in February consist of five slot machines: Shiver me Feathers, Big Break, Happy New Year, K9 Capers and Mardi Gras Fever.

In other casino news, a lucky 32Red player, Anne C from Scotland, won the Major Millions progressive jackpot of ?1,094,111.82. Mega Moolah’s jackpot is now sitting at a truly staggering ?5,112,406 and if won, the referrer of the winner stands to make ?5,000 with our previously communicated affiliate bonus offer.

Titan Poker is today launching its New Depositors Freeroll series. New depositors will receive one free tournament token entry, and they will be able to choose between five nightly tournaments (Saturday through Wednesday nights). The tournament token is the same as the previous token, so all players with this token can enter one tournament. The winning player at each tournament will receive a $600 value digital prize. The VIP Department will contact the player and he/she will be able to choose which prize he prefers (dependent on availability and the player’s location).

The advantage for players is that instead of competing against 600-700 players for one $3000 prize, they will be able to compete in a more exclusive tournament with probably only 150 or so players.

The first New Depositors Freeroll awarding a digital prize will take place on Saturday, March 1, 2008. Tournament tokens are issued manually by the Tournament Team. Players who deposit on weekends should be told to wait patiently as they will receive their token on Sunday. (First Depositors also get entry to the Weekly Depositors tournament)

First-ever “Duplicate Poker World Championship” has been announced by DuplicatePoker.com It’ll run for some months and end with the final this autumn. This year competition makes use of the unique format of Duplicate Poker, in which the same cards are dealt to players at all the tables. The cards are from an in-common deck that is used across all the tables. Success in the Duplicate poker format, considered as a “skill game” and legal in the majority of United States jurisdictions, is done by ranking the participants by means of how well they played the dealt cards comparing with opponent players at other tables who had the same hands.

There will be either online or live segments of play at the Duplicate Poker World Championship. The 180 qualifiers have been holding since the beginning of February and till the 14th of September. The online poker qualifiers will go on to regional play, and then quarterfinal playoffs will follow. The regional round and quarterfinal ones will be online as well.

The winners of quarterfinal will create regional teams of 7 gamblers each. Complete travel packages (airfare, hotel accommodations and meals) will be given to the semifinalists to a live venue where the semifinal round and final one will hold. Its date will be announced later. They will score either individually or as a team in the finals.

Players must put in the top 6 of the weekly DuplicatePoker Tournament Leader Board during one of the online qualifying weeks to get qualification for the Duplicate Poker World Championship. Qualifications start afresh every week.

You can find all necessary information at www.duplicatepoker.com/Teams.aspx. There is also a little, interactive video tutorial about the Duplicate Poker format on the site. DuplicatePoker.com offers real-money and play-money games as well.

The popular online poker room offers players a free software device that sends them tournament and promotion notifications.

Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, will award $3,000 in cash prizes in a special tournament on February 25, 2008, staged exclusively for players who have downloaded the nifty software application called My Speedy Alert.

My Speedy Alert, a new and free service offered by Titan Poker, consists of a small icon appearing at the bottom of the computer screen which pops up with daily tournament reminders sent straight to players’ desktops whenever they’re online, even if they’re not playing poker at the time.

Installation of My Speedy Alert is very easy, takes up virtually no space on a computer, and the product can be easily un-installed at any time. All Titan Poker players with My Speedy Alert will have a chance to compete for the prizes in this special tournament.

Titan Poker regularly awards its players with seats at the world’s most well-known poker tournaments, such as the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the Aussie Millions and various European Poker Tour events. Titan Poker will also send players to the World Poker Showdown in the Dominican Republic later this year. Titan Poker will host an unprecedented $2,000,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament on March 2, 2008, and guarantees more than $12.5 Million in total tournament payouts each month.

Three new variations of poker have been added to the exciting range of side games offered by popular online poker room Titan Poker. Poker fanatics can now also enjoy Jacks or Better, Pai Gow Poker and Tequila Poker. This brings the grand total of casino-type games available at Titan Poker to 12.

The new side games complement Titan Poker’s popular ring game and tournament action, and are expected to be warmly welcomed by players. Through the new casino games, members are given even more options to fulfill their enjoyment of this popular sport and discover variations that are growing in popularity throughout the whole Internet gaming community.

Titan Poker offers a huge array of impressive tournaments around the clock. Now whilst waiting to join the poker cash game or tournament of their choice, players can explore these new exotic options. “Pai Gow Poker” is based on an ancient Chinese game that consists of signs and symbols. Considered a game of high skill, it made a debut only 20 years ago but is gaining momentum in casinos worldwide. “Tequila Poker” is a fast action game that requires the player to have a tremendous amount of foresight in order to secure the biggest payout at the end. “Jacks or Better” is the most common variation of video poker available — very simply, the better your hand, the bigger the payout.

Titan Poker is continually expanding its arsenal of new games and tournaments to challenge its players. Casino side games are just another branch of this expansion. Tournaments with huge cash payouts and other wonderful bonuses are happening right now at Titan Poker. Players are currently competing to qualify for Titan Poker’s biggest guaranteed prize tournament to date, the $2,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Tournament, which will be staged on March 2, 2008.

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Titan Poker is the leading online poker room in Europe and part of the iPoker Network. Titan Poker’s software was developed by Playtech, a public company and leading gaming software developer. Titan Poker guarantees more than $12,500,000 in monthly prizes, has nearly 30,000 online players at peak hours, and awards winning players with entries to the major poker tournaments worldwide. Titan Poker features special jackpot sit ‘n’ go tournaments with progressive prizes and jackpots as high as $100,000. Titan Poker is exclusively promoted by Euro Partners, the worlds largest e-gaming affiliate program. For more information about Titan Poker please visit the Titan Poker website.

For the third following year, CryptoLogic has taken Top Casino Software Award of Gambling Online Magazine for world-class software. Thousands of readers, website visitors and players vote for the award. It is the top honour of the industry as widely recognized. CryptoLogic Inc. was awarded for its revolutionary gaming concepts, innovative software, and impressive graphics delivered through WagerLogic Limited, the subsidiary.

All the time ” CryptoLogic has paid a lot of attention to bringing the last entertainment experience online to gamblers worldwide, and to get such validation means the strategy is worth it,” reported Javaid Aziz, President of CryptoLogic and CEO. “With our revolutionary innovation, partnerships with the world’s major gaming and online entertainment brand names, we are exceeding the today’s players’ needs – so more players are satisfied on our sites.”
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Michael Spencer, the treasurer of Conservative Party has clearly invested £1,700,000 in bingo games and mobile gaming software firm Probability. This purchase grants 15.8percent stake in the firm to the Tory leader. He said, “I am sure that over the next decade Probability will be a main player in one of the most developing sectors in the online gaming arena.”

Spencer has invested in the gaming area not for the first time. In the early 2000’s Spencer sold his interests in Blue Square bookmaker to the United Kingdom bingo group Rank. Charles Cohen, Probability CEO reported that investment of Mr. Spencer was enormous and the company was very happy to win his mark of approval, value as well as the financial investment in terms of credibility.

At 50 percent of the online poker sites that you visit, you need to dress-up for game. No, there are no web cameras or spy software to watch what you are playing in, but you will be asked to select a your “Avatar” virtual composition (an alter ego). You can take it both using a bank of characters and the body and facial parts existing in the face maker program of the site.

In general there are a lot of available characters and judging by the angels, devils, clowns sitting across from you in Hold’em poker, gamblers can have a great deal of senses of humor and imaginations.

However for some players pick out an Avatar is more serious than just inventing the most uncommonly features on a shapeless head. In reality serious poker players are trying to design their avatars with the poker features they fancy to see.

If you have ever seen a Hollywood movie where poker is played you see each player have a stone poker face enjoying only the stone-cold manner of his playing style. But how can you achieve online more than an unemotional face?

Gabriel Black, gaming expert said to GOM that “serious gamblers are going away from pretentious characters as much time is required to design and dress up. They think elaborate characters show the gambling player knows the gaming software very well, and so is a table danger.” in addition, player who wants to raise their odds at the bluff create really serious and strict Avatars sometimes as a sign of their unchanging significance.”

You can see different Avatars like sheep in wolf clothes or wolf in sheep’s clothes according to the gambler’s nature. To play game psychologically, first you should make out characters designed accidentally and those designed purposely. It can take a great deal of recording and waiting before you will be able understand behavior of your opponents, but finally you will be able to reveal the personality behind the Avatar.

Once you have revealed the character, you will know whether the gambler has created his online character in a serious self-image or in planned deception. If you picture the Avatar as serious you’re in for a straight up gamble, if you find an Avatar which is planned to push you off the true path, you have discovered the misdirection. After cracking the Avatar you’ll recognize your opponent’s playing style, you will distinguish when to play hold ‘em or when to go away.

Is that wolf across the table actually holds a full house or is grey fur hides a gambler on the ropes?