Category: Poker
Did you know that even Homer Simpson playing poker? The creators of the “Simpson“, has decided to dedicate an episode of the popular cartoon loved by all the world, the game of online poker and the American situation after the famous Black Friday we all know.
The original title of the episode is Abie Gone, Homer will begin the career of the grinder, competing in online poker, tired and disheartened by the U.S. banking system, decides to play the college fund of Lisa at the virtual tables. Like any special episode of the series, there is a special guest, Jennifer Tilly, former actress and current poker pro who will give lessons to small poker Lisa Spread across a video tape.
The message that the creator of the Simpsons want to run through this episode is very clear:
Online poker has become a habit for most Americans and the need for a stable and lasting regulation in the U.S. is increasingly urgent. Who better than Homer can make it clear that not only Americans but also to all those who see the Simpsons in the whole world?
In the episode, Homer and Lisa will be the spokesman for all American and international poker community, the scandal of the Full Tilt Poker will no longer happen, we must protect all players so it was decided to make it through the episode of one of most popular animated series by viewers “The Simpsons”
Long life in Homer, Homer for president, Homer No. 1, Rules, Homer, Homer are all of us!
What do you think of this episode? We hope not too late to arrive on European television networks as well as on American ones. It ‘s ironic, but also interesting to see how Simpson fit to current topics such as video games and poker, is not it?
To you comments!
If you are a fan of playing online poker at a sprint pace but are not real big on the convenience of a large player pool, you are in luck. Online gaming company Relax Gaming recently announced that it will soon be launching its own fast-paced poker game called, fittingly, Fast Poker. Fast Poker will reportedly launch within the month on Unibet, iGame, and Betsson.
The game, as described on the Relax Gaming website, sounds just like PokerStars’ Zoom Poker, which debuted this past weekend, and Full Tilt Poker’s former offering, Rush Poker. Rather than choosing a table and taking a seat, players signup for a “player pool,” consisting of a game type and stakes, and are then seated at a random table with random players. When players finishe their hands, either by folding or at showdown, they are lifted from the table and dropped onto another with a fresh batch of players. Because players are moved the instant they end their hand, they can play several hands in a matter of seconds. One of the nice features of the game is that even though players are moved as soon as they fold, the other players at the table don’t see the fold happen until it the action is actually upon the player who folded. Thus, players can actually move on to a new hand before the action reaches them.
In a press release issued last Thursday, Patrik Österåker, CEO of Relax Gaming Network Ltd. said, “We are thrilled to launch Relax Fast Poker Network together with some of the very leading names in the industry. We look forward to the launch and are sure more operators will join in. Fast Poker has the potential to make poker really hot again. It’s fun, fast and easy, a great way of playing poker.”
Fast Poker will initially be rolled out on Unibet, iGame, and Betsson. Both Unibet and Betsson are members of the Ongame Network, currently owned by bwin.Party, but soon to be operated by casino equipment manufacturer Shuffle Master. According to PokerScout.com, the Ongame Network ranks as the fifth largest online poker site or network in terms of cash game traffic. With a seven-day average of 2,100 cash game players, it is just 50 players ahead of PokerStars’ Italian site, PokerStars.it. One of the biggest members of the network is bwin, whose players are almost certainly going to stay with bwin.Party after the sale is completed, meaning that the Ongame Network will shrink.
iGame operates several sites including 24hpoker.com and its new namesake, iGame.com. “We have high expectations of Fast Poker,” said Tobias Fagerlund, CEO of iGame Malta Ltd., in the press release. “We will run it on all our brands, iGame.com, 24hPoker.com and Pokerihuone.com and consider Fast Poker as an important and vital part of our future strategy. We think it will revitalize the concept of Network Poker and become very popular amongst our many poker players.”
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With this article we want to share with you today, we can claim to have seen them all but all right. If you like Red Bull Energy Drink as the gamblers and you are then you are right, because today we talk about 2 new energy drink.
As you all know Las Vegas is the city of sin par excellence precisely because it is the heart of the world in terms of gambling and vice, and the presence of casinos, beautiful girls and alcohol go go. The latest trend in Las Vegas are 2 energy drink called Big Cock Little Pussy and dedicated to the male and female organs in this case, animal, rooster man and cat for the woman.
The President of Beverages Erotic Gary Gottlieb said that only 2 out of 10 people are those who find this initiative in bad taste and we are among these. 2 cans of the drink appears a caricature of a chicken with sculpted abs-hung or a kitten with a bikini, depending on the version.
Little Pussie is a drink made of passion fruit and Big Cock flavored cola. They are on sale at Mr. D’s Sports Bar & Grill, and in various locations of Mr. Bill’s Pipe & Tobacco Co. In addition, for those who want to sell in our country, you can also buy it online at retailers specialized
On site there is another line of products is completely different because there are many retailers that have expressed interest in the new drink, these were the words of Gottlieb. We believe that these drinks are totally immoral and we hope that they remain in the land of sin and gambling and you?
Beyond the usual flavors that do not have anything new, what do you think of the images represented on the 2 cans? Pros and Cons You and Why? To you the comments and personal thoughts on this story.
When Full Tilt Poker bid the world an abrupt “adieu,” it took with it four things from the poker community. Our money, our money, our money…and Rush Poker. Oh, Rush Poker, how we loved thee. For many around the world who are still able to play online poker, the absence of Rush Poker has left a gaping hole in their lives. But never fear, the game you have come to adore is back, just under a different name. PokerStars has released its version of the fast paced poker game, dubbed Zoom Poker.
Zoom Poker is essentially just like the old Rush Poker. You sit down at a ring game table (Zoom Poker is only for ring games at the moment, not tournaments) and play a hand as normal. As soon as you fold, you are whisked away to a new table, complete with new players. When that hand is over for you, be it when you fold, when you win the hand, or when you muck at showdown, you “zoom” over to another table to play in another fresh hand. Rinse, repeat. PokerStars has even added the option to “fast fold,” which will allow you to fold before it is your turn to act, provided you are not facing a bet.
Rather than picking a table and sitting down like you would in a normal game, you instead select the stakes at which you would like to play. Zoom Poker will then insert you into the player pool for those stakes and find a table at which to start. According to PokerStars, you will usually be seated in the big blind on your first hand, but from there on out, seat assignments are totally random.
For those who wish to see the end of the hand after folding, all that needs to be done is to hold down the CTRL key while clicking the “fold” button. This cannot be done with the “fast fold” option, though.
Zoom Poker is currently in beta mode, so options will be limited as it is live tested. It is currently only available at micro-stakes for No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha games and each player pool is capped at around a couple thousand players. Players may have up to four Zoom Poker tables open at once, though that may increase to six in the near future. From what we have heard, it sounds unlikely that PokerStars will allow players to multi-table Zoom Poker as much as they would in regular ring games. Zoom Poker has also not been rolled out to every PokerStars site yet, as the company is releasing it increments to make sure bugs get ironed out.
PokerStars, as usual, is the world’s largest online poker room this week. According to industry monitoring site PokerScout.com, PokerStars has a seven-day average of 25,400 cash game players, totally and completely outdistancing its nearest competitor, PartyPoker. PartyPoker has a seven-day average of just 4,250 cash game players. PokerStars is so big, in fact, that it has more cash game players than the next thirteen poker rooms and networks combined.
Reports indicate that the Iowa House of Representatives, after receiving potential legislation that would have added the Hawkeye State to the roster of potential states offering online poker, has shot down the proposed regulatory action, effectively ending online poker’s possibilities in the state.
According to KCRG-TV, the Iowa House received Senate File 2257 yesterday after the Senate had voted on its passage, 29-20, earlier this week. Senate File 2257, which would have put in place the regulatory authority and laws to open up Iowa for an intrastate online poker operation, wasn’t expected to come to the House, but the quick action by the Senate – and the passage of the proposed law – forced the House into action on the bill yesterday.
Apparently, either the legislators in the House weren’t watching the agenda in the Senate or didn’t expect Senate File 2257 to pass through the Senate. “We really didn’t expect it to come over (from the Senate),” House Chairman Peter Cownie stated to KCRG. The fast movement of the proposed law was as a result of the Iowa General Assembly’s deadline, which is today, for non-money proposals to get through at least one chamber of Iowa’s General Assembly and at least through committee in the other to be considered this year.
The proposal didn’t even come to a vote in the House, effectively ending any potential action this year for online poker in Iowa. Cownie stated that the late arrival of the Senate action, as well as the lack of time for a committee or the House to fully consider the bill in debate, were the reasons for the action. House Speaker Kraig Paulsen has stated that he will not push further action as the leader of the chamber before the General Assembly adjourns, stating that there has been a “general lack of interest” in the House for any potential online poker legislation.
The proposed law would establish a regulated online poker industry in the state, which would allow established casino operations inside the state to offer online poker. Studies have shown that the proposed regulations would have grossed in the neighborhood of to million in revenues for the casinos and online operators, with the state taking in between to million in tax revenues.
With Iowa now out of the mix (there are options for the bill’s revival, but they are dependent on House leadership), those who want to partake of online poker under U. S. regulation cast their eyes towards Nevada. The Silver State is continuing to move forward with its online regulatory operations and those movements offer a bright spot for online poker players.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board put regulations in place for an intrastate online poker operation late last year and, in February, began to accept applications for potential licenses under those regulations. To this point, over two dozen applications have been received, either as an operator of an online poker site or to be a service provider for such an operation. Some of the biggest names in the industry have climbed on board to obtain one of these licenses.
Caesars Entertainment, the owners of the World Series of Poker, and their partner, 888 Holdings, are looking at expanding their operations into Nevada if they can obtain licenses. The partnership already have a WSOP branded online poker operation for international customers, but the Nevada licenses would allow them to expand into the U. S. Just last week, the largest online gaming operation in the world, Bwin.Party, announced their intentions to obtain a Nevada license along with potential partners in MGM Resorts International and Boyd Gaming.
The Nevada online poker operation has been rumored to be started this fall and, for now, will be the only regulated online poker outlet in the United States with the departure of Iowa from the market.
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If you love poker, then we want to give you news that will make you very happy, is to arrive in cinemas in the highly anticipated film about poker.
The documentary film All In The Poker Movie, you will go over the last decade, the main theme is the rise of the variant Texas Hold’em, the most widely used not only in official tournaments, but also among friends. The documentary was directed by Douglas Tirola and tells the story of how poker in recent times has spread all over the world mainly through the use of advertising campaigns and technologies of various kinds.
This project has also contributed many PRO players of the caliber of Annie Duke, Phil Hellmuth, Howard Lederer, Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu and Mike Sexton. Among the players will also find Matt Damon, who starred in the role of Mike McDermott, law student with a talent for poker, Texas hold’em, in the movie Rounders.
While All In The Poker Movie is expected in theaters from March 23, 2012, the sequel to Rounders is under production and will come back in 2014. For those who have an IOS device, please note that you can buy the documentary on iTunes, but most likely without the dubbing in this film version.
A bill which would have legalized and regulated internet gambling in the state of Mississippi has died in committee. House Bill 1373, the Mississippi Lawful Internet Gaming Act of 2012, was introduced by State Representative Bobby Moak to the Mississippi House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on February 20, 2012 and unfortunately died a week ago.
In Section 1 of the bill, Rep. Moak, who is the first Chairman of the House Gaming Committee, wrote why legalizing online gambling is a good idea:
“An effective state regulatory and licensing system for online gaming would inhibit underage wagering and otherwise protect vulnerable individuals, ensure that the games offered through the Internet are fair and safe, stop sending much-needed jobs and tax and fee revenue overseas to illegal operators, provide a significant source of taxable revenue, create jobs and economic development, address the concerns of law enforcement, and ensure that only those persons of good character and fitness, who meet strict criteria set forth in law and regulations, are suitable to facilitate and conduct online gaming activities.”
As one would expect, internet gambling operators would have to be licensed by the state. In order to apply, they would have had to plunk down a 0,000 non-refundable deposit. If the application was approved, the operator would then have to pay at least a 0,000 licensing fee and then a 0,000 renewal fee each year.
Other highlights of the legislation included:
• Legal online gambling age of 21
• All hardware and software used by the operators for internet gambling must be tested and approved by the gaming commission.
• Customers must submit proper proof of identity before being allowed to have a gambling account.
• Operators would not get in trouble if an underage, out-of-state, or otherwise ineligible customer played on their site if that customer lied about their identity, as long as the operator reasonably believed that the person was who they said they were (essentially, the operator went through the proper identification procedures, but the player did a really good job faking it).
• Internet service providers would not be liable for illegal internet gambling as long as they had no direct knowledge of its existence.
• Any customer whose gambling account goes dormant for a year could have their funds forfeited, with half going to the state and half going to the operator.
• Employees of the gambling operator are not allowed to have accounts on their site, though they may have accounts on different sites.
• Fines ranging from ,000 to 0,000, as well as license suspensions, would be in order for individuals who tamper with the gaming software or hardware.
Rep. Moak’s legislation was spurred on by the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DoJ) December clarification of its stance on internet gambling. Just before Christmas, the DoJ surprised the gaming community, saying that, contrary to what it had opined for years, the Wire Act of 1961 applies only to sports betting, not other games like online poker. In the bill, Moak wrote, “…the State of Mississippi finds that any question regarding the state’s authority to regulate lawful Internet gaming that may have resulted from interpretations that such gaming violated certain other federal anti-gambling laws has been vacated by action of the United States Department of Justice on December 23, 2011.”
There is no word yet on whether or not Rep. Moak will make another run with his bill in the future.
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