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Innovative Marketing Campaigns Help PKR.com Grow

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Marketing Director for PKR.com Simon Prodger said, “Poker has been the most competitive sector of online gaming in the past year. Despite this immensely tough marketplace, PKR.com continues to grow thanks to its highly unique and innovative offering”.

It is known that PKR.com has claimed the 15th spot in the online poker rankings at Pokerscout.com. Thus, the site has overtaken such industry tycoons as Cryptologic and Entraction. PKR.com has managed to demonstrate a two place rise in less than five months.

What has fueled such amazing growth is thought to be innovative marketing campaigns including PKR TV that features the best of PKR tournaments and is broadcast on TV across Europe and online via YouTube.

Cryptologic Offers Customized Poker

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Two unique innovations destined to increase the comfort and convenience of players at home are available for Cryptologic’s customers. They include the ability for players to create custom tournaments (players can choose who to invite to the table) and a highly-advanced sorting and filtering tool to allow players to customize the layout of their poker room any time, at their own convenience.

Players’ experience is very important for Cryptologic. They do their best to provide their customers with the features enabling them to play their poker game how they want, where they want and when they want.

We’re Ready to Take the Onine Poker World by Storm

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The new BetUS Partners “Poker Affiliate Program”, recently launched, is now live and can be found at http://partners.betus.com. This program offers lifetime revenue on Sports, Casino Racebook and Poker, dedicated and experienced affiliate managers, accurate online reporting and cookie tracking and the best conversion and retention rates in the business.

The exciting addition to the affiliate program was launched with $5,000 private freeroll poker tournament, where Kurt K, who used the screen name “Tahoe 555” won the event. The affiliate partner who refers the most depositing poker players by August 1, 2008, BetUS will put $5,000 towards a private poker tournament for their player base.

“Our affiliate partners truly drive our success and have helped establish us as the industry leader in both online gambling and affiliate marketing,” stated BetUS Partners Affiliate Director Erin Argue.

Harrah’s Tries to Make WSOP a More Eco-Friendly Event

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Continuously looking for the ways to help conserve energy and demonstrate the commitment to environmental sustainability, Harrah’s Operating Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. collaborated with Native Energy, an international marketer of high quality carbon offsets, at the WSOP, and purchased carbon offsets to mitigate the impact from energy use and waste during its event at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino. The option of offsetting the carbon emissions from air and ground travel to and from Las Vegas, and their hotel stays offered by Haarah’s will be available for players in the WSOP Ante Up For Africa charity and celbrity tournament event and the WSOP Main Event.

The purchase of carbon offsets at the WSOP will support Native Energy’s farmer-owned distributed wind program aimed at helping farmers reduce their global impact from energy use and reduce their long-term electricity costs.

The Williamson family farm turbine is an example of the type of project that the WSOP carbon offsets will help support. Its 35 kilowatt wind turbine began generating renewable energy in the spring of 2007.

Carbon offsets (packages include an eco-friendly souvenir) are available for purchase at Harrah’s booth off the main floor of the WSOP tournament area directly from Native Energy. The offer of carbon offsets depends on the average estimated travel distance and hotel stay.

“…The collaboration with Native Energy allows Harrah’s to provide their guests the opportunity to participate in effective solutions to the climate crisis that can be implemented today,” says Tom Boucher, President and CEO of Native Energy.

Never to Win A WSOP Bracelet? Benyamine Proves the Opposite

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David Benyamine has long been known as one of the world’s best high-stakes cash games players, at the same time he’s had the reputation of being one of the greatest players never to win a WSOP bracelet.

Everything changed on June 21, when he got the “world champion” title playing in Omaha High-Low Split World Championship. The tournament’s overall prize pool was $2,209,000, while David’s winning totaled to $535,678.

Six players took part in the final table – David Benyamine, Mike Matusow, Ram Vaswani, David Chiu, Tony Ma, Berry Johnston, Toto Leonidas. Benyamine, Greg Jamison and Jason Gray were the final three at the table. The final lasted 10 hours, while the head up match between Benyamine and Jamison was over in 75 minutes.

To let you know, David was one of the top-ranked French tennis players in the world before a back injury ended his career. Benyamine turned to billiard and became one of the top players in France. Then, he moved on to professional poker. His biggest win, prior to this weekend, came in 2003 when he won the Grand Prix de Paris, a victory that earned him $411,000.

Speaking about the 2008 WSOP, this year, despite a great number of professional players who won the events, there were a lot of players who had never won a WSOP bracelet before this year. 33 of the first 38 winners are “first timers.” The list includes: Nenad Medic, Grant Hinkle, David Singer, Erick Lindgren, Michael Banducci, Thang Luu, Matt Keikoan, Anthony Rivera, Ralph Porter, Farzad Rouhani, Phillip Tom, Jimmy Shultz, Duncan Bell, Eric Brooks, Svetlana Gromenkova, Andrew Brown, Jason Young , Vanessa Selbst, Scott Seiver, Jens Voertmann, Blair Hinkle, Kenny Tran, Vitaly Lunkin, Philip Galfond, John (Razor) Phan, Rob Hollink, Dario Minieri, Luis Velador, Michael Rocco, Jesper Hougaard, Benyamine and Davidi Kitai.

New Audiences, New Players, New Big Names…

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It has become known that Vega Promotional Systems is going to hold six tournaments during the Poker Tour of Americas (PTA). So, the tournaments will take place in the following cities: Vancouver, British Columbia; Tunica, Mississippi; San Jose, Costa Rica; Cartagena, Colombia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador.

The city where the Tournament of Champions will take place in is not known yet, but it is expected to be announced in the next few weeks.

Vega is planning to air the tournaments throughout North and South America. Owning the program, they will sell their own advertising for the programs.

Players from all over the world will be able to take part in the tournaments. They can win seats online or via live local satellite tournaments.

The PTA is thought to become a great success, since poker is getting more popular in South America and Canada.  New audiences, new players, new big names…

Guaranteed Tournaments at Titan Poker

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Every Sunday evening Titan Poker stages a $250,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament. Players from all over the world visit the online poker room to compete for their share of the prize money. Thus, Carsten Wolf from Germany became a winner on June 15. He took home $52,500. French player Jean Louis Fromenton became second and won $27,500 in cash.

Titan Poker players can buy-in either directly to the $250,000 Guaranteed for $200 + $15 or they can win their seat at ongoing satellite tournaments.

Titan poker regularly stages several guaranteed prize tournaments. To say more, in the past few months, Titan Poker has doubled the amount of its monthly guaranteed prizes from $8 million to $16 million.

In September, Titan Poker is going to stage its biggest tournament with $2.5 milio Guaranteed Prize Pool.

iPhone Winners will Finish Caribbean Hold’em Promotion

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After the promotion for real money players in North America opened by online casino BodogLife.com five lucky players have been announced to have won iPhones fromApple. They are supposed to finish Caribbean Hold’em promotion. The promotion also included weekly random cash draws to those hitting correct “live” hands.

‘Whitley B’ and ‘Chuck B’ from North Carolina alongside ‘David Y’ from Hawaii and ‘Bonnie F’ from Wisconsin are reported to have been among the winners of 14 iPhones.

In Caribbean Hold’em poker players compete against the dealer rather than other players.  Caribbean Hold’em poker sees “the dealer dealt two cards face down while players are dealt two showing cards. Three community cards, known as ‘the flop’, are then dealt face up with players then deciding if their five-card hand is good enough to beat that held by the dealer.

Players may call or fold at this stage but a call triggers two more community cards to be dealt face-up to bring the total number of community cards to five. Both competitors may use any of the community cards along with their hole cards to make the best five-card hand.”

Another Season of the Best Poker Programming

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America’s Game Show Network (GSN) is reported to be planning to stop broadcasting High Stakes Poker and World Poker Tour – its most popular programs. And the shows won’t come back, as the network is going in a different direction.

The World Poker Tour has been a very good partner, and the show is doing greatly on the network attracting higher-aged audience. The Network and the World Poker Tour Enterprise are continuing discussing regarding possibilities of their work together, including the probable broadcasting parts of Season VII. Even taking into consideration this fact, the Network might not get the exclusive rights to World Poker Tour.

The situation cannot but make the company explore diversifying content on multiple networks like most sports leagues.

Nenad Medic’s Big Payday

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Having won the first event of the World Series of Poker, Nenad Medic received $794,112.

9 players managed to reach the final table: professional online player Mike Sowers; poker professional and WPT final-tabler Chris Bell; high-stakes Sit ‘n’ Go player Amit Makhija; poker professional and Big Game regular Patrik Antonius; 2006 HORSE runner-up and birthday boy Andy Bloch; WSOP bracelet-winner Mike Sexton; Phil ‘The Unabomber’ Laak, High Stakes Poker regular; ex-basketball star, online player and WPT Foxwoods winner Nenad Medic and #1 female money-earner Kathy Liebert.

This list of players is really impressive. The pros, no doubt, were making it known they were there to win.

Medic, Bloch, Liebert and Sexton were the last four. What people will not forget is the fact that all of them have earned over $1 million in poker tournaments.