CasinoExaminer.com News - Casino, Poker, Sports Betting, Bingo, Online Casino http://casinoexaminer.com Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:37:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rake Brain Offers 3 Free WSOP Main Event Seats Currently, RakeBrain.com is offering their players an opportunity to partake in the 2011 WSOP Main event absolutely free of charge. There are three seats in total on offer, and the lucky winners of each of these seats will have their airfare to the event, and their accommodation during the event itself, covered for them by…

]]> http://casinoexaminer.com/rake-brain-offers-3-free-wsop-main-event-seats/1530 Seidel Well in Contention in WPT Hollywood Poker Open The playing field of this year’s $10k World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Open in Lawrenceburg, Indiana is (97) considerably smaller than that of last year (143).

However, in among the competition’s diminished playing field sits Erik Seidel: the current all-time money winner leader and member of the poker Hall of Fame. And with the 97…

]]> http://casinoexaminer.com/seidel-well-in-contention-in-wpt-hollywood-poker-open/1526 Bet-at-Home Strikes Sponsorship Deal with ATP Hamburg Tennis Championship Bet-at-Home, the renown online sports book, has signed a three-year long sponsorship deal with the ATP Hamburg Tennis Championship. The deal is thought to be worth approximately $250, 000 per year, and it sees Bet-at-Home become the top sportsbook sponsor of the ATP Tour.

The sponsorship deal marks a significant coup for Bet-at-Home, for the…

]]> http://casinoexaminer.com/bet-at-home-strikes-sponsorship-deal-with-atp-hamburg-tennis-championship/1509 IGT Make Jacks or Better Available on Smartphones Jacks or Better is a classic video poker game which is very easy to play. The objective of the game is to make a pair of Jacks or higher out of a five card poker draw: simply, to win by making “Jacks or Better.”

Thanks to developments in software made by International Game Technology (IGT),…

]]> http://casinoexaminer.com/igt-make-jacks-or-better-available-on-smartphones/1504 Jonathan Duhamel Goes Down a Storm on First Trip to Macau Jonathan Duhamel made his first ever visit to the Chinese gambling capital Macau this week.

The 2010 World Series Poker Main Event champion travelled to Macau to compete in Day 1C of the Macau Millions at the Casino Grand Lisboa. Duhamel competed alongside 182 other players, and the young champion from Canada received a great…

]]> http://casinoexaminer.com/jonathan-duhamel-goes-down-a-storm-on-first-trip-to-macau/1522 WPT Set To Host $100k Super High Roller Event in Vegas Next month’s World Poker Tour World Championship series at the Las Vegas Bellagio resort will run concurrently with another WPT hosted tournament at the same Bellagio resort: a Super High Roller Event with a recorded breaking $100,000 buy-in.

The WPT Championship runs from May 14-20, and the Super High Roller Event has been scheduled for…

]]> http://casinoexaminer.com/wpt-set-to-host-100k-super-high-roller-event-in-vegas/1516 Dublin, Ireland to Host the 2011 International iGaming Supershow From May 24-26 this year, a wide variety of members of the online casino and gambling industry will set up base in the Dublin, Ireland. From online casino operators to regulators, software producers to casino vendors: anyone with their finger on the pulse of the online gambling industry will be in the Irish capital city.…

]]> http://casinoexaminer.com/dublin-ireland-to-host-the-2011-international-igaming-supershow/1499 Romanello Takes Bratislava WPT Roberto Romanello made himself €140,685 richer, and gave himself a great opportunity to earn a poker triple crown, as he emerged victorious from the WPT Title event in Bratislava on Sunday.

Indeed, Romanello won December’s EPT Prague event in December of year. Consequently, with this recent WPT victory in the Slovakian capital under his belt,…

]]> http://casinoexaminer.com/romanello-takes-bratislava-wpt/1512 Wynn Teams with PokerStars and Pushes for Online Poker Legalization Las Vegas and the online poker market — two parties who both strongly advocate the legalization and regulation of online poker in the USA — will have been roused by reports this week that the world renown online Poker site PokerStars and the Las Vegas casino company Wynn Resorts have recently joined forces and are…

]]> http://casinoexaminer.com/wynn-teams-with-pokerstars-and-pushes-for-online-poker-legalization/1495 Recent Figures for Online Gaming Leader Italy Published Last week, figures for Italy’s total online gaming revenue were published by the Italian gaming authority — the AMMS.

These published statistics revealed Italy’s total turnover for January and February of this year to be sizeable €11.6 billion. After the first two months of last year, revenue had reached €10.02 billion. Accordingly, the figures show…

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