Bodog.com has announced it is the exclusive sponsor of The Waterford Open 2008. The event is the first of many Bodog sponsored events in Europe.

The No Limit Hold’em main event is a ranking tournament being hosted at the Majestic Hotel in Tramore from June 12th-15th. There will be a series of side events that will also be run with the prize pool at an estimated EUR 120, 000. The entry fee for the main event is EUR 500+50.

Keith McDonnell, managing director of the site stated, “This is the first tournament we are sponsoring in Europe. We are excited about giving our European online players a tournament to play where they can meet and compete for some huge cash prizes.”

He added, “We will be sponsoring many more such tournaments in Europe. With the launch of our total range of services in Europe, we are ready to take the continent by storm.”

Players will be able to enjoy the Bodog Lifestyle and chill out at the lounge during the course of the tournament. If a player wants to join the 200 other players participating in the tournament, the site is organizing a free roll tournament on June 8, 2008 and a series of qualifying tournaments from June 8th-11th. The entry fee for these qualifiers is EUR 50+5, with a seat for the main tournament being offered for very EUR 550 in the total prize money.

Party Poker is fast becoming a site where people love to go and place high value bets. This is the result of an announcement earlier this year that they would be charging a flat $10 rate on their SNGs. This means that the high stake players would be getting higher returns and Fridays would have higher value entry fee tournaments.

The site has now announced that it will be holding a $1 million guaranteed tournament this Saturday. This is the last month before the World Series, so it is holding a $600+$40 event with a structure that mimics a championship. The blinds for the tournament start at 25/50 with a 20,000 starting stack at 20 minute levels.

There will be 400 big blind stacks which will be  perfect practice for anyone trying to compete in the World Series. The entry fees of $600+$40 will dent most players pockets so they qualify for as little as $1. There will be feeder tournaments that will be held round the clock with a variety of fees that include $1, $4, $8, $10, $35 and $70. Players can also use their Party Points to enter the tournament.

A spokesman for the site said: “we have deliberately kept different ways to qualify for the Saturday tournament. A player can qualify using his Party Points, or he can pay $1, $4, $8, $10, $35, $70 or pay the direct entry fee of $600+$40.” He added, “we have also kept country specific free roll tournaments this week that will provide an opportunity for players to win seats.”

Full tilt poker has announced that David Singer who is an environmental lawyer turned pro poker player has won the inaugural $25,000 buy-in heads-up championship.There were 64 poker players that included 22 poker professionals sponsored by the site and Team Full Tilt members.

The winner, who turned professional since 1996, started playing Seven-Card Stud. He has plenty of top finishes that include a ninth place in the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event, third at the WPT Caribbean Adventure, a win in the Mirage Heads-Up Poker Showdown and consecutive sixth-place finishes in the 2006 and 2007 WSOP $50k H.O.R.S.E. tournaments.

The semifinals and finals of the event were held on Sunday after four rounds of play on Saturday’s Day 1 reduced the starting field from 64 to 4. Before the winner claimed the crown he defeated Phil Galfond and Brandon Adams, as well as online player’s buck99, Masterblastr and Brian Hastings. He was one of the two full tilt professionals who reached the semi final stage. The other professional was Andy Bloch.

The tournament served as a major bridge for Full tilt as its popular FTOPS VIII series had just ended and in the next week it will launch its new Mini Series of Poker.

2008 has been a lucky year for players living in the United States and playing on the Loco Loot Hyperlink Progressive Jackpot. Twenty players have won a sum of almost $1,000,000.00, playing the jackpot.

With a number of players hitting the jackpot, people are going crazy over the Loco Loot Hyperlink Progressive Jackpot. These 20 players have won sums ranging from $13,964 to $115,451, while playing at the Lucky Loot.

Among The recent winners is a player who won a sum of $37,276.68 while playing at the Terrible’s Casino in Pahrump, Nevada. While another player won a sum of $17,826 while playing at the Club Cal Neva in Reno, Nevada. Another player won a sum of $56,212 while playing at the Tamarack Junction, also in Reno. Another winner won a sum of $56,260 while playing at the St. Croix Casino & Hotel in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. These four winners hit the Loco Loot jackpot in the past few weeks.

Sean Evans, Sr. VP. Of Sales for Aristocrat Technologies, speaking on the recent wins, said, “Players have really accepted the Loco Loot game which has the Reel Power(TM) base game play and its second screen interactive jackpot feature. This popularity has been accentuated by the high frequency of the jackpot payments.”

He added, “This year the Loco Loot progressive jackpot has paid players sums in excess of $900,000 across the United States. We have paid players sums exceeding $5,000,000.00 in jackpots since we started our operations.”

The game Loco Loot is one of Aristocrat’s established performing multi site progressive jackpots, which brings a gold rush of excitement to casino floors wherever it is played. Loco Loot is played on the aristocrat’s Reel Power base games which offer players 243 different ways to win.

The website DevilfishPoker.com was re-launched on the Entraction network, with a large number of promotions. The promotions include a sign up bonus of 150% up to €666, a daily €666 free roll, a cash game Bad Beat Jackpot, and a monthly €100,000 guaranteed tournament.

Paul Barnes who is the CEO of Devilfish Gaming PLC, speaking at the launch said “We are excited to announce the re-launch of the site that has been a result of months of hard work. After months of hard work we’re really excited about the new site that will be run on the Entraction network.”

Speaking about the Entraction network, Barnes said, “It is a very good network that features excellent software. We have re-done our site to give it a very modern look and feel. This has been done to give our players a top playing environment.”

The site has launched a new Bad Beat Jackpot, where the person who loses will get 40 percent of the jackpot, while the winner will walk away with 20 percent of the jackpot. In addition, all the players that have been dealt cards will split 20 percent of the jackpot while the remaining 20 percent will be held back for the next jackpot.

Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, professional poker player who is the site’s ambassador, said, “I am waiting to play at the new site. There are a few players who think they can beat me and make money. I have some information for them, come play with me if you think you are so good.”

The online casino group Casino Tropez, which is the winner of many awards has announced that Yves G. of France has won the sum of €587,314 in a progressive jackpot. The player has won the sum at the popular 8-line progressive slot machine. The player had placed a bet of €16 and won half a million Euros. The win was registered by Yves just 30 minutes after logging into the online casino.

The Frenchmen is one of the many big winners on the site. This succession of big wins has been unprecedented. One of the sites members won recently the sum of €68,865 on the Dollar Ball progressive jackpot, while another won the sum of €52,884 on the Magic Slots progressive jackpot. A few weeks ago, a couple of the sites lucky members won €577,174 in progressive jackpots while playing on the slot machines, Lotto Madness and Gold Rally.

Speaking on his win, the winner Yves G, said, “the thing I liked best about the site Casino Tropez were the games and the graphics they had on offer.” The winner who is 41 years old, revealed that he played weekly on the site and he preferred to play the progressive games. He added, “ when I learnt that I had won a huge sum of money, I could not get out of my chair in shock.” He added,” I want to buy a house and go on an holiday with the amount I have won.”

Progressive slot machines are extremely popular at Casino Tropez. They contain scatter symbols and bonus rounds, though the main attraction has been the large progressive jackpot.

The online casino Games.com which is a subsidiary of the giant America Online, has announced that it will award six lucky players seats to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event that will be held in Las Vegas later this year.

The site has announced that players can take part in free online no-limit Texas Hold’em tournaments until June 15. The top six players will be receiving their free entry for the July 3 event along with their travel paid within the United States.

Greg Mills, Director for AOL Games speaking about the promotion said, “Online poker has been and continues to be one of the most popular games online at our site.” He added, “We are thrilled to extend our agreement with Harrah’s License Company, the owners of the tournament, as it gives the players a chance to participate in a tournament that is every players dream. If the player plays correctly, he can walk off with a few million dollars.”

Games.com also mentioned that players who were taking part in the free daily qualifying tournaments could earn their way into the Sunday winner-takes-all tournament that was held every week. The winners of these events would receive a prize package that would entitle them to stay at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and take part in the WSOP.

Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner for the WSOP said in a statement, “The WSOP was excited to continue with its alliance with AOL, as it gave players who were above the age of 21 years to be part of poker history.”

It was another good month for players trying their luck at the online Casino group, Casino Rewards, as a player from Portugal, Helder R won a massive $47,496 jackpot while playing at the Strike it Lucky Casino. Helder, who is a very new player in the online casino space, was able to win a large amount of money.

Since the jackpot is progressive,  the money that can be won at the jackpot, even after a large payment is made, continues to be high. At the present moment the total sum to be won at the Mega Moolah jackpot is $2.9 million.

Just a month ago, a Finnish player, Klaus E, entered the Casino Rewards Millionaires’ Club, when he won a sum of $5,556,753 in the Mega Moolah jackpot. Klaus won while playing at BlackjackBallroom.com, after he had made a bet of 50 cents. He became the 4th player to enter the Casino Rewards Millionaires’ club. His win took the total amount won in progressives jackpot wins in the Casino Rewards Network to over $27 Million Dollars.

Online Casino Bellini has announced that it will be giving all players who deposit money this month, €20 in free spins.  This can be used to play at any of the 50 online slot machines that are located at the casino. This free offer is in addition to the 100% up to €103 Welcome Bonus for all new players.

The manager of the casino, Rebecca Jones said, “The offer has been organized in such a way that it will improve the playing experience of the players. The offer gives new players a chance to try out new casinos and new slot machines.” She added, “Since some of the biggest winners are coming from the slot machines, it’s not a surprise that their popularity is rising.”

She went on to say that, “We continuously launch new slot games so that we can provide our players with a wide variety of choices. We also keep the games interesting fun and we offer large payments.”

The casino has launched 3 new games in the last 3 months. The games are Bonus Bears – which is a 5 reel, 25 line slot machine, What’s Cooking –which is a 5 reel, 30 slot line machine, and Farmer’s Market –which is a 5 reel, 20 line slot machine. All of these games contain a number of extras that include scatter and bonus rounds.

An online poker player from Alaska with the screen name ’dhc2lovr’, was playing at the website Ultimate Bet, and hit the Bad Beat Jackpot twice within a time frame of less then three months.

Spokesperson for Ulitmate Bet, George MacLean said, “The website has continued to excite its members by giving them chances to win large sums of money at its Texas Hold’em tables.”

The player won Ultimate Bet’s Bad Beat Jackpot, when he lost with four tens and four queens at a hand of Texas Hold’em. The amount of money at the Bad Beat Jackpot had gone up to $448,920.71. The winner took home a sum of $145,899.23, while 117 other players shared a sum of $145,899.23. These 117 other players included the eventual winner of the hand who won a sum of $72,949.61.

In a review of the security carried out by the sites fraud department, the jackpot winner was found to be a regular player at the Texas Hold’em tables since December 2005. He enjoys an Ultimate Legend status, which is among the top layers of RAI$E, the sites profitable loyalty program. To maintain the Ultimate Legend status, the player must earn 2,500 RAI$E Status Points per month by playing online poker.

The jackpot winner said, “I had won a bad beat jackpot once and I saw no reason why I could not achieve it again.”