Online poker site, 888 Poker has announced that they will be hosting a “$100,000 Deep Stack Challenge”, which will take place every Sunday. The tournament will have a $200+20 buy-in and $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. Every player will start playing with a 10,000 chip starting stack and generous 20 minute blind raises.

The site will be hosting satellite tournaments of two types throughout the week. There is an entry level for players with different pockets. The 1 in three strands sends one player through to the next level for every three players in each satellite. The $200+20 Deep Stack $75+7.50 and $27.50+2.50 entry points are; $10+1 Challenge. The “1 in 4″ strand sends one player through to the next level for every four players in each satellite. The entry points are; $4+0.40 and $200+20 Deep Stack Challenge. Left over money is paid $55+5 and $15+1 to second place and onwards at all levels.

There will be extra satellite tournaments every Sunday so that players can start at the $4.40 level and qualify all the way through to the $100,000 Deep Stack Challenge on the same day.

Poker Marketing Director for 888.com, Gareth Edwards said “The new tournament is an exciting event for 888poker. The game of Deep stack poker is gaining a lot of popularity in offline poker clubs and casinos, so we decided to bring the format online. ”

As an extra incentive for players, every player who takes part in this tournament will be able to take part in the $10,000 Warm-up Free roll the following Sunday at 17:00 GMT. Thus, a player can take part in two tournaments for the price of one entry. Entry is now open under the ‘$100,000′ tab in the 888poker lobby.

King.com, which is one of the biggest sites for online games in the world, has agreed to host an online casino. It generally offers games of both skill and chance, but this will be its first entry into the world of online gambling.

The company has entered into a licensing agreement with Net Entertainment’s Casino Module which will provide it with casino software and 60 casino games. The opening of the new casino will happen in the next few months.

The company King.com has over 18 million registered players. It expects these numbers to go up with the new additions. At the current moment it hosts 21 puzzle games, such as “Deal or No Deal”; 17 strategy games, such as variations on Mahjong; 14 card games, like Hearts; 18 action games, like “Daisy Defender”; 9 sports games, such as nine-ball pool; and 8 word games like “Word Link”.

David Blomquist, Director of Business Operations and Games at King.com, said, “It was important for us to provide our players good entertainment. We chose our games software provider as we think that they have the desired products to support our ongoing expansion.”

Echoing David’s Views, Johan Öhman, CEO of Net Entertainment said, “The adoption of our software by King.com is a major victory for us. I am happy that they chose our software.”

King.com was launched in 2003 and is now available in 9 languages and 7 currencies. It is a private company based in the United Kingdom having a development campus in Stockholm, Sweden.

The online casino InterCasino is celebrating the 2008 Wimbledon Championships this July by hosting a Pontoon tournament which has a total prize of $500.

The idea behind this tournament is to achieve the highest balance possible within a given time frame of 30 minutes. All the players who take part in it will start with the same amount of tournament chips.

This tournament has a $10 entry with the runner up receiving $100. The players who finish in places 3-8 win $25 each. All the money used in the tournament is play money, with only the prize money being real.

All a player has to do to sign-up for this tournament is to visit the InterCasino lobby and select the tournament from the list. Players will be allotted $500 worth of chips, and can choose to end at any time if they believe to be ahead of the pack.

The player will be provided with a leader board that will help him or her track who the leader is, so that a player can at a glance decide whether to keep on playing. The winning accounts will be credited within an hour of the tournament ending.

The website Titan Poker, the largest online poker room on the iPoker Network, has awarded its players $250,000 in cash last Sunday.

The site did this while hosting an exciting weekly tournament, and stated that the $250,000 prize money weekly tournament will be held every Sunday evening, and players from all across the world can join the tables at the poker room to compete for their share of the prize money.

In the tournament held last Sunday, Carsten Wolf stood first to win the top prize of $52,500. The second spot was claimed by Jean Louis Fromenton who played throughout the night to claim $27,500 in cash.

The runner up said in a statement, “I began playing at 8 pm and ended 4am in the morning. The effort was worth it.”

He added, “I am very happy to have won the prize. I have no special strategy while playing the game.”

Players can pay directly the entry fee of $200 + $15 for the $250,000 tournament. This $250,000 tournament is just one of the many tournaments that are regularly played at Titan Poker. The site has doubled the amount of its monthly prizes from $8 million to $16 million in the past few months.

The site will host its biggest ever tournament in September with a large $2.5 million total prize money. It frequently awards its players with seats at the world’s most well-known poker tournaments, like the Aussie Millions and the European Poker Tour.

Officials from the Kansas state lottery are still waiting for word from an unidentified Kansas man who has won the Hot Lotto Sizzler lottery that is worth $5.26 million. The winning numbers on the ticket were 27-31-35-36-38 and the Hot Ball was 10.

Sally Lunsford, a spokeswoman for the Lottery, said, “Till now no one has come forward to claim the money or brought the ticket. Though I have received a call from a person claiming to be the winner’s lawyer.” She added, “if the call is legal, the person should come forward in the next one or two days.”

According to the spokeswoman, “The winner has a year to claim the sum. But in cases of large sums like this it does not take so long.” She added, “In the past we have had some unclaimed $10,000 tickets and one $200,000 ticket. We have no unclaimed jackpot tickets.”

The winner of the jackpot can choose to take the grand prize as an annual payment paid over two years — 25 payments of about $210,400 each — or take a lump sum payment. The lump sum would be $3.2 million, but this would be after subtracting 25 percent for federal taxes and 5 percent for state taxes.

The winner could claim a total of $2.24 million. The winning ticket was sold in southeast Kansas. The last time a jackpot was won in the state was in July last year when Lori Boyle won $12.9 million.

All Slots Casino which is a member of the Jackpot Factory Group has announced the launch of three new video slot games. The games are Bomber Girls, Days of the Tsar, and Lucky Shot.

Bomber Girls is a 5-reel video slot game with 20 pay lines.  The aim of this game is for the player to hit as many jackpots as possible. The players can use wilds, scatters and the new high-lo card bonus game to hit the jackpot.

Days of the Tsar is a 5-reel video slot game with 25 pay lines. Players are allowed to use the Tsar Nicholas’ wild symbol to try and hit the jackpot.

The last game introduced is a golf-themed online slot game called Lucky Shot. This game allows players to bet 75,000 credits in the base game, 30,000 credits in the bonus game, and 150,000 credits on the Free Spins feature.

In a joint statement issued in conjunction with All Slots Casino, David Brickman, the Jackpot Factory’s Vice President of Player Affairs, said “the casino is happy to announce the launch of three exciting, video slot games.”

He added, “we are confident that the new games will be well received by all the players, who are looking to play a few sessions at an online casino.”

All Slots Casino features over 350 exciting casino games, including 21 progressive jackpot games.

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.” 

Online gambling group, Ladbrokes, has invested significantly in special bonuses for its players taking part in the World Series of Poker. The company has announced that players who finish high in these sponsored tickets would get significant awards.

Apart from sponsoring World Series of Poker seats, the site has announced that it will award players who finish in the top 3 with significant cash prizes. Any player that is sponsored by the site, and wins the World Series of Poker main event will be eligible to win a cash award of a million dollars. Players sponsored by the site who are placed second and third in the main event will be eligible for a cash prize of $500 000. Players that finish in the top 100 will be eligible for seat sponsorships for the World Series of Poker.

Jon Kalmar, the Ladbrokes online poker coach stated, “ It is the dream of every online poker player to win the world series of poker. We are confident that our players will be among the top 100 finishers in this years event too.”

The company has budgeted to send 100 players for the main event to be held later this year. These 100 players will qualify online. The final qualifiers will be offered expert coaching by sites aces. Players who qualify for the World Series of Poker main event will be given a guaranteed cash prize of $250 000, which will include $100 000 in entry fees for the players to participate in other tournaments during the 117 days that the players will have to wait.

CryptoLogic Ltd. is a leading public e-gaming software developer and supplier and creates some of today’s most innovative online casino and poker gaming software for internationally recognized brands. 888.com, which is operated by 888 Holdings PLC, is the world’s number one online casino and poker room and owns and operates various world-renowned websites (www.888.com, www.Casino-on-Net.com, www.pacificpoker.com, www.888ladies.com and www.888sport.com).

Now, these two highly successful companies have joined forces for a 3-year deal that will allow 888.com to pick and choose from CryptoLogic’s amazing array of games that are best suited to their brand. 888.com has already chosen to include the extremely popular Cubis, Bejeweled and Millionaire’s Club slot machines from CryptoLogic’s large inventory of over 200 games.

“Today’s announcement is consistent with CryptoLogic’s strategy to partner with the worlds biggest and best gaming brands – as a way to offer the ultimate player experience,” said CryptoLogic’s President and CEO, Brian Hadfield.”

“For CryptoLogic, 888 is a natural fit,” added Justin Thouin, CryptoLogic’s Vice President, Product Management and Business Development. “Together, we offer the world’s best online games through one of the world’s largest Internet casinos.

As both companies are already well-established and world-renowned we’re sure to see even greater things to look forward too down the road!

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