Poker News May 7th, 2008
Cake Poker Room Review
Cake Poker Review
First impression
Cake Poker has a great website with all the information you need, and it’s easy to find. The site is also very nicely designed.
Player traffic
As the site is still fairly new as compared to all the major poker rooms, Cake Poker traffic is smaller with about 1900 player playing at peak hours
Features in detail
Cake Poker is a great site for the newer poker players and they have designed the site with beginner players in mind. Everything is very crisp and clear and all information is right there for you. Cake Poker does not allow data-mining and statistical programs to be used on their site. This keeps an equal playing field amongst everyone on their poker site.
Software
The graphics are really great, the game play is fast, and everything on Cake Poker is easy to use.
Support
Right now Cake Poker only offers support by email. But they are very quick and professional to respond.
Security
Cake Poker is highly secure, considering they spent two years on the development of software.
Banking
Cake Poker accepts: Visa, Mastercard, Money Bookers, ePassporte, and FirePay.
Summary
Cake poker is a very well designed site with great graphics and good functionality. The site offers great promotions and exciting games to play in, an excellent site for the beginner poker player.
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PurePlay Hits VCs Up For More Cash: Legal Online Poker in the US?
Remember when the US government was engaged in a very public battle with the rampant boom of online poker channels established both inside and outside the country? Of course, suits in Washington only looked scathingly on such activity because it had not found an effective way to tax virtual casinos. And the high-rolling hotels in Vegas and places elsewhere in the States were none too thrilled with the rather sudden establishment of a parallel industry almost entirely independent of themselves and which they could not easily influence.
Wild Jack Online Casino Deals New Casino Poker Game
KAHNAWAKE, QC — 05/07/08 — Wild Jack Casino (www.wildjack.com), a member of the Jackpot Factory Group and one of the world’s largest video poker and table game-focused casinos on the web, has launched a stylish and sophisticated casino poker game titled Multi-Hand Hold’Em High Gold.
A brilliant addition to Wild Jack Casino’s first class selection of table games, Multi-Hand Hold’Em High Gold allows players to play one to five hands at a time. The payouts can reach up to 75,000 credits and the highly entertaining game includes side bets that allow the experienced online casino
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WPT Enterprises, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results
WPT Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WPTE) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 30, 2008. Business highlights for the quarter included the delivery of seven episodes of Season VI of the World Poker Tour® (WPT) television series; the premiere of Season VI on the GSN Network; continued progress in the development of the WPT China National Traktor Poker Tour™; the launch of ClubWPT.com; and the amendment of our agreement with Cryptologic Inc. to provide for the launch of a full suite of online casino games and the development of Spanish and German language online gaming sites, which are expected to go live by June 2008.
Financial Results. Revenues increased 10% in the first quarter of 2008 to $5.0 million, compared to $4.5 million in the same period in 2007. The increase in revenue in the first quarter of 2008 was primarily due to an approximate $0.9 million increase in hosting and sponsorship revenues, primarily driven by international television sponsorship revenues that did not exist in the prior year period.
Domestic television license revenues were $2.1 million in the first quarter of 2008, compared to $2.4 million in the first quarter of 2007. The decrease was due to lower per episode license fees under the GSN contract, as compared to the Travel Channel agreement. International television licensing revenues increased 69% to $0.8 million compared to $0.5 million in the prior year with the increase due to lower than expected third party distribution costs (as international television revenues are recognized net of the distributor’s costs). Product licensing revenues decreased to $0.7 million in the first quarter of 2008 compared to $0.9 million in the first quarter of 2007. Online gaming revenues were $0.2 million in 2008 compared to $0.6 million in 2007 reflecting lower levels of player activity on our site on the Cryptologic network in the 2008 period versus the site operated by WagerWorks in the 2007 period.
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A Turn of Luck
Bad luck. That’s to what I attribute my last performance in a Poker tournament. Things started out okay, and for a while I was chip leader, but as it will sometimes happen in a game of chance, luck can turn sour. No matter how skillful a player you are, luck is everything.
LATIN AMERICA POKER TOUR WON BY A DUTCHMAN
19 year old Hollander Julien Nuijten prevails in inaugural Latin American contest
The inaugural Latin American Poker Tour organised by online poker giant Poker Stars.com ended in victory for the nineteen year old Dutch player Julien Nuijten this week. The Hollander prevailed over an entry field of 314 poker fans who travelled to Rio for the event, either stumping up the $2 500 buy-in, or winning entry packages online through Poker Stars satellites.
Online Casino CasinoUnreal Introduces New Games
Online casino operator CasinoUnreal.com has announced the introduction of two new slot games for online gamblers. Super Road Trip and Super Texas Gold are both available now for players.
Each game is five reels, with nine pay lines. Auto-play allows for as many as 100 spins per turn. the games feature large bonus payouts, and bonus rounds pay ten times more than before. The games feature instant-play mode, avoiding lengthy download times.
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Nevada Poker Players Alliance Director Tells Kyl UIGEA is Too Flawed
Nevada director for the Poker Players Alliance, Ken Illgen, lost no time firing back a salvo in response to an article last week in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in which Senator Jon Kyl, chief architect of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), said he is losing patience with the Federal Reserve and the Department of Treasury as they struggle to develop regulations to enforce the Internet gambling ban.
Poker Tourneys to be Held for Urban Health Institute
Both Full Tilt Poker and the Playboy Mansion Will Serve as Hosts of Events to Raise Money for the Organization
The Urban Health Institute (UHI) is a non-profit organization that was founded to provide medical treatment and care for those in need from natural and man-made disasters, and the poker community is coming together in two special events to help ensure that the UHI has what it needs to do so.
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Poker Pro Matthew Hilger Wins Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament
Matthew Hilger, poker author, poker publisher, and poker pro, won the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament this past Sunday evening giving him over $132K for first place. When asked about playing at Full Tilt, Hilger admitted “I’ve actually done very well in this particular tournament. In 9 or 10 tries this year, I have 3 top 100’s, 2 final tables, and now the big win”.
Matthew now has his eyes set on the World Series of Poker (WSOP), where he has cashed three of the last four years in the main event and nine times overall. The WSOP has exploded in popularity over the last few years, thanks in large part, to the support of online poker sites where many of the players win online satellites in the WSOP main event.
Hilger became inextricably associated with Internet Poker when he released his best-selling book, ‘Internet Texas Hold’em’ aka “ITH” at the dawn of the explosion the Internet has brought to Texas Holdem. Following the book, Hilger created an online community, poker forums, read strategy articles, and get exclusive poker bonuses.
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