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Online Mac Poker Players Would Like Big Online Casinos and Poker Rooms to Become Mac Compatible

Online Mac poker players want one of the big online poker rooms to step up and drop the money to upgrade their software to cater to their needs as Mac users. As per recent studies the market for mac online poker has grown to 4.4% of the total PC users. In terms of money this value is over $480 million USD. There has been a spurt of several Mac rooms to cash in on this growing market. Pacific Poker's Online Poker for Mac, software is run on Java. Players need to use the no download software to play poker on their macs. Mac users now want the biggest online room in the world, Party Poker to become mac compatible. Party Poker does not have any such plans currently and is waiting for the market to grow further and be worth the expenditure before upgrading the expensive software.

Largest Legal Poker Prize in Canada Won by a Man From Salt Spring Island

A man from Salt Spring Island has won the largest legal prize in Canada, at the B.C. Poker Championship in Richmond, B.C. James Hawkins took the grand prize of $382,000. Casinocity.com reports:

He said he had been playing poker for a couple of years and this was only his second tournament. The championship consisted of three Texas Hold'em events over a four-day period.

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Avail of the Regular Betting Service on Paddy Power Poker and bet on the World's Top Ranking Players in all Premiere Tournaments

Poker players will now be able to bet on their favorite players in several poker circuit's most prestigious events, on Paddy Poker. Starting with Monte Carlo Millions, this will include events from the World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour events. Ucwe.com reports:

Paddy Power Poker today launches a regular betting service on some of the world;s premier poker tournaments. Bets can be laid each way or to win on a non-runner, no bet basis.

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Lakes Entertainment to Sell Part or All of its Stake in WPT Enterprises Inc. to Keep Operations Going

Lakes Entertainment Inc. - casino developer of Minnetonka, said that it may sell all or part of its stake in World Poker Tour operator WPT Enterprises Inc. It is considering doing so in order to raise cash. It said that it was in need of  $10 million as finance, by the 31st of Dec. It also needed another $10 million by the 1st of March, in order to continue operations. WPT is based in Los Angeles and is the creator of the World Poker Tour - the tournament on Travel Channel. Lakes and WPT are both controlled by Lyle Berman, Minnetonka businessman, who is the CEO of both firms. Berman has the largest number of shares in Lakes. Startribune.com reports:

Lakes owns a 61.9 percent stake in WPT, or about 12.5 million shares. At WPT's closing price of $7.60 a share Wednesday, Lakes' stake in WPT would be worth $95 million.

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Absolute Poker's "Win Your Tution" Tournament, Won by 21 Year Old

Absolute Poker targetted students with its "Win Your Tution" tournament. Jeremy Olisar, a 21 year old from Carneige Mellon, will get the cheque for his Fall Tution Fees. He won the tournament in October. He is a student from Naperville, Ill. He beat opponents from more than 300 colleges in the Freeroll No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament. College poker players form the largest growing segment of online poker. Absolute Poker wanted to cash in on this trend and target students. They certainly know how to catch them young and build their business steadily. Online-casinos.com reports:

"We want to create customer loyalty and brand recognition, and college poker players are the fastest growing segment of online poker participants," Absolute Poker's Michael Edwards said. "But we're also a young company, and not too separated from the years when Ramen noodles and Kraft dinners were our main meals."

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Poker - The Most Dominant Game Among All Online Casino Games

Online poker is topping the list of all casino games, with the boom of online casinos. At land based casinos, poker was never over represented though it was a favorite always. Players played all other games equally. However, on the internet, poker is the king of all casino games. A large number of online casino sites are devoted specially to this game. Live TV coverage, phenomenal prize sums and big sponsors have all played a role in taking the game to its present glory. Celebrity endorsement is yet another key factor that has led to the popularity of poker. There is an abundance in terms of variations to this game, as available at online casinos, with at least a hundred different poker games, the choice is practically unlimited.

The First Ever Interactive TV Multi Player Texas Hold'em Poker, Now on UK's Fifth Largest Casino Channel, 'Five'

Ground breaking iTV technology brings great poker to British fans. This will be telecast on UK's fifth largest land casino channel, Five, this week. Zone4Play, the technology developer, just announced the launch of the first ever Interactive TV Multi Player Texas Hold'em Poker. This was specially designed for Five by ZonePlay. It is the first time in the world, that the iTV multiplayer Texas Hold'em Poker is being deployed,live. The world-wide poker playing community has risen to 100 million and is still growing. Zone4Play will leverage this unique cross-platform game expertise. This will enable it to launch services to iTV, Internet and mobiles. Online-casinos.com reports:

The first ever iTV multi-player Texas Hold'em poker is available on SKY's interactive system and accessible through "Five,s" red button service. Later this year, the game will be launched on 3 more channels.

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Watch FullTiltPoker.net Invitational Live From Monaco, On Fox Sports Network

Fox Sports was the first network to televise a poker tournament in 2004, when they broadcast the American Poker Championships from Turning Stone Casino in New York. This Thanksgiving, Fox Sports will do it again.

Now Fox Sports, heads international as they team up with Full Tilt again for the FullTiltPoker.net Invitational Live from Monaco on Thanksgiving evening. Each player will be putting up $120,000 and FullTilt will add in another $160,000 bringing the total purse to a cool $1 million.

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Executives, Online Poker Room Owners, Politicians and Others in the Poker Industry Get Together at The Poker Industry Expo, in December

The Poker Industry Expo will be held during the first weekend of December, at the Barcelo San Jose Palacio in Costa Rica. This two day exposition will have presentations and seminars relating to poker room management, new technologies in poker besides issues relating to marketing, customer service and payment.

Exhibitors including 888.com, Doyle Brunson Poker Network, and Gateway Financial Services, will show off their services to attendees. Speakers include James Kasper, the state representative from North Dakota who has led effort to legalize online poker in his state.

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Party Poker's New Shootout Tournaments

An interesting variation to the standard Multi Table Tournament format are the Shootout tournaments, at PartyPoker. In a Shootout Tournament, there can be 1,2,3, or 4 rounds. The number of rounds, varies according to the number of players that take part. In Rounds 1,2 and 3, there are no collapsing tables. They advance if they are one of the 3 remaining players, at the table. Advancing players get a portion of the prize pool each round. Players who advance, do so with the chips won up to that point. Round 4 is played according to the standard Multi Table Tournament Format.

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