2006 December 04 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3
You may think a rakeback is an old gorilla, or perhaps a type of wart hog, but if so, you are not likely to be the one to benefit from one online poker room’s generous offer. For an online poker player, a rakeack is a wonderful thing, sort of a refund given to the player of money that the poker room takes out of every hand. Poker Club Europe, a European online poker room and casino, is now offering a VIP Cashback Gold program that will give its members a shot at earning more than half of their rake back, up to sixty percent.
When three students of University of Wisconsin-Platteville set out to raise money for a fundraiser, they drew on their study of furniture and the poker boom for inspiration. Norm Hippert, Adam Svatek and Joe Gruentzel, industrial studies technical education students, came together on a design and build plan for a poker table, which raised $600 during the Marquette University fundraiser, which raised money to benefit the Nativity Jesuit Middle School in Milwaukee. After putting in some 35 hours to the project, they made a poker table with a unique design.
The latest move by Las Vegas Sands, the major Vegas gambling group that owns The Venetian, Sands, Palazzo and Paiza land brands will cause ripples in the online gambling pond for sureit has commissioned Cantor Gaming to launch an online casino and poker site initially aimed at serving the United Kingdom market. The site is anticipated to be launched during the second quarter of 2007.
The decision by the regional government of Madrid to allow minimum Euro 1 bets in games venues as well as telephone and online bets, covering sports and other competitions, as well as allowing internet bets on bingo and casino games is another step toward an increasingly practical approach to regulated gambling in Europe.
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