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European Poker 2008 Tour: The Grand Final Monte Carlo This Week

2008-04-09T16:00:00.003Z

It is the biggest poker event to take place on the European continent but far - The European Poker 2008 Tour - Known as the EPT series. The biggest and best online poker rooms have launched satellites for their customers to attend the Grand Final in Monte Carlo this April 12 through 18.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) first began in 2004 as part of the worldwide Texas Hold 'em popularity. It is a series of poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour (WPT) and there all televised.

In seasons 1-3, the most different between the competing poker tours was the buy-in, its effect on the prize pool, with the EPT buy-ins about half the size of the WPT. This changed in season 4 when the buy-In's for most EPT events was increased to €8,000. (Due to increased popularity and lack of space in participating casinos).[1] At 2007 exchange rates, this is approximately equal to the US$10,000 which is the buy-in for most WPT events.

Furthermore, the final table is made up of 8 players not 6, as popularised by the WPT.

The tour was created by John Duthie, he was the winner of the inaugural Poker Million tournament. The show was first hosted by Caroline Flack, then announced in season 3 he was joined by Natalie Pinkham. Kara Scott was Season 4 host.

Acevenue BIG Money Freeroll

2008-04-05T12:34:00.004Z

Tonight at 1800 hours Acevenue the next generation in 3D poker will be holding there BIG Money Freeroll.

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Hope to see you there.

WPT Event in Reno-Less buy-ins

2008-03-29T21:38:00.008Z

The buy-in has been raised to $7500 as we all know, for the event in Grand Sierra Resort, Reno. In 2007 there were 475 players participating, this year there was only 261 players.

It's got to be the higher buy-in due to the critical economical situation in the USA many hobby players are not willing to pay such a high price for a live tournament.

Still many pros appeared and the quality of poker and the participants was kept very high. For example, reconfirmed Phil Ivey, had very strong performances from the past weeks. He is chip leader with 179000 chips, followed by Eli Elezra (173800 chips), And with 131300 chips was Jordan Rich in fourth place.

Elezra has already won one WPT-title, which was the $10000 Mirage Poker Showdown. Jordan Rich has been on top form to, with good results in recent times. Also in the top 10 are Furthermore Tim West, Hasan Habib and Bill Edler.

27 players will make up the money ranks and the star prize contains an amount of $1873275 witch is smaller than last year. The winner will take $493815.

Cricket Star To Turn Poker Star

2008-03-28T12:23:00.008Z

Shane Warne the Australian Test cricket spin bowling wizard will begin a new career as a poker professional, so reports said on Wednesday.

The test cricket star Warne, retired with a record 708 wickets, he had signed with online poker company to play the World Series of Poker, won by his Australian poker mentor Joe Hachem in 2005.

There are a lot of similarities but nothing will replace the 20 years of cricket in my life. Warne in his own words. "It's a game of skill that has a lot of analogies to cricket. You have to be very very disciplined."

Warne throughout his cricketing career attracted much controversy off the field as he did on it, to an Indian bookmaker and the phone text scandals and of course the breakup of his marriage over extramarital affairs.

Warne also served a ban for testing positive to a prohibited diuretic and also was charged with bringing the game into disrepute after criticising Sri Lanka's captain in 1999.

However, Warne was acknowledged by cricket fans around the world as one of the finest leg spin bowlers in the world and in 2000 was the only bowler to be selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century.

Warne has been playing poker every week with friends for the last 5 years, for the most recent times he has been taking avice from Hachem, who he saw on a regular basis.

His first professional game of poker would be at this week's Aussie Millions tournament Melbourne. Warne "My attitude is I've got a lot more to learn about the game."

Warne is expected to play poker in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Great Britain this year, while filling a development role for Australia's promising spin bowlers.

Poker Affiliates Make Big Profits with Launch of New Site

2008-03-27T13:31:00.005Z

Ace Venue has just launched and now has it's affiliate program in place.

Already taking on affiliates, Ace Venue is set to be the next big thing on the poker scene. Now the site has just launched there has never been a better time to become an affiliate.

Affiliates stand to make more money from a newly launched poker site like Ace Venue than an established one as with a brand new site almost all there players or members or clients would not be registered where as with an already established site, allot of the affiliates potentially affiliated players may already be registered to the site in question.

So you could become an affiliate to Ace Venue 3D poker today and all your contacts or clients are potential money making machines for your ultimate rake share as Ace Venue is a brand new poker site. Don't miss out on the opportunity to make big money now, as well as help us develop our player base.

To find out more about becoming an Ace Venue affiliate and start making money click here

Ace Venue 3D Poker Official Launch

2008-03-27T11:59:00.005Z

Ace venue's much awaited official launch took place on Sunday the 23/03/08. The launch was marked with a big money FREEROLL tournament and since then players have been coming to ace venue in numbers. This brand new 3D online poker room is the latest in 3D animated poker rooms designed to offer real animated player movement in game, yet keep the game easy to play and use like old fashioned 2D rooms.

Ace Venue hold daily freerolls and have big Sunday freerolls as well. Also check out our tournament schedule in our upcoming events pages to see details on forth coming tournament events and feature freerolls.

Ace Venue - Soon to be one of the top poker sites used. Download and Signup now.

Players invade Reno for World Poker Challenge

2008-03-25T21:20:00.005Z

The World Poker Tour season returns for the sixth time today with the World Poker Challenge at Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, Nev.

The buy-in for the challenge is now $7,500, the buy-in has gone up for the first time in 5 years since the World Poker Challenge has joined. It's a massive 50% increase from the previous years.

With the move to a higher buy-in, it would appear that this year's edition of the World Poker Challenge will be the last to air on the World Poker Tour. When the World Poker Tour recently announced its schedule for Season 7, the Reno event was missing from its customary slot at the end of March.

Last year's World Poker Challenge final table represented a major breakthrough for J.C. Tran. After reaching the World Poker Tour television table but fell short four times previously, he had a second-place finish the month before at Commerce, J.C.Tran finally ascended from consistent performer to World Poker Tour Champion.
In a battle of players nicknamed "J.C.," Tran defeated Juan Carlos Alvarado to claim the title after entering heads-up play with a prohibitive chip lead.

Last year's final table were:

1st J.C. Tran $683,473
2nd Juan Carlos Alvarado $366,798
3rd David "The Dragon" Pham $182,260
4th Mark Seif $182,260
5th John Hom $136,695
6th Danny Wong $113,913

The list of well-known and players who have made the final table at the World Poker Challenge over the years is a fairly distinguished one. Besides last year's marquee finishers, Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein, Blair Rodman, Young Phan, Greg "FBT" Mueller, Paul "Eskimo" Clark, T.J. Cloutier, and 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom Schneider have all taken their shot at the big prize in Reno.

The World Poker Challenge is the next regular stop of the season for the World Poker Tour. After next week's event at Foxwoods, the season will end with the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship.

Players Pocket Millions After Betfairpoker Glitch

2008-02-12T12:52:00.000Z

Last week on Betfairpoker after a new software update, players found a glitch in there 6 player sit and go tournaments which enabled a few players to get very rich very quickly. Players found that if on the first hand of a 6 player sit and go tournament they all went all in that the winner of the hand would get first place prize money and that all the others would get second place prize money!

Rumours of this glitch were soon found echoing through the poker forums and chat networks. Players flocked to Betfair in hope of taking advantage of this newfound hole in Betfair’s systems. Players were targeting the $1000 buy in tournaments (the largest Betfair offered) and taking advantage of this glitch.

While it is estimated that hundreds of these sit and go tournaments were played before Betfair could shut them down, they have not released an official statement as yet. It has been estimated that players took Betfair for between £1.7 and £4 million during a 1-3 hour period.

While players who tried to withdraw their loot after the tournaments in question were shut down had there accounts frozen, there must have been some players who got away with it as according to The Daily Telegraph about 20 Betfair players received an e-mail demanding the money back.

Betfair’s e-mail to these 20 or so players reads “You recently received payments from playing Sit & Go STTs [single table tournaments] on Betfair Poker in circumstances that resulted in greater payouts than intended.”

The e-mail went on to say "such games were incorrectly set up to pay everyone involved in certain all-in situations and this was exploited by you and others to generate substantial returns in a short space of time. As I’m sure you can understand, the winnings received as a result of this exploitation must be returned.”

It is yet to be seen if these player can keep their loot legally or weather they will be forced to return their winnings.

Want to play on a safe, secure 3d poker site without software faults and with the twist of being in true 3d animation visit Ace Venue 3d poker today.

Long awaited launch of Ace Venue!

2007-11-22T20:52:00.000Z

The long awaited launch of Ace Venue is almost here, just 9 days to go and you will be able to experience Ace Venue 3D animated poker. The 3D characters, both men and some sexy lady's like you have never seen in 3D before, Ace Venue will make your experience of 3D online poker like no other.
I'm telling you look out for the top heavey bird ;-)

It's exciting times for Ace Venue poker, when you start playing you will find it looks great, the virtual lady's are sexy as you like, the actions from all the characters are wicked, and we will be playing the game, witch we all love to play, POKER!!!

Look forward to seeing you at Ace Venue

Good luck!!!

To download our poker software please visit our website. Please note though that launch is set for December the 1st so you may not be able to download this brand new software just yet.

New 3D Poker Software Launch

2007-11-16T09:34:00.000Z

Ace Venue's long awaited launch is now coming, from the 1st of December you will be able to experience Ace Venue 3D animated poker.

The beauty about Ace Venue Poker is that is animated 3D characters with a selection of perspectives on the game including first person, though your screen is simple, your not fighting to find the poker game in amongst the gaming options. This software is all about the poker with a 3D animated twist.

From the 1st of December we will be offering daily FREEROLLS with SUPERFREEROLLS on the weekends. There will also be a big launch night FREEROLL for the early players to cash in on to promote our launch.

This is an exciting time for Ace Venue Poker and we hope that you will find our poker rooms as great as we think they are when you start playing.

We look forward to seeing you on the tables and good luck.

To download our poker software please visit our website. Please note though that launch is set for December the 1st so you may not be able to download this brand new software just yet.

What 2007 is set to bring US poker players

2007-01-02T18:37:00.000Z

Here is a little bit about the way the future is panning out for 2007 regarding US poker players. Already we have seen changes with Party Poker dropping from being the most popular poker site and other US based poker sites pushing into the lead while shady "workaround" depositing sites spring up.

Market specialists and professional online poker players warned that a ban on online gambling in the US would only cause some poker operators to go underground. Forum posts of sites known as "workaround" depositing sites are being seen already, players are being urged to steer clear of these potentially scammy sites.

These "workaround" sites are popping up all around and more are likely to pop up if Netteller closes to US gamblers. Many of these sites will be operating un-licensed.

The online poker rooms like Ace Venue Poker will continue to play catchup with the new leader in online poker, poker stars. This new leading US accepting site is being trailed by the non us accepted site, party poker which has been gaining a considerable strong hold over the non US world markets.

Online gambling bans similar to that of the US are still an ugly reality for those in Germany and France, which could pummel the already battered online gambling sites. Many are expecting to see bans in the new year.

Time is beginning to run out as there is an estimated 189 days left of the full 270 days before regulation sets in. Many ewallet providers and online poker sites continue to "not comment" while how the US intend to police this law is still an unknown, not just to the people of the online community no doubt!

The new year will bring many changes to the US online poker player and Ace Venue Poker urges you to make informed decisions and stay updated on news regarding your local laws at www.acevenue.com. For more information on US Online Gambling legislation click here

Also if you want to discuss this with other poker players go to our new forums click here

Ace Venue Poker Joins the Bloging Community

2006-11-19T16:02:00.000Z

Ace Venue first blog.

At Ace Venue what our customers and potential customers think about us is very important to us. We want to share our information and thoughts with the online poker community and here what you the online poker players have to say as well.

This being our first blog of many more to come, we intend to provide information, news, tips and tricks via this booming form of communication, not just for our current poker community but for the wider world as well. Using this along with our poker forum and other online poker features we hope to be able to provide a TOTAL online poker hub of information and entertainment to suite every body.

If you've not yet played in our crisp clean 3D online poker rooms then click here to experience some thing new now.

The Ace Venue Poker Team