Poker News

We now have a Greek section on Pokeriot. Greece is one of the fast growing poker markets and it’s reasonable that everyones favourite poker news site is translated for all our friends on the Mediterranean islands to enjoy. 

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Pokeriot.com is a constantly growing site as you might have noticed and today we are proud to say that it is available in Italian as well. The slogan for the site in Italian (you know the: Pokeriot - Your guide to free online poker) is: Pokeriot.com - La tua guida gratuita al poker online. If you know how to speak, or at least read, Italian, take a look. 

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After the last article about Ongames unfair Rakeback Policy we got a lot of feedback. We thought that it was the right thing to do to let Betsson answer the statements in the article and here is the complete answer:

Betsson supports Ongame’s policy

As a hard working and serious gaming company, Betsson wants to point out its relation to Ongame and what we offer and do not offer our customers.

Betsson is an independent company which means that our agreement with Ongame as network is the same as every other operator in the network. This means that as Ongames states, Betsson is operating in a “rakeback free environment“ and have done from October 2007. The same goes for back to back bonuses.

We know that there have been affiliates working for us and giving out rakeback. As soon as this has come to our knowledge these affiliates have been suspended. In our aim to support Ongame to obtain the rakeback free environment, this is how we have to work.

Betsson wants to offer its customers a feeling of a high end product with a high level of service. This is how we attract and keep our customers.

Rumors about being an operator offering things to players that no other operator in the network does is not in line with how a serious betting company operates, and especially not Betsson. For other poker rooms in the Ongame Network Betsson therefore wants to clarify this by this article and explain that rumors are just rumors that have no real source.

We will together with Ongame proceed working for a “rakeback free environment” and are always open for new serious gaming companies in the network.

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The pokeriot crew has been testing out Googles Lively and this is what we came up with:

Want so se more of the High Rollers Lounge please go to the official page.

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Some players are more suited for the bigger games. If you have been in the business for a while you know that. The game is different at the small stakes and some players are born high stake players. The problem you have with your game might actually be that you don’t play with the people you are supposed to play with. Maybe a bigger bankroll and higher stakes will let you become the player you really are.

This is not an unusual problem, that’s why sometimes someone will be prepared to stake you. If you are lucky you can find someone that will get you the money your bankroll needs. The brand new site Cardlovers.com will actually do it to their players. If you need a bigger bankroll they will step up and make sure you get it.

This is an amazing offer from a Poker site and it will probably even work out well for them. Their poker players will be pretty much in love with the Lovers after a thing like that.

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Pokeriot.com is growing fast. We will soon launch two other languages Portugese and German and we offer a sneak preview to our faithful readers (eg You). If you are fluent in any of the languages we hope that you will tell us if we have made any mistakes, or if there is something else wrong with the site.

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888.com’s World Poker Crown finals is about to take place at Peralada Castle (Barcelona) at May 8. The finalists have bested more than 2000 contestants in the online qualifier and will now win at least $22.000 each. The winner will walk away with $1.000.000.

The players that have qualified for the final table are:

Jack Hinchey (Canada)
Michael Lawson (Canada)
Bart Wetsteijn (Netherlands)
Piotr Skiba (Poland)
Pini Roberto (Italy)
Mark Rossler (Germany)
Mark Castonguay (Canada)
Arjan van Bavel (Netherlands)
Michael Leah (Canada) (
Gijsbert van Doesburg (Netherlands)

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A 22 year old student from Canada named Glen Chorny has made himself famous, at least for this year, and he has made himself 2 million euros as well. Glen Chorny came to the European Poker Tour from a satellite on Pokerstars. The Canadian economy student managed to beat the Hungarian Denes Kalo heads up with A5 vs KQ. Chorny could leave the beautiful Monte Carlo with a little more money then he came and he’ll need those economy studies in a completely different way today.

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After the controversial smoking ban law was put into effect this year, Enghien-les-Bains, the first french casino, shows a serious fall of its sales turnover since the beginning of the year. Its financial loss represents already 1,5 million euros.

In order to restitue it’s revenue, the casino issued a complaint to the Higher Comission of Gaming in order to get new tables of Hold’em poker and slot machines.

Concerning the question of tobacco near the players, some see this application like a relief. Nevertheless, the legislatioin is very unpopular among players, and the majority disaproves this law. Apparently, tobacco brings a better stimulation to the play and even, some players claim, it helps them stay awake. Dissatisfaction regarding the ban are numerous and increasing.

A woman even suggests installing machines under the open air. Another player explains how this ban has made him enjoy much more the online action at his favorite online poker site- Pokerloco.com.

Due to this restrictioin, more and more casinos in France are being emptied. Would this be their end and a new era for online poker ?

We leave it up to you to answer…

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Guest Columnist - Francois Samuel

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Ongame Ntwork haven’t allowed Rakeback for their partners for quite a long period. Many of the partners have had repetitive bonuses of different kinds though and these have been available on Rakeback sites. For legal reasons Ongame and the owner Bwin disagrees with this and are now making the rules a bit tougher. From now on Ongame partner aren’t allowed to be mentioned on Rakebacks sites. The question is how the poker rooms can handle this. They can of course stop paying CPA to the sites offering rakeback but if someone wanted to make trouble for a site in the Ongame Network they can just start a rakeback site and link to the site in question. It would be especially funny if it was to one of Ongames own sites, how will they handle that? Will they kick Pokerroom out of the network?

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