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Mobile Gambling - Android

Now Android users can be able to play the game of BlackJack , right from their cell phones. The application is made available by spin3 - a Microgaming powered mobile gambling provider - and it can be downloaded on any Android based phone for free.

Spin3 has already made arrangements and tied up with its casinos to provide casino games online. The games like Mega Moolah amd Major Millions are already made avaibale for iPhone users. Blackjack is the recent game to be introduced in an online, mobile avatar. Currently this application is meant solely for the Android, and in near future the application maybe made available, by the company, for other mobile users too!

The prediction for this high end mobile market is set to increase by almost 14% by the end of this year. The number in itself is huge and the growth will soon overtake the number of users of all the other phones, combined!

Freeroll Online Vegas Casino.

A new Labor Day slot freeroll has been announced by Online Vegas Casino that will start from 3rd September and offers a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000. To grab a starting slot at the Labour's Day freeroll all one requires is a real money account on Online Vegas Casino. This tournament will be played out on the California gold slot and there is no need for making any actual deposit, in order to participate at the tournament. If at all a player runs out of tournament dollars, those can be bought by making a minimum payment. Here a player can rebuy 300 tournament dollars for $12.29.

The online tournament will kickoff from day one of 3rd September at exactly 10pm ET and will end on September 10 at 10:45 pm ET. The final winner at this tournament will receive a cash prize of $20,000 and there are also prizes for those who finish upto the 2000th place, at this online tournament. Players can also look forward to the 3day's event $30k guaranteed weekend tournament that will resume on 10th, 17th and 24th of sep and will continue till the following Tuesday. For this 30K event the entry tickets are being charged at $10 each and there is also the facility for a rebuy at the same price.

Newest Champion from Austria.

The young Austrian - Matthias Habernig -, who was supposed to be on a vacation, took everyone by surprise at the Latin American poker tour tournament. He not only did win the Latin American poker title but also became the youngest player to win that title. Dayan Verdanega from Ponta Grossa was the runner up, but he couldn't hold long enough against Habernig, and eventually lost.

On day one, Habernig gathered some momentum as he surfaced as the chip leader. This was owed to his play of cards and not entirely on natural talent, 'according to him! His modesty shone bright, but it also helped him gather some 3million chips ahead of the final table. He built up a huge rapport for himself, strong enough for anyone to be able to challenge him.

Eight players started off at the table, this afternoon, of which only five players remained after of a couple of hours. Rudy Blondeau was the first one to get eliminated. This was of a surprise to everyone as he happens to be a former chip leader. No sooner after his elimination, Rodrigo Scartezini and Andre scaff were on their way out.

In the third round, the departure of Miguel Velasco left Verdanega and Habernig competing at the table. What set Habernig apart from other players were his massive poker chip points, which already did cross the four million mark. Other players were trying ever so hard just to match up. This is how the final table at this years LAPT event were wrapped up.

Australia New Zealand Poker tour

The day four of the Australia Newzealand poker tour kicked off with much fanfare as overnight chip leader - Vesko Zmukic - played even harder to grab the final table. For a change that from the usual previous years was the rise of the few new faces. These were the graduate uni students who shone brightly at the end of the event. Total of 15 players started off the game, but within a two hour time gap, few of them were on the verge of loosing out. Among them those who were thought to make it big, proved disappointing and lost in the early hours of the game. Just two players who posed might and vigor were left battling at the very end.

The very first player to drop was Bryan Huang. He also happens to be the Team pokerstar pro. He was soon followed by another precious and famed player - Maklouf- who secured his third ANZPT final table in a three's succession. The next player out was Gray and Emerson Rewi. Spiklin was another player who received an harsh treatment of play from bluebird on his arrival at in Queenstown. He prepared some pretty amazing move against his opponent, 'Watson,' but he could not sustain his winning streak and was failed out by Watson himself.

As the day ended, Cohen stood as the final winner. He will receive a cash prize of $73,630. His ranking also shot up and now he stands 12th in the season 2 points ranking. There are still three events to go before the final judgment could be given. So the ranking points are still to be decided and can only be viewed after the end of the final three events.

Glimpse of WSOP Day 1B

As expected each year, day 1b of the WSOP2010 was attended by more participants than was on the day '1a' of the event. The biggest and the most anticipated event of the series was flocked by 1489 people, in all; those who betted at the tables of the Rio for the second day 1 flight. As the day progressed towards an end only 500 players were left, declared as winners. One of them was 'James Danielson,' He secured some 200k worth of chips making his win standout from other's with most number of chip counts. Scoring the second highest was 'Fillipo Candio'. Also on the winning list were Rober Miller and Jason DeWitt who stood third and fourth respectively.

Jason DeWitt surprised everyone at the table when he managed to take down a gaint pot in a 3way hand. He gained a roll after this win. The nail biting action was kicked off by Nick Mitchell and the event strated to become serious as Jared Pacifici notched things up a bit at the table. DeWitt allowed a re-raise that threw Mitchell out of the pot. The game continued for a little while, when DeWitt belt out another threatening bet making Pacifici 'fold' to end his game. For the play on day 2 many famous name playing a the tournament made it without any fuss. Those who made it were, namely : Jhonny Lodden, Gavin Griffin and James Dempsey.

Uwe Rosenberg Wants You to Use the Psychometer

The first thing that comes to our minds when mention of any games, is most probably 'Party games'. Designer Uwe Rosenberg widely famous for card based games and hugely successful strategy games like, Agricola, Le Havre and such also specializes in developing party games.

The line up of big boxed party games released by cosmos are; The difference between Women & Men and Kennen Sie Di! These games are by Mr. Rosenberg, and he also helped contributed his game developing talent along with Marcel-Andre Casasola Merkle while developing a game by the name, 'Attribut2'. With all these new additions of party games German publisher - Heidelberger Spieleverlag released a new game 'Psychometer' in May 2010.

The game is playable among 3-5 players of age 16yrs and above. In Pyschometer the player gets to learn what their fellow friends think about them. Many questions arise regarding their view of that player, like: 'do they think that you are as reliable and or attractive as you think you are! It is all about finding out what they think. Currently the game is available only in German language.

Legend(s) of the trading cards

Collecting baseball cards is all the rage among teenagers, which mostly feature the legendry baseball superstars imprinted onto these cards. There are also collectible cards of famous basketball and soccer players. But this is the first time ever to see a legendry blackjack player on a trading card.

Michael Aponte, the finest player well known around the world for his black jack skills, also considered as the legend in the game, became the first ever. Topps Allen & Ginter set of cards are available in leading stores all across US. These cards have featured onto them some 20 world champions from various fields of sports. It also includes some 300 baseball players and 25 historic figures. Originally this Allen & Ginter's cards were sold, as early as 1880's, packaged in cigarette cartons. Back then the cards had, apart from baseball superstars; faces of wrestlers, pugilists, wrestlers, riflemen and rowers.

It was quite a surprise for Mr. Aponte to get featured on the Ginter's set of cards, and never would have he imagined to ever get himself be seen on one of the cards. His hard work and some amazing skills of card counting that made him famous with his black jack career, bought him the possibility to be a part of the ever so popular Ginter's trading cards. Michael Aponte is a well known personality, but very few know that his career as a manager of the MIT blackjack team helped inspire a blockbuster movie. The MIT blackjack team raided the casino's at vegas with a certain vengeance ever so winning millions of dollars of cash money in the process. The Hollywood movie by the name, '21,' is the reel depiction of the real life of the MIT team.

Apart from Aponte himself there are world famous people like, Danica Patrick - the only women in race driver, the famous boxer Joe Frazier, legendry actor and god of martial art's: Mr. Bruce Lee and soccer star Mia Hamm; have been featured on the 2007 edition of the Topps Allen & Ginter set of cards.

A noble cause - Poker Charity Game.

Poker as a game is always perceived as a money hungry, ruthless game of lust and vigor. Mostly associated with the imagery of the old west saloons and gunslingers, somehow; the game is gaining a sudden surge in popularity in United States. The uptake of all this popularity, which is there due to the televised screening of the number of tournaments that are held all across the US, is we are seeing the rise in number of poker celebrities and millions of poker fans. It becomes hard to believe but the next in evolution for the poker game are charity poker games. With a sole purpose of raising money, this new thing in charity based games is happily being embraced by many organizations, those that are into charity.

For one, Poker game is utterly exciting. This is why it helps attract a large number of crowds where that it is held. In October '05, 'best bet for the cure - charity poker hol'em up tournament,' was held in Boston that was hosted by Pulver enterprise. The thousands of dollars that were raised at the tournament was funded at the Diabetes research institute foundation and the Barton centre for diabetic education. Many a celebrities made their presence felt at this tournament and winner of the poker tournament was awarded with a bronze pulver cup. Another such tournament, with the aim to raise money was recently held in Las Vegas. The Cory Lidle celebrity poker boasted of 130 entrants, most of them were celebrities and the event raised some $20,000 that was donated towards the make-a-wish foundation and also towards the tsunami relief funds. Kelly flynnee the winner of this tournament won prize money of $30,000.

Besides the many games that are held for charity at various places, special internet casinos are also holding such tournaments for providing to the charitable cause. Benefits for those who like to play poker, especially those who participate in such events is they get to interact with many like minded people, and in the process they also get to be a part of a noble cause. Now this is called luck and gain!

Chess News - Zambia in the spotlight

Not many are aware that there is just one grandmaster in the world of chess hailing from Zambia. So far, there are many who have taken up professional chess playing, and the nostalgic fact hasn't deterred any of them for playing it. All of them are determined to make it big, someday!

The lesser heard player, 'Phiri Richmond,' from Zambia is one among such. He is in India to participate in the Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess Championship that is to be held later this month.

He is one among seven siblings in a farming family. His parents are involved with farming and can do little to support his passion. His dream of playing chess and coming to India was made possible through a sponsorship deal he struck, while he was spotted playing the African championship back in 2006. In the same year he grabbed the Chess Olympiad trophy in Turin. Also, in consecutive years he went on to win the African junior championship, twice! And later in 2008 he also won the national championship.

He enjoys a huge support from many, especially from his own family who encourage him to make it big. 'He sure is on a roll at a young age of just 22 years.

Celebrity poker tournament updates

Hollywood actress Ricki Lake has made it to the finals at a poker tournament that was held in California. The prize money for the winner at the tournament was $125,000.

Star of the famous sitcom 'Hairspray,' was all set to appear at the cal state poker championship that took place at the commerce casino in LA. She placed her bets in the card game finale, finally emerging as a winner.

The event attracted more than 1000 players who participated at the tournament game. Lake, one of among the 72 players that made it to the finals, is a regular at the casino for attending the World Poker Tournament Invitation each year.

Borgata Poker championship

In about four days of play in the Borgata spring open championship, Alex Queen of Bethlehem Pa. took away the grand prize of $353,535 at the poker game this Thursday. Jason min of east meadow NY, grasped the second place and won $205,965 of cash money. While at the third place was Dan Hinden of Danbury Conn as he won $101756 at the game.

The final hand at the Borgata was won with the help of an ace, held by the queen. It seems only queen possessed an ace, giving him an upper hand over the other players. They might have decided to settle with a split, but it was totally on them to decide; 'whether to settle it or not!

Fledgling spring open been doing fairly well and the other $20+$30 no limit tournament will take place today, scheduled at noon. East coast championship that was won by Sorel Mizzi, will be a part of this fledgling open. He was rewarded with $17000 at the east coast championship. The huge turnout at the $3500-buy in championship event of 383 players covered a guaranteed $1 million prize pool.

The championship final results are as follows.

ALEXANDER QUEEN (BETHLEHEM, PA): $355,535
JASON MIN (EAST MEADOW, NY): $205,965
DANIEL HINDIN (DANBURY, CT): $101,756
MICKAEL MORGOUSKY (BROOKLYN, NY): $85,818
MICHAEL SOMMA (MIDDLE VLG, NY): $73,558
MATTHEW WAXMAN (PARKLAND, FL): $61,299
ALLEN CHANG (BROOKLYN, NY): $49,039
ADAM JUNGLEN (STOW, OH): $36,779
JESSE YAGINUMA (SILVER SPRING, MD): $24,520
ROGER VANDRIESEN (WHITING, NJ): $15,938
MICHAEL CASTALDO (PALISADES, NY): $15,938
MICHAEL OMELCHUK (BELLPORT, NY): $15,938
RUSS RADOM (WARWICK, PA): $12,260
RYAN DANGELO (VESTAL, NY): $12,260
IGOR BORUKHOV (REGO PARK, NY): $12,260
STEVE KARP (NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FL): $8,582
JOSHUA SMITH (NEWARK, DE): $8,582
JASON PASTER (HAMILTON, NJ): $8,582
ANTHONY COLOMBO (BROOKLYN, NY): $7,356
STEVEN LEVY (BROOKLYN, NY): $7,356
KEITH CROWDER (ELKINS PARK, PA): $7,356
TIMOTHY ULMER (WILLOW GROVE, PA): $7,356
GREGORY MERSON (LAUREL, MD): $7,356
NICHOLAS GUAGENTI (WESTERVILLE, OH): $7,356
JOSEPH BOWLES (NEWTOWN, PA): $7,356
SAMUEL BERNSTEIN (ENGLEWOOD, NJ): $7,356
ANDREW ROSEN (NY, NY): $7,356
ROSLYN QUARTO (EDISON, NJ): $6,130
SANGHO YI (WESTBURY, NY): $6,130
RYAN MILLER (ANNANDALE, NJ): $6,130
CASEY PETERS (BRICK, NJ): $6,130
MICHAEL MEREDITH (WESTFIELD, NJ): $6,130
STEPHEN REYNOLDS (LITTLE EGG HARBOUR, NJ): $6,130
FEMING CHAN (WEST WINDSOR, NJ): $6,130
MAURICE PARADIS (JEWETT CITY, CT): $6,130
ROBERT DEPPE (LIMA, OH): $6,130

Second Poker Tournament Declared By Pokertek And Carnival

The achievement of the 2009's Carnival PokerPro Challenge Tournament has just been announced by the leading mechanical poker table manufacturer, PokerTek. The event that was organized at the Carnival Freedom, in a cruise that traveled way long from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Jamaica, stopping at beautiful destinations such as Key West and Grand Cayman.

Mr. Rodney Dofort(Sr. VP) of Casino operation for Carnival, and his team feels very contented and are pleased with the response from players who participated in the second year of the event.

The team also has plans to start qualifying players this very month for the imminent Carnival PokerPro Challenge. Looking at the current response, larger participation for this year's final event is expected.

James Crawford, the president for PokerTek, said, "I am very impressed with the continuous success concerning the tournament and we are expecting the tourney to become into one of the most attractive ones of its kind in the coming years".

A resident of Middleberg Heights, Scott Mateosky obtained the Pocket 5 winning hand and was granted the bracelet that credits him as the winner of the tournament. A total of thirty five thousand dollars was awarded to him while the balance forty thousand was divided between the remaining top ten finishers.

In 2009 the tourney began with a Texas Hold'Em satellite (no limit) series taking place in every cruise ship of the Carnival fleet, and every winner, was fixed a free cruise pass to jump aboard Carnival Freedom as their qualified for the final event organized in January 2010.A variety of land-based casinos also sent some good players that had qualified in the PokerPro tournaments addition to this.

6 PokerPro tables were sited in Carnival Freedom's Dynasty Lounge particularly to play the final tourney. Such tables all were obtainable for either regular player to play for cash or for tournament events during a full week. From January 24 to the 30, 127 players had their possibility to win the big prize.

The week of the event came to a close with a ten thousand tournament called "Beat the Boss" where Troy Kennedy, the casino manager, had to be beaten.

The spokespeople from both the cruise line and the poker table manufacturer will soon declare the details for the second version of the Carnival PokerPro Challenge. But one thing has been confirmed: the total of $75,000 dollars in awards.

Voting for the World Series Poker.

This is the first time that World Series of Poker has resorted to an online voting system for the selection of the competing players. WSOP has released the names of the current top 20 players in the popularity contest. The maximum number of votes in that contest will decide the winners, those who will get to compete at the WSOP tournament. 50 players constantly get highlighted on the poker series website and now there is the additional mention of all those names of the players, on the website as it stands.

The list prepared by the poker series committee is missing out on few of the world class players. Jerry Yang one of the top players at the main event fails to make it to the top 50 list. Carlos Mortensen who must have been in the top 10 list is being missed heavily.

Below are few players who made it to TOP 20

Doyle Brunson

Johnny Chan

T.J. Cloutier

Allen Cunningham

Antonio Esfandiari

Sam Farha

On comparing the list to the top 50 as seen on the poker series website, as of on 19th April 2010, it becomes obvious to recognize all the missing names.

Some other players that may miss out from competing in the World Series event due to lesser votes are, Annette Obrestad, Jason Mercier, Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond, David Benyamine, six-time bracelet winner Layne Flack, Jeff Lisandro, Erick Lindgren and Eli Elezra.

WSOP has confirmed that they have received 25000 votes till date and counting. So if you want to get your favorite player competing at the event, just head towards the site and cast your vote.

World Series

The preparation for the expected turnout at this year's World Series of poker has already begun at Las Vegas, Nevada. This gambling competition has become one of the top events in gambling since the past few years. The reason for such a sudden increment in its popularity is owed to the media coverage that it gets, and the entire tournament is streamed live across round the world.

The 2010 gambling tournament will be held in Rio from 27th May and will continue all the way up to 17th of July. This year it is the 41st tournament that is being held at the World Poker Series. Numerous events will conduct at the tournament; one of them is the 57 gold bracelet gambling event. 27 Players will get to compete at the event. They would be battling it out against each other at the number of gambling matches to surge as the final winner at the tournament.

One of the most exciting events at the world series of poker is the 'tournament of champions'. In this event the former winners of the poker series compete in a gambling free roll game. The cash prize for the winner is a whooping $1 million. The only criterion to be able to participate in this tournament is that the former winners need to have their bracelets. Unlike most other gamblers who compete with the intention of making money, there are some like Marty Smyth; who gambles for a charitably noble cause. He donated a huge amount, the he won in the gambling tournament, at the Royal Belfast Hospital for children and also at our lady church in Ireland.

As Mr. Marty Smyth has taken an oath for towards charity, it is sure that he will not be missing out this year's World Series tournament. He was awarded the golden bracelet at the Omaha world championship that was held back in 2008.

Phil Ivey, Phil Helmuth, Eli Elezra Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson and David Skylansky are the other gold bracelet winners. They will also be competing at this year's championship.

Update from Maple Casino, Canada

With an account that was just five day old, RK went on a fabulous winning streak. He managed to win a massive amount of EUR 111,101.50 when his account was less than 20 days old. The biggest amount won by him is EUR81, 395.00. The single biggest win was at a game Avalon where RK cashed in a cool EUR48, 825.00.

Over a gap period of mere two days, that too while playing for 5 different unique wins; he won EUR 29 706.50 topping his previous victory. Flying circus got him EUR 9192.00, while Celtic Crown managed to reward him with EUR8971.00. The game of Avalon made him richer by EUR6608 of cash money. Aces and Faces video poker and Double joker video poker, both of these games awarded RK with a prize winning of EUR2725.00 and EUR2210 respectively. RK started off with a measly deposit of EUR2000.00.

At the progressive jackpot on the game treasure Nile 5 reel JH won a staggering amount of $65,954.12. Nile5reel is like an ancient Egyptian themed based game. The game got her rewarded with some major wining. Like in any progressive jackpot, this amount too will add up to the next lucky players win.

A leader in gaming industry, Microgaming has provided for over 450 games, playable at the Maple casino in Canada. It is a theme based casino that allows for playing in Canadian dollars. On joining with the Maple casino the players are offered a choice of startup bonuses. Either a choice of $/ERU freeplay or play any of the desired game with a cash deposit. Free plays redeems the player with $/ERU 1250 of real casino credit and 60 minutes to cash in by winning at the game. The players get to keep all the winning prize money. By depositing $/ERU40 the players get an extra #/ERU60 totalizing the deposited playable amount to $/ERU100. Further deposit can earn the player with upto 15% earnings with the redeposit bonus going all the way up to $/ERU3000 a month.

Charlotte Jackson, the official spokesperson for Maple Casino, said, "We are delighted that we have so many big winners at our casino. Players are winning every day, but these are truly significant wins. We want to see more players winning like this more often. We are so excited about this. Congratulations to RK and to JH. Winning the Jackpot is everyone's dream, JH, and yours had just come true. We invite everyone to become winners with us at Maple Casino"

Maple casino's official spokesperson, Charlotte Jackson said that the casino was very much delighted to see many of the winners making it big at their casino. Everyday players are wining some truly significant wins. In her speech she also congratulated RK and JH for their humongous wins. Both of them are the jackpot winners at their casino.

All women poker championship - Las Vegas, Nevada.

Susan Rhodes from Las Vegas Nevada won the 2010 Harrah's Rincon Ladies Poker championship. Having won several of the tournaments, Rhodes does take her poker playing skills very seriously. A social work supervisor by profession, she has bagged the number of notable poker events namely the Eureka open, the card player cruises and the prominent events at the Nevada poker league. Rhodes also managed to gain a victory at the poker classic ladies championship at LA.

Harrah's Rincon victory for Rhodes was her by far the most satisfying in terms of prize & money. She won the $100 (+25) buy-in at the Harrah's Rincon casino and resort in the no limit hold'em tournament. Prize money for the first place totaling an amount of $5993 was offered to her along with a golden pendant. The gold pendant is as equal to winning a gold ring, awarded as the ultimate prize for each of the winners at the world series of poker tournament.

During her acceptance of the prize, Rhodes thanked some the players at the ladies tournament and also her friends - 'Linda Johnson, Susie Isaacs and Jan Fisher' whom she considers to be her mentors in the game of poker.

One of the best attended ladies poker tournament by-far, Infact 242 players attended this year's Harrah's Rincon Championship. The day long tournament resumed at around 4 in the afternoon and as played late into the night of 27 March. At 4:15 AM the last hand was dealt out at the poker table. All of the players finishing in the top 25 were awarded with the cash prize money.

The runner up at the Harrah's Rincon Ladies Poker championship was Leah Wasicka. She is also the wife of top poker tournament pro champion Mr. Paul Waskica. The only woman making it to the poker wall of fame, Barbara Enright has won the WSOP gold bracelet for three times already also participated at the ladies poker championship.

It almost been six years since the Harrah's Rincon has been an indistinguishable part of the WSOP circuit. Included events in this years schedule are 12 ring gold event, along with multiple second chance tournaments, single table and mega satellites. These are the added events to cash games played inside the Rincon poker room that goes round the clock. This being the eight stop for the 2009-2010 season followed by the previously held tournament in Chicago, southern Indiana, Lake Tahoe, Ceaser Atlantic City, Harrrah's Atlantic city and Tunic. It will be continued till 31st of March at Harrah's Lincon resort.

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Charity poker tournament for a social cause.

'Everybody loves to gamble' especially if the event is, The Jennifer Harman charity poker tournament. It is the biggest poker tournament that gets held in Las Vegas at the fabulous Venetian Poker room. The JHCPT event bags as of being one of the rarest events, wherein every participant get to mingle and enjoy among the presence of celebrities and world famous poker players. On April 13th that is this coming Tuesday, the $330+$30 texas hold'em poker will be taking place. The highlighting feature being the $100 re-buys during the first three 20 min levels and an extra $100 one time add-on for twice the starting stack. The scheduled time for the event is 4pm which will be followed by a red carpet inauguration and a silent auction. Emcee Matt Savage will be kick starting the tournament at around 5pm. This being a charity event, every proceeding from the entire thing will go towards the 'Nevada society for prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA) trust.

This year's grand prize is $10000 in cash money along with a Curtis&Co. watch and a main event seat at the World Series of Poker. The winners finishing in the top ten will be showered with prizes with a combined worth of $30000.

Adding a touch of glitter to the event with their confirmed presence, will be stars like; 'Cheryl Hines, Lou Diamond Philips and Dennis Haskins. Also at the event will be the ESPN commentator Lon McEachern along with Michael Godard. Professional poker players making it to the event are Marco Traniello, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Hoyt Corkins, Andy Bloch, Chau Giang, David Chesnoff, Lacey Jones, Jeff Madsen, Todd Brunson, James Van Alstyne, Shun Uchida, Erica Schoenberg, David Grey, David Singer and Lee Watkinson. It would be interesting to watch who will get to roll the dice at the poker table; 'the real the life hero or the reel life pro!

This is the first time that a reigning champion gets invited to defend his title. David "HEYIMDRO" Rowan was the last years Jennifer Harman Charity poker tournament' champion. He has been invited to the upcoming poker event to defend the title along with Seth Dupree. He was the 2009 JHCPT champion.

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Update on Bodog Sunday event

The weekly Sunday events on bodog are a crowd puller. It is for those looking out on raking in some pretty huge bucks. Apart from the usual turnout of last week which was much bigger than expected. This week there were only 463 players, nearly as much of 50 players less in comparison to earlier week's turnout. An assured $150+$12 buy-in and a $100k guarantee, the tournament confirmed of players who were confident on making on some serious cash inflow. The overall tallied of the total overlay amounted to $69,450. From among the many players, 63 went deep enough to cash in on that huge prize money.

The winner of the Bodog's Sunday was long Chalk. He was credited with the first prize winning money of $25k after he defeated Hahaustink at the event. The second prize winning money of $15k was claimed by the Hahaustink and the third prize of $9,500 was staked in by JohnnyGstaks. Every week there are as much as 450 players, and sometimes even more; those that take part in the bodog's Sunday event. A mere payout of $162 is all it takes to get into the event and or it can be done by qualifying through a satellite tournament. The deal is sweetened that much more by addition of bonus cash of $30k to the total overlay.

To enter the Bodog's turbo qualifier players can utilize the points offered (by bodog) for becoming one of the 20 players that play for 100k. These qualifiers can only be played from 12:20 pm and 2:20pm of any Sunday.

The other finishing players at this week's Sunday event are as listed.

1st place: Long Chalk ($25,000.00)

2nd place: hahaustink ($15,000.00)

3rd place: JohnnyGstaks ($9,500.00)

4th place: grayzee9 ($7,000.00)

5th place: fatcamp ($5,500.00)

6th place: Paz5050 ($4,500.00)

7th place: vinnyb9 ($3,500.00)

8th place: grafyx ($2,200.00)

9th place: teller10 ($1,700.00)

The lady with the golden touch.

Peace and sports rarely go hand in hand, especially the fact that every world sport is a source of competition. Rarely does one think of mixing those two words as together. Peace and Sports! Changing that very definition and with the idea of bringing peace to the world sports, 'one women; Alexandra kosteniuk' has joined the group Champions for peace dedicated to the sole motive of peace and awareness. The group is strengthened by world class athletes from every international sport.

Alexandra Kosteniuk is a world chess champion. At age 25 she has already demarcated her competitive prowess in promoting the peace and sports cause around the world. She started her winning streak in the game of chess at an age of five and soon collected numerous of international titles since from the humble age of ten. During the year of 1996 she was the world champion among the U-12 girls championship. In 2004 she bagged the Women's European Championship also claimed the Russian Championship during 2005 and in 2008 secured herself the supreme women's world title. In the same year she scored a gold medal in mind sports game. All of her achievements make her, 'the women Grandmaster', with such number of winning titles to her glory.

The group currently reclaims 39 of most precious and glorified sports personalities, those who actively and or symbolically help in promotion of world peace through sports. They help spread a culture of peace which is a genuine proposition for spreading awareness among the generation of today. They represent 25 Olympic and non Olympic sport disciplines, 20 Olympics champion and more than a hundred national and regional titles.

Her allure personifies her as person who is not only a brilliance in the game of chess but also as one who is a humble human being. With high moral standards to her character and her exuberance reflect the very leadership qualities otherwise expected. Her role within the peace proceeding has been quite remarkable, in inspiring a generation of people -i.e. her fans all round the world. Alexandra has made sure that her favorite sport serves the Human development and helps in social progress.

The international chess federation (FIDE) in partnership with the NGO Colombianitos and peace and sports collaborating to launch a programme in colombia. This programme will over time enable 4,000 children living in disadvantaged neighborhoods of the cities in Colombia to learn chess. Alexandra will travel to initiate the programme on behalf of the peace group.

During her interview with the media personal she said "I am very pleased to be part of the Peace and Sport movement," declared Alexandra Kosteniuk. "I want to give back to the world the love and happiness that I have received through the wonderful game of chess. I firmly believe that chess serves the cause of peace by improving the lives of young people. I have seen firsthand how chess helps students to develop the skills they need to be successful in life."

On having her on the 'peace and sports' group, the president and also the founder of the group, Mr. Joel Bouzo praised her presence within the peace awareness initiative by declaring that he was honored in having the queen herself supporting the noble cause. He also added that her presence has proved that the game of chess, which is other wise considered dull, is scrumptiously cool.

Scrable player Championship

The scrabble player national championship open tournament held at the chamber of commerce building, waterloo street, Georgetown had a new winner this time around. Ewart Adams returned from a lengthy hiatus to defeat the high level team of scrabble player eventually dethroning the national champion,

Mac Donald completed the podium places after securing 4 games with a positive spread of 286. Adams notched with increment in 5points and a spread of 561 to relegate james Krakowsky, with 4 and half points at second place to a positive spread of 207. Grace Hercules although securing 4games ended up with negative spread of 246.

In the opening game Adam's defeated Moen Gafoor by a spread of 3 before disposing off Hercules by a humongous spread of 207 in the second round. He also closed the brilliant successful start by marking a win with a spread of 77 over McDonald.

Krawosky proved to be a spoiled sport (literally) for Adams as he secured a close win by a spread of 12 against him. But no sooner, Adam rebounded with two victories over Julian Skeete (53) and Anand Mohabir (153). Krawoski also prayed his win by getting Mohabir (108) and Michael Benjamin (170) out of the game. He dropped games to Moen Gaffor (341) and MacDonald (62). Hercules followed up on her recent victory over McDonald in the recently staged GASP Open to register another upset.

The players convene again today for the Phagwah Open tournament at the Malteenoes Sports Club.

Create your own boardgame - Its Simple

If you ever dreamt of making a board game that too all by yourself, but didn't find the proper methods of 'how to go about' preparing it, 'worry no more because now there is a website built specifically to fulfill such purpose. You can now render the help from this website to produce and even sell your own board games. The idea is to get the design thought by you and put it together into an actual playable board game. The website is called Gamecrafter. Throughout the website there are numerous resources those can be used according to individual preference. Like chips, boards, checkers and cards; 'the requisite for any board game and the best part being, they are highly customizable to suit the needs of the individual design. Once the board game is ready with the help of these aids from the website, the user has the option to even put up their developed games for sale on this site. If they like, they can directly buy games developed by other people from the same website.

Chess Tournament in Brunei

The National Day Rapid Chess Tournament organized by Brunei Chess Federation (BCF) will be held from Feb 26-27.

This event is held every year along with the country's National Day, the tournament will be contested at the Brunei Chess Centre (BCC) at the Hassanal Bokiah National Sports Complex in Berakas at 2pm.

Blitz Chess Championship will also be held on Feb 28, apart form the rapid chess tournament, making it a busy week for the BCF.

In a normal tournament the time for each player is one to three hours, but in rapid chess the duration is 15 to 60 mins per player, often with a grant of a small time increment for each player.

In rapid chess each game lasts anywhere from 30 minutes to one hour while in blitz each round lasts for not more than 10 minutes.

Every month the BCF holds a minimum of two tournaments making it one of the most active sports associations in the country.

Tair Vahidov is the national coach since nearly three years now, said; 'chess has grown by leaps and bounds in the Sultanate since when he became a coach.

He cited the country's win in the 2009 Borneo Intercity Chess Championship when Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB) emerged as overall champions of the two-day tournament is one of the prime examples to his statement.

Two categories of rapid and blitz were contested then and each was sub-divided into two divisions, -individual and team.

Producing a clean sweep, Bandar Seri and Begawan beat seven other teams for claiming the title in December.

Brunei was also represented by Kuala Belait (KB), Tutong and Temburong, with Kota Kinabalu (KK) and Labuan representing Sabah and Miri and Kuching flying the flag for Sarawak.

Currently, Kuala Belait-native Yee Soon Wei is the only World Chess Federation (Fide) Master in Brunei.

Vahidov is the only Grand Master (GM) in the Sultanate. Currently there are no International Master's (IM) in Brunei.

Though these two tournaments won't attract overseas contestants, events like these do help improve the quality of Brunei chess players.

Collegopoly or is it Monopoly?

Will Lusby from Ottawa (CN) will be competing in 'College-Opoly', a largest monopoly tournament in the Ottawa Valley on Saturday, March 6 at the Pembroke Armoury. Canada's best Monopoly player is also coming to Pembroke to aid Algonquin College raise money for the proposed Renaissance Square campus.

The tournament will feature up to eight teams competing for the right to take on Mr. Lusby who last year became the Canadian Monopoly King, when he defeated 47 of the best Monopoly players in Canada at the nationals in Montreal. He will hold the title for the next four years.

Mr Lusby speaking at the campus during the kick-off ceremony said "Every game is different and anything is possible when you play Monopoly, I'm sure there will be stiff competition at the Pembroke tournament and I look forward to the challenge."

Monopoly has been a popular game since it was first introduced during the year 1935. Today, it is the most popular of all board games in the world and is estimated that 750 million have played Monopoly. Lusby said he first got interested in playing as a youngster, however, he realized it was competitive when he saw an advertisement for a major Monopoly tournament at the Eaton's Centre. Competitive Monopoly is slightly different as properties are sold quicker and rents are paid faster. So games can wrap up in almost half hour.

"At home, you know everyone you are playing with. On the circuit it's pretty competitive but there is camaraderie," explained Mr. Lusby. "Everyone's there to win but you're also there to have a good time."

The registration fee for the tournament is $5,000 for a team of four and includes the opportunity to win prizes. It also includes winning the team's registration fee back if one player from any of the teams beats the Monopoly Champion and two other players at the final table during the championship game.

Other prizes include a private gourmet meal for 10 at the campus served by the college's Cook Apprenticeship program.

College-Opoly begins with a marquee match at 5 p.m. where players will be invited to learn the rules and strategies of tournament Monopoly under Mr. Lusby. The actual tournament commences at 7 p.m. with each player competing against players from opposing teams. At the end of the 75-minute game, points will be calculated for each player using the standard Monopoly point system.

After the final summing up of points, the top three teams with their highest number of points will then choose a team representative who will participate in the championship game with the Canadian Monopoly champion. �Mr. Lusby does have one piece of free advice to his challengers:

"Don't be afraid to take risks and make trades," he said. "The game is all about trading."

The admission to the tournament for the general folks is $15 and includes complimentary food and the chance to play friendly