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Metro West daily news, a United States publication reported today that the Gibraltar based online gambling group known as 888.com has been approached by state prosecutors regarding an ongoing investigation.

The investigation is of the murder indictment that is pending over Neil Entwistle age 28, who is currently under investigation for the murder of his wife and infant daughter two years ago while still living in the United States territory.

Michael Fabbri, who is the prosecutor for the case, sent an official document of 7 pages to the Gibraltar government and company requesting the financial records pertaining Entwistle.

Fabbri believes that these records will help prove that the suspect’s financial problems were the motive for the gruesome murder when his wife Rachel age 27 and daughter Lillian Rose age 9 months were shot on January 20^th, 2006

The gruesome murder has not yet been forgotten by the residents of 6 cubs Path, Hopkinton where the Entwistle’s had their home

Fabbri states that Entwistle opened a gambling account on 888.com on December 15^th ,2005 approximately a month before the murders at which date he had loss hundreds of dollars being these the motive for the murder.

The official request made by Fabbri to the Gibraltar government and gambling site lays out with no details the case the prosecution is making against Entwistle, charged with the murder of his family to hide a secret life of debt, scams and sex.

The murder weapon, authorities say, was obtained form Entwistle’s in-law’s home: The gun he used to shoot his Wife and daughter in their bed.

Authorities say that after the act, he returned the gun to his in-laws’ home and flew to England to his Nottinghamshire home where he was later arrested and then extradited to the United States, to Massachusetts.

Of course, Entwistle denies everything and states that he discovered the murdered bodies of his wife and child, thought of killing himself upon the discovery but could not do it, then he decided and returned to England to his home and family.

Entwistle is facing two counts of firs degree murder and one count illegal possession of a firearm. Currently he is held without bail at an unknown US’ jailing facility and if he is convicted, he could be sentenced to life without parole.

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At one of the best online casinos,DoylesRoom, website this month be prepared to be dumfounded by the who’s who of Hollywood. A star studded poker game is the in thing at the poker website.

The staff at the website have ensured the most fun poker games by bringing in various different ways to celebrate poker itself, this month being the shortest they have ensured that even though it is distinct in its own, it be distinct at the website as well with its celebrity highlights logging in to play and compete with other A-list personalitites. [Read more →]

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For any online player of Poker being home alone, and continuously gazing at one’s computer screen trying incessantly to make the perfect decisions for the right hand is not the way to find one’ s true love for life.

That is why the people at purpleloungepoker.com try to change your opportunities. As one knows bulk of the worlds Poker players belong to the masculine world however, as times are changing, so are trends.

More and more, women are registering to online poker sites and hence, the staff at purpleloungepoker.com try as hard as they can to create the perfect atmosphere, not only for that perfect hand, but also to help you find that perfect poker match.

Hence, they introduced the concept of free rolls at their poker tables. This is for those special singles who are out with their poker hands searching for their right fitting glove. They have created for them, a weekly poker tournament to bring them not only closer but make it easier for them to find their match. They make it their business to singles to find, their counters!

In the past they have created various poker contests for this very purpose, and will continue in the future. As seen by their poker records, in spite of the competition seen at the tables, sparks are kindled that are ignited while playing at their poker tables! You could opt-in and practice your poker with some free casino games, because gentlemen, you dont want to lose this hand!.

In the past few months especially they have noticed at their poker tables, people reporting that out special singles games have created a wonderful chance for couples who are looking out for similar type of people.

They were even lucky enough, just last week to be informed of a couple all the way from Sweden who met at their tables, of the news that they were soon to be married, not to forget the already married or dating couples.

Their spokesperson even mentioned a Hold’ em and Battle of the Sexes Tournaments created specially for these couples. They are proud to say that as the singles reduce at their tables, with their specially designed tournaments creating history at their tables for singles, making them match!

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The country, that allegedly, has given all to the world, India, will now have its first Poker tour this year. Qualifications will be made available via an array of online and live satellite events.

The Indian Poker Tour also known as the IPT, will be kick off from the city of Mumbai, also commonly known as, Bombay; this September. After Mumbai, the IPT will move on to Delhi and Bangalore.

The last leg of the Indian Poker Tournament will be held at the mesmerizing state of Goa. The prize pool is estimated to be $1 million dollars.

The price pool and the fact that this Tournament, is the first such tournament in India to take place; will attract the best poker players in the world and the subcontinent.

The IPT is supposedly held, due to the high success rate of last years Asian Poker Classic.  According to the director of the event, Mr. Imran Hassan, the goal of the Indian Poker Tournament will be to add poker, on a serious note, to the local pastimes of the card in a country with sport crazed fans.

Traditionally, India has been a card-playing nation, and the IPT will be aiming to satisfy the card cravings of the second most populated country in the world!

The qualification process for the event will kick off from early June 2008 and will be through live and online satellites. The IPT is also going to host free online casino games

As a trick, to lure more card charmers to the poker tables, the IPT will also give the players a chance to be able to compete in a special televised event, being made especially for IPT, by IPT.

The objectives of the Indian Poker Tournament and its sponsors and organizers, is to assure that the progress of poker in India, is and will be carried out in an extremely professional and authoritative manner.

The IPT is also slated to launch its India Poker Schools meant for potential poker players of all genres!

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According to sources, a one-time partner of Superior Poker Online is facing more than one hundred and sixty five years in prison for offenses in the online gambling industry.

Superior Poker, licensee, Action Poker, has cut off its ties with Superior, after a row of accusations of hiding player information for payments and so on. A source close to Action Poker, says that the partnership had become messy and the divorce will be even messier; key employees from both sides have been terminated!

The Action Poker owner, whose name has been withheld, who has been charged with offences culminating to a jail term of 165 years, is awaiting a potential extradition to the US, from Italy.

The Italian judge on the other had seems extremely irritated by the whole extradition process, as he claims that the same offences in Italy would result in a ten year jail term.

What is startling is the fact that Action Poker continues to do business and move forward, while putting its soured relationships, with Superior Poker behind them.

This has had a dire impact on Action Pokers employees, as they fear the worst and have been disheartened, since they pride themselves on excellent customer relationship management.

It has also been mentioned, via Point-Spreads.com, that Action Poker was at odds with other licensees also, but now the website has taken that claim back.

Whereas Action Poker is all blames, when it comes Superior Poker, and Action claims that all problems were rooted with the Superior side of the family, with them sending out emails on behalf of their competitors, VIP.com, stating to their customers that they were leaving the US market.

The present head of Action Poker is Ben Johansen, whose Yabet.com was merged with BetCRIS.com. Action Poker is eyeing a new office and hunting for new employees.

Action Poker, as of today, does not register US Citizens as members or participants on the website.

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From the ‘A’ list Celebrities to the most famous Poker aces of the world will go head to head, in March, at the biggest Poker Casino in the world, in the Sixth Annual World Poker Tour aka WPT Invitational.

The 6^th World Poker Tournament will kick off from the first of March 2008. Hollywood head turners and the crème-de-le-crème of the Poker world will be converging and competing on the green felt, after the romp on the red carpet, in a Texas Hold’em No Limit poker tournament for the title of WPT Champion, with the winnings going charity.

The list of the ‘A’ – list invitees contains the names of celebrities like Ben Affleck, Paris Hilton, Vince Vaughn, Jason Alexander, James Wood, Hank Azaria, Jon Favreau, Cheryl Hines, Laura Prepon, Shanna Moakler, Mekhi Phifer, Pete Sampras, Morgan Fairchild and Camryn Mahneim; the list also contains the names of the Who’s Who of the Poker elite, with Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Ivey being on the Invitees List.

The WPT is held each year at the Los Angeles’ Commerce Casino, which is the worlds largest Poker ground. The tournament is exclusive invitaion-only event and is one of the most anticipated and awaited pit stop in the poker circuit.

The Commerce Casino, being located in Hollywood, sees its fair share of celebrities walk in everyday, but the WPT Invitational tournament is by-far the largest gathering of celebrities and elite poker players from around the world. This is why it’s the most exciting event for the Hollywood gambling community.

The events highlight is not the celebrities or the elite of the poker world, its what they are playing for; for charity and respect while having fun. The last 10 celebrities standing will receive cash that would be donated to various charities.

The event is produced and managed by GBK Productions. The arrivals on the red carpet are expected at 5:00 P.M followed by a cocktail party, courtesy of Heineken, V2 Energy Vodka, and Who’s Your Daddy.

The event will also have DJ Casey, one of the top female DJ’s in the world, making the A – listers dance to her table turns.  The WPT Invitational, will also hold lessons on Poker, for the general masses; the poker-tutoring event is aptly titled as the “WPT Boot Camp”.

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Check-raises and bluffs, in addition to hugs and kisses, are all set to become the big part of Valentine’s Day this year. Two anticipating casinos, are getting ready for this weekends Valentine’s Day holiday poker event; giving couples a new way to have a good time and celebrate valentine’s day.

The Two casinos, viz. California’s The Bicycle Casino and Vegas’ Caesar Palace, are hosting two poker competitions, Texas style – Hold’em No-limit.

The Bicycle Casino’s event, aptly named as the “Sweet Heart’s Weekend”, will kick off on the 8^th of February, at 7:15 PM EDT. The event boasts of a $60 buy-in, and will kick off with – The Battle of the sexes, where the men and women will play separately at first and when there’s just one each of them standing will play each other.

On The other side, Caesar Palace is holding a tag team event, again Texas style no-limit Hold’em competition, named as the “Valentine’s Date Night”. With a $125 buy-in, the tournament kicks off at 4:15 P.M. The event differs a lot from the Bicycle Casino’s event, as it would have a switch in place for every blind level, with each level lasting about 20 minutes.

The Valentine’s Day celebrations in Las Vegas, go on for a week, with Caesar’s Palace, again, hosting a Valentines Couple Poker Tournament, starting from this Sunday, right after the “Valentine’s Date Night”, Poker event. The rules, for this event state that the partners in love will share twenty minutes spot for each 40-minute blind level.

The Buy-in for the second event at Caesar Palace is slotted at $230 per couple entry. Last year, Brandon Cantu and his girlfriend Alexia Standard won the Valentine Couple Poker Tournament with the team beating 86 pairs.

So don’t be a miser swan, and get your lady luck down to both these casinos and raise the stakes, to enjoy a Valentine’s Day Texas Poker Style!

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The Tax board of Sweden, the Skatteverket, revealed that it had started targeting online poker sites and their affiliates for tax evasion and other monetary fraud. Hardyson, Dag, National leader Internet Unit of The tax board, made the statement.

In his statement, Mr. Hadyson, also mentioned, that the Tax board, would not be targeting the players or the participants; rather the Internet unit of the board, was very much interested in the monetary transactions of the companies that have been providing online gambling facilities.

The above made statement directly contradicted the reports, which came out this week, that poker players are indentified and are among those facing the penalties and back taxes.

The report, made open by the Skatteverket, indicate forty-seven of such cases of tax evasion and monetary fraud. The total income of all these 47 or so cases is estimated to be €45 million, approximately, with approximately 5 million Euros ascribed to poker players!

Sweden’s Skatterverket, up-until 2006, was using their own web crawlers and algorithms to detect the economic transactions on websites providing online poker services. Since, last year, Xenon project has been implemented to do the same.

The Xenon project is a web spider that detects economic activity over the Internet! The Xenon web crawlers, first identify the targeted websites; their economic activities.

The Xenon web crawler then uses the IIEM or the Identity Information Extraction Module, which interfaces directly with the national economic database, which automatically scrapes the identities of the people involved in transactions on these poker websites.

The tax departments of Sweden, Austria, Denmark, UK and Canada, today use xenon extensively. Xenon currently is not used by the US and the IRS does not want to comment on whether they use any other web crawlers to index or detect online monetary transactions.

Sweden’s efforts of collection tax from Poker players and gambling websites goes on, in spite of the complexities.

Other lawmakers and authorities also are coming down harsh on the online poker gaming industry. A very good example of the same would be the case against two news dailies, which are accused of advertising foreign online gaming companies, in their newspapers.

These authoritative complexities are keeping many interested poker players at bay, reducing the profit margins of the online poker gaming industry.

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Finally, the Poker Hall Fame Community has taken a much awaited and abetted step. On the 2^nd of February, the Poker Hall of Fame enlisted its first four Women Honorees, at the site of the first Poker World Series – Binion’s Casino, Las Vegas.

The four women enlisted in the Poker Hall of Fame were recognized for their contributions to the world of Poker, performance and for their knowledge of the game.

Susie Isaacs, Marsha Waggoner, Barbara Enright, and Linda Johnson became the inaugural honorees of the Poker Hall of Fame. The most revered commentator of the World Poker Tour, Mike Sexton, carried out the Induction ceremony.

He opened with a wonderful slide presentation that covered the life and lives of the four women enlisters. He also suggested that years from today, the four names of these marvelous women would become questions to a poker quiz show!

The keynote speaker of the ceremony, Jan Fisher, passed on kudos to each one of the four proud women. The whole idea and concept of inducting, women in the Poker Hall of Fame came from, Lupe Soto, who subsequently organized the induction ceremony and Gyla Whitlow, who help produce it.

Others that made the induction possible include, Suzanne Carter, director of the famous Ocean’s 11; Allyn Shulman, the proponent of the poker players, and Karina Jett, a very well known tournament participant and a columnist introduced the four enlisters to the house full audience of poker players, dignitaries, and enthusiasts

The four women, inducted in the Poker Hall of Fame were searched and found by the Ladies International Poker Series or LIPS. The Card Player Magazine, World Poke Tour Boot camp and Ocean’s 11 Casino sponsored the whole operation.

The audience included very prominent leaders of the Poker industry, who honored the Johnson, Waggoner, Enright and Isaacs. The audience included the likes of Card Player owner, Barry Shulman, the pioneer of the poker industry Bob Feduniak, among various poker champions and general participants.

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Casinos Poland Ltd., a thirty three percent subsidiary of Century Casinos, Inc., will be holding the premier European Poker Tournament in Poland, under the Polish Poker Open 2008.

The Crème-de-le-Crème of European Poker events, the EPT, will be held from 11^th to 15^th March 2008, at the company’s own, casino at the Grand Hyatt in the country’s capital, Warsaw.

The Polish Open 2008, will be a five day No Limit, Texas Hold’ Em tournament. The structure of the tournament will be the same as the standard structure for all EPT 5-day events.

The buy-ins for the European Poker Tournament is slotted to be at $8600 approx. or 21,000 zlotys. The Poker pool is expected to rise to, approximately, $3,250,000 or nearly 8,000,000 zlotys.

No of entries for the tournament is limited to 400 participants. The European Poker Tournament, now in its 4^th season, is Europe’s wealthiest poker kitty. The EPT is so popular that it is televised, by ESPN, throughout the world!

The previous season of the EPT was a sellout at $7350, in Barcelona, Dortmund, Warsaw, London and Copenhagen. The third season’s final day buy-ins were slotted to be approximately $14,700 with a total pool of, a whopping, $9,700,000! The total EPT pool of the entire third season was approximately, $40,000,0000!

The Tournament rules, schedules and registration information is available online, at the website of Casinos Poland Ltd., at http://www.casinospoland.pl. The website also gives more information about the price structure, event structure and buy-ins!

If you think you have it, don’t hesitate to participate. Remember, the seats are limited!

The organizer, Century Casinos Inc., is a worldwide gambling entertainment company. It operates various hotels in the United States and through its subsidiaries like, Casinos Poland Ltd, operates other hotels around the globe.

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