Costa Vista Land Turns the Jungle into Paradise - 16 January 2007
Costa Vista Land (CVL) introduces a turnkey solution for investing in Costa Rica property. The company's primary focus is developing raw land with wide American-style roads and services, and selling it at pre-development prices.As Founder and President of Costa Vista Land, Mr. Brad Hogan has put together a team with ov - read more »
Bollywood.tv Exclusively Presents the Movies of Shilpa Shetty Free Online - 31 January 2007
At the online home of Bollywood movies -- Bollywood.tv -- we are proud to be giving visitors from around the world the chance to watch four of Shilpa's most famous movies for free. With her dramatic and significant recent contribution to the profile of Bollywood, we have decided to put her movies online for all to see, - read more »
Just Released -- Hold'em Wisdom For All Players by Daniel Negreanu - 09 January 2007
Professional poker superstar Daniel Negreanu's first book, titled Hold'em Wisdom for All Players, is now available for purchase at book sellers throughout the world. Special limited edition autographed copies signed by Kid Poker himself are exclusively available at Daniel's fullcontactpoker.com website and at www. card - read more »
Partygammon.Com Million is the Richest Backgammon Tournament in History - 24 January 2007
The inaugural PartyGammon.com Million, the world's first ever million dollar backgammon tournament, at the famous Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in The Bahamas, is underway with a record prize pool. The winner will collect over $600,000 from a total prize pool of over $1.2 million which is above the expectations of - read more »

Record Prize Pool Announced for Asian Poker Classic - 04 February 2007
The richest poker tournament in Asia just got richer - organisers of the Asian Poker Classic (APC) have guaranteed a minimum add in of $250,000 to the prize pool, which means more than $1million could be available at the first professional poker tournament ever staged in India. The Asian Poker Classic, sponsored by Mah - read more »
The Amazing Race: Top 10 Destinations Revealed - 21 February 2007
To coincide with the premiere of The Amazing Race Season 11, the all-star edition of CBS's popular reality TV show, IndependentTraveler.com has unveiled its top 10 favorite destinations from the show's previous seasons. While The Amazing Race 11 celebrates all-star teams from the past, IndependentTraveler.com is celebr - read more »
iBingo.com is First to Offer Players Online Casino Credit - 21 February 2007
Quadcard Entertainment Inc announces the availability of Instant Credit on its flagship bingo website, www.ibingo.com. For the first time ever, bingo players can apply for online casino credit at rates and terms more favorable than the major credit cards. The Instant Credit facility is completely integrated into the iB - read more »
Casino will pay for expansion's impact on Madera County - 19 February 2007
The Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians agreed to pay nearly $13 million to settle several disputes with Madera County over a planned casino expansion.The deal ends four legal battles between the county and the tribe, allowing the tribe to expand the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino and ending the county's clai - read more »

Jackpotty Jocks the Luckiest in Britain - 14 March 2007
Aberdeen has been revealed as the luckiest city in the UK, according to a new survey.A whopping 47 per cent of residents have won a tenner on the lottery 10 times and one in 10 has won a staggering £2,000 or more.And a quarter claim to have won over £300 at card games and 16 per cent regularly win cash by playing onlin - read more »
AFI Dallas Film Festival Joins Forces with Confidence Bay for Total Media Coverage - 21 March 2007
AFI DALLAS International Film Festival (www.afidallas.com), presented by Target and founding Sponsor Victory Park, is joining forces with Confidence Bay (www.confidencebay.com), a state-of-the-art mobile edit suite on wheels. Throughout the entire 10 day event, March 22 through April 1, 2007, Confidence Bay will be wor - read more »
Harrah’s hotel, casino complex shines as New Orleans anchor - 11 March 2007
When New Orleans' levees surrendered to Katrina's floodwaters a year and a half ago, familiar places in that city were cast in strange, even bizarre, roles. The Louisiana Superdome, home of football's New Orleans Saints, was turned into a squalid refuge. So was the city's Convention Center. And the city's major casino, - read more »
888.com's Free T-shirt Frenzy has Begun - 21 March 2007
888.com (http://www.888.com/), the World's No.1 online casino, announced the launch of Free T-shirt Frenzy, a brand new campaign that gives away free T-shirts to webmasters and blog owners and also gives them a chance to win amazing prizes. 888.com is celebrating the worldwide launch of its first ever original game, Cr - read more »

PartyGaming bans access to Turkish sites - 12 April 2007
Online gambling company PartyGaming PLC said Wednesday it will no longer allow customers in Turkey to access its gambling sites after legislation was passed prohibiting online gaming offered by unauthorized domestic or foreign companies.The company, which pulled out of the lucrative U.S. market in October after the gov - read more »
Casino developer puts $11 billion on Macao - 12 April 2007
In 1950, the teenage Sheldon Adelson ran a business stocking vending machines in Boston shoe factories. When the plants closed in the summer, he headed to the beach with delivery trucks outfitted with freezers and sold ice cream.A half-century later, Adelson recalled, he was drawn to another chance to turn a profit whe - read more »
MGM Mirage Chief Executive Lanni earned $9.7 million in 2006 - 24 April 2007
Casino giant MGM Mirage Inc.'s chief executive, Terry Lanni, received compensation valued at $9.7 million in 2006, a year in which the company's stock price rose 36 percent, according to an analysis of a regulatory filing Monday.Last year, the company began construction on a $7.4 billion casino complex on the Las Vegas - read more »
Trump markets Las Vegas condominium project on 'The Apprentice' - 10 April 2007
Donald Trump is using his assistant-grooming reality show to sell units in his second Las Vegas condominium tower. For a one-hour episode of "The Apprentice," contestants are tasked with devising a marketing plan for Trump Tower-two. Like its predecessor, it will be 64 stories of gold glass just off the Las Vegas Strip - read more »

bwin is world's biggest publicly listed online gaming provider - 15 May 2007
For the first time ever in Q1 2007 now ended, bwin Interactive Entertainment AG has achieve the goal it had pursued since 2004 of becoming the Number One world-wide, in terms of both the number of active customers and gross and net gaming revenues. At the same time the reorientation of the company's strategy announced - read more »
Social networking sites to overtake porn sites as most popular web destinations - 20 May 2007
When the Internet took off in the 1990s, it was demonized as a steaming cauldron of porn.It has certainly made pornography more widely and easily available than ever before. The online porn industry is difficult to measure, but was valued at $1 billion in 2002 by America's National Research Council.Google, which publis - read more »
Poker Nations Cup Glory For Sweden Popular Show - 18 May 2007
Sweden defied huge odds against them to pull off a spectacular triumph at the PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup in Cardiff. The winning team, captained by Bo Sehlstedt, included 2006 WSOP bracelet winners Anders Henriksson and Mats Rahm, as well as Johan Storakers, William Thorsson and online qualifier Hans Isoz. They s - read more »
Slotland.com Increases Seed Jackpot After Record-breaking $179K Jackpot Win - 09 May 2007
After their famous progressive jackpot was recently hit for an all time high of $179,166, Slotland.com has increased the jackpot seed for their frequently hit progressives to a whopping $50,000. A player known as TOPNOTCHED was playing the Golden 8 slot machine when he hit the amazing jackpot. His win surpassed Slotl - read more »

MaharajahClub.com Backs Sport of Kings - 14 June 2007
MaharajahClub.com is proud to announce its sponsorship of Asia Cup Polo at Kirtlington Park on June 30.The fight for the trophy will be between India and England as these two proud polo nations take on each other in a classic encounter. The clash will be one of the highlights of this year's British polo calendar, playe - read more »
PlayersOnly.com Sends Players to All Star Night at the Playboy Mansion - 14 June 2007
U.S.-facing online poker room PlayersOnly.com is sending five tournament winners to compete in the All Star Night at the Playboy Mansion celebrity fundraising tournament in Los Angeles June 21st. The top 5 finishers of PO's Playboy Mansion Party Final this Sunday, June 17th will each receive a pair of VIP tickets to th - read more »
State Senate sidelines bill allowing poker in bars - 26 June 2007
A bill that would let bars and restaurants in Louisiana hold the popular Texas Hold 'Em poker tournaments was sidelined today in the state Senate, likely killing the measure for the legislative session. Senators voted 22-to-14 for a procedural motion to shelve the House-approved bill (House Bill 484). The tournaments h - read more »
Tetbury Town Youth Football Club and Stanno Team Wear Help Underprivileged Children to Improve Their Game - 14 June 2007
When Tetbury Town Youth Football Club, based in Gloucestershire, recently renewed all their Stanno football strips, with the latest Stanno kits, they decided to gift their old strips to a group of underprivileged children in South Africa. Little did they know the wonderful effect it was going to have.Before long, lots - read more »

Full Tilt Poker’s Pros Win Back-To-Back Bracelets - 10 July 2007
Full Tilt Poker pros Robert Mizrachi and Ram Vaswani joined the growing fraternity of World Series of Poker* champions winning gold bracelets in less than 24 hours. On July 3rd, Robert Mizrachi won his first bracelet in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship. Mizrachi bested a star-studded field of 314 players, - read more »
Casinos shut down in virtual world - 28 July 2007
Second Life creator Linden Lab this week instituted a ban on betting games that "rely on chance or random number generation to determine a winner, or rely on the outcome of real-life organised sporting events".The ban includes casino games such as blackjack, Pai Gow, poker, roulette and slot machines, Linden spokeswoma - read more »
Bad Beat Jackpot Hits Twice In Under Five Hours At Absolute Poker - 25 July 2007
It was Déjà Vu at Absolute Poker this past weekend as the popular online poker site's new Bad Beat Jackpot was hit twice in just under five hours. "Talk about a double rush of adrenaline," stated David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker. "We handed out nearly $250,000 between the two tables last Saturday - read more »
Ongame Network Seals Partner Agreement with Redbet - 11 July 2007
Cementing its strong position on the European e-gaming market, Ongame Network, a subdivision of the bwin Group and a leading provider of online gaming platforms, has disclosed a new agreement with the British gaming house Redbet Ltd.The Redbet group operates and manages several gaming brands including Redbet, TotalPoke - read more »

Absolute Poker Announces 9% Interest Bearing Account for Elite VIP Members - 31 August 2007
It pays to play online poker -- especially if you're one of Absolute Poker's VIPs. Starting September 1st, Elite VIP Members will earn 9% interest per annum on their Absolute Poker account balance with a new interest bearing account. "We've taken the Elite level of our VIP program from rewarding to extraordinarily lucr - read more »
Charleston South Carolina Luxury Real Estate Broker William Means Closes Luxury Property Lowndes Grove Plantation for $6.5 Million - 06 August 2007
Charleston luxury real estate firm William Means Real Estate recently completed the sale of Lowndes Grove Plantation, the only surviving plantation on Charleston's downtown peninsula. Owners Alexander and Tina Opoulos, III, listed it for $7.2 million on March 27. Patrick Properties Events LLC purchased the property for - read more »
Venetian Macao set to kick off boldest phase in Asian casino hub - 27 August 2007
The new casinos popping up in Macau in the past three years have helped the Chinese territory surpass the Las Vegas Strip as the world's most lucrative gambling center. This week, the city begins its most ambitious - and perhaps riskiest - phase of development with Tuesday's opening of the $2.4 billion Venetian Macao R - read more »
Mayra Veronica Named FHM Cover Girl - 13 August 2007
Mayra Veronica, FHM's (http://FHMonline.com) favorite Latina diva, graces its cover this month as she prepares for what will be one of the hottest crossover albums of 2008. The photo spread, which was shot at Manhattan's historic Joseph Papp's Theater, is a perfect compliment to Mayra's intoxicating reputation as a vol - read more »

PlayersOnly.com Launches $1 Million Free Roll Poker Tournament Series -- Players Can Qualify Free for Ten Chances to Win - 12 September 2007
In the biggest tournament series since the re-launch of their video-rich poker room, casino and sportsbook, PlayersOnly.com has just begun its first Million Dollar Free Roll Tournament Series. A total of $1,000,000 will be awarded over the next ten months with winners of monthly finals taking away $75,000 each. Players - read more »
Team Full Tilt's Jennifer Harman Rides to Second at Inaugural WSOP Europe HORSE Event - 13 September 2007
Team Full Tilt's Jennifer Harman reasserted her reputation as one of the world's premier mixed-game players by battling her way through a field of more than 100 players to claim second-place in the World Series of Poker Europe's £2,500 HORSE Event.The eight-player final table was one of the toughest in recent WSOP hist - read more »
PlayersOnly Hostess Carrie Stroup in FHM This Month - 26 September 2007
Carrie Stroup, hostess at PlayersOnly.com, is on the pages of yet another men's magazine this month. Last month it was Playboy Magazine Babe-of-the-Month, this month it's FHM.The sexy and charismatic hostess of the recently re-designed PlayersOnly.com casino, sportsbook and poker room may not need to practice her smile - read more »
Internal Casino Improvement Is More Than Employee Training and Its Return On Investment Is Worth Calculating, Says Robinson & Associates, Inc. - 12 September 2007
Casinos that roll out internal improvement programs to boost performance must understand that much more than employee training is involved and that measuring return on investment of such programs is difficult but worthwhile, says Robinson & Associates, Inc., (http://www.advocatedevelopmentsystem.com) a customer service - read more »

Chipleader Overhauls Website to Enhance Online Poker Affiliate Experience - 24 October 2007
The online poker affiliate game just got more attractive, literally. Chipleader today announced the official launch of its revamped online poker affiliate (http://www.chipleader.com) website featuring a cutting edge design and a host of advanced features."We've always been committed to offering online poker affiliates - read more »
SuperiorCasino Re-launches with New Slots, New Attitude -- Easier Deposit System, Superb Graphics Make it the Place to Go - 17 October 2007
SuperiorCasino is back, and it's better than ever.SuperiorCasino is launching its newly re-designed website, and accepting U.S. play with slam-dunk deposit and cashout methods. Customers can expect the same high-quality games, graphics and customer service which sets Superior Casino apart from all the others.With the r - read more »
Lake of the Torches Resort Casino Announces Sponsorship of Mixed Martial Artist Mike "Six Gun" Sixel - 04 October 2007
Lake of the Torches Resort Casino is proud to announce the sponsorship of a fighter who is taking the national stage by storm. The Northern Wisconsin resort casino recently signed on as a major sponsor for Mike "Six Gun" Sixel, a contender on the primer mixed martial arts promotion "King of the Cage". "We are very enth - read more »
Titan Poker Sends Large Delegation to Aussie Poker Tournament - 17 October 2007
Titan Poker (http://www.titanpoker.com), the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, will send a delegation of the best online poker players from across the globe to participate in one of Australia's biggest poker events. The internationally renowned online poker site will be sending players from countries includi - read more »

NFL Current Players and Minnesota Vikings Legends to Hold Press Conference - 08 December 2007
Mike Ditka's Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund (www.gridirongreats.org/) and Minnesota Vikings Legends Chuck Foreman, Ed Marinaro, Carl Eller, Jim Marshall and Paul Krause will host a press conference on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 11 a.m. in downtown Minneapolis, MN (501 Washington Ave. S.).During the event a new grou - read more »
Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts Re-Launches LeMeridien.com - 07 December 2007
Today, Le Méridien announced the launch of the re-designed LeMeridien.com, a website created for guests interested in and inspired by arts, music, fashion, design and cuisine. The re-designed website offers a unique image-based navigation system, allowing guests to discover new insights in those fields and create a pe - read more »
Celebrity Poker Tournament Brings Country Music and Rodeo Stars Together for Charity - 07 December 2007
Robin Leach will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the T.J. Martell Foundation's first annual Celebrity Poker Tournament, to be held December 11, 2007 at the Las Vegas Hilton. The famous host (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, The Surreal Life: Fame Games) will lend his talents to the friendly poker competition, bri - read more »
Zac Efron Named "Most Wanted" Celebrity of 2007 - 05 December 2007
Zac Efron is The "Most Wanted" Celebrity of 2007 according to ContactAnyCelebrity.com, a research firm based in West Hollywood, California that provides celebrity contact information to fans, businesses, nonprofits and the media.The Top 10 "Most Wanted" Celebrities of 2007 are the "most wanted" for autographs, donation - read more »

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