Europa Casino launches 2 new slots

June 22, 2008 at 11:54 am · Filed under Online Gambling

(PRESS RELEASE) -- Online Europa Casino has just announced that it is launching 2 new video slot machines this week. Wild Spirit and Silent Samurai are the two new games which will increase the number of online slot machines to 52 at Europa Casino.

Wild Spirit is a 5-reel, 9-line video slot with a Native American theme. In addition to the high-end graphics, players will also get to experience the fun bonus round where they can pick up extra prizes.

During the bonus round, players will visit a mystical Shaman where they will have their fortunes told. Players must choose symbols to determine their fate and their future and for each symbol chosen, they will be rewarded with prizes.

When a magic symbol is chosen, the player will be rewarded with 3 extra prizes, but if an evil symbol is picked then the bonus round is over and the free spins will begin.

The second slot machine to be launched by Europa Casino is Silent Samurai, a game which features a bonus round where you have to defend yourself from an army of ninja's. The more ninja's that are defeated, the more rewards will be received.

This game also introduces the "Gamble" option to Europa Casino. This unique feature allows the player to double the amount of their latest win, simply by guessing whether the next card in the pack is red or black.

Marius Valentin, Casino Manager at Europa Casino announced; "We are delighted to be launching these two new exclusive games. Our slot machines have proven time and time again to be extremely popular with our members and so having two exclusive games to offer our players is great".

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Tulalip Resort hotel celebrates soft opening

June 22, 2008 at 11:52 am · Filed under Online Gambling

TULALIP, Seattle -- As reported by the Seattle Times: "Earlier this week, as workers in hard hats touched up hallway paint and new front-desk staff practiced checking in guests, about the only thing completely ready in the new $130 million Tulalip Resort hotel set to open today were three magnificent cedar poles rising two stories in the lobby.

"Carved by a team of Tulalip artists, the poles both welcome guests and suggest the extent to which the Tulalips' vision of a luxury resort with a distinctive tribal identity is poised to take its place in the Tulalip Tribes' growing portfolio of successful business ventures.

"Even high gas prices and the weak economy aren't dampening tribal leaders' predictions that the new 12-story hotel near Marysville will become a destination resort competing not with Best Westerns and Holiday Inns along the Interstate 5 corridor, but with the glamorous casino-hotels of Las Vegas itself.

"...Tribal leaders envision high-end gamblers staying for several days in one of the deluxe 'themed' suites that will rent for as much as $5,000 a night. Boxing matches and top-name entertainers are also in the works.

"Tribal officials concede opening a luxury hotel 40 miles north of Seattle has its challenges. Convention and meeting planners typically choose cities with high vacation appeal, and Everett and Marysville aren't on the map.

"...Guests staying in one of the hotel's standard rooms will be treated to luxe style: granite counters, dark African wenge-wood trim, 47-inch flat-screen TVs, Tulalip-designed art on the walls, and floor-to-ceiling windows, although the view is mostly of the vast parking lot that surrounds the casino and hotel. A king or queen room, both about a third larger than standard hotel rooms at 500 square feet, will cost $175 per night on a weekend once the hotel is complete.

"...The grand opening is planned for Aug. 15, with plans to use the intervening weeks to fine-tune service and to test-drive banquet and meeting facilities, and also help break in 425 new employees, about 30 percent of them tribal members..."

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PKR sets sail for APT Macau

June 20, 2008 at 8:43 am · Filed under Online Gambling

LONDON, England -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- PKR.com is sending even more players to one of the richest poker events in the world - the Asian Poker Tour. Qualifiers are running on the next gen site right now for the second leg of the APT in Macau. Hosted in the exclusive StarWorld Hotel and Casino, the event guarantees the biggest prize pool in Asian poker history - a massive $1,500,000!

Macau - dubbed the 'Monte Carlo of the Orient' - is the gambling capital of Asia. Now the APT is bringing the biggest ever poker festival to the region along with over 400 of the most seasoned pros in the game. The event promises to deliver another opportunity for PKR.com players to compete with the best in one of the world's most lavish locations. The APT Macau kicks off Tuesday August 26th and rolls until Sunday August 31st.

PKR.com is offering at least eight packages to this prestigious event. Each is worth a total of $7,700 and includes the buy-in for the main event - with $1,500,000 guaranteed in prizes, as well as luxury accommodation and $2,400 spending money. Players get their hands on one of these fantastic packages by winning the APT Macau Weekly Final - running every Friday at 20:00 GMT on PKR.com until Friday 8th August.

There are numerous ways to qualify for the APT Macau Weekly Final. Players can buy in direct for $150 or win their way in through a huge range of satellite qualifiers rolling daily and starting at just $4.25. Lottery tourneys and 'Last chance' speed qualifiers will also be on offer. Players with PKR Points to spend can also qualify for free in special Premium Freerolls.

Card Room Manager Neil Wright added, "The APT is a great series of events set in the most exotic and luxurious locations in Asia. There are huge sums of prize money on offer and the Macau leg looks set to continue the prestige of the tour."

About PKR

PKR is a revolutionary new concept in online poker that has changed the way that online poker is played.

Featuring stunning real-time 3D graphics and a uniquely engaging and immersive gaming system, PKR brings an unparalleled and previously unseen level of realism to online poker.

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Ladbrokes sponsor 2008 Ladbrokes Killarney Irish Poker

June 20, 2008 at 6:47 am · Filed under Online Gambling

IRELAND -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Ladbrokes are proud sponsors of the 2008 Ladbrokes Killarney Irish Poker Festival which includes the €250,000 guaranteed Main Event. The 3 day Festival will be held between the 2nd to the 5th of October 2008, at the Irish National Events centre in Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland

Festival which includes the €250,000 guaranteed Main Event. The 3 day Festival will be held between the 2nd to the 5th of October 2008, at the Irish National Events centre in Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland.

Killarney is synonymous with great Irish hospitality and that's what you are going to get. The venue itself is Ireland's national event centre, at the heart of a vibrant hotel and leisure complex. There are 100's of tourist attractions and a great nightlife associated with Irish music and having the craic!

During the Festival, which includes two side tournament, STT's and cash games, you will also have exclusive access to Ladbrokes hospitality facilities. Here you will find a betting office, as well as a games room with snooker, pool, darts and other activities to help you relax in between the poker action. You will also be provided with free accommodation for two!

The €250,000 guaranteed €500 + €50 Main Event will be held over 3 days (3rd to 5th October). Players will start with 15,000 chips and one hour blinds and is a European ranking event.

How can I take part?

There are three routes to play in the Main Event and Ladbrokes are offering players two routes. All three routes are explained as follows:

1 – Qualify online for a $1,250 Ladbrokes Irish Festival Package

Each Monday until 29th September at 19:30 GMT there will be a $137.50 Weekly Final that will award one package for every $1,250 in the Prize Pool.

The $1,250 Ladbrokes Irish Festival Package comprises: €550 Main Event buy-in; 2 nights B&B accommodation for one guest in the Gleneagle hotel on the 3rd & 4th October.

Satellites for Ladbrokes Irish Festival Packages start at $5 and seats for the Weekly Final can be won in the $33 Daily Finals that are held Tuesday to Sunday at 19:30 GMT.

Full details on the latest satellites can be found in the MTT/Offline Events/ Ladbrokes Irish Festival lobby of Ladbrokes Poker.

2 – Pre-Register for Main Event.

To secure your seat and to bypass the online qualification you can simply pre-register for the Main Event exclusively at Ladbrokes Poker.

Pre-Registration for the €550 Main Events is available 24/7 at Ladbrokes Poker, simply register in $850 Main Event Buy-In Lobby in MTT/Offline Events/ Ladbrokes Irish Festival lobby of Ladbrokes Poker.

3 – Play in an Offline Satellite

Over 150 seats have been reserved by Irish card rooms, so look out for details of forthcoming satellites at your local card room. There will be super-satellite at the venue on the 2nd October.

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Sweden’s Mattsson eyes third straight cash at WSOP Main Event

June 19, 2008 at 2:45 am · Filed under Online Gambling

As far as Stefan Mattsson is concerned, you can keep your copy of Doyle Brunson's Super System and all of those instructional poker videos. He doesn't want to hear about "poker theory" and he certainly isn't going to be seeking out a coach or poker lessons any time soon.

You see, Mattsson is an old school, self-taught poker professional. He learned how to play the game simply by doing just that: playing poker.

"I never in my life have picked up a book about poker," says the laid back 28-year-old from Sweden. "I think I've always had poker in my blood from playing a lot of cards with my family as I was growing up and the more I played the better I got at it."

The end result from this rather unorthodox road Mattsson has taken to professional poker have been quite impressive. After playing in a regular home game for years and then moving to online poker, he improved his game to the point where he knew he could make a living from it. He began playing professionally in 2004 and has prospered in the limited amount of big tournaments he has played in, particularly the World Series of Poker's Main Event, where he has cashed in each of his first two appearances.

In 2006 he collected $123,699 with a 57th place finish out of 8,773 entrants. Last year in a field of 6,358 players, Mattsson was 22nd and took home $333,490.

His success did not go unnoticed. In September of last year, Purple Lounge, which refers to itself as "the world's fastest growing luxury online poker room and casino, signed Mattsson as a sponsor.

"Stefan is a driven young man with a very bright future if he continues to build on his success at the same rate we've seen so far," Chairman of Purple Lounge Chris Gorman said at the time the deal was announced. "[He] is evidently talented and his skills at the poker table are incredibly impressive. We're thrilled to be working with him."

"Signing with Purple Lounge has been a great thing for me," Mattsson says. "I've enjoyed my association with them so far and I hope that it's going to be a long relationship."

Since his big score at last year's WSOP, Mattsson has landed two more significant cashes. In August he was 41st and picked up $ $17,156 at the European Poker Tour's Barcelona Open. Last month he landed his biggest-career payday when he won $342,989 with a runner-up finish in the World Poker Tour's Spanish Championship, also played in Barcelona.

Mattsson started the final table as the chip leader, but then began his heads-up match with Caspar Hansen with even stacks. Almost 130 hands later, Mattsson seemed to have the edge with A-9 in his hand as he called a pre-flop all-in from Hansen, who had A-2. But Hansen caught a two on the flop and the pair prevailed.

"Although I really wanted to win, I was proud to have got so far," he said. "To have come in second place in an event that attracted a tough field of over 252 players [including Patrik Antonius and Antonio Esfandiari] is a great achievement and will put me in a great frame of mind heading into the WSOP."

Mattsson was scheduled to arrive in Las Vegas later this week. He doesn't expect to play in any events other than the Main Event and the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed tournament that begins June 26.

"I really don't like the structure of all the smaller events," he says when asked why he limits the amount of events he plays in. "I'm the type of player that doesn't take many risks. I don't like to have my money depending on a coin flip type of hand. I like to wait things out and play the hands where I think I've got the best chance to win.

"In the smaller structured events, it's more like a cash game. One bad hand or one bad decision and you're short-stacked immediately. But in something like the Main Event you can play a lot of hands and just kind of wait things out. That's what I like to do."

Mattsson's interest in cards began as a kid. As he grew up in the northern part of Sweden his family played games of all kinds. After high school he went to Umeå University to study civil engineering, but after two years he wasn't quite sure that was the path he wanted to take with his life.

"I decided to a year off and figure out what I wanted to do with my life," he explains.

While he was in school, Mattsson began working as a blackjack dealer for the Cherry Casino Group, a job he held for five years. During his time as a dealer, Mattsson and his co-workers began playing a weekly home poker game. The game of choice was Hold'em and Mattsson quickly discovered he was pretty good at it. Then someone told him about online poker and he began spending most of his free time sitting in front of his computer, playing poker and winning money.

"Online is where I learned how to become a good poker player," he said. "I was winning enough money where I realized I didn't have to go back to school."

Now, almost four years later, Mattsson is loving the life of a professional poker player. He doesn't have a set schedule and isn't like many professionals who like to hunt down cash games and play for 20 to 30 hours a week online. He enjoys his free time and spends as much of it as he can outside, enjoying the fresh air, working out and "hanging out with friends."

"Life is good right now," says Mattsson, who did not make the trip to the World Series of Poker Europe last year and hasn't decided if he'll be there in 2008. "I really enjoy what I do and I hope I can keep doing it for a long time."

As for this year's Main Event, Mattsson (who is not a fan of the new delayed final table format calling it "good for the fans, but bad for the players") is confident he can cash for a third straight year.

"It's going to be very interesting," he says. "I've learned a lot from playing in it the last two years. There are a lot of bad players in that event so I expect to use my experience and build my chip stack early. That's my goal. Get a big stack of chips in front of me and then see how far I can go."

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