• 100% First Deposit Bonus Up To $300 At Noble Poker

(PRWEB) March 4, 2005 -- Noble Poker, one of the online industry's leading fully-supported Poker Card Rooms, announced today that it will grant its new depositing players a matching 100% First Deposit Bonus up to $300. The new First Deposit Bonus will be awarded to depositing players on an incremental basis as they qualify for it, Noble Poker Marketing Spokesman Jonathan Kaye announced. "Any hand our players participate in, in which they contribute money to the pot by either placing one of the blinds or by making a bet, will award them with Noble Poker Crowns," he explained. "Small table stake games will award participating players with one Crown, while larger stake games will award participating players with up to three Crowns. For every 125 Crowns a player has earned, he will be rewarded with $10." The system is not at all complicated, Kaye explained. Players will be given weekly statements showing the amount of Crowns they have accumulated, so that they know precisely when they will receive the next incremental payment of their First Deposit Bonus. "Players will keep on playing, while we'll keep on giving them bonuses, up to a maximum matching bonus of $300," he said. Noble Poker stages a weekly Depositors Freeroll, giving all depositors a chance to win their share of a $1,000 prize pool. Noble Poker also holds satellite tournaments leading up to weekly and monthly tournaments awarding large cash prizes and entry packages to some of the major online competitions, including the World Poker Tour event at the Bellagio and the World Series of Poker. Players who accumulate at least 50 raked hands are entitled to participate in a special daily $300 Freeroll.

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• Bodog Get Trademarked In The US!

Bodog.com Sports Casino Poker announced that it has officially gained a licensed trademark in the United States of America. “We have been building a solid mainstream brand over the previous years, and this is a culmination of many people’s efforts to aide this process,” said Calvin Ayre, Founder and CEO of Bodog.com Sports Casino Poker. “With the rapid growth of poker, online gambling has been moving to a much more mainstream entity, as opposed to being taboo, and we saw this as a key opportunity to trademark our brand.” Over the past two months Bodog.com became the lead sponsor of the Hawaiian Tropic Super Bowl Bikini pageant and party, spent two days in the highly coveted NFL Media Center in Jacksonville, and recently sponsored the Silver Spoon Hollywood Buffet prior to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, CA. In 2004 Bodog.com was also named to the Power 25 list of online companies, ranked among the top US lottery web sites by Hitwise.com in terms of site traffic, and most recently received their UK Bookmaker’s license from the UK government. “The evolution of this industry happens so quickly that if you are not ahead of the game you are falling far behind the competition,” said Calvin Ayre. “We will continue to build our mainstream and entertainment brand while ensuring our offering is still the best available in the industry.” Bodog.com Sports Casino Poker located in San Jose, Costa Rica, is federally licensed by the Costa Rican, and UK government. One of the pioneers of online gambling, Bodog.com is the top ranked US facing online gambling brand, recently valued at over US $1 billion, and ranked in the Power 25 online companies.

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• Golden Palace Wins Infamous Breast Implant Auction

(PRESS RELEASE) -- After more than 100 bids, Golden Palace, the eBay-happy online casino, won the bid for a breast implant. This is not just any implant but one of a pair that were sported by Playboy Cover Girl Tawny Peaks until 1999. This half of the original 69-HH set went for an impressive $16,766. The breasts became infamous as a result of an appearance that Ms. Peaks made in 1998. It was in that year that a patron at the Diamond Dolls nightclub in Clearwater, Florida, sued her, claiming he suffered whiplash when she swung her breasts into his face. The gentleman likened the impact of Tawny's breasts to that of 'two cement blocks.' The "Assault with a Breast" case went to arbitration on 'The People's Court' television show where the judge, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, declared the breasts too be too soft to inflict pain and to weigh about 2 pounds (0.9 kg) each. Koch ruled they were not dangerous and dismissed the suit. After retiring from the business in 1999, Ms. Peaks had her size 69-HH implants removed and underwent breast reduction surgery. She was recently re-acquainted with her implants after finding them in a box in her house. Before the auction, Tawny explained her decision to the media, 'Somebody might bid on it. It's like the first boob to be sued over in a lawsuit.' Over 100 bids have been made for the implant, with the price soaring from an initial bid of $37 to its closing bid of $16,766. The auction page got over 500,000 visits; Tawny said she was overwhelmed and exhausted by the flood of e-mailed bids. Golden Palace is now the proud owner of this piece of history including an autographed copy of the Documented Court Complaint. As for Ms. Peaks, now a homemaker living in the Detroit area, she's happy that it's all over.

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• Gamblers Come Out of the Darkness

March 9, 2005 - Online Casino Slotland reports a shift in gambling habits among its users. The slot specialist casino has found that its users have gone from heavy evening and nighttime use to gaming during the daylight hours of mid-afternoon. Slotland attributes the shift in gaming habits to the increased penetration of broadband in private residences and the increased number of WI-FI (wireless internet) hotspots. “Better high speed internet access means that people have better home access to the net. Five years ago, businesses had broadband connections, but homes were still on dial-up. By taking away the barrier of dialing-in, and removing the speed restrictions associated with dial-up connections, daytime home users are becoming the bulk of our business,” said Hannah Morante, spokesperson for Slotland. The shift in gambling during daylight hours may be psychological. As gaming figuratively “comes out of the darkness” gamblers begin playing in the light. In other words, as gambling continues to shed the shameful association with the 1920s underground crap game, the public accepts gambling as a normal, mainstream activity. However, according to Professor Mark Griffiths, Professor of Gambling Studies in the Psychology Department at Nottingham Trent University, the trend is not a recent shift but one which began more than 10 years ago. “Ever since the introduction of the lottery, gambling has become de-masculinized and has gone from sin to vice to socially acceptable behaviour. That has lead to more opportunities to gamble, which includes mobile gambling, television gambling and of course internet gambling. Increased access to gambling means that more people have access to gamble during the times of the day that are convenient to them. Many women, especially housewives, happen to find it convenient to gamble during the daytime,” said Griffiths. Research confirms a gender shift in online gamblers, with women making up 55% of the online gaming market. But Morante says that her site has always been female dominated. “Our site focuses on slot machines. The female audience is typically slot players, so we have always enjoyed a user base heavily biased toward women.”

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