Gambling Online Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards Polls Officially Open For 2005

March 2, 2005 (Atlanta, GA) – Nicknamed the Gambling Oscars, Gambling Online Magazine’s Annual Readers Choice Awards are the interactive gaming industry’s most sought after honors. Voted on by the 250,000 readers of Gambling Online Magazine, the awards offer voting in a wide-range of categories including Best Casino, Best Sportsbook, Best Poker site. Since the Gambling Online Magazine Awards have grown to include over 40 categories of voting, Gambling Online Magazine will be hosting the voting for the awards over the following eight months, dividing the voting into three periods separating the most popular voting categories, Casino, Sportsbook and Poker … Read more

ParadisePoker.com announces first $1.5 million Paradise Masters Online Championships

New York, NY – March 2, 2005 – ParadisePoker.com is proud to announce the first Paradise Masters Online Championships March 1 to 6, 2005. This week-long celebration features a series of tournaments and events where players compete for cash and prizes. The highlight of the week will be a No Limit Texas Hold’Em tournament with a prize pool valued well over $1 million on Sunday March 6th. Players will play exclusively online until 10 players remain. Those final 10 will be flown to a mystery, paradise location to play the remainder of the tournament face-to-face. The buy-in for the Paradise … Read more

Poker Mama – Women receive poker magazines for Mother’s Day

March 1, 2005 (Atlanta, GA) – Bluff Magazine, America’s largest poker magazine, is gearing up for Mother’s Day as a flood of orders are being received by husbands purchasing subscriptions for their wives. With poker at an almost omnipresent state throughout the nation, women are catching the Texas (Hold’em) flu in record numbers. What used to be exclusively a ‘Man’s Game’ playing poker has become an essential skill for both men and women. Women now make up 35% of the poker community, and that number is on the rise. Eventually, experts predict that the ratio of women to men playing … Read more

AnyBets.com Revolutionizes Internet Gaming with Poll Betting

February 25, 2005 (London, UK) Poll betting is a new cross-breed of consumer poll and pool betting that is not only making a splash on the betting market, but proving itself the most accurate form of consumer survey. International pool betting site, AnyBets.com has created poll betting, which gives consumers an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is, by backing their votes on topical issues and events with a monetary incentive. The pace of change and innovation in the igaming industry continues to be fast and exciting. In 2003 peer-to-peer betting as an alternative to the traditional racing … Read more

InterPoker doubles your Chances to Win a WSOP Bracelet

February 24, 2005 (London, UK) – The countdown of poker has begun. This June, more players than ever in the history of the game will descend on the Rio Las Vegas for the biggest game in town, the 2005 World Series of Poker. InterPoker.com, a leading Online Poker Room, will be guaranteeing 145 seats to this year’s World Series, plus a free entry for Event 45 to every InterPoker Main Event Qualifier. The InterPoker.com WSOP campaign has well and truly kicked off and, for as little as a $10+$1 buy-in to a satellite tournament, InterPoker.com players can earn themselves the … Read more

Sportsbook.com fans declare Carrie or Mario as next American Idol

DENVER, CO. – February 24, 2005 – There are two contestants favored to win the fourth season of American Idol on Sportsbook.com: all American girl Carrie Underwood and street-wise Mario Vazques.both with odds at 5-1. Rounding out the other top choices are the charming southern rocker Bo Brice (13-2) and Anwar Robinson, the big hearted teacher with a smooth voice (8-1.) “American Idol made Kelly, Ruben and Clay household names,” said Alex Czajkowski, Marketing Director, Sportsbook.com. “Fans no longer need to wait until the final episode to pick the next idol, they can wager on Sportsbook.com and pick their favorite … Read more