The highly desired position at the UK White List may not be available to any online casino within the near future, as regulators adjust conditions before expanding the list of approved gaming operators.

The uk government issued an announcement confirming rumors that the White List of approved online casino sites won't review or add any new operators until no less than 2010. UK regulators say they want time to check the united kingdom Gambling Act before any changes to the White List are contemplated.

UK-based gambling interests have complained to authorities that foreign online casinos at the White List have advantages over them. The dept of Culture, Media, and Sport will try to even operating conditions, possibly by changing tax methods used for offshore Internet gambling sites.

UK observers also are upset by the shortage of compliance to EU regulations regarding trade in online gambling by its fellow members. British politicians say the united kingdom is allowing fair competition to EU nations, but not receiving it in turn.

The UK White List is constituted of online casinos that experience met regulatory checks and standards, both for the operator and the licensing authority. The List is regarded as a trademark of proper rules for responsible gaming by online casino companies, and a spot at the List is extremely sought.

But recent regulatory problems in Antigua have brought forth questions on the effectiveness of White Listing, as Antigua had just passed the testing. The Alan Stanford banking scandal implicates the top level of banking regulators in Antigua, who're also answerable for gaming regulation.

Published on July 30, 2009 by MattMiller

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It’s the sport your players know and love reimagined with the entire excitement and massive rewards of a three-reel slot machine.

Monopoly Money features six different progressive jackpots, Wild symbols, a Wheel Bonus Feature, and the entire properties, characters and fun of the classic board game.

So take the Reading Railroad around Park Place, Pass Go and make contact with your sales representative so as to add Monopoly Money for your casino floor. 

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PokerStars is all in favour of many quality live tours around the globe. The eu Poker Tour continues to damage new ground, while the LAPT and APPT have both established themselves nicely in recent times. This year the ANZPT tour kicked off, and in January the primary ever PokerStars-sponsored Russian Poker Tour event was held in St Petersburg.

The RPT was an instant success, and it seems like the second one and final event of the primary season, within the capital Moscow with a $7,000 buy-in, can be even better. Some 206 players sat down for Day 1 yesterday, enough for the organisers to tag an additional day directly to the development to verify a gradual and fair structure. PokerStars qualifiers were joined by an impressive choice of Team PokerStars Pro, include local favourites Alex Kravchenko and Ivan Demidov, and Katja Thater and Chad Brown.

Katja Thater

Only Vanessa Rousso, still on a high from winning the EPT Monte Carlo €25K High Roller event, didn't make it through to today's Day 2. The 2 Russians (Demidov is large in chips), Brown and Thater fared better and can be back on the felt today. Overnight chip leader was Sergey "gipsy" Rybachenko, who managed to show his 15,000 starting stack right into a healthy 76,000. Of the 206 starters, 122 made it during the day.

How's your Russian? If it's better than ours - and that wouldn't be difficult - you then can atone for the most recent news from our colleague Pavel Sychev over at the Russian PokerStars Blog. If you cannot read Russian, you possibly can have a look and marvel on the weird letters - and luxuriate in the pictures, of course.

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We have all been moved by the distressing images popping out of the Philippines in recent days. Millions of individuals was affected and thousands of individuals (perhaps 10,000) are feared lost.

As we now have done at other times of world disaster, we're mobilising the poker community by launching an international online appeal in support of the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.

Effective immediately, our players may be able to donate to the international disaster relief efforts during the PokerStars client, using funds held of their player accounts. Players on Full Tilt Poker might be capable of do the similar in an issue of days.

Credit: OCHA

By creating dummy tournaments into which players register and pay their entry fee, that is then paid to charity in place of a prize pool, we can provide a handy guide a rough and simple way for our customers to make a donation to the appeal. In addition, players could make real money transfers from their online wallet to a specially created "Typhoon Fund", where every cent is passed directly to the proper charity.

Credit: OCHA

For the primary time, we can be activating a brand new partnership formed earlier this year with CARE International, a number one humanitarian organisation that responds to very large scale natural disasters by delivering emergency aid where it's needed most. This partnership means we have already got arrangements in place to verify we will provide immediate financial assistance within the event of a big scale global catastrophe.

Over the approaching days we can be communicating with our players and to the broader poker community encouraging then to provide generously. Through Helping Hands, the Rational Group's corporate giving programme, we will be able to be matching dollar for dollar every donation made by our players via the arrangements outlined above.

Anyone with out a PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker account wishing to make a donation to our appeal may achieve this at our Philippines Appeal page.

Thank you for reading, and please help should you can.

Sue Hammett is the pinnacle of Corporate Giving for The Rational Group

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You love playing tournaments on PokerStars, but you'll be able to never log in on time. You would like to play deep stacked Omaha, but sometimes the format or structure never really suits you. And besides, you would like to play deep stacked, and never short-handed.

Well, we'd have found how to fix that.

PokerStars is introducing a fun strategy to personalise your online poker experience, by putting in your personal tournaments via the PokerStars VIP Store.

This new option is open to all players, together with your personalised tournament launched continue to exist the date of your choosing, and customised in your specifications. Not just that, however the 5,000 Stars Coins this costs might be added into the prize pool - a bit sweetener to assist build your prize pool.

But what else will you be capable of personalise?

* First of you'll name your tournament whatever you favor (all right, in all fairness - ahem, you realize what we mean), as much as 30 characters.* Pick the date and the time of the tournament to fit your needs personally. Not more rushing to play at an inconvenient time. Just make sure that it's ten days from whilst you book it.* You'll be able to select the tournament type: anything from a freezeout, progressive knockout, a shootout, with re-buys, re-entries, add-ons, or a little bit everything.* Pick the format you want, whether that's Hold'em, Omaha, or any of the mixed games we currently provide you with*. too can play with the betting structure you favor - no limit, pot limit, fixed or mixed limit, plus the buy-in you favor. Basically so long as it isn't a freeroll that is all entirely as much as you.* What else? How in regards to the collection of players per table? The speed, the starting stacks or even the outline of your tournament players will see within the tournament lobby. It is a yes to all of these.

All of which guarantees a bespoke tournament service not offered anywhere else. We'll even throw in cards and a dealer.

To start take a look at the PokerStars VIP Store, which details how one can liaise with the PokerStars tournaments team and start dividing your personal personalised event.

Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog. Follow him on Twitter: @StephenBartley.

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This final table of six started with three Romanians, two Israelis, and one Bulgarian. AN AREA winner getting victory on their home soil seemed likely right from the beginning of the tournament, as Romanians truly love their poker and came out in force for this festival. 

But it wasn't to be. Within the end, it was the 2 players from Israel - Avishai Shitrit and Moshe Eliyahu (who was celebrating his 28th birthday today) - who would find themselves heads-up. The 2 are friends, and feature been chatting and routing for each other for the past two days.

In the duel it didn't take long for Shitrit to grind down Eliyahu as he came into the one-on-one match with greater than a five-to-one chip lead. However it still took a really perfect sick hand to finish it - we'll get to that later. 

First, meet your winner of the primary ever Eureka tournament in Bucharest, or Romania for that matter: 30-year-old poker pro Avishai Shitrit. Here's how the day played out.

Avishai Shitrit (left) with runner-up Moshe Eliyahu

Final table time

Six players returned today, and here's how they stacked up on the beginning:

       PLAYER COUNTRY STATUS CHIP COUNTS

Yasen Dichev	Bulgaria		3900000
Jozsef Liszkovics	Romania	PokerStars Player	2750000
Moshe Eliyahu	Israel		2690000
Razvan Costinel Belea	Romania	PokerStars Player	2450000
Avishai Shitrit	Israel		1730000
Carmen Zainescu	Romania		690000

Popular local pro Carmen Zainescu came in because the short stack, and she'd be the primary player to go away us. She jammed over an open from Romania's Jozsef Liszkovics with Ace-eight and was called by his Ace-Queen. The kicker held up and she or he hit the rail in sixth for €22,860.

Zainescu says goodbye

Shitrit began to gain momentum during five-handed play, climbing the chip counts after doubling through Liszkovics. However, the true chip lead flipped so much today - mainly between Dichev, Eliyahu, and Liszkovics.

Romania's Razvan Belea never really got a hold in this final. In fact, in a single hand he even called the clock on himself! He was eliminated by Liszkovics after his Ace-nine was out-flopped by his countrymen's King-Queen. For fifth, he pocketed €29,200.

Razvan Belea

Yasen Dichev will be the next to fall, although you actually couldn't see it coming. Dichev proved himself a top quality player time and time again; from leading at the beginning and end of Day 3 to creating some fantastic calls and plays here today. However, he got somewhat frisky when he four-bet jammed pocket nines for 2.95 million over an open from Eliyahu and lift from Liszkovics, the latter of which called with pocket Queens. The women held up and Dichev collected €37,070 for fourth.

Dichev played well but fell in fourth

Liszkovics led the way in which at this point, but Shitrit got stronger by taking chips from Eliyahu. He eventually took the chip lead, and right before Jozsef Liszkovics was eliminated in third here's how the chip counts looked:

Avishai Shitrit - 7.85 millionJozsef Liszkovics - 4.5 millionMoshe Eliyahu - 1.8 million 

The biggest pot of the tournament happened three-handed, and it was also the one who would get us heads-up. Liszkovics started the hand with a button open to 200,000 and Avishai Shitrit called from the massive blind. The flop came the J♠4♠A♥ and Shitrit check-called a c-bet of 150,000, before also check-calling a chance of 500,000 at the 3♠ turn.

Finally the 2♠ landed at the river, bringing four spades to the flush. Shitrit took his time and led out for two million, and upon getting an actual count Liszkovics moved all-in. Shitrit snap-called with the A♠6♦ for the nut flush, while Liszkovics had the K♠7♦ for second best. He won €47,910 for third, and we were then heads-up.

Romania's Jozsef Liszkovics

  PLAYER COUNTRY STATUS CHIP COUNTS

Avishai Shitrit	Israel		12,560,000
Moshe Eliyahu	Israel		1,765,000

As you'll see, Shitrit had an enormous chip lead, and soon after heads-up play began he'd whittled Eliyahu's stack all the way down to lower than a million.

In the overall hand - that sick hand I told you about earlier - Shitrit made it 200,000 at the button and Eliyahu called. The flop came the 5♣3♣6♦ and Eliyahu checked, allowing Shitrit to continue for 150,000, which was called. The turn was the K♦ and Eliyahu checked again only to peer Shitrit bet 300,000.

At this point Eliyahu moved all-in for around 700,000 total and Shitrit snap-called, turning over the 4♣7♥ for the nut straight. Eliyahu had also flopped a straight together with his 2♦4♦, but he had the low end and prefer that it was over.

Shitrit and his rail

The birthday boy Moshe Eliyahu won't have gotten the prevailing he really wanted, however €66,950 isn't bad by any means.

But how did our champion feel? "IT IS A wonderful achievement," Shitrit told the PokerStars Blog. "ONCE I made the overall table, I DID NOT expect to win it. It was very quick from yesterday. We went right down to six players within the blink of an eye fixed and it feels incredible that I won it now!" 

For winning the primary Eureka6 Bucharest, Avishai Shitrit takes home €107,350. Congratulations to him, and thanks for reading during the last week. 

YEAR OF ROMANIA.

Eureka6 Bucharest results Entrants: 579Total prize pool: €561,630Places paid: 87 

1. Avishai Shitrit (Israel) €107,3502. Moshe Eliyahu (Israel) €66,9503. Jozsef Liszkovics (Romania) €47,9104. Yasen Dichev (Bulgaria) €37,0705. Razvan Belea (Romania) €29,2006. Carmen Zainescu (Romania) €22,860

All photos by Tomáš Stacha. Many way to Jan Kores.

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Jack Stanton is a contract contributor to the PokerStars Blog.

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Everi Holdings Inc. showcased the superior of its gaming and payments products on the 2016 Southern Gaming Summit (Booth #808), held May 3-5, 2016 on the Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center in Biloxi, MS.  As a number one provider of games and payments solutions to commercial and tribal casinos around the South, Everi was pleased to sponsor the region’s most significant gaming show and continue its long-established partnership with both the Southern Gaming Summit and the Mississippi Gaming & Hospitality Association.

“Over the years, Everi has developed an expansive games and payments presence with casino operators around the South and we understand the significance of supporting key industry events just like the Southern Gaming Summit,” said Michael D. Rumbolz, interim president and chief executive officer of Everi previous to the show. “We sit up for making our presence felt in Biloxi and plan to showcase our diverse and comprehensive product portfolio that powers the casino floor.”

As a number one payments provider, Everi has a long-term track record of delivering solutions that streamline casino operations and offer convenience to patrons. On the 2016 Southern Gaming Summit, attendees learned more about Everi Compliance, an impressive suite of goods that together represent the industry’s superior for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance. With Everi Compliance, casino operators can easily meet Title 31 regulatory requirements while reducing their costs, minimizing risks, and streamlining their operational processes.

The company also demonstrated its innovative Everi Cares Giving Module, a brand new program that makes social consciousness a concern with meaningful voucher redemption. By adding the Everi Cares Giving Module to Everi’s kiosks, casino operators may give their patrons with a convenient solution to donate funds to choose charities while redeeming gaming vouchers.  

In addition to its innovative payments solutions, Everi also displayed greater than 15 exciting game titles, its award-winning Everi Bet solution, and its TournEvent system, housed for the primary time at the company’s Core HDX gaming cabinet. 

Twin Dragon was shown with Everi Bet, the innovative bet configuration feature that permits casino operators to optimize the casino floor for optimum returns. Using Everi Bet, casino operators can easily configure a game and preserve its hit rate by keeping the unique collection of lines, thus maintaining the game’s intended volatility. In addition, each Everi Bet title is obtainable in natural low, mid, and high denomination configurations.

Jackpot Inferno is a proven, high-performing game that was heating up gaming floors around the country with its unique bonus opportunities and attention-grabbing visuals. The sizzling 5-Reel, 50-Line online game also features Jackpot Jump, which causes the previously locked-in progressive award to leap one tier higher.

Everi  also debuted its award-winning TournEvent system at the innovative Core HDX standard video cabinet. Now with a brand new USB camera, customized TournEvent lighting, and a library of high-performing, Core HDX-exclusive games from which to choose, casino operators can be capable of increase the joy level in their slot tournaments and maximize the performance of games once they are in revenue mode.

On May 4, Everi hosted the Mississippi Gaming & Hospitality Association’s 3rd Annual Casino Operators Charity Slot Tournament at the show floor on the company’s booth. Play began at approximately 3 p.m. local time and all proceeds were donated to the slot tournament winner’s charity of choice. Conference attendees were encouraged to prevent by Everi’s booth and cheer at the players as they competed on behalf in their favorite charities.

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