Residents in the United States don’t have many options when it comes to earning real money in online poker. One of the few portals available today is Global Poker, which works through a legal loophole to allow players to win cash in poker tournaments. The most successful tournament series to date, the Grizzly Games, was held earlier this year and saw more than $2 million in “Sweeps Cash” paid out. A new tournament is scheduled to kick off on April 1, and—while it won’t offer the same six-figure payout—offers a nice prize pool guarantee.

Global Poker Madness (GPM) will get under way on Sunday with a $540 buy-in tournament. Perhaps due to the lower guarantee, only 41 players have already signed up to participate. Unless the site sees a significant amount of entries between now and the start of the action, it will find itself coughing up a lot of cash to cover the guarantee.

There are a number of ways to arrive at the tournament if the buy-in is a little steep. Global Poker is running a series of satellite tournaments for as little as SC$1.50, with 10 seats up for grabs through a weekly SC$77 satellite. This Saturday, that allocation will be bumped to 25 seats.

SC games work differently than do most cash games and tournaments. Players on Global Poker purchase chips, or “Gold Coins,” to play in ring games and tournaments to win play money, but the coins are not exchangeable for cash. However, each purchase awards the players SC as a bonus, and those bonuses can be used to play in tournaments and ring games with real-money winnings. The prizes of the tournaments are paid out in cash through the winner’s PayPal account.

India’s Poker Sports League has announced Dylan “ImaLucSac” Linde as the first wildcard entrant for Season 2. The RunItOnce coach joins the Goan Nuts.

Unravelling the Cambridge Analytica scandal is like figuring out the ingredients in the side order of coleslaw that arrives next to the King Prawns that look like they have been to the gym.

It’s a sign of the times.

While we may fear our personal information falling into the wrong hands. When we consider that an algorithm will understand our psychographics better than us, surely there is also the potential for this analysis to be used for good.

Esports Integrity Coalition’s suspicious betting alert network works. The system recently identified an irregular betting pattern in a DOTA2 match that has led to a suspension for a player who admitted betting on his team to lose. 

While I was waiting for my mate to brush his teeth, I would put take a pound note from the mantlepiece and stuff it into my schoolbag. I once walked into WHSmiths, ripped open a new set of headphones, plugged them into my Walkman and calmly walked out, and I have asked professional poker players for advice when I have run deep in online poker tournaments.

I once confessed to being the single perp after someone handed a playing card showing a woman manhandling a horse’s cock to the headmistress. They weren’t my playing cards, but I took the blame. I once stood up in the middle of a business meeting and spoke out on behalf of my lower-level managers and received no support.

When it comes to my integrity, there are times when I had felt like Spartacus and other times when the thought of financial gain suffocated my screams.

CalvinAyre.com wants to congratulate Antigua’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne (pictured) on his decisive victory in Antigua and Barbuda’s recent general election.

On March 21, Antigua and Barbuda voters went to the polls to choose representatives for the 17 seats in the nation’s parliamentary system. Browne’s Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) captured 15 of these seats in a result that was nowhere near as close as analysts had forecast.

The ABLP’s rout of the main opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) was underscored by the fact that UPP leader and former Antiguan finance minister Harold Lovell failed to win his own seat in a contest with ABLP MP Melford Nicholas.

The UPP ended up winning only a single seat, while another seat went to the Barbuda People’s Movement. Meanwhile, no Democratic Alliance candidate managed to win any of their races.

PokerStars set out to prove they’re still the Daddy with a repeat Sunday Million $10 GTD special, after falling short by $1.2m the first time around.

I’m not afraid to get toe jam under my fingernails; it’s a question of priorities. You can’t do everything, choose wisely. That’s why I’m picking a cleaning company to tidy up my shit for a couple of hours a week. I don’t want any old cleaning company. I want one that uses products by Method.

I’ve never visited Method’s website. I’ve never seen an ad. I’ve never seen one of their products. I want to use their products because trusted sources sing their praises. I value this word more than the brand. 

“Everything we do shouldn’t just inspire people to be customers,” says Eric Ryan, co-founder of Method,”but it should inspire them to be customers and then go out and talk about it.” 

UK online gambling operators face a raft of stiff new rules covering everything from barring minors from using free-play online casinos to a potential ban on credit betting.

On Monday, the UK Gambling Commission released its Review of online gambling, which noted the rapid growth of the UK’s online sector, and the expectation that it will grow from its current 34% of the overall UK gambling market to 50% “over the next few years.”

The UKGC notes that online operators enjoy “a great deal of commercial freedom” compared to land-based operators, who are facing tighter curbs on gambling stakes, prizes and speed of play. But online operators collect “significant amounts of data” on their players, and the UKGC expects online operators to “use the data available to them to identify and minimize gambling-related harm.”

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