Monthly Archives: April 2019

Promofix Announces Partnership With BeIN Sports

Promofix Announces Partnership with BeIN Sports

Promofix has announced a partnership with BeIN Sports, becoming its sole advertising sales representative in the MENA region.

The new strategic partnerships if hoped to put Promofix, a subsidiary and digital arm of Lebanese JGroup, a holding group headed by entrepreneur and philanthropist Imad Jomaa, on the map as a global player in the sports ad industry.

Since the signing of the agreement, Promofix will be the executive advertising sales agent for BeIN Sports, in all 24 MENA countries, both online and offline.

Behind the partnership lie plans of further collaboration between the two parties, which have plans on combining their global experience and networks on several fronts.

BeIN Sports, the region’s, and one of the world’s, biggest sports broadcaster. The network owns exclusive rights to some of the plant’s biggest sporting events, including the UEFA Champions League, FIFA World Cup and La Liga.

As for Promofix, this is a great addition to their very diverse and impressive portfolio. The media group has represented several key players in the region, including Lebanese popular Al Jadeed TV, Shazam, Snapchat, Sizmek, Bucksense, Sharkiya and Summaria.

This new addition can bolster their dominance in the ad sales market both regionally and internationally.

Wednesday NBA betting: Big favorites on the board

Odds courtesy of OddsShark.com

While there were a few upsets in the playoff openers around the NBA, the three teams hosting Game 2s of their first-round series on Wednesday night all won their first games with relative ease.

Wednesday’s opener features the Eastern Conference fifth-seeded Indiana Pacers at the No. 4 Boston Celtics, who are 7.5-point favorites. The Pacers were outscored in just one quarter in Game 1, but it was a 26-8 doozy in the third as Boston rallied for the 84-74 victory. Those eight points were a franchise-record low for the Pacers in any playoff quarter, and their 74 points were the fewest in the postseason since April 27, 2013, in Atlanta. Indiana’s regular-season low this year was 89 points.

Just one Indiana starter scored in double digits: Bojan Bogdanovic with 12. Indiana shot just 33.3 percent overall, 6-for-27 from deep and even missed nine of 21 free throws. Not like Boston was too much better in hitting 36.4 percent from the field. Kyrie Irving and Marcus Morris each led with 20 points. The Celtics have covered 10 of their past 12 first-round playoff games.

888Poker XL Blizzard; Lovgren the Spartan; Jacobson, the elite athlete

We have three fishing rods sitting in this stream, one connected to the end of 888Poker’s XL Blizzard, another with a hook stuck into the thick lip of the Spartan: Sofia Lovgren, and one beneath the molar of the elite athlete Martin Jacobson.

Switch on your miner’s lamp. You’ll need it. Amongst the dark shadows of the high rise guarantees standing in the backyards of partypoker and PokerStars, there is the $1.7m that 888Poker promised to pay players during their recent XL Blizzard.

For the past 11-days, throughout 34-events, tournament organisers at 888Poker have slathered like a dog belonging to a man named Pavlov, and the numbers are now in – the latest XL Blizzard attracted 38,515-entrants, pulling in $1,903,474 in prize money.

As successful as sorbet.

Unibet Open to return to Paris, Online Series returns for pop number 5

The poker peeps behind the Unibet Open announce a 2019 Parisian stop, operations in France switch from iPoker to Relax Gaming, and the Unibet Online Series returns for Round 5.

If B.A. Baracus was a poker player, he would have loved the Unibet Open. Ok, so Dave Coupon…Lappin…sanctimonious Tommy Tanker…whatever name he’s going by this week would have had to get a little bit 10 Rillington Place to get his arse to Malta, but in the main, the man with more gold rings than Maurice Hawkins, would have loved the trains and automobiles, and it continues with the announcement of Unibet Open Paris.

The team that received more nominations at the Global Poker Awards (GPA) than Daniel Negreanu will head to Paris Nov 28 – Dec 1 where the €1,100 Unibet Open Main Event will be the star attraction. The venue and the full schedule is still beneath the tip of the iceberg, and with a trip to Notre Dame scratched off the bucket list it had better be a good one.

It’s brilliant news for Parisian poker lovers who have seen live tournaments vanish from the French region like the shrimps that used to use the tentacles of the Portuguese Man O’ War as skipping ropes.

Virtual Rail: Sunday Million news; 30th triple crown for Moorman and more

A round-up of news from the virtual rail including wangli0402 winning the 13th Anniversary Sunday Million on PokerStars, Chris Moorman collecting a record 30th Online Triple Crown, and big banks for Astedt and Romanovsky.

Imagine playing in an online poker tournament for two-days straight only for the experience to end with a victory worth $611,944 from an investment of $215.

How do you sleep afterwards?

Sleeping pills.

EPL week 34 review: Arsenal with a messy win against Watford

The last remnants of Week 34 of the English Premier League have been brushed under the carpet, and Arsenal moves into a Champions League spot after narrowly beating ten-men Watford at Vicarage Road.

While the whole world watched Daenerys Targaryen settle into Winterfell with all the compatibility of dill and a cut of fillet steak, Arsenal slipped into the Champions League places.

The Gunners pull into the parking space marked ‘4th’ courtesy of a +5 superior goal difference ahead of London rivals Chelsea. Spurs remain a point ahead of them in third, and Man Utd lag behind by two points in sixth.

The performance was more Bognor Regis than Broadway with Watford the superior team throughout, despite playing for 80-minutes a man light after the ref sent Troy Deeney to put his baseball cap on backwards after elbowing Lucas Torreira in the mush.