Genting Casino is still fairly new to Jackpot but in the short time that it has been here weve been very impressed with it. The range of Playtech games on offer and the excellent customer support are just two of the reasons for this.

But one other big tick in the Genting Casino box comes from their featured promotions. After already having hosted the Slot Idol competition, Genting are now handing out luxury trips to Genting resorts in Singapore and New York.

These trips are part of the Genting World Tour promotion which began this week and will finish just before Christmas.

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Sunday was a remarkable day in the sports worldthe final round of the Masters provided incredible drama, the titans of the NBA locked horns in several late-season skirmishes, the desperate Red Sox beat the Yankees, and the NHL playoff picture finally came into focus. And all that compelling competition mustve been contagious because throngs of poker players flocked to the four events that kicked off Mini-UBOC.

The premiere event was a $50K GTD No-Limit Hold-Em event that drew 1,279 players, and for a time it looked like a familiar name might take down another big prize here at UB. Well, the name CHARLIEBEAN should be familiar if you read the blogI wrote about him locking up his WSOP Main Event seat just the other day.

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Betfred, the Warrington-based betting company and self-proclaimed ‘Bonus King, has signed up Soccer AMs popular Helen Chamberlain to be the face of an upcoming marketing push for Betfreds Goals Galore promotion.

The promotion, essentially an accumulator, challenges punters to choose a minimum of 3 football games where they think both teams will at least score 1 goal, offering odds of at least 3/1. P

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After Mini-UBOCs four-barreled salvo Sunday we returned to action Monday with three more tournaments. The first to start would also be the first to endour $10K GTD Deep-Stack Turbo event. A grand total of 707 players dropped the gloves and started swinging from the opening bell, but the last two players left standing were MLP2010 and SOLOVYOV88.

The latter held about a 9-1 chip lead and with only about 5 big blinds MLP2010 naturally put his chips in holding . SOLOVYOV88 also naturally called with his and when the flop came MLP2010 was desperate for an Ace or a trey.

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GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. — A Colorado man who found $10,000 before boarding a flight in Las Vegas says he returned the money to the owner because he wanted to show his children it was “the right thing to do.”

Gilbert says he deposited the money in the man’s bank account two days before Christmas. The man told the television station he won the money gambling and dropped it while running to catch a flight.

At Jackpot.co.uk we like to think that we bring you some of the best online casinos around. According to the EGR Awards that are taking place tonight in London it would appear that this is probably true.

In total four of the casinos that we offer are up for the big award in our eyes – the Casino Operator of the Year Award.

These casinos are 32Red, Betfair, PartyCasino and William Hill Online. All four are deserving of the award in our eyes so it will be interesting to see who comes out on top.

32Red Casino has a history of winning awards while the other three are certainly no strangers to recognition themselves.

Interestingly, Betfair and William Hill Online are both also short listed for awards for Innovation in Gaming. T

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I was really motivated to get outside until I opened my front door and was hit by an Arctic blast. Nooope. Turned right around, grabbed my truck keys instead of bicycle, and drove to have lunch. Theres a contingent of Mexicans up here that make some bomb Mexican food and sell it at the Hacienda Real. I go there often. I started getting into Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Its Greg Mortensens sequel to Three Cups of Tea, the story of a mountain climber who got lost on his way down from a failed ascent of K2. He was gravely ill and taken care of in a small village named Korphe. During his recovery he was exposed to the village school, 81 kids, all boys, doing their lessons in the dirt with sticks, no teacher present.

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Washington — The revelation last week that one of Nevada’s most prominent casino owners, Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s Sheldon Adelson, is opposed to legalizing online poker sent a cross-country shock wave through the online poker community. The question asked most often: Will this hurt the chances that Congress will pass a bill?

Maybe a little. But what is more likely to kill the prospect of an online poker bill is the lack of a viable online poker bill.

Earlier this year, poker lobbyists identified the sweet spot on the congressional calendar for such legislation as anytime before the end of 2011, before all political considerations became entirely subsumed by the presidential election. (Th

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