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World Series of Poker Mania
The popularity of the World Series of Poker gained tremendous
momentum from The Travel Channel's World Poker Tour showings.
Although the event had been showing for a number of years on
cable, when new technologies such as the table camera were used,
television watchers began getting involved in the hands as they
were being played.
Other advancements will also take place since the purchase of
the World Series of Poker (WSOP) from Binion's in 2004 by
Harrah's. They will need them because of the sheer increase in
the number of players entering the tournament. In 2003 when
Chris Moneymaker won the title and $2,500,000, there were 839
entrants. In 2004 Gregory Paul Raymer became champion after
defeating 2576 players and was rewarded with $5,000,000. For
2005, the WSOP will be estimated to have over 7500 players
hammering each other for a top prize of $6,000,000. And most
of these will come from Internet poker rooms. A significant
number of online poker rooms will host online tournaments to
sponsor seats to the WSOP main event with buy ins that are
far less than the $10,000 fee.
The Internet will be instrumental in tournament poker because of
the 24/7 availability to play large numbers of...
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Most Europeans Love The Euro Lottery
The Euro Lottery is one of the major, tax free lottery games in the world and the biggest top prize won was 180 million Euros and the minimum was a massive fifteen million Euros! Sound good so far? Then read the rest
The Euro Lottery is comparable to the UK lottery in many ways, however, instead of just UK citizens being permitted to play, it has 9 active countries and it is growing fast, so you can imagine the vast quantity of money that is potentially ready to be won. You can pick your numbers and buy your numbers in any of the following European countries; The UK, Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. As long as you are over 18 years of age (Sixteen in the United Kingdom) and you are currently residing in the country that the ticket was purchased (If you purchase a ticket whilst on holiday you are well-advised to check your numbers before you come back home as the prize can only be issued in the country the ticket was purchased) then you are free to play and be a part of the EuroMillions Lottery Draw. (As it is other...Read more













