There is one more day to go in this month and it could change the pecking order in the Rushmore Casino big winners list for February. But as things stand the top winning game is a video poker variant. Apart from the usual online slots games on the winners list there is Let ‘Em Ride and European Roulette.
Gabriel T of the United States won $56,000 wagering on the multi hand version of Double Double Bonus Poker. This video poker variant splits the four of a kind hand in the pay table in a number of interesting ways with different payouts. It begins with 50 to 1 payout for four fives to four kings and goes up to 400 to 1 with four aces and the fifth card being a two, three or four.
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Approval came despite warnings from opponents that computer-based gaming is highly addictive and likely would usher in full-blown online gambling that will be available at Iowans’ finger tips via a myriad of hand-held electronic devices.
Senators Jeff Danielson of Cedar Falls, and Wally Horn of Cedar Rapids, both Democrats, as well as Rick Bertrand, R-Sioux City, each voted in favor of the measure today in Senate State Government subcommittee meeting.
Before the meeting each of the three senators made statements in regards to why the bill should be approved.
“I believe we ought to have a thoughtful policy,” Danielson says, “a responsible policy that protects poker players so that they can be assured a fair game and a level playing field whether they play poker online or in a casino.”
Senator Wally Horn, a Democrat from Cedar Rapids, says the state needs to start regulating the games.
“It needs to be controlled,” Horn says. “We have a bi
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One online poker room has signed on a soccer playing legend. Poker site 888Poker now has Santiago Cañizares as part of their crew. The football legend will be a brand ambassador for 888.com, which owns 888poker. The arrangement will last at least a year, and the online poker room hopes that it will “ bolster the 888 brand presence in Spain and beyond”. Cañizares is a former Spanish national goalkeeper and has a Champions League title as well as two La Liga medals and a UEFA Cup.
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There is a lot going on in the world of tournament poker this past week, as the Aussie Millions is now in full swing, the World Series of Poker Circuit Series was in Choctaw Oklahoma, the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi hosted the Million Dollar Heater, and both the WPT LA Poker Classic and the Borgata Winter Poker Open tournament series got underway on January 18th.
But the biggest tournament news of the week came from the online arena where a former November Niner captured a Sunday Million title and another big-name pro won a PokerStars TCOOP tournament on the same day.
Jonathan Little wins in Biloxi
Former WPT Player of the Year and two-time WPT Champion has a new tournament book out on the market, and if he keeps winning tournaments expect sales to go through the roof!
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