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Party Gaming the people behind Party Poker must sometimes think that being in the online poker and gaming industry isn’t really worth all the aggravation. Not only have they been heavily penalised financially for breaking anti-internet poker and gaming laws in America but now the UK’s ASA are flexing their legislative muscles too.

Spring is in the air so Titan Poker have decided that a promotion is needed to put some spring in the step of their poker site players. It’s not too late to take part in the April $550,000 Spring Cash Dash promotion. The whole of April will see players at the poker site earning points for the games played to rank on the Titan Poker April cash table leaderboard.

There is always something to get your teeth into at Pacific Poker and this time the internet poker site has a poker promotion that is certainly more attractive than most. The internet poker promotion that will have every online poker player stampeding to play at Pacific Poker is the opportunity to play one of the hottest poker players (and we don’t only mean in the skill department) around, Spanish poker professional Leo Margets.

Every Thursday at 7.00pm GMT there will be the opportunity for internet poker players to take part in a special ‘A por Ella’ internet poker event, where they can try to beat the gorgeous Spanish beauty at poker to win a bounty of $250 and earn a place in the next ‘A por Ella’ internet poker tournament. The winner of the tournament will start the next ‘A por Ella’ event with a $50 bounty on their head.

There is always lots of poker action happening at Carbon Poker but the Multi-table (MTT) online poker tournament has to be one of the most exciting. The multi table online poker tournaments are played each month with points allocated to the winning players. The MTT leaderboard shows the top 100 players who will receive an entry to the exciting Carbon Poker grand final online poker tournament.

The only way to improve your online poker game effectively is to play and also to learn from the expert poker players out there. So whether your preference is to play with the sharks at the online poker sites and watch the live poker tournaments on television it is a process that will take time, effort and of course cash. There is now another way to learn to play online poker like a pro and that is to visit a new and exciting online poker educational site called ProPlayLive.com. The professional poker players at Pro Play Live are all world class poker players who have WSOP bracelets, WSOP and WPT wins under their belt, including big names like Greg Raymer, Annie Duke, Tom McEvoy and Bill Chen to name but a few.

Approval has been given by the authorities to expand the Asian Poker Tour which takes place in Macau, this will double the amount of days available from six to twelve making it the largest Asian Poker Tour and the first ever held festival of poker. Running from the 12^th August and ending on the 23^rd August it is expected that even more famous names than last year will attend this prestigious poker tour which takes place at the Galaxy Starworld Hotel and Casino. Last years big names who took part from 40 counties included Doyle Brunson, John Juanda, Todd Brunson, Johnny Chan and Jack Binion as well as many more. The eventual winner was Yevgeniy Tomoshenko a 20 year old from America who walked away with the $500,000 prize fund as well as the title.

A new automated electronic poker table called PokerPro had been given approval by the Nevada Gaming Commission. This approval is considered to be a major feather in the cap of the makers PowerTek, who produce casino and amusement products for the gaming industry. The Nevada Gaming Commission is reputedly a difficult nut to crack in terms of gaining approval for new gaming products, and the approval comes after field trials were carried out in Nevada. It is hoped that the newly approved PokerPro table will now be able to gain a much larger presence in Nevada.

At the same time that it is rumoured that the United States may be about to relax the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act implemented whilst President Bush was in power and that online poker may be played once more in the U.S., there are reports that the Philippines are considering introducing laws very similar to ban online poker and casinos. The suggestions have been reportedly made by Narciso Santiago of the Alliance for Rural Concerns Party who has raised a bill proposing to make online poker and gambling illegal. A report in the Philippine Daily Enquirer states that Santiago is concerned about the effects of online poker and gambling on the young and addicted and that it is a means for money laundering in the criminal fraternity.

The recent appalling cheating scandals that have rocked the internet poker world could soon be a thing of the past, if a new software program launched by CogniSafe is adopted by all internet poker and online casino rooms. The new program aptly named ‘Pitboss’, will automatically detect any form of cheating that could currently be used in online poker games and internet casinos such as collusion Bots, Bonus Bots, software cheats, those accessing insider information and player collusion and will alert the operator of a problem allowing it to be dealt with immediately.