Archive for February 28, 2009
Bluff Online Poker Challenge Begins Sunday March 1
Bluff Online Poker Challenge Begins Sunday March 1
Over 20 top online poker players are set to duke it out to prove who the best player while chasing poker stardom
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 28, 2009 — BLUFF Magazine’s Bluff Online Poker Challenge (BOPC), sponsored by Lock Poker (www.lockpoker.com), is set to kick off this Sunday, March 1st with a field full of top online poker players all vying for the chance to be on the cover of the poker industry’s leading publication.
The challenge will have over 20 of the world’s top online poker players including 2008 BLUFF Magazine Online Poker Player of the Year David “The Maven” Chicotsky as well as Shaun “shaundeeb” Deeb, Kevin “BeLOWaBOVe” Saul and Lock Poker qualifier Jeffrey “Duralast” Romano.
“We’ve got the best players in the world raring to go,” said Eric Morris, publisher of BLUFF Magazine. “Over the next 31 days we’ll see who’s got the skill and the discipline required to come out on top.”
Lock Poker held an exclusive qualifier during the month of February where Jeffrey “Duralast” Romano collected over 50,000 frequent player points to claim the exclusive invitation to compete with this elite group.
Each player begins the competition with $200 and has the entire month of March to build their bankroll playing in multi-table tournament and sit-n-goes exclusively on LockPoker.com. The winner is determined by the player who shows the greatest return. Players will not be permitted to reload their account at any time and once the initial $200 is gone players are eliminated from the BOPC.
The winner of the BOPC will be featured on the cover of a future issue of BLUFF Magazine while the first and second place finishers will each receive a team entry to an upcoming Dream Team Poker event.
The Complete BOPC Field
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman
Brandon “any2cantu” Cantu
Russell “RDCRSN” Carson
David “The Maven” Chicotsky
Phil “USCphildo” Collins
Shaun “shaundeeb” Deeb
Brian “Devo” Devonshire
Ari “Bodog Ari” Engel
Brett “Bhanks11” Hanks
Brian “Sno0oman” Hawkins
Maria “Femme on Felt” Ho
Brett “gank” Jungblut
Adam “AJunglen” Junglen
Soren “Kongsgaard” Kongsgaard
Mark “P0ker H0” Kroon
Eric “Rizen” Lynch
Chris “moorman1” Moorman
Jeffrey “Duralast” Romano
Kevin “BeLOWaBOVe” Saul
Esther “Etay” Taylor
Matt “Plattsburgh” Vengrin
Tom “SBRounder” West
Tim “Tmay420” West
Jeff “Yellowsub” Williams
James “KrsyKanuck” Worth
The BOPC begins March 1st and runs through until Midnight on March 31. Fans can follow all the action through the daily scoreboard and video blogs from the players at http://www.bluffmagazine.com/bluff-poker-challenge and http://www.lockpoker.com/challenge.
About Bluff Media
Bluff Media, LLC is the publisher of BLUFF Magazine, America’s leading poker publication, BluffMagazine.com, the leading website for poker news and player rankings as well as FIGHT Magazine, the fastest growing mixed martial arts magazine in the United States. In 2007 Bluff Media was recognized by Harrah’s Entertainment Inc as an industry leader when the two companies formed a digital publishing alliance allowing Bluff Media to be the exclusive provider of online and radio coverage of all World Series of Poker-branded events on a global basis.
About Lock Poker
Lock Poker is quickly becoming an innovator in the poker industry, focusing on creating the best online poker experience. Lock Poker is a licensed online poker room based in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles and is a member of the Cake Poker Network, one of the fastest growing poker networks online.
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Contact Information
Lock Poker Media
Lock Poker
http://www.lockpoker.com/challenge/
18002845952
Celebrate International Women’s Day at Bingoday.com
Celebrate International Women’s Day at Bingoday.com
The online Bingo Hall, Bingoday.com is holding big celebrations for their female players to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day.
(PRWEB) February 28, 2009 — 2009 sees the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, a global celebration where women all over the world can express themselves and where tradition states that men are to honour the women in their lives with flowers and small gifts. The industry leading online bingo (http://www.bingoday.com/) site, Bingo Day has also decided to honour the women in their lives with a special week-long promotion.
From the 2nd March, Bingo Day will be offering a week of doubled deposit bonuses to all their members. A 50% up to £100 deposit bonus (http://www.bingoday.com/bonus.html) will be rewarded throughout the week on each deposit made, instead of the 25% bonus that is usually offered.
“We wanted to give our players a special present for International Women’s Day, not just our female players – after all, giving presents is the tradition of the holiday”, explained Casino Manager Ted Cunningham. “The bonus offer will run for an entire week, giving our members the opportunity to play to their hearts content, with the extra bonus money they will receive”.
Bingo Day has recently been running a host of unique promotions, including an “Eat Free for a Year” promotion. It was reported that an “Energy Buster” promotion was also highly successful for the online bingo site, where Rosemarie M. of Canada won the chance to have her household bills paid for throughout the year.
About Bingo Day:
Bingo Day offers a Welcome Deposit Bonus of 200% up to £200 to new members and offers additional player incentives and a thriving community section. Bingo Day provides a safe and secure gaming environment, powered by the latest in Playtech technology. Bingo Day is exclusively promoted by Euro Partners (http://www.europartners.com/), the world’s largest e-gaming affiliate program.
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Contact Information
Brian Johnson
Bingo Day
http://www.bingoday.com/
0800-047-0602
European Style Penny Auctions Hit the United States, Beware of Scam Sites
European Style Penny Auctions Hit the United States, Beware of Scam Sites
Zoozle.com opens bidding to their European-style, online penny auctions and points out shady competitors. Zoozle’s goal is to bring the fun reverse auctions, found in Europe, home to America — in an honest and fair way. “If people bid right in a fair environment, like Zoozle, they can find bargains at over 90% off on TV’s, laptops, cameras, video games, watches, and more.”
(PRWEB) February 27, 2009 — Zoozle.com opens bidding today in European-style, online penny auctions and points out sketchy competitors. Opening only to United States residents, Zoozle’s goal is to bring home the fun reverse auctions found in Germany, Britain, Estonia, Latvia and around Europe, in a honest and fair way — no shady business. The reverse auction styles were brought to the west coast by a European company, but shady and unfair tactics keep the auctions running for days on end. Other competitors are straight up scam artists and shill bid auctions with auto bidders.
Zoozle, LLC was formed in late 2008 and purchased a “turnkey” reverse auction web app. It was quickly realized that anyone using the software package received was indeed running a scam site, and shill bidding their own auctions. The software came with an ‘Autobid’ feature and instructions for the site admin to set fake user names and autobid timing from the back end. The feature can be disabled.. but when disabled, the sites critical functions, like bidding, did not work properly.
According to Craig Pratka, part owner of Zoozle.com, “The auction software required over four months of re-development to bring it up to par for legit auctions, and right now only has the basic features.” Zoozle.com is launching today with penny auctions and will later reveal other exciting auction styles.
In addition to the scam sites out there, consumers need to be aware of other sketchy business practices with international sites. Auctions are seemingly separated by country, but at closer look, they have identical auction IDs and users bidding across all “independent” international sites. This allows bidding to go on excessively long as bidders in different time zones compete and keep the clock going throughout the day.
All items sold on Zoozle are new, and not sold peer to peer like eBay. Bidding on Zoozle only costs 50 cents per bid. The competition’s bid prices are around a dollar per bid. The bidding fee is to cover costs as most auctions close for only a few dollars. Each bid placed extends the auction clock by 15 seconds and raises the price by a pennny, so bidders compete to be the final bidder.
Zoozle donates 10% of all profits to charity. For additional information, see http://www.zoozle.com
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Contact Information
Craig Pratka
Zoozle, LLC
http://www.zoozle.com
516-205-6713
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