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A list of online gambling news articles and analyses written by ivap for GamingZion.
WTP National UK in London Promises to Break Award Records

WTP National UK in London Promises to Break Award Records

Iva P. February 10, 2014 16:50:08

The World Poker Tour National: UK is getting ready to set some award records in February. The event will take place in Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City, following all UK gambling laws and promising stunning prizes for the players. The tournament at Aspers will introduce Stratford venue’s highest ever guaranteed prize pool of GBP 100,000. […]

IOC Strengthens Ties With Bookies Against Fixing Olympic Games

IOC Strengthens Ties With Bookies Against Fixing Olympic Games

Iva P. February 7, 2014 15:09:21

The International Olympic Committee and Betfair signed an agreement regarding the prevention of betting corruption during the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Usually, the Olympic Games don’t attract the attention of bettors significantly and there were no major fixing scandals in the past, particularly specific for different sports. However, the IOC would like […]

Huge Prizes for Ultimate Poker Players in USA

Huge Prizes for Ultimate Poker Players in USA

Iva P. February 6, 2014 15:13:01

Ultimate Poker players in New Jersey benefit impressive amounts from guarantees and freerolls in different online poker tournaments. Ultimate Poker was the first poker operator which gained online privileges according to the US gambling laws. Ever since then, online poker in New Jersey became extremely popular and beneficial for players. In the last two months, […]

Poker Professional Joins the Show “Survivor”

Poker Professional Joins the Show “Survivor”

Iva P. February 6, 2014 13:10:18

Garrett Adelstein, professional poker player from Arizona, was selected to join the new season of the TV reality “Survivor” and to become part of the “Brains Tribe”. He isn’t the first poker pro to be part of the show – Jean-Robert Bellande was also at a deserted island back in 2007. Adelstein, a 27-year-old living […]

New Poker Names Make it to “Player of the Year” Top 20

New Poker Names Make it to “Player of the Year” Top 20

Iva P. February 2, 2014 18:12:17

A number of poker events last month made the most impact on Card Player’s “Player of the Year” players’ standings. Card Player is one of the founding online poker guides and magazines, which is highly respected among players and fans of this amazing card game. Card Player started in 1988 and ever since it provides […]

New Yorker Goes to Prison for Serious Illegal Poker Activities

New Yorker Goes to Prison for Serious Illegal Poker Activities

Iva P. February 2, 2014 11:53:54

One more defendant in a famous high-stakes poker games case was sentenced to prison. Edwin Ting from New York City, along with another 33 people was accused in being part of an American-Russian organized crime group related to poker games. The charges were pressed in April 2013 and last week he was sentenced to spend […]

Player Flushes $2.7 Million Worth Fake Chips Down The Toilet

Player Flushes $2.7 Million Worth Fake Chips Down The Toilet

Iva P. February 2, 2014 10:00:50

Christian Lusardi was using the chips during the Winter Poker Open’s “Big Stack, No Limit Hold ‘Em” event at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City before the police arrested him after figuring out his scheme. Lusardi came up with not so brilliant plan of disposing the fake chips evidence down the toilet […]

Betting Problems in London’s Chinatown Finally Recognized

Betting Problems in London’s Chinatown Finally Recognized

Iva P. February 1, 2014 19:38:07

Betting addictions in London’s Chinatown continue to be a huge problem among people of different nationalities, backgrounds and social status. The roots of the crisis can be traced approximately five years ago when betting shops and gambling machines in the area started to grow like weeds and to multiply with an impressive speed. It appeared […]

A Week Full of Exciting Poker Tournaments

A Week Full of Exciting Poker Tournaments

Iva P. February 1, 2014 19:19:29

Poker lovers are having an exciting week with a number of interesting poker tournaments in Australia, France and the US – Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Coconut Creek and Robinsonville are happening this week. Three continents are hosting fabulous poker tournaments this week, which will definitely make some people richer, some will be convinced that they […]

Barney Curley Tricks Bookies Again And Wins EUR18 Million

Barney Curley Tricks Bookies Again And Wins EUR18 Million

Iva P. February 1, 2014 19:07:14

Irish punter Barney Curley managed to overpower bookmakers once more by organizing a horse coup which brought EUR18 Million winnings. Paddy Power, online sportsbook in Ireland, commented: “There’s no doubt this is one of the blackest days in the history of bookmaking. The horses have been backed in singles, doubles, trebles and four-folds and punters […]