Poker Pro’s Ferrari Stolen From Casino
An Australian professional poker player who was known for his good fortune at the tables has experienced the shock of his life, finding out that his prized Ferrari F430 had been stolen from outside of a casino.
Van Marcus parked outside the casino to hand over the car to the valet who was to park the car and ensure that during the pro’s gambling session, the car was safe.
Adam Ramsey, a 32 year old man then proceeded to walk up to the valet and claimed that he was the owner of the $389,000 sports car.
The valet asked Ramsey for the ticket related to the car but Ramsey simply said that he no longer had it and the valet simply pulled the car around after Ramsey signed a form in his own name and paid $30.
Police found Ramsey and the damaged car at the side of a highway, arresting the joyrider.
Ramsey has pleaded guilty to the charges, with his own legal representative admitting that his client couldn’t have done a dumber thing if he tried.
Marcus’s anger is more towards the casino rather than Ramsey, saying that the casino are more than happy to watch gamblers place millions of dollars of bets over the tables but they are slack with their car park security.
Play The Next 20 Years of World Series of Poker Main Events Free
News has begun to circulate that PartyPoker.com, an online poker room is set to roll out a new promotion that will offer two lucky players the opportunity to have their name placed onto the next 20 World Series of Poker Main Event players list for free.
The package on offer from the online poker room isn’t simply your buy in into the tournament event either, with the package made up of:
- Tournament Entry Fee
- Travel
- Accommodation
- Spending Money
- $10,000 a year
The once in a lifetime opportunity is set to ignite the traffic heading to the online poker room which already has a strong, loyal following in terms of online poker players.
PartyPoker are offering these packages to their members through two methods, with the first package been given to the winner of a rake race and the second package been given to the winner of a multi table tournament that will take place 20th June.
Don’t worry if you reach the final two and fall foul of a poor hand either, the runner up within both of the competitions will be also rewarded for their play, with the consolation prize of a seat in this years World Series of Poker Main Event, not a bad prize to say the very least!
Mike Sexton, a well know professional poker player and ambassador for PartyPoker.com spoke out about the latest promotion to hit the online poker room, saying:
“I think WSOP For Life is a really great idea – I have been playing the Main Event for most of my life! I just wish I had the opportunity to qualify for this but, unfortunately, I am exempt!”
Absolute and Ultimate Bet Exploited Again
After the story hit the poker industry media headlines that Absolute Poker had a super player who was cleaning up at the online poker tables in such a way that players suspected that the player was cheating, with an investigation proving that the player was a company insider.
The online poker room took a huge hit to both traffic and reputation and with the brands hitting the news headlines once again, the online poker rooms are set to be rocked once again after Poker Table Rankings revealed that the software used by the poker rooms were open to security exploitation.
The security breach meant that a person was able to power two computers with one connected to the online poker room and the other pulling ‘packets’ of information while the poker rooms server was pulling information such as a players personal data or even reveal their hole cards.
After testing the security of the online poker software, Poker Table Rankings contacted the online poker rooms hosted within the Cereus Gaming Network, proving video proof that the exploit could be done.
The video proof was then recreated by the finder, this time showing a scaled down version of the exploit in action, calling his hole cards on the second computer at the same time as the cards were dealt on the computer connected to the online poker room.
The news sent shockwaves through the online poker world, with many webmasters who partner the online poker rooms within the network questioning the honesty of the video.
An affiliate that is well known within the industry then called on a friend of his to recreate the exploit with the purpose of confirming the findings for hundreds of webmasters and the news wasn’t good for those pushing their traffic to the effected poker rooms.
The re-creation saw the person who tried the exploit manage to mimic the actions of the original video and only once their proof was offered did a number of large name affiliates pull the plug on their promotion of the Cereus Network ran sites.
Poker Table Rankings have been very honest about their findings and have even disclosed the email response that they received from Paul Leget, Managing Director of Cereus Network’s mother company.
The email read:
“We really value your email regarding the security hole on our network. We have watched your video and I honestly believe that you did a great job to the poker community by informing us and the players regarding this issue.
We would like to ensure you that this is an extremely important issue to us and we are working towards to the best solution as soon as possible. We would also like your contribution in resolving this matter, if you provide that kind of services.
Please publish this response to your website and inform the players that in order to suffer than kind of illegal attempt the hacker must have access to their local network.”
All that we can conclude from this story is that with the online poker rooms hosted within the Cereus Network proving that they simply can’t protect their members from unfair gaming, should they even be allowed to continue trading?
World Series of Poker Look For Player Record
You don’t have to look for to final that the world’s biggest poker tournament series accolade is granted to the World Series of Poker and with increasing numbers of players looking to win a share of the vast amount of money up for grabs each and every year, the brand has recorded a year upon year increase of participants, with this years tournament expect to fetch a record number of players to the tables.
Las Vegas is getting set for the tournament to once again roll into town and with the knowledge that the tournament is about to embark on the Las Vegas Strip, players are expected to flood into the city.
Mixed a huge variety of player talent within the tournament, amateur and professional poker players will become one as the field finds out their seating plan and could well place one of the most feared poker players in the world in the site firmly to your right.
The 57 event tournament series has already opened up pre-registration to the public and professionals alike and the figures so far are setting pulses racing as the brand looks to improve on the 6,000 player strong main event tournament that was played out last year.
The tournament series will begin May 27th and will run until July 17th when the final main event comes to an end and one poker player wins a life-changing amount of prize money.
World Series of Poker Heading to United Kingdom
There is great news for poker players who reside in the United Kingdom. There is an opportunity which will soon be open to them that is sure to cause a lot of excitement.
The World Series of Poker is bringing an exciting opportunity to the residents of the United Kingdom who are at least 21 years of age and this is one that they won’t want to miss out on.
This opportunity gives players the chance that they have been hoping for. The WSOP announced last month that players can expect the Tournament of Champions to return. This is an All Star event offered for poker players.
Right now many poker fans are voting for their favorite top 20 World Series of Poker champions, 25 of the world’s top poker pros and 2 other seat winners will be included in the entrants who will take part in this great event. This event will be a spectacular one and the best part of all for poker fans is that one of them will find themselves taking place in it and having a chance at getting in on the one million dollar worth of prize money.
This event will be televised and many poker fans will be tuned in to watch it as all of the action unfolds. The lucky player who wins the WSOP’s daily $1 satellite tournaments will automatically receive entry into the tournament.
The winner of this event will find themselves heading off to Las Vegas, Nevada with all of their travel expenses being covered. Once they arrive in Las Vegas they will be welcomed by the spectacular light show that the Las Vegas strip has to offer. They will also be able to get in the spotlight as they compete in this great event which is sure to be a real crowd pleaser.
Some lucky player will find themselves the proud owner of an extra million. Anyone who has dreamed of playing with the pros will want to make sure that they try to win their seat into this event.
With the news set to ignite the UK based poker market, its a certainty that this story will be back within the headlines within the Poker News community.
