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This exciting new 20-payline video slot, designed in the style of the popular Hellboy comic books, offers an array of exciting bonus features. The game reintroduces the thrilling SuperMode bonus feature awarding 10 free spins at random, as found on Tomb Raider™ – Secret of the Sword. In addition, the four-level Underworld Bonus takes challenges the lucky player to search for superhero team members through a network of tunnels, and win bonuses along the way.

David Brickman, the Jackpot Factory’s Vice President of Player Affairs, said, “We’re delighted to release this new licensed slot at All Slots Casino. Teaming up with the popular action hero brings even more excitement to the casino, especially for our many players who are already big fans of Hellboy™. This is sure to be quite the slot adventure!”

Other video slots launching this January are Arctic Fortune and Robot Butler. The New Games Prize Patrol promotion will be running January 14th-18th, awarding $10,000 in casino bonuses to lucky players on the three new slot games.

This is the first time an online gambling portal has offered the opportunity for gamers to vote on the best of the best, but sees the opportunity to highlight online casinos that have catered well to all American players.

2009 USA Player’s Online Casino Awards
We hope that gamers will find this a good outlet for their opinions. We look forward to seeing which casinos are ranked as the best
The new site has been successful and we think this is a fun and interesting addition to our usual offerings
“We hope that gamers will find this a good outlet for their opinions. We look forward to seeing which casinos are ranked as the best,” said Frank Pineiro, business manager.

Gamers can vote in five categories: Best casino software, best customer support, best games and tournaments, best bonuses and best overall casino.

To get selected as a nominee, casinos must have good customer service, provide an easy-to-use interface, have good player satisfaction and have a good selection of games. All the casino nominees accept players from every state in the United States.

Anyone who votes will be rewarded with $210 in free casino credits. All voters will also be entered into a drawing to win free airfare for two to Las Vegas. Players can vote between Dec. 1 and Feb. 1 with the winners selected on Feb. 3.

The first USA online casino awards are following shortly on the heels of the Gambling Gazette’s re-launch, which offered visitors more casino and poker reviews, casino and poker tournament schedules and an overall new look.

“The new site has been successful and we think this is a fun and interesting addition to our usual offerings,” Pineiro said.

How is this possible? The answer is within the overlays given by guaranteed prizepools offered for some guaranteed poker tournaments

An example: On Sunday the 02/11/2008 the €250.000 Guaranteed Tournament at CelebPoker had a €320 Buy-In. 613 players registered for this tournament. Now the calculation fun begins!

First a player has to divide the offered Prizemoney with the number of players who registered. In this example: €250,000 / 613 players = €407.

This means that a players ticket is worth than €407. As your ticket costs €320, you are automatically gaining the equivilent of an extra €87 to pay for your entry (€407-€320 = €87). Ok, players don’t get the cash in the bank, but poker players do get it as an advantage for the buy-in as a player have less players to compete for the prizepool with.

Players can easily calculate the number of poker players that turns a guaranteed tournament + – 0 in added value if you divide the sum of guaranteed prizemoney with the Buy-In amount. In our example above it would be like this: 250.000 (€) / 320 (€) = 781.

That shows that when the number of players is equal or higher than 781 there is no added money in the prizepool. Therefore as a player you dont get this extra value overlay for your registration. When a player keep this kind of calculation in mind he can make use this overlay to his advantage by paying attention to the CelebPoker-MTT-Lobby.

The longest running Hold’em tournament in Europe, the Irish Open is the continent’s answer to the World Series of Poker and is certainly no stranger to hosting scores of poker celebrities. Last year’s event was televised and the line-up read like a roll call of top professionals, including Doyle Brunson, Sorel Mizzi, Padraig Parkinson, and Ciaran O’Leary. Which is not surprising, considering the €3,001,400 prize pool attracted 667 of the game’s elite players. But it was an Englishman, Neil Channing, who stole the show with his first place win worth €801,400.

This year promises even bigger surprises on the felt when the Irish Open returns to the country’s vibrant capital from April 10th to 13th, 2009. No doubt the line-up of contenders will once again feature the seasoned best in poker, giving players a chance to test their skill set against the top of the league. This is in addition to playing for a share of a prize pool worth over €3,000,000 (the exact amount is to be announced later on in the year).

Buy-in to the Irish Open 2009 has been set at €3,200 + €300, but players can win their seats to the exciting event for as little as $2 + $0.2 at one of Titan Poker’s Sit ‘N’ Go satellites and daily qualifying tournaments. Prize packages to Dublin are valued at $6500 and include Main Event buy-in, five nights’ accommodation (worth approximately $800) and a generous allowance of up to $1000 for flights and spending money. Players will delight in the atmosphere of Ireland’s party capital and the celebratory buzz surrounding poker’s highest profile celebrities at the tables, while playing for a share of millions.