http://www.misterpoker.co.uk/pokerNews.asp Online Poker News en webmaster@misterpoker.com ©2006 http://www.misterpoker.co.uk Wed,5 Nov 2008 13:07 GMT 05 November 2008 GMT http://www.misterpoker.co.uk/pokerNews.asp#Cool Hand Poker Promotes New Players To Join 30/10/2008 About a month ago, Belle Rock Entertainment launched Cool Hand Poker, its newly-established online poker room.This game is powered by Microgaming. To attract new players to the site, Cool Hand Poker is using a leader board campaign and welcome bonuses as well. The game offers a welcome bonus of 350 USD. You can earn more than 350 USD from the leader boards making the game well worth your time. In most Leader Board races, it is only the top point collectors who receive perks and prizes from their efforts. At Cool Hand Poker, virtually anyone can win big. The ones that usually suffer in these tournaments are those players that doesn’t have the time to play 100,000 hands in a week to make it to the top spots. But Cool Hand Poker has an answer to that. Anyone who can make a significant jump in points will get a chance to win 25 USD. Aside from that, Cool Hand Poker also has a weekly and monthly Leader Board competition. The top 100 in the monthly leader boards will win 5,000 USD while the top weekly leader board competitors can get a chance to win one of the 16 mp3 players to be given away. http://www.misterpoker.co.uk/pokerNews.asp#Gaming Revenues Affiliate Program By Vicon Media 30/10/2008 Earlier this year, Vicon Media was formed. The online marking company consists of a highly experienced, talented, and knowledgeable team, who are veterans in the online marketing.It’s company directors are the former managers who are behind Empire Online’s huge success. In August 2008, they launched their Gaming Revenues Affiliate Program. Vulcan Poker and Royal Lounge Casino are the first two brands to launch under the Gaming Revenues Program, which is on the iPoker network working with Playtech, the most popular gaming software provider. The Gaming Revenues team already sees a very high player conversion rates. Given the talent and the team’s driving force, this comes as no surprise. Royal Lounge Casino currently has more than 100 games, 20 of which is a progressive jackpot game. Vulcan poker offers monthly reload bonuses and a 100 percent welcome bonus. Ensuring high player retention, a minimum of 3 daily freerolls is available, as well as all the major iPoker network prize tournaments. All affiliates of Gaming Revenues can benefit from the 5-tier system that vastly increases potential earnings. The commission not only can be earned from the revenue generated by their own referred players. It can also be earned from players referred by their sub-affiliates five levels down. Such a system is undoubtedly profitable, which is why only few affiliate programs offer such a system similar to this. The Gaming Revenues Affiliate Program is user-friendly and uses the most highly sophisticated software. It is easy to select between language, sizes, and brands. All marketing materials are easily accessible within the program and it also allows real time checking of traffic statistics. This will give an accurate detail for the up-to-date affiliate earnings, number of impressions, signups, downloads, click amounts, and fun players to real players. It’s an all-in-one package right at your fingertips in a secure, real time environment that you can access anytime. The primary player market of Gaming Revenues is Australia, UK, Europe, and Canada. US-based players are welcome to join, but may not market the brands in the US. The software and the affiliate program is available in German, Spanish, English, French, and Italian. The Scandinavian language and other languages will be supported soon. The program itself is not the only thing that’s multilingual. The team of personal account managers are multilingual too and they provide support to affiliates ranging from initial set-up of account to advising on the most profitable converting media for their website. The expert team currently supports the following language: English, Hungarian, Hebrew, French, Spanish, German, Greek, Italian, and Polish. Other languages will be supported soon. Payments can be made by secure online wallet, bank draft, or wire transfer. This can be paid either in Euros, British Pounds, US or Canadian Dollars. Prompt payments to its affiliates is a priority for the Gaming Revenues team. http://www.misterpoker.co.uk/pokerNews.asp#Poker In The Park 2008 Tournament Announced 30/10/2008 Poker players in London are invited on 15th & 16th August to have their chance to win poker tournaments - for free!Europe’s biggest poker festival is being taken place on the August 5th, 2008 (London, UK) ,Poker in the Park, will be in London’s Leicester Square. Those who will visit the event will be given a taste of a live poker tournament, with a chance to play for glory in one of several free poker tournaments. Poker Dome will host this free hourly Texas Hold’em tournaments. Free to attend, poker players will find out what it’s like to be a pro poker player with professional dealers, tournament director and as well as coverage on the big screen, Poker in the Park’s Jumbotron, just like on T.V Experience the annual poker tournament in the park - Enjoy the game of poker. http://www.misterpoker.co.uk/pokerNews.asp#28 Year-old Player Wins Poker Title in Budapest 30/10/2008 After winning the European Poker Tour’s inaugural tournament last November 1 in Budapest, 28 year-old Will Fry is now 766,606 USD richer.The Nottingham poker player edged out 531 participants in the Hungarian capital while Ciprian Hrisca from Romania took the second spot. Hrisca lost to Fry in the heads-up play. The poker player said that he will use his winnings to help out his family, make a donation to charity, and pay his mortgage. He claimed that he has been playing poker since birth. Fry has cashed at 6 previous EPT events but had never made a final table before the Hungary tournament. The European Poker Tour is Fry’s first major live event. His first prize also gives him a chance to participate at the European Poker Tour’s Grand Finals in Monte Carlo which is set to happen in April 2009. The event’s grand prize is around 12,800 USD. A total of 71 Hungarians participated in the event which took place at the Sofitel Hotel in Budapest. The 4-day poker event attracted many of the domestic poker scene’s top players and several players from every corner of the globe. http://www.misterpoker.co.uk/pokerNews.asp#Third Quarter Revenue Report By World Poker Tour 30/10/2008 World Poker Tour Enterprises recently released their third quarter revenue numbers and they were down 3 million USD from the same time last year. The company had undergone major changes in the past quarter and the results did not turn out to be favorable for the gaming enterprise. During the year, WPT Enterprises announced that they had signed a new agreement with Fox Sports Network to air new episodes of the World Poker Tour which includes 26 new episodes and moved the brand more towards mainstream TV. However, the company’s third quarter revenue numbers were down by 2.8 million USD. These figures were a result of a decrease in domestic television license fees and a lower domestic sponsorship fees. During the third quarter of 2007, the company’s revenues were up at 4.4 million USD. But WPT Enterprises have several other highlights to lessen this year’s decrease in revenue. They have seen the progress in their cost cutting efforts. These measures were aimed at righting size operations. Their ClubWPT.com and WPT China National Traktor Poker Tour subsidiaries have also undergone expansion. Despite the revenue figures, World Poker Tour Enterprises’ expansion plans next year are still on track. Steve Lipscomb, CEO and President of WPT Enterprises, said that they are still pursuing 3 major projects which is WPT China, The ClubWPT.com online subscription business, and the emerging sponsor model of distributing the World Poker Tour TV series. On the other hand, they are shutting down their online gaming business this November after the disappointing figures.