BankrollMob News: Poker, Casino, Crypto & Betting

A couple of days ago there was a little action in the durrrr Challenge again but Patrick Antonius and Tom "durrrr" Dwan only managed to play 226 hands before they stopped playing. After these 226 hands Antonius managed to make a $9.5K profit which means that he is now a little over $140K down in total. But the swings that we see in this challenge is really amazing so surely he will be able to turn it around again.Read more » The Durrrr Challenge is back

The accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has shown that the US would be able to benefit a lot from a regulated poker market. Since the UIGEA was introduced in 2006 it has been very hard for US players to play poker online. And since the government are stating that it is illegal to play poker online if you are a US citizen they are missing out on a lot of tax dollars.Read more » PricewaterhouseCoopers Study Shows Online Gambling Could Produce $52 Billion in Revenue over Next Decade for U.S.

Lots of celebrities, poker players and VIPs were invited to the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational at Commerce Casino, near downtown Los Angeles. On the 4th day of playing the tournament was down to 6 players which were going to fight for the first prize of $100,000.
Read more » Freddy Deeb Wins WPT Celebrity Invitational

After giving you the $5 RummyRoyal no deposit bonus (still valid!), RummyRoyal is taking it up a notch:

Make a first deposit of $/€/£ 10 and play with $/€/£ 25 – instantly!

This offer expires on March 6th 2009, so make sure to use it today…

Getting the bonus:

1. Click here or just open RummyRoyal if you already downloaded it and go to "Cashier"
2. Make your first deposit using this bonus code: PLAYWITH25
3. Start playing with $25!

Enjoy

During March 2009, BankrollMob will run an exclusive promotion with Pacific Poker: Make a deposit and earn a total of 100 FPP's between now and March 26th to qualify for the $100,000 Deep Stack Challenge.

Once you qualify, you will receive a seat worth $140 into the $100,000 Deep Stack Challenge. The tournament occurs every Sunday at 20:00 GMT (March 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th).

Example: If you reach the 100 FPP criteria before Thursday, of any given week, you will be added to the following Sundays $100,000 guaranteed Deep Stack Challenge, up until March 29th 2009. Read more » Pacific Poker: Play for your share of $100,000 - free seat worth $140 !!

Ilari Sahamies "Ziigmund", the Finnish poker pro is known to be a so called trash-talker in the chat on the poker tables on the higher limits. Not long ago Ziigmund really got tilted when he lost with a flush against a Gus Hansen's full house. One can only feel a bit sad for the Dane that had to hear these angry words from Ziigmund.

Read more » HighStakes: Hard words in the poker chat between Gus Hansen and Ziigmund

It may come as no surprise to anyone that Phil Hellmuth, also known as "The poker brat likes to praise himself when he wins hands, but also likes to shout at his opponents when he think they played a hand incorrect.

Read more » Phil Helmuth outplaying J.C. Tran

RummyRoyal is now offering you a $5 no deposit bonus! Here's how to claim it:

1. Click here and download.
2. When finished, choose "Real Mode"
3. Fill in the required information and the bonus code: 5WELCOME
4. As soon as you have validated your email address, you will receive $5 directly to your account!

If you somehow missed some steps and already in the platform, just click on "cashier" and continue from step 3.

*Note: You can use this bonus at: "Beginners Tables" - marked in the lobby in purple with the color (B). These tables are available in the "Single Tourney" and "Quick Games" tabs. If you make a first deposit, you can use the bonus in any "real money" table in the application.

Good luck!

Yes, you heard right! When PokerStars EPT Copenhagen finished last Saturday Gus Hansen challenged his fellow countrymen Theo Jörgensen for a real fight in the boxing ring. And of course money was involved as we are talking about some of the most successful poker players there are.

Read more » Video: Gus Hansen VS Theo Jörgensen ...in the boxing ring?

Please be advised that our final batch of no deposit bonuses for Mansion Poker (125 bonuses) will all be released tonight at 8pm GMT (21:00 CET).

After that, the offer will be closed while Mansion Poker analyze the activity and value of the BankrollMob players. If everything turns out good, the offer will hopefully be re-opened in the near future.

We suggest that you go ahead and create an account with Mansion Poker as soon as possible - follow these instructions, click here, so that you are ready at 8pm to just complete the final step of the bonus request process by simply entering your Mansion Poker username. In our experience, the 125 bonuses would be gone in maybe half an hour.

BankrollMob invites all our Titan Poker players who signed up at Titan Poker through BankrollMob, to take part of the "March Invitational" $2000 guranteed tournament, with a buy-in of just $2+$0.20. The tournament is restricted to all new depositing players after February 1st and it is scheduled for March 29th at 8 pm "server time".

If you have not yet signed up, be sure to check out our poker gift & deposit bonus for Titan Poker and free $150 no deposit bonus for Titan Poker or signup with Titan Poker right now!Read more » Titan Poker - March Invitational $2000 Guranteed Tournament

Start your next month with an introductory freeroll at RummyRoyal – the world’s biggest online rummy game room. The $100 freeroll will take place on Sunday, March 1st, 19:00 GMT (in the lobby it will say 14:00 EST) and will be open only for BRM members. This will be followed with many more events to come throughout this year.

Just like poker has a few variations (Hold’em, Omaha etc.), then so does rummy. The game we chose for this freeroll is Kalooki 51 which is the most popular at RummyRoyal’s platform, so take some time to practice it before the tourney’s date. There is no deposited or password needed, and all you need to do is click here and follow these steps:Read more » BankrollMob kicks off March with a private freeroll at RummyRoyal

BankrollMob member and Titan Poker player, Alpo Kuparinen from Finland, qualified for Team Titan and will represent Scandinavia through Titan Poker in poker tournaments, during the first half of 2009.

Having qualified for Team Titan, Alpo Kuparinen received a 6 month sponsorship contract to represent Titan Poker at tournaments, $16,500 to use for buy-ins at major land based poker tournaments and lots of Titan Poker gear.

Alpo signed up at Titan Poker through BankrollMob back in September 2008 using one of our Titan Poker deposit bonuses.

Read more about Alpo Kuparinen in this Titan Poker interview.

BankrollMob wishes Alpo good luck in the upcoming tournaments!

This Sunday, February 22nd, RummyRoyal is hosting its $15,000 multi table tournament – biggest so far in rummy online sphere. Sure, it doesn’t go anywhere near the prizes in casinos and poker rooms, however, the fast growth of online rummy last year suggests that money prizes will soon match its colleagues in the poker world. Rummy and Poker have always been known as “sister games”, where many poker legends were and still are excellent gin rummy players. RummyRoyal will also fly two top players to the world series of gin rummy tournament in May with $100,000 prize money.Read more » RummyRoyal is getting ready for biggest tourney in online rummy history

The American Adam "csimmsux" Geyer wrote history this weekend as he won his third FTOPS event after that he outlasted 5286 players and took down the $2.500.000 guaranteed Main Event in Full Tilt's Online Poker Series XI

Read more » FTOPS XI: Adam Geyer wins the Main Event

We're glad to let you know that our no deposit bonus for PKR is back! The offer remains the same, you get $25 worth of tournament tickets for PKR. The $25 tournament tickets will be issued as 2x $10 and 1x $5.

Afterwards you can please yourself with a 100% up to $600 bonus on your first deposit - use bonuscode: MOB25FREE

Please note that we currently only accept 20 bonus requests a day for this offer - so if it's "sold out", be sure to check back the next day.

For more information & sign up, please click here!

Ladbokes will be joining the Microgaming Network which means that they will start sharing traffic with poker rooms like Unibet and Cool Hand poker. As a player at Ladbrokes Poker you will not notice any difference when it comes to the actual poker software as they were already using the Microgaming platform.

Read more » Ladbrokes Poker Joins the Microgaming Network

Last year Gus Hansen was losing a lot of money to Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond at the Omaha tables at Full Tilt Poker. But at the beginning of 2009 it has been a completely different story. Yesterday they could be found playing at their usual PLO tables at Full Tilt Poker and it was Gus Hansen who continued his winning streak in 2009. In fact seven out of the ten largest pots were won by Gus Hansen.

Read more » HighStakes: Gus Hansen Chasing OMGClayAiken at the Tables

The Finnish poker players are among the world's best, such as Future Patrik Antonius, Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies, Juha Helppi etc. But they might experience some difficulty playing online poker within their own country in the future.

The Finnish politicians are preparing a new gaming legislation. According to an interview with Jouni Laiho, the working committee is ready to take more drastic steps. Initially it is a tight ban on advertising of poker companies and a ban on bank transfers to poker sites.

A ban on Internet access to poker sites are also an option, which has also been practiced in Italy.

A PA judge in Greensburg has ruled that poker tournaments are illegal and should fall under illegal gambling since poker is not considered a game of skill, according to him. He has charged three men for organizing a poker tournament. David Millstein is the Attorney for the three charged men and he claims that poker is a game of skill and not chance. Therefore it shouldn't fall under illegal gambling.

Read more » Pennsylvania: 3 men charged for organizing poker tournament

Many rummy players play poker, and vice-versas. Some poker legends such as Stu Ungar, were also professional rummy players!

RummyRoyal offers BankrollMob members a 100% up to $200 deposit bonus if you want to try out online Rummy.

For more information & signup, please click here: RummyRoyal 100% up to $200 deposit bonus.

Just wanted to let you know, that all of you who applied for Vulcan Poker bonus and were approved, have now been paid.

We're sorry for the delay!

Don't forget we have 2x $300 Vulcan Poker freerolls scheduled, 1 in February and 1 in March.

PRESS RELEASE:

The leading online poker room on the iPoker Network ups the ante by significantly increasing the prize pool in its February cash table race.

A $100,000 first prize awaits the online poker player finishing in first place in Titan Poker’s $1,500,000 February Race, which ranks cash table players based on their gaming activity during the month. The top 800 players will each win a share of the prizes, which are substantially higher than those offered at any other iPoker Network poker room.

The $1,500,000 February Race is the second leg of Titan Poker’s previously announced Million Dollar Race, which launched during the month of January. Originally offering $1,000,000 in cash prizes to its competing poker players, Titan Poker now stands to hand out more than $2,500,000 in prizes over the four-month promotion.Read more » TitanPoker to Hand Out $1,500,000 in Prizes in February Race

Yesterday was the start of the 11th FTOPS series at Full Tilt Poker. It started out with a $1 Million guaranteed tournament that had a buy in of $216. This tournament attracted a total of 6275 players so the total prize pool reached $1.225.000.Read more » “Muckducks” wins FTOPS XI Event 1

You guys have done it again! This time you took Vulcan Poker by surprise and they were not expecting so many new accounts in so little time. Unfortunately this means that they are running behind on processing all the new accounts and bonus requests.

At this time, we do not know when they expect to catch up - but please DO NOT contact BankrollMob Support OR Vulcan Poker Support for more information, it will only take up our ressources. You will of course receive an e-mail once we know the status of your bonus request (ie. approved (paid), rejected, etc. - just like with every other no deposit poker offer).

We're sorry for any inconvenience caused.