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Quebec's securities regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) have filed insider trading charges against Amaya CEO David Baazov and 13 others, including Baazov's brother and Amaya adviser Yoel Altman. In total, 5 charges were made against David Baazov following an investigation of the $4.9 billion acquisition of PokerStars and Full Tilt by Amaya in 2014.

Read more » Amaya CEO Accused of Insider Trading

Denilson de Oliveira has has inked an ambassador deal with 888poker. Denilson played football for a living from the age of 17 until he retired in 2010. During his 16 years as a profession footballer he played for clubs such as Sao Paulo and Real Betis. He was also on the Brazil National team from 1996 to 2003 (in 2002, he won the FIFA World Cup for his country!).

Read more » 888poker Signs Brazilian Football Legend

We are near Easter, and Unibet is celebrating the Easter with an Easter Spring Calender, with free prizes and offers behind every nr. in the calender. Go take a look and see, what's behinds todays number!

It's Easter and we are getting spoiled with a Free calender from Unibet, with different kinds of prizes, bonusses and more. It can be free-spins, tournament tickets, free-bets or other bonuses that you win, and you just have to check, what's behind todays number.

Click here to go to the Calender --->

You don't have to make a deposit to open and of the numbers in the calender, so you can do it completely free.

Here's how you do it:

1. Sign-up or Sign-in at Unibet.com

2. Go to the Spring Calender.

3. Open the nr. and see your prize.

Wheater you are into Betting, Poker, Casino or Bingo, Unibet is a fantastic possibility to explore all of those things. They also give away a lot of different bonusses, and if you are one of the lucky people, there might be a £10 No-deposit welcome bonus for you.

Bonuses are often divided into different groups depending on where people live. People in scandinavia are usually some of the luckiest getting the absolute best bonuses, but Unibet is really good at giving great bonuses to other countries aswell.

Click here to get your Bonus --->

Example right now they give away £10 No-deposit for some countries, when you sign-up at their Poker-software, while they give other up to £150 Deoposit Bonus to the bookmaker.

If you are into Bingo, you should definitely choose Unibet, since they have FREE Bingo-tournaments with real money prizes for new sign-ups at Unibet. It doesn't require a deposit.

Unibet do not offer a list of which bonuses are avaliable to which countries, but if you go the link above, you'll be taken to Unibet, where you can see which offers they have for you. Either a No-deposit, Sign-up bonus or Free Bingo.

Check for yourself here

Unibet is spoiling us with their €1000 Freerolls which they have upped to two times a week now. Before it was just thursday, but now they have their €1000 Freeroll monday and thursday.

The sportsbook freeroll used to be only on thursdays, but it seems to be popular, so Unibet has added another tournament for all the Poker-hungry players. Monday night they've added a €1000 Freeroll, with the same conditions as the latest one.

Click here to get your ticket --->

You just have to place a bet of min. €10 during friday to monday, and they you are qualified to play in this tournament. The same conditions if you want to play the thursday freeroll, then you just have to place a bet of min. €10 between tuesday and thursday.

This is how you join the Freeroll:

1. Sign-up or log-in at Unibet.

2. Place a bet of €10 on any sports market.

3. Go to the Poker-lobby to find your ticket.

4. Sign-up for the tournament!

The final eight players from a total of 220 entries returned to Casino de Marrakech on Sunday, and it took eight hours of play, including a 1,5 hour heads-up battle, to determine a winner. Portuguese poker pro Henrique Pinho received €35,800 after sending Frenchman Patrick Groppi packing in second place for €32,100.

According to Hendon Mob, Henrique Pinho now has over $206k in live tournament earnings. His win of the 2016 Marrakech Poker Open was his largest score to date! His second best cash was a victory of the WPT Big Stack Open last year for €21,832.

source: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2016/03/2016-marrakech-poker-open-3-24353.htm

The whopping $1.2 million prop bet arranged between high-roller poker players Bill Perkins and Dan Bilzerian is going to happen in the next few days.

How it all started

Bill slammed the challenge right after Dan himself had bet Samantha Abernethy, another poker player, a modest amount of $10,000 stating that she must complete the same bike ride in just 72 hours.

Read more » Dan Bilzerian Seriously Readies Himself for $1.2 Million Bike Ride with Lance Armstrong as Personal Guru

Alibaba, one of the largest online retail company, has recently been reported to be making a big gambling move into the lottery and poker market. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. affiliates is reported to be investing $308 million in order to gain 59% control over AGTech Holdings Ltd. - a move that will help make their return on the lottery market after exiting last year due to government restrictions.

Read more » Online Retail Shop Alibaba Makes a Move Into Lottery and Poker Market

Every thursday Unibet has this €1000 Freeroll, where everyone who has bet €10 on sports can participate. Now they have another €1000 Freeroll to celebrate the Euro tournaments, and you can qualify for only €5!

To get into this  €1000 Freeroll that starts friday the 18th of march, you'll have to place a single bet on either the Champions League or Europa League matches during the 15th, 16th or 17th of march. A single bet of €5 euro is enought to secure you a ticket to the €1000 Freroll on friday.

Click here to enter --->

Registration opens 30 min. before the start of the tournament, so there is a good chance, that there wont be a lot of people in this tournament.

You will get your ticket during the friday, and the tournament is playing friday night.

Here's how you enter the tournament:

1. Sign-up or log-in right here

2. Place a min. €5 on Champions League og Europa League.

3. Get the password for the tournament sent to your inbox on friday.

4. Play the €1000 Freroll!

The Super High Roller Bowl will return to the Aria Resort and Casino this summer. According to a press release on Super High Roller Bowl's website on March 14, the $300,000 tournament has already reached its 49 players cap! Super stars such as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Erik Seidel and Antonio Esfandiari have committed to play the tournament, which will have a prize pool of $15 million!

Read more » $300k Buy-in Tourney Sold Out!

The Dutch appeals court ruled that it is unlawful for people to hold poker games because they are equivalent to gambling, according to a report from Dutchnews.nl.

The decision originates from an almost 10-year-old case that involved two males who were prosecuted for hosting super low-stakes tournaments of Texas hold'em poker at a bar for a period of two years, which attracted around 70 players.

Read more » Dutch Judges Claim That Poker Is A Game of Chance

The Eureka Poker Tour Rozvadov €1,100 Main Event attracted 682 entries, and two days ago the remaining eight players returned to the final table at King's Casino. Seven different nations were represented at the final table, but incredibly enough two Argentineans, who also happen to be a couple, ended up playing heads-up for the title! What are the odds of that in a tournament with almost 700 players?

Read more » Boyfriend ‘Beats' Girlfriend To Win Major Tournament Title!

Every thursday Unibet is having their Sportsbook Poker Freeroll. There is a prizepool of nothing less than €1000 euro, and there is no buy-in. Hence, the freeroll.

Unibet has having this tournament every thursday night at 19:00 (CET+1) and there is €1000 euro in the prize-pool. It cost absolutely nothing to participate in this tournament, but you do have to do one thing before you can join the tournament.

Before the tournament starts you'll have to place a bet in the sportsbook of min. €10 euro, as soon as you have done that, you'll get a ticket to join the tournament. You don't have to place the bet today, if you've already placed a bet in the last seven days.

Go to Unibet right here --->

The only requirements to this tournament is, that you have placed a min. €10 bet on a sport event in the last seven days. If you haven't done that, you can still do it. Just go to the sportsbook, place a €10 bet, and then get your ticket to play tonights €1000 FREEROLL!

Here's how you get the ticket:

1. Sign-up at Unibet or Log-in

2. If you haven't placed a bet in the last 7 days, place a €10 bet on the sportsbook.

3. You'll recieve your ticket in the Poker Lobby, and you can join the tournament.

4. Register for the Freeroll and hopefully win!

Click here to get to Unibet

A total of 418 entries were made into the 2016 Unibet Open Main Event in London and at the end of it all, after several days of play and a six-hour final table battle, UK poker pro David Shallow stood tall as the winner to collect £62,000 ($86,747) in prize money and a trophy!

Read more » 2016 Unibet Open: David Shallow Wins The Main Event!

A male poker player gets twice the luck when a couple who mugged him either forgot or underestimated the power of modern technology these days. Miguel Pena Allende and his girlfriend Karla Tattiana De Los Santos followed poker player pro Scott Robbins and robbed him of his winnings along with other belongings at gunpoint in South Florida, but karma is quick to mete out punishment - through the help of the victim's stolen iPhone, detectives were able to trace the suspects and capture them.

Read more » Poker Player Mugged after Casino Win, Suspects Caught via Victim’s iPhone GPS

In 2011, Pius Heinz became the first German in World Series of Poker history to win the Main Event! Heinz, 22 at the time, received $8.7 million for his first place finish and quickly picked up a sponsorship deal from PokerStars.

Read more » 2011 WSOP Winner Back At Tables - Wins Super High Roller in Czech Republic

A recent study conducted by a online casino site examined Instagram posts written by users from all over the world to see what the Millennial Generation think and feel about the topic of gambling, and the results were clear: the individuals of today feel gambling in a positive light.

Read more » Study Shows Most Instagram Users Feel Gambling in a Positive Light

Many of the world's best poker players competed in the season XIV World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10k entry Main Event to create a massive prize pool!  After several days of play, however, rather unknown German poker pro Dietrich Fast stood tall as the champion after defeating Season XIV WPT Legends of Poker champion Mike Shariati heads-up!

Read more » German Wins WPT L.A. Poker Classic For $1 Million!

Every thursday Unibet is having their Sportsbook Poker Freeroll. There is a prizepool of nothing less than €1000 euro, and there is no buy-in. Hence, the freeroll.

Unibet has having this tournament every thursday night at 19:00 (CET+1) and there is €1000 euro in the prize-pool. It cost absolutely nothing to participate in this tournament, but you do have to do one thing before you can join the tournament.

Before the tournament starts you'll have to place a bet in the sportsbook of min. €10 euro, as soon as you have done that, you'll get a ticket to join the tournament. You don't have to place the bet today, if you've already placed a bet in the last seven days.

Go to Unibet right here --->

The only requirements to this tournament is, that you have placed a min. €10 bet on a sport event in the last seven days. If you haven't done that, you can still do it. Just go to the sportsbook, place a €10 bet, and then get your ticket to play tonights €1000 FREEROLL!

Here's how you get the ticket:

1. Sign-up at Unibet or Log-in

2. If you haven't placed a bet in the last 7 days, place a €10 bet on the sportsbook.

3. You'll recieve your ticket in the Poker Lobby, and you can join the tournament.

4. Register for the Freeroll and hopefully win!

Click here to get to Unibet

Poker pro and poker representer Kara Scott is 888poker's newest ambassador after inking a deal with the popular poker room last week. Scott, originally from Canada but now living in Europe, has been playing and representing poker since the mid-2000's. She currently has over $640k in live tournament earnings, including her biggest score to date: a second place finish in the 2009 Irish Open for $414,612!

Read more » Kara Scott Joins 888poker!

Every thursday Unibet is having their Sportsbook Poker Freeroll. There is a prizepool of nothing less than €1000 euro, and there is no buy-in. Hence, the freeroll.

Unibet has having this tournament every thursday night at 19:00 (CET+1) and there is €1000 euro in the prize-pool. It cost absolutely nothing to participate in this tournament, but you do have to do one thing before you can join the tournament.

Before the tournament starts you'll have to place a bet in the sportsbook of min. €10 euro, as soon as you have done that, you'll get a ticket to join the tournament. You don't have to place the bet today, if you've already placed a bet in the last seven days.

Go to Unibet right here --->

The only requirements to this tournament is, that you have placed a min. €10 bet on a sport event in the last seven days. If you haven't done that, you can still do it. Just go to the sportsbook, place a €10 bet, and then get your ticket to play tonights €1000 FREEROLL!

Here's how you get the ticket:

1. Sign-up at Unibet or Log-in

2. If you haven't placed a bet in the last 7 days, place a €10 bet on the sportsbook.

3. You'll recieve your ticket in the Poker Lobby, and you can join the tournament.

4. Register for the Freeroll and hopefully win!

Click here to get to Unibet

* You can find the promotion under Unibet.com/promotions and this tourament last for all 2015/2016 season. *

After years of complaining about the politics surrounding Poker Hall of Fame, twoplustwo podcast host Adam Schwartz decided in august last year to create his very own Internet Poker's Wall of Fame.

Read more » Blom, Laliberte & Caby Join Internet Poker's Wall of Fame

It feels like it wasn't that long ago since the 46th annual World Series of Poker concluded after Joe McKeehen won the Main Event for $7.68 million! Well, the schedule for the 2016 WSOP is already out: several changes have been made in addition to some new exciting events!

Read more » 2016 WSOP Schedule Available!

Would you like to play the Big Unibet Open event with BIG cash prizes? - Then you should join the Unibet Open freeroll satelite, which are played in less than two hours.

Unibet are hosting several freerolls every single day, and today there is a FREEROLL for Unibet Open! - It's a big event, with BIG cash prizes and you can join it for free, if you are lucky.

At 11.05 (UTC - London time) the Unibet Open Freeroll will start and this is your chance to join the big tournament for free. It doesn't cost anything and you don't have to earn points or anything first to play. It's free, and it's very soon.

Click here to go to Unibet --->

If you are very fast, there's a €50 Freeroll at 09:05 UTC, which is less than 10 minutes. But you have to hurry up, if you want to join that Freeroll.

If you can't play right now and rather would wait for the later tournaments, then we give you a list right here:

List of Freerolls at Unibet today:

09:05 - €50 Hold'em Freeroll
11:05 - Unibet Open Freeroll
13:05 - €50 Hold'Em Freeroll
15:05 - €50 Omaha Freeroll
16:05 - €100 Hold'em Freeroll
21:05 - €50 Ohama Freeroll
22:05 - Unibet Open Freeroll
23:05 - €100 Hold'em Freeroll

It's Freerolls worth of €400 + The two Unibet Open Freerolls.

Here's how you do it:

1. Sign-up or log-in at Unibet

2. Go to the poker-lobby

3. Register for the Freeroll you want to play.

Click here to sign-up