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Titan Poker to Choose Team for 2010 Irish Open

Online poker rooms worldwide are presently holding qualifiers to send their best player to represent them in Europe’s most popular poker tournament, the Irish Open.

TitanPoker.com, the leading online poker room has also launched a series of satellite qualifiers in order to ascertain which players will represent them at the Irish Open.

Players who are registered on TitanPoker.com will have a weekly opportunity to try out for a prize package worth a whopping $7,200. This prize not only includes the $4,996 tournament buy-in but also five night’s accommodation in the luxurious Burlington Hotel in Dublin and more than $1,000 for expenses.

Players are given several ways of entering these qualifiers. Every Sunday evening players can pay a direct buy-in fee of $268 to these super satellites. Players can also enter smaller satellite tournaments for as little as $2.20 that will run through the week.

Titan Poker is also offering all new players that join through GamesAndLuck to its site a 150% sign up bonus up to $500 instead of 50% up to $200 regularly.

The Irish Open is one of Europe’s longest-running tournaments and this year’s tournament will take place from April 2nd to April 5th 2010.

The first Irish Open tournament was held in 1981 by the late Terry Rogers who had visited Vegas and befriended legends such as Benny Binion, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Moss. He took a great interest in No Limit Texas Holdem, which is a variation of the game that was previously unknown outside the United States. Upon his return to Ireland, Terry established the Irish Open which resulted in No Limit Holdem becoming popular throughout Ireland and across Europe.

Playtech Signs with SEGA Games

Two gaming giants, SEGA Games Ltd and Playtech Ltd, have joined forces to create a series of games that will showcase on the SEGA Games online gambling platforms.
The online poker and casino games were developed in collaboration with Playtech and SEGA’s Research and Development team and will feature top games such as House of the Dead, Phantasy Star and Nights.

“SEGA is one of the most highly respected brands in gaming today and the brands name speaks for itself,” said Mor Weizer, CEO of Playtech. “We're ecstatic to have reached this agreement with SEGA Games Limited. With our integrated platform and enhanced games suite, we feel that we've given them the tools to expand their product offering, provide a secure and safe gaming experience, and ultimately bring greater value to the SEGA community.”

“Playtech, the industry leader in online gaming software provider, was the obvious choice for SEGA Games Limited and we are very excited to have them as a partner,” said a spokesperson for SEGA Games. “Playtech solutions along with our proprietary SEGAPass technology offers us the opportunity to provide an innovative, new online gaming experience to our players and deliver the SEGA experience to people in the same manner that they have enjoyed for decades. Not only are we uniting with a leading international technology development company but, with two trusted brands in SEGA and Playtech, our customers can have confidence in playing in a leading online casino and poker room with the assurances of quality and security which they have experienced with SEGA for decades.”

Over $1.5 Million Donated for Haiti Relief by Online Poker Community

Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, Chairman of the Poke Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than a million members, applauded Poker Stars, Cake Poker and Full Tilt Poker for providing an easy way for poker players all over the world to make contributions towards relief efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake.

Special pages were set up on the various sites to enable players to make donations easily to the Haiti relief efforts and players on all three sites are able to transfer funds quickly and easily direct from their online accounts on those sites to a Haiti Fund. Poker Stars, Cake Poker as well as Full Tilt Poker have promised to match each donation made, dollar for dollar.

To date there has been over $760,000 donated by more than 50,000 players resulting in donations by the online poker community exceeding an amount $1.5 million in view of the dollar for dollar match.

D’Amato, added that he is proud to be part of the community after seeing the generosity that the online poker players are showing towards the devastation in Haiti.

Cake Poker and Full Tilt are offering online tournaments and will be donating all registration fees to the Red Cross, UNICEF or Doctors Without Borders.

Another leading online poker room, Titan Poker, is hosting a $10 buy-in event on January 31st and will be donating all proceeds to Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti. They will match the total amount of buy-ins made at this event. A little bit different is the donation offer of Pacific Poker. They host four different freeroll tournaments and donate $1 for each player that registers for one of these tournament.

Online players can also donate directly to the Red Cross without physically playing in the tournament by buying in directly to “no play” tournaments which can already be found in the Titan Poker lobby under the “Aid for Haiti” tab.

Titan Poker makes Big Changes

This week brings some great news for players of Titan Poker; the site has launched its new software which comes with many great features and benefits for the players on the site. There are some additions which allow more functionality, and other additions which will open up a door for many new members to come in and play, such as five new languages. The new languages include Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, Greek, and Portuguese. This means players speaking these languages will now be able to get in on all of the fun and excitement that Titan Poker brings. Players will get such features as a Flash version which is also compatible for Mac users. The site also has a new great look which many players will find more appealing to the eye. Current players already playing on the site will enjoy the added functionality of the site. Players speaking the languages which have just been added will also be able to enjoy the site now. This is sure to increase the number of players on the site. A Titan Poker Academy has also been added to the site which will prove to be a useful tool to players just starting out in the online poker scene. The Academy will serve as a comprehensive guide they can use in order to learn all they need to know about strategy. It is also helpful for experienced players. It provides information on such things as odds calculation, bluffing, positioning, money management, and more.

Titan Poker offers Players an Exciting Opportunity

There is some very exciting news for the players who spend their time at Titan Poker. They are going to have a great opportunity offered to them. This popular online poker site has launched satellite tournaments which will be used to determine which poker players will participate on the sites behalf in the ECPokerTour Vienna tournament which is set to take place this November. The €3,000 + €300 main event is going to be held at the Montesino Pokertainment Center which is located in Vienna. This tournament will be held over four days which will be November 10th through November 14th. The Titan Poker players who win this package will receive their buy-in for the event, accommodations for a five nights stay, flight tickets, and entry to the special party for the players, meals, and spending money. This package is worth €5,500 and the players who win it should be very excited. Titan Poker will be offering super satellite tournaments each Sunday and Wednesday night. Each one of them will offer the winners one of these packages. Anyone who wants to take advantage of this opportunity can do so at Titan Poker. All an interested player has to do is to go to the Titan Poker site and register, download the software, and join in. Players will find the software easy to install and user friendly. This is a great opportunity for poker players with all levels of experience. Titan Poker is a well respected online poker site with a lot to offer, this opportunity is just one reason players should check it out.

Poker Ocean closes doors

Another poker room of the ipoker network closes doors. From January, 11th 2011 on Poker Ocean won't offer its services any more. All player accounts will be transferred to Titan Poker which is the largest pokerroon within the ipoker network. So there shouldn't be any problems in using the new site for current Poker Ocean players. If it comes that you need any assistance, just contact their support at support@titanpoker.com.

Titan Poker Wins Award

It has been known for a while now that Titan Poker is one of the most popular online poker sites for players to choose from. Titan Poker is known for being a high traffic online poker site and this means that players can expect to enjoy a lot of exciting competition when they play online poker here. It should come as little surprise that this online poker site would be worthy of receiving rewards. Titan Poker has been awarded the 2011 Gambling Readers’ Choice Award for having the best customer service. Customer service an online poker site offers is very important to online poker players. They count on the poker site to answer their questions in a prompt and professional manner. Those online poker players also need to know that the online poker site they play at is going to help them if they should run into any problems on the poker site. The fact that Titan Poker has so much to offer in the way of poker games and has customer service worthy of such an award speaks volumes and this has helped it to gain so much praise from so many in the online poker industry. Titan Poker is one online poker site that has gone to great lengths to put together an online poker site that players can really count on. Anyone looking for a good online poker site will want to consider Titan Poker since it has so much to offer those that decide to play online poker there.

Titan Poker's new promotion

From today on Titan Poker, the leading poker room of the ipoker network, changes it's promotional structure in a really massive way. Not only new players get an incredible bonus of 200% up to $2,000 but also existing players can look forward to an amazing reload bonus of 300% up to $600. And that's not all. To satisfy their players Titan Poker have increased their offer in tournaments with one more tournament every 15 minutes. If not done already, we think it's time to give Titan Poker a try.