On Feb. 27, the World Series of Poker Circuit made history when by hosting first online circuit ring event in Nevada. The tournament, won by Anthony Spinella, coincided with the WSOPC series at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino.
The first online circuit ring event was a great success. The event drew 256 players to WSOP.com in Nevada and generated a prize pool of $137,760.
Now it’s New Jersey‘s turn for some history. The WSOPC will be making its way to Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City from March 8-19, and listed on the schedule of events is the first-ever online circuit tournament in New Jersey.
New Jersey WSOPC Online Ring Event
On March 18 at 6:30 p.m. ET, the inaugural New Jersey WSOP Online Circuit Ring Event will get underway.
You can buy directly into the online tournament for $365 or win a seat for as a little as $5.
Satellites will run daily beginning on March 4 on WSOP.com NJ.
You don’t have to be in Atlantic City to play. You can qualify your way into the tournament and play in the online circuit event anywhere from New Jersey with a verified WSOP.com account.
Players in this Online Circuit Event qualify to earn points for the 2018 WSOP Global Casino Championship.
WSOP.com is making sure everyone has a chance to play in this exciting and much-anticipated event. In addition to the $5 daily satellites, they are offering a deposit bonus that is too good to pass up.
Use the code “ACRING” while making your next deposit and receive one of three mystery offers.
Mystery offers include:
$365 Online Ring Ticket
$365 Online Ring Freeroll Ticket
$5 satellite ticket for Online Circuit Event
Additionally, a 3-seat guarantee satellite is running on March 11 at 6 p.m. Players in the event will earn a tournament to the $365 WSOP Online Ring Event Freeroll. The freeroll takes place March 17 at 6 p.m.
To be eligible for your mystery offer, just make a qualifying deposit between March 4-16 at WSOP.com NJ.
Click here for complete details and the latest information for the WSOPC Online Ring Event satellites. http://www.wsop.com/promotions/wsop-circuit-ac/nj/
WSOPC Atlantic City Live Event Satellites
Are you interested in playing both the online circuit ring event and the WSOPC Main Event in Atlantic City?
If the answer is yes, then let WSOP.com help you earn a seat to the $1,675 Main Event.
Satellites to the Main Event will run from March 11-16 with a guarantee of one Main Event seat per tournament.
You can buy-in directly for $30 or start with one of the daily super satellites for only $3.
Players are eligible to win multiple seats. Multiple seat winners can use the additional seats for re-entry into the Main Event or receive WSOP.com tournament tickets worth $1,675.
The WSOP will be here before you know it. And the WSOPC stop in New Jersey is the perfect place to practice those tournament skills.
Whether you plan to play online, join the live action or both, you don’t want to miss out on your chance to bring home some jewelry.
You could say Global Poker is going NUTS. That would not even be an insult either.
The legal online poker site is owning the designation. You have to be a little kooky to put $200,000 in Sweeps Coin (SC) on the line for a single online tournament.
Yet that is exactly what is happening. The big event is on April 1. And that is no practical joke.
Global Poker Madness features tiers of satellites
The event is called Global Poker Madness. It will hopefully be as crazy and fun as college basketball.
The Main Event features a buy-in of SC$540. Now that is certainly a steep price point, but do not fear at all. There are plenty of opportunities to get in on the cheap. How cheap? Try SC$1.50.
There are four tiers of tournaments, including The Nuts Main Event.
The lowest satellite rounds are labeled Mild. At a price tag of SC$1.50, they are quite gentle on the bankroll. They are also very easy on the schedule, as they run constantly all through March.
If you are looking to splurge the bankroll and conserve your time, consider the Moderate satellite events. These are SC$11 buy-in events with a turbo structure. There are two each day, at 7:50 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. ET.
Once we get into the meat of March, things start getting a little crazier. The Extreme satellites kick off on March 10, then run weekly through the end of the month. These Saturday satellites are SC$77 buy-in events with 10 seats guaranteed in all but one event. The exception is the March 31 tournament, which will have 20 seats at least.
Madness: The Nuts Main Event $200,000 Guaranteed [Deep]
$540
Global Poker is one of the only legal options in New York
The great part for New York poker players is that Global Poker is totally legal to play. In a state with no in-state legal options, Global Poker players can rest at ease any money on the site is safe and all the games are legal.
Essentially, Global Poker has its own currency, kind of like social casinos have fake coins. The currency players buy Gold Coins. As part of that purchase, they earn bonus SC. Then, players can buy into both GC and SW tournaments on the Global Poker site.
Then, when it is time to cash out, you transfer your money onto Paypal, where it appears as real USD. It’s so easy, it is crazy. You could even say it is madness.
Trends revealed in the survey show gambling online via mobile devices is on the rise and gamblers are most motivated to play by advertisements seen on television.
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has revealed the outcome of its 2017 Gambling Participation and Perceptions Report. It shows 97% of gamblers do so at home and mobiles and tablet usage is now up to 51% from 43% last year.
It has also been revealed that online gamblers are more likely to be motivated to spend money gambling by advertising seen on the television rather than social media promotions, with 53% of people saying TV ads prompted them to play versus only 19% saying the same about social media. The effectiveness of TV ads in getting people to spend money gambling online is up 7% on 2016’s findings.
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The “Steel City” doesn’t do that much steel anymore. It now has almost 13 times as many health care workers as steel and aluminum plant workers, state labor statistics say.
Tech companies, including large operations for Google, Uber and Amazon as well as a bevy of start-ups, are booming, spurred in part by groundbreaking robotics and artificial-intelligence research at Carnegie Mellon University.
A region long known for putting French fries on salads and coleslaw on sandwiches was named Zagat’s No. 1 food city in the United States. An area once derided as “hell with the lid off” routinely appears at the top of “most livable cities” lists, and the Lawrenceville section has been hailed as one of the hippest neighborhoods in the country – and the world – by publications as diverse as Money magazine, Lonely Planet, Business Insider and Monocle magazine.
Sure, most Western Pennsylvania residents are as crazy about the Steelers as Jack and Rebecca Pearson are on NBC’s “This Is Us,” and you’re bound to run into a few references to “yinz” and other Pittsburghese. But most visitors are flabbergasted by the city, which boasts awe-inspiring vistas and a hometown feeling among its 90 neighborhoods.
Pittsburgh is hundreds of miles from the Philadelphia metro area and offers a different vibe from its cross-state sports and political rival. The largest city in Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh is the hub of the region, which stretches from Erie, on the shore of its namesake Great Lake, to the coal and natural-gas fields bordering West Virginia.
The area offers much to appeal to anyone looking to move to Pennsylvania to take advantage of the impending launch of a legal online poker and other casino games.
The state approved full-fledged Internet gaming late last year, and most of the 12-land based casinos are expected to launch online operations this year. Pennsylvania joins New Jersey, Delaware and Nevada as the only states with legal online casino gaming. It is by far the most populous of the four, which should lead to a good variety of poker offerings. Online gamblers must be in the state to play. You don’t have to be a resident, but for players thinking about moving, here’s a quick guide to what you’ll find in and around Pittsburgh. (An overview of Pennsylvania is here, and a look at Philadelphia is here; future reports will look at other sections of the state).
Pittsburgh casino scene
Western Pennsylvania is home to four land-based casinos, including a small resort facility in the Laurel Highlands. Internet gaming licenses are limited to holders of an existing casino license, so it’s likely that promotions and tournaments will encourage online players to visit a land-based facility. These are in Western Pennsylvania:
Rivers: 777 Casino Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, (877) 558-0777; it has a 30-table poker room, which has been featured in several “Poker Night in America” segments, plus 93 other table games and 2,890 slots, according to January figures from the Gaming Control Board.
Meadows: 210 Racetrack Road, Washington, PA 15301, 724-503-1200; it has a 14-table poker room, which this month is hosting its second set of Heartland Poker Tour tournaments, plus 68 other table games and 3,056 slots; it also has a harness-racing track.
Presque Isle Downs: 8199 Perry Highway, Erie, PA 16509, (866) 374-3386; seven poker tables, 33 other table games and 1,593 slots; it also has a thoroughbred race track.
Lady Luck Nemacolin: 4067 National Pike, Farmington, PA, 15437, (724) 329-7500, ($10 resort purchase required to enter casino); no poker tables, 28 table games, and 600 slots.
Jack Casino in Cleveland is about two hours from Pittsburgh, and Mountaineer and Wheeling Island casinos in West Virginia are about an hour from Pittsburgh.
Living in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh’s population was 305,305, according to 2016 Census estimates; about 2.5 million people live in the 10-county metro area. The cost of living is lower than the national average; The Tax Foundation, for example, says $100 spent in Pittsburgh has the purchasing power of $106. For years, Allegheny County, which is home to Pittsburgh, was known for having the second-largest concentration of elderly residents outside Palm Beach County, Florida. While that population group is still large, Pittsburgh’s median age is now 32.9, compared with the national average of 37.9, according to Census figures. Forbes magazine ranks the city among the best 25 places for millennials.
Housing costs: Zillow.com says the median price of homes that sold is $145,100, while the average rental list price is $1,195. For a neighborhood guide, check out
Food: The Primanti Brothers sandwich, a concoction of meat, cheese, coleslaw and French fries between two slabs of Italian bread, was invented to meet the needs of hungry Pittsburgh truckers during the Great Depression. It’s gained national fame as the restaurant expanded to other states, and televised sports broadcasts frequently show the sandwiches being assembled. More recently, the city has become a foodie mecca, with Zagat lauding an influx of well-known chefs and inventive dishes.
Schools: Carnegie Mellon, where students and staff developed an artificial intelligence unit that trounced four of the world’s top heads-up No Limit ’Em players, is in the Oakland neighborhood, a stone’s throw from the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Duquesne University is Uptown. Pittsburgh has more than 86,000 students in 10 colleges and universities.
Weather: Summers can be hot and muggy, winters can be cold and snowy.
Getting around: Light rail and bus service are available in the city, but having a car makes life much easier. Bicycling.com ranks Pittsburgh among the top 20 bike-friendly cities, citing its bike-share system and dedicated bicycle lanes on some major streets. For a true Pittsburgh ride, check out the Incline, a century-old cable car that carries passengers to the top or bottom of Mt. Washington.
Major employers: Seven Pittsburgh companies, including Kraft Heinz and PNC Financial Services, are on the Fortune 500 list of the country’s top-grossing businesses. UPMC Health System and Highmark Health are the top employers. Natural-gas drilling has boomed in the past decade, and Shell Oil is building a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant about 30 miles from Pittsburgh.
Things to do in Pittsburgh besides gambling
Sports: With the Steelers, Penguins and Pirates, the black-and-gold are always in season in some of the most appealing sports facilities in the country. The Steelers have six Super Bowl trophies and have missed the playoffs only three times since the 2001 season. The Penguins, back-to-back Stanley Cup winners in 2016 and 2017, boast two of the NHL’s premier players in Sydney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. The Pirates, part of the NL Central Division, have one of the best ballparks in the Major Leagues. Pittsburgh’s three rivers – the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio – offer ample room for water sports. Snow skiing and whitewater rafting sites are nearby. The Pittsburgh Marathon, run each May, takes runners through 14 neighborhoods on a course that’s certified by USA Track & Field and serves as a qualifier for the Boston Marathon.
History: Pittsburgh played a significant role in U.S. history, including its role as “Gateway to the West” in the 1700s and its rise to industrial prominence with the founding of U.S. Steel and Westinghouse Electric. It was the site of the Whiskey Rebellion after the Revolutionary War and of the deadly Homestead Strike in the early days of labor unions. Now, Uber is among four companies testing and developing self-driving cars in the city.
Culture: The 14-square-block Cultural District in Downtown boasts seven world-class theaters, eight public parks and art installations, a dozen art galleries, 90 retail shops and 50 restaurants. It stages more than 2,000 events a year.
Miscellaneous
Taxes: The city wage tax totals 3 percent for residents – a 1 percent city tax and 2 percent school tax – but is only 1 percent for non-residents who work in the city. Most municipalities outside the city also impose a 1 percent wage tax on residents. The local wage is in addition to the state’s 3.07 percent income tax. Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh and several suburbs, imposes a 1 percent sales tax on top of the state’s 6 percent tax; food and clothing are exempt from sales tax. Outside Allegheny County, the sales tax is 6 percent.
Remember the H: Pittsburgh is one of the few “burg” cities spelled with an “h” at the end. As the story goes, the area was originally called Fort Duquesne, but a British general renamed it “Pittsbourgh” in 1758 to honor William Pitt the Elder, earl of Chatham. The 1816 charter establishing the city used the spelling “Pittsburgh.” In 1891, a federal board tasked with standardizing place names across the country decreed that all sites ending in “burgh” had to drop the “h.” The city, the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange, the University of Pittsburgh, residents and local newspapers resisted the change, and the federal board rescinded the decision in 1911.
High-tech history: Carnegie Mellon research professor Scott Fahlman gets credit with inventing the first emoticons (a colon and right parenthesis for a smiley face, a colon and left parenthesis for sad or serious face) in 1982. He suggested it as a way for message-board readers to know when an author was joking.
Remember Roberto: Pirates Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente, who died in in a 1972 plane crash while delivering aid to victims of a Nicaraguan earthquake, once summed up the magic of Pittsburgh. “In a way, I was born twice,” he said. “I was born in 1934, and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh.”
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