New UK Players Get Tickets for Free as PokerStars Finally Ramps Up Promotion of its Unique “Power Up” Game Variant

Live and Online: New signups in the UK get five buy-ins to Power Up games, no strings attached, as the operator rolls out new game stakes.

Power Up, a new game variant that takes elements from Spin & Gos and blends them with e-sports games, is expanding so that a wider range of buy-in levels are on offer to players. Furthermore, a special “no-deposit required” promotion exclusively for players in the UK has launched.

New 25 cent and $15 games have been added into the Power Up client, making micro and midstakes buy-ins available to players for the very first time. This marks the biggest expansion in game offerings since Power Up was introduced late last year, expanding the offer from $1, $3 and $7 stake levels previously on offer.

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Poker Industry PRO: Partypoker Rolls Out New Table Layout in Third Phase of Software Overhaul

Media and Software: New table design with updated default theme, chat box and card design rolls out on desktop software on the dot-com network.

Partypoker has deployed an update to its online poker software in the dot-com market, in what is billed as one of the largest platform upgrades in months.

No official details from partypoker have been released, and their dedicated software updates page has yet to be changed. However, it appears the upgrade is focused exclusively on a new table design.

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Poker Industry PRO: Data Monitoring, News from New Jersey and Portugal Poised: This Week in Online Poker

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We’re now in the thick of the Q4/FY 2017 reporting season. To keep you up to date with all the latest, we have a brand new feature for PRO subscribers, Industry Monitor, which presents the most important information from the PRO Data platform into a single, easily digestible format. We already have Business Monitors published on Playtech, Kindred Group and Zynga, and Market Monitors on Delaware, New Jersey, France and Spain. Portugal to come next week. In addition, we have editorial coverage on Playtech and Kindred, and pokerfuse has a take on the New Jersey numbers.

But, while the revenue figures from New Jersey might look a bit bleak, the market is still highly competitive, and this winter season has been no exception. All three networks are running big tournament series this month. The New Jersey Poker Classic on WSOP/888 is the biggest, concluding this weekend, with a total of $800,000 guaranteed. Overlapping that is PokerStars Turbo Series, debuting for the first time in the market, and we’ve just got word that Borgata/partypoker’s next Garden State Super Series is scheduled for a week next month.

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Why There Is Still Hope For A Casino In Chicago’s Skyline

Illinois lawmakers are continuing to push for construction of a casino in the city of Chicago. Even though more than twenty years of trying have not provided any results.

The latest effort is being spearheaded by Rep. Rita Mayfield, D-Waukegan, who has filed a bill that would allow a gaming company to build a commercial casino in the Windy City. House Bill 5146 would authorize the issuance of a four-year a casino operator license for a gambling operation inside the city with as many as 4,000 slots and table games. It would also create the Chicago Casino Development Authority to oversee the casino

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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