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ONLINE NEWS GTECH G2 Launches


Play-For-Fun Poker G


TECH G2 has contracted with Barona Resort & Casino in San Diego, California to provide play-for-fun poker


services. Continuing its reputation for innovation in the gaming industry, Barona is launching a beta test site which provides Club Barona members with a fun and free way to play poker and win prizes from home.


The launch of ‘Barona Free-Play Online Poker’ is a beta


release, only for select Barona players, with the full launch of the free-play site expected in the next few months. The beta test site will offer the most popular forms of poker, including Texas Hold ‘em, Omaha, Seven Card Stud and Five Card Stud in no limit, pot limit and fixed limit varieties. Both tournament play and ring games will be offered online at no cost. “Barona free-play online poker is one more way that we make fun happen for our players,” said Rick Salinas, General Manager of Barona Resort & Casino. “We are always looking for new and inventive ways to bring excitement to our players, and our new free-play site gives us the opportunity to provide more fun for our players while they are at home.”


The Wrong Deal The Poker J


ournalist and creator of the popular Late Night Poker TV show, Nic Szeremeta, has embarked upon a mission to point out to all the card rooms and casinos that spread strip-deck poker, live and online, have been shipping the pots in the wrong direction for years. This is because, in accordance with the immutable laws of mathematics, a flush should beat quads. The Independent newspaper’s poker columnist set out his argument in the


a recent issue of Bluff Europe, saying: “According to the principles upon which hand rankings are based, a flush should beat four-of-a-kind. The reason is that a flush can be made in fewer ways than four-of-a- kind in a 32 card deck. Nic has since called upon


regulators to change the rules: “Even more money is going to be pushed in the wrong direction unless both the Internet card rooms and


the brick and mortar casinos who offer ace-to-7 games change their hand rankings,” he says.


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Channel enjoys 200% Growth


urope’s largest gaming TV network, The Poker Channel, has announced a new distribution agreement with France Telecom, making the 24/7 network


available to all subscribers of Orange TV in addition to subscribers of France Telecom’s web TV service in France. The Poker Channel is already widely available on TV in France to the customers of Iliad Group’s Freebox, SFR’s Neufbox, Bbox from Bouygues Telecom, Alice and Numericable. Following this agreement, the Poker Channel will be available to more than 30 million TV subscribers in 30 European countries, including 9 million TV subscribers in France. Chris White, MD of Gaming Media TV, said: “We’re delighted that Poker Channel continues to go from strength to strength in France since changes to French gambling legislation last year. We have seen a 200% increase in both subscribers and ad revenue as a result of this and our increased investment in French-language programming.”


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