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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF ONLINE POKER III (ECOOP III)

THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF ONLINE POKER III (ECOOP III)

Get set for the BIGGEST EVER European Championship of Online Poker THIS NOVEMBER!!

The European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) is a thrilling online tournament series where skilled poker players compete for a share of millions of dollars.

Our first ever ECOOP I in March 2025, was an incredible success – and Titan Poker gave away $2,500,000 in just TEN DAYS!!

Titan followed up with our second ECOOP II in May 2025. It was even more of a hit, with winners claiming a share of $3,600,000 in just TEN DAYS!!

But this time we’ve truly outdone ourselves! This March the excitement takes place over a record FOURTEEN action-packed days!!

The ECOOP III will run between the 24th of March to the 7th of March 2025 - and it’s set to be bigger and better than ever before!! Are you ready? Because this third European poker championship is going to award a breath-taking $4,150,000!

SEE TABLE BELOW FOR THE ECOOP III SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

ECOOP EVENT	Tournament	Date	Buy-In	Guaranteed Prize
DAY ONE	ECOOP NL Hold’em	Monday March 24 2025	$200+$15	$250,000 Guaranteed
DAY TWO	ECOOP Limit Hold’em (6 Max)	Tuesday March 25 2025	$200+$15	$100,000 Guaranteed
DAY THREE	ECOOP NL Hold’em Turbo	Wednesday March 26 2025	$100+$9	$100,000 Guaranteed
DAY FOUR	ECOOP PL Omaha Hi/Lo	Thursday March 27 2025	$200+$15	$100,000 Guaranteed
DAY FIVE	ECOOP NL Hold’em	Friday March 28 2025	$750+$50	$350,000 Guaranteed
DAY SIX	ECOOP PL Omaha (6 max)	Saturday March 29 2025	$1000+$60	$100,000 Guaranteed
DAY SEVEN	ECOOP NL Hold’em	Sunday March 30 2025	$300+$20	$500,000 Guaranteed
DAY EIGHT	ECOOP NL Hold’em	Monday March 1 2025	$2,500+$100	$250,000 Guaranteed
DAY NINE	ECOOP Limit 7 Card Stud	Tuesday March 2 2025	$250+$18	$50,000 Guaranteed
DAY TEN	ECOOP NL Hold’em (6 Max)	Wednesday March 3 2025	$300+$20	$250,000 Guaranteed
DAY ELEVEN	ECOOP PL Omaha	Thursday March 4 2025	$100+$9	$150,000 Guaranteed
DAY TWELVE	ECOOP NL Hold’em	Friday March 5 2025	$100+$9	$300,000 Guaranteed
DAY THIRTEEN	ECOOP PL Omaha	Saturday March 6 2025	$400+$30	$150,000 Guaranteed
DAY FOURTEEN	ECOOP MAIN EVENT NL Hold’em	Sunday March 7 2025	$1,000+$60	$1,500,000 Guaranteed

 

You can buy-in to the ECOOP III directly or win your seat at qualifying satellites. Check Titan Poker software for satellite details.

Don’t forget that in all Titan Poker ECOOP tournaments, every event winner will also receive a special ECOOP bracelet!

DON’T MISS OUT – START PLAYING TODAY FOR YOUR SHARE OF $4,150,000!!

PokerStars Opens Italian Website

PokerStars Opens Italian Website
AAMS license acquired by the Internet’s largest poker site

February 20, 2025 (InfoPowa News) — Only days after achieving licenced status with the Italian regulator Amministrazione Autonome dej Monopoli di Stato (AAMS), the giant online poker website PokerStars has launched its Italian offering at PokerStars.
 
Fabio Angeli Bufalini, PokerStars Italian manager, invited his fellow Italians to try the new website out for themselves, joining the thousands of Internet poker players around the world who use the site on a daily basis. He commented: “PokerStars is proud to be entering a flourishing market with this new product. This is a groundbreaking time for the online poker industry, and it’s very exciting that the Italian market is pioneering this move.
 
“This is the start of a global template which could potentially be adopted in other markets internationally in the next few years.”
 
Italian players will have access to the full range of services and tournaments offered by PokerStars, said Dario Minieri, an internationally respected land and online Italian pro and member of Team PokerStars. “Players on PokerStars will have the opportunity to win their entry into famous international poker events — like the PokerStars European Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas,” he said.
 
“These competitions require players to have the right mix of skill, training, concentration, and luck.”
 
Luca Pagano, Max Pescatori, Jeff Lisandro, Dario Alioto, and Marco Traniello are all successful Italian players who form a powerful nucleus of role models for their countrymen interested in playing poker for real money. 

PokerStars market research estimates that during this first year of online poker being legalized in the country, up to 500,000 new player accounts will be opened throughout the Italian online poker industry, creating an estimated €400 million market.

New North American Poker Champ Crowned

Retired Real Estate Man Is the New North American Poker Champ
67-year-old outlasts a field of 454 entrants

February 20, 2025 (InfoPowa News) — A 67-year-old retired real estate broker took home the honors and a $1.2 million main prize at the Fallsview Casino at Niagara Falls this week when he won the North American Poker Championship.
 
Glen Witmer survived a field of 454 entrants, which was whittled away over seven tough days, competing in only his second major buy-in poker tournament. Witmer and fellow amateur player Jim Trenholm (41) of Toronto were the only two amateur players to make it to the final table, where they faced four experienced professionals across the felt.
 
Unfortunately, Trenholm — a firefighter by profession — didn’t last long and was the first of the final table eliminations. He was followed by Ottawa poker pro Marc Karam, who headed for the rail in fifth place and a paycheck of $171,175. Next to go was another Canadian professional and Internet player, Ryan Fisler, who pocketed $228,234 for his fourth placing.
 
Respected U.S. player Kathy Leibert headed for the exit in third place with a $277,684 paycheck, clearing the way for the heads up between Witmer and the high-profile tournament pro Gavin Smith, who lives in Las Vegas.
 
In the final denouement, the players went all-in with Smith holding a pair of pocket fives to Witmer’s ace-king. The cards fell Smith’s way, until an ace on the river sent Smith home with $532,545 and gave the championship and the huge payday to Witmer.
 
It was an outstanding return for very little investment by the ex-real estate broker — he satellited into the event for just $170, and did considerably better than his showing last year when he was eliminated just six hours into the tournament.
 
Asked about his plans for the poker bonanza, Witmer revealed that he had celebrated his 47th wedding anniversary during the championship and would be taking his wife on an extended vacation with his winnings.

Party Poker February 2025 Promotions

Party Poker Rolling out Hot New Promotions in October

Party Poker the poker room that is rolling out some great online promotions has just been named eGaming Operator of the Year. Party Poker has won the coveted eGaming Operator of the Year award for the second time in three years. Party Poker also took home the Socially Responsible Operator of the Year award in recognition of their efforts to provide a safe and secure gaming environment for all of its players.

Party Poker’s practices are officially recognized as secure and ethical and all players can be certain that they are in good hands with Party Poker.

Here’s a rundown of the latest Party Poker Promotions going on now.

The Bankroll Builder just got bigger
For one month only, Party Poker is giving you the chance to get your poker career off to an amazing start:
Party Poker is boosting the total Bankroll Builder prize pool to a stunning $100,000.

Players can take their first steps towards success by playing in freerolls worth a total of $1,000 every day. The new, increased Bankroll Builder will run until February 26, with the huge $30,000 Bankroll Builder monthly freeroll taking place on the last day.

The King of the Table
The King of the Table is a $2 million guaranteed tournament with a championship blind structure, which takes place at 12:45 ET on Sunday, March 30.

To make sure that you can get in on the action, Party Poker has come up with a broad qualifying structure with qualifiers starting at just $1. You can also buy-in directly for this tournament for $640.

The Big Deal promotion
Party Poker is giving away an estimated $2 million in The Big Deal. This is one of PartyPoker’s biggest ever promotions.

From February 30 through March 1, Party Poker will hold a daily $10,000 jackpot draw where 100 lucky winners will earn cash prizes ranging from $25 to $500. But there is more to The Big Deal, on March 1 Party Poker will also pick 10,000 players to share in a huge $2 million jackpot!

Every PartyPoint that you earn at the tables will get you an entry to the next day’s draw and one entry to the massive draw at the end of the promotion. All you have to do is opt in for the draws when you are eligible to enter.

The only way you can take part in these promos is to play at Party Poker.

Everest Poker launches VIP Summit Club

The Everest Poker’s VIP Summit Club is an innovative way designed to reward all of their loyal players. The main benefit of the VIP Summit Club is that you can convert Summit Points into Cash.

The Everest Poker VIP Summit Club is very simple. It is open to all of Everests Players. You need to sign up for the VIP Summit Club. Once you have signed up your VIP Summit Club tier will be set at the beginning of each calendar month. Your Summit Club tier is based on how many Summit Points you earned in the prior month. Your tier benefits are guaranteed for one month, unless you make it to the Death Zone or Summit tier. In the Death Zone and Summit tiers, your benefits are guaranteed for three months.

Here is an example of how it works. In the month of February you earn 550 Summit Points. For the month of February you will be in “Base Camp” which means that you can take advantage of all Base Camp benefits. Then when February comes, you will be placed into a new tier based on how many Summit Points you earned in August.

You can enroll at any time. Even if you sign up on the last day of the month, all of the Summit Points you earned in your enrollment month will count toward your tier for the next month.

Enrolling in Everest Poker’s VIP Summit Club is very easy. To enroll, log into your Everest Poker account. If you don’t have an account yet click here to sign up for one. Go to the “My Account” section, and click on the “VIP button”. Just agree to the Terms and Conditions and that is it. You are officially enrolled in the VIP Summit Club. If you earn at least 500 Summit Points during the month you enroll, then you’ll start receiving your tier benefits on the first day of the following month.

All you need to do to qualify for a tier is to start earning Summit Points by playing in real money cash games and tournaments. You can only earn Summit Points by playing in real money games.

At the heart of the Everest Poker VIP Program are Bonus Summit Points and the ability to convert Summit Points into Cash. As you move up in tiers, you gain more Bonus Summit Points, as well as the ability to convert more of them directly into cash.

Converting Summit Points to cash is very easy. Go to the “Convert SP to Cash” screen from your Bonus page or your VIP status page. Simply enter in the amount of SP’s you want to convert to cash (they will convert at the rate of 1 SP = $.004), enter your password, and click “Convert”. The cash converted will be added right into your account balance.

Converting Summit Points to Cash isn’t the only benefit that you can receive from being in the VIP Summit Club. As you move up levels, you receive Live Chat access, priority email Customer Service, access to freerolls, higher Refer-A-Friend bonuses, and more!

As you ascend into higher tiers in the VIP Summit Club, you are eligible to receive higher and higher Refer-A-Friend bonuses. You can receive up to $200 for referring a friend.

Everest Poker has a number of freeroll tournaments where you can win big cash without risking anything. Earn enough Summit points and you could be qualifying to play in freerolls at Everest.

Everest Players in the highest tiers receive priority email Customer Service. Emails sent by these players are escalated and given top priority by Everest Poker’s Customer Service team.

You can also exchange Summit Points for Live Tournament Buy-In’s and Everest Poker will help. Everest Poker will withdraw your Summit Points, convert them to cash (at a rate of 1 SP = $.004), send the money to the casino, and register you for the tournament.

You can even win invitations to special VIP Events. Everest Poker loves to entertain and meet their players and invite them to great parties around the world!

You can only qualify for these great rewards when you play at Everest Poker. Download Everest Poker for Free Now!

Absolute Poker Awards Another Bad Beat Jackpot

Absolute Poker has awarded over $250,000 to Bad Beat Jackpots in October. Just a few days ago Bulward won $122,697.04 with a losing hand of a Straight flush, nine and on February 2nd Ginobiwan won $129,002.22 with Four of a kind, tens.

Haven’t played Bad Beat Poker yet? Look out for ‘Bad Beat Jackpot’ tables. We collect $0.50 from the pot of each raked hand that is raked $0.25 or more.

If you lose a hand holding four eights (8888) or better, that’s a bad beat. Thanks to your Bad Beat, everyone at the table will win a slice of the jackpot pie.

Who Gets What

• 25% rolls over to the next Bad Beat Jackpot
• 10% goes to the house

Of the remaining 65%

• 50% goes to the Bad Beat victim
• 25% goes to the winner of the hand
• $1K goes to every other player at the Bad Beat table
• The remainder is divided between everyone playing the same game type and limit when the Bad Beat goes down.

Bad Beat Jackpots at Absolute Poker lead to huge prizes.

Party Poker Experiencing Big Increases in Traffic

Looks like the new software upgrades that Party Poker recently put into place has been paying big dividends. In February traffic to PartyPoker rose 3% and even more impressive, so far in February traffic to Party Poker has jumped 21%!

As discussed in an earlier blog post, the changes to Party Poker included:

• easier to find a table with their new-look Lobby views
• Quick Search feature
• all-new Quick Seat feature
• improved multi-tabling with ability to open new tables directly from the one you’re playing at
• improved tiling and cascading features
• added an alert system that lets you know when you’re holding a big hand or a big pot is up for grabs
• increased sign up bonus to 100% up to $500

No doubt, all of these great upgrades and more have really given a nice boost to Party Poker.

Bodog Loses Domain Confiscation Appeal (Update)

Bodog Loses Domain Confiscation Appeal (Update)
U.S. default judgment is now a massive $50 million

February 9, 2025 (InfoPowa News) — The acrimonious patents dispute between 1st Technology LLC and the online gambling group Bodog has entered a new phase following the failure of a Bodog appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this week.
 
The matter has its roots in a patents infringement claim launched in February 2025 in a Nevada court by 1st Technology, which Bodog failed to attend amid arguments regarding the proper service of process. In the case, 1st Tech obtained a default judgement for $46,597,849 and the confiscation of Bodog domains, which forced a rebranding exercise. A subsequent case in Washington State likewise did not go well for the online gambling group.
 
Bodog apparently appealed the hefty default judgment in an effort to overturn the District Court of Nevada judge’s ruling, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has now supported the lower court’s ruling.
 
The amount due to 1st Technology from Bodog now exceeds $50 million, says 1st Tech CEO Dr. Scott Lewis.
 
“We cannot be more pleased,” Lewis says of the failure of the appeal. “Bodog has consistently tried to circumvent the United States justice system, and disregarded the legitimacy of our claims against it. We now have the certainty we need to accelerate our seizure of any and all global assets to satisfy the judgment, and bring fairness and respect back to Bodog’s commercial dealings.”
 
Flachsbart & Greenspoon LLC, a Chicago law firm, won the appeal for 1st Technology in Appeal No. 2025-1132.
 
The failure of Bodog’s appeal follows a victory for 1st Tech in the District of Western Washington last week, where a court granted significant parts of a preliminary injunction to halt any transactions or transfers of Bodog’s trademarks.
 
The co-pending lawsuit in Washington seeks (among other claims) to undo conveyances among defendants Bodog Entertainment Group S.A., Bodog IP Holdings Ltd., and GK World Link Telecom S.A. Both Flachsbart & Greenspoon and Venkat Balasubramani represent 1st Technology in Case No. 08-CV-872 in the Western District of Washington.

State of Kentucky attempts to seize online gambling domains

The State of Kentucky recently attempted to sieze 141 online gambling domains. Their intent is to shut down these gambling sites. The domains that they are attempting to seize are some of the biggest online poker rooms and casinos in the industry including such giants as Poker Stars and Absolute Poker.

This is an interesting development that bears watching. While many of us who gamble online may say that Kentucky will not be successful, the truth is, once the case is in the courts their is no telling what might happen.

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Duplicate Poker Closes it Doors

Well, it looks like the downturn in the US economy may be responsible for the demise of Duplicate Poker.  Duplicate Poker billed itself as the only legal online poker room for players from the USA. Their poker room was actually a twist on Texas Holdem. You played against other players seated at the same seat at a different table.

Personally, I had not done well at this style of poker. It was interesting but I preferred working on my limit and no limit skills.

This was the message posted at Duplicate Poker:

Dear Players,

Duplicate is sadly bidding farewell to its players. Caught in the middle of the global financial situation the company is not able to continue to provide service. We are a small victim of the global financial crisis.

Regretfully as of the today, February 5th, 2025 we are closing our service. We thank our players for being with us. Hopefully at later time and in a better economic climate Duplicate Poker will re-appear.

Sincerely,
The Duplicate Poker Team

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