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Hey poker playing Lads! Do you like seeing buxom broads in skimpy outfits? Of course you do! That’s why you read Nuts Magazine or Loaded Magazine, the two places you can count on seeing plenty of them every month. Well now you can enjoy staring at them all you want while you’re playing online poker too, thanks to 3-D online poker room, PKR Poker.

IPC Media, the company that puts out the popular UK magazines for horny men, has joined the PKR Poker team, offering new avatars looking like sexy gals – and remember, this is all in 3-D! And they’ve come up with Nuts & Loaded t-shirts that you can clothe your avatar in (whether one of these new buxom Nuts or Loaded ones, or your existing avatar). There will now also be special Nuts & Loaded themed poker rooms you can play in, with branded imagery (including luscious gal pics) posted everywhere, including on the rails and the poker felt itself.

The site and the magazines have also teamed up for a variety of special promotions they will be offering throughout each year. Keep coming back to Shine Poker to find out about the latest sexy Nuts and Loaded promotions over at PKR Poker.

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It was only a matter of time before online poker went mobile, and it looks like that time is just about upon us, courtesy of Poker Stars. Just the site you’d expect to be making a bold and progressive move forward onto the smartphone scene by enabling its enormous worldwide member base to play online poker on their cell phones.

Most mobile phones these days already have the internet built in. So all PokerStars, or any other poker site, has to do is tweak their software to make it viable (read: playable) on a 3.5″ screen, or smaller. And the way that PokerStars is doing this is by purchasing its very own mobile software development firm.

They won’t say how much they paid for Cecure Gaming, originally a Cavendish Corporate Finance property, but one thing is for sure. It is PokerStars’ latest sally in an ongoing effort to remain at the head of the pack. Expect PokerStars mobile to set the trend for mobile online poker now.

If you want to get a jump on the move to the mobile platform you can check out the existing software by using a Poker Stars Promo Code or a Marketing Code for PokerStars.

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Over at PokerStars this weekend, a 22-year-old Russian player going by the name of innerspy accepted the challenge posed by the Russian Card Game Masters and hosted by Poker Stars to try and break the world’s record for the most number of hands played in one sitting. And he did it!

Innerspy sat down for just over 18 1/2 hours at PokerStars last Saturday and in that time played an amazing 40,088 hands of online poker. Until that time, he hadn’t played more than 20,000. But when he heard the challenge posed, he knew he was capable of taking it on, and apparently he was absolutely right.

But it wasn’t easy. To add to the pressure, this all took place in front of 10,000 fans watching over their computers.

Now that it’s over, Innerspy says it will be a lot easier for him to achieve his goal of becoming a PokerStars Supernova Elite member.

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Phil Ivey is no longer the only Ivey making it big in the poker world, nor is he the only P. Ivey, even. His near-namesake (and near-doppelganger in recent success as well) is named PatIvey and after winning the PKR Masters in September, for about $30,000, and then winning it again in October, for another approximate $30,000, he makes it to the final table of the November PKR Masters as well, and almost makes the hat-trick, coming in third instead to Russian ShatokhinNikita (PatIvey is a Swede). That most recent 3rd place PKR Masters win brought him another $11,250, making his total from just this one recurring event at PKR, $71,250. Add to that, then, the $7,800 win his notched in last Saturday’s Saturday Big Shot event and top prize in PKR’s $10,000 Gtd Prime Time Poker event, and you have a rising star the likes of which Phil Ivey himself will one day probably have to come up against, face to face.

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Satellites galore going on at PokerStars, awarding free entries into every stop on the several live poker tours that Poker Stars now sponsors. Schedules are just coming out for the third season of the Latin American Poker Tour, the sixth season of the European Poker Tour, and the inaugural season of the eagerly anticipated U.K. & Ireland Poker Tour. And with the announcements of the schedules for each of these poker tours comes the launching of the satellite schedule for awarding players free seats in these various events.

Season 6 of the EPT is already underway, but the schedule for the second half was only just released. It has the next event on the EPT schedule coming November 17 to Portugal.

Season 3 of the LAPT starts next, with LAPT Costa Rica coming up on November 19 in San Jose. Other stops on LAPT 3 are Uruguay, Chile, and the Grand Final in Argentina.

Season 1 of the UK & Ireland Poker Tour starts December 11 with UKIPT Galway, better known as the Irish Poker Championship. The other events in this first-ever UKIPT will be held in Manchester, Coventry, Nottingham, Killarney, Brighton, Scotland, and Dublin.

Satellites for the first stops on each of these tours are going now at PokerStars.

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Welcome bonuses (or first deposit bonuses as they’re also called) a one of the ways that poker sites compete with one another for your patronage. That’s why they are constantly trying to one-up each other with how much “free money” they can offer players to join their site. Most of the welcome bonuses offer 100% matches on your first deposit into a real money online poker account, up to some maximum. It is these maximums that just keep get jacked up higher and higher. And recently they hit new heights.

While Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars (the two to beat, if you ask most folks) are offering a respectable $650 and $600 match, respectively, two sites have upped the ante even further.

PKR, the one-of-a-kind 3D poker site, has a new $800 welcome bonus maximum and William Hill Poker has a £400 max.

Some sites, by the by, offer no deposit bonuses, albeit of much smaller amounts, but nonetheless something-for-nothing. One of the best casino signup bonus running right now is at Ladbrokes as is for £25.  You can find other bonuses by doing an online poker search here.

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The time is almost upon us for the alleged “official” end of legal U.S. online poker. As of December 1st all online poker sites, other online gambling sites, and most especially internet payment processors are legally required to abide by the UIGEA “guidelines”. What this boils down to is a requirement that all these businesses find ways really fast to prevent U.S. players from sneaking onto their sites (or using their services to transfer money to and from said sites).

Fresh off the heels of failing to squelch the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act’s enforcement altogether, the Poker Players Alliance is now trying to delay the Dec. 1st deadline at least. As an interest group, the PPA was able to submit a petition to Timoth Geithner, the US Secretary of the Treasury, asking him to push the deadline one year, to give affected businesses the proper time to make the changes necessary to comply with UIGEA. Geithner has 180 days to think it about it before he has to reply. That’s half a year! And December 1st is less than 2 months away.

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Back on September 6, PokerStars broke its own record in the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Players at an Internet Poker Room”. It was a Sunday when Poker Stars had 307,016 players playing at 42,814 poker tables at once. This beats the old record by more than 100,000 online poker players.

This is not the first time PokerStars broke one of its own Guinness World Records Book records, having a set another bar a level higher just a few months ago in July when it attracted 65,000 players to a single multi-table online poker tournament at once, beating its own previous record for “Largest Online Poker Tournament.” On that same July day, Full Tilt Poker tried to thwart PokerStars’ new record attempt by attempting one of its own, but failed.

PokerStars, which launched in 2001, now claims to have more than 27 million registered players and has had the honor of dealing out over 33 billion online poker hands.

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Guess who’s going to be providing the official poker software for the new online poker rooms soon to be launched (though no dates have been given yet) by Harrah’s Entertainment, Casear’s Casino, and the World Series of Poker.

It’s 888.com – the portal site for, among others, Pacific Poker.

For now, these offerings will only be available to online poker players in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe as well as anywhere else that online poker is legal. Currently (as you no doubt already know) the U.S. is not one of those places – but hopefully that will soon change.

In the meantime, players in Europe and the U.K. eagerly await the online poker rooms that Harrah’s, Caesar’s, and the WSOP will someday soon be releasing. And if you have any doubt of it really happening, just keep in mind that Mitch Garber, the guy who once ran Party Poker and Party Casino, now runs Harrah’s which in turn owns the WSOP.

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Sateliites are going on now over at PKR, the 3-D poker site, for the third incarnation of its sole live tournament each year, with PKR Live III.

PKR Live III will take place on November 20, 2009 at the Loos Cannon Club in London, England. It will be a 3-day event culminating not, as you may think, in the main event, but in a PKR Bounty event, in which a $200 buy-in gets you the opportunity to shoot not only for the grand prize but for PKR celebrity pro players as well, with cash bounties on each of their heads for whoever knocks each one out of the tournament – cash bonuses independent of who wins the overall tournament.

The main event, on day 2 of PKR Live III, has a $1,500 buy-in and a $40,000 first prize (double the one won by last year’s main event winner Philip Conneller).

This is PKR’s 3rd year in business since launching in 2006 as the only 3D online poker room, and each year the site has increased its player base by 1 million, making it currently an over 3 million member player pool.

PKR Live III satellite prize packages include the $1,500 main event buy-in, accommodations, and a bit of spending cash.

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