The celebration of the Oscars confirms InterCasino as the premium casino brand when it comes to movie themed online slots.

MALTA, (March 1, 2012) – InterCasino turns the spotlight on one of its best slots, the silent movie themed slot: Silent Screen.

A silent movie triumphed at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, USA, winning the most coveted statuettes: best picture, best director, and best lead actor.

On February 9th, Elias D, from Lebanon, was left speechless after winning $19,459 on the Movie Mayhem Slot: Silent Screen. Silence is golden on InterCasino where slot lovers have the chance to play – and win – on this silent gem.

Set against the backdrop of the roaring 20’s, this 25 payline game takes the player back to the dawn of movie making, where true glamour and sophistication ruled the Hollywood box office.

Movie themed slots

Regis Pissot, Head of Casino at InterCasino, said: “We are featuring some of biggest blockbusters of all time with the epic Conan the Barbarian or the charismatic heroes Braveheart and Forrest Gump, both featuring the Paramount Jackpot. We also offer a wide selection of movie themed slots encompassing most genres: science fiction with Outta Space Adventure, scary movies with our Frightmare Slots: Zone of the Zombies and Vampire Bats; and romantic movies with Sunday Afternoon Classics. That the new talk of Hollywood is already playing on InterCasino says a lot about the depth of our slots offering, rich of so many gems amongst our 200+ online slot machines.”

MARVEL-ous March promotion

He added: “The superheroes from the Marvel family became blockbusters on the big screen, and some of the most popular slots on InterCasino. We will keep celebrating our movie themed slots in March when we’ll give our players a MARVEL-ous month and the chance to partake in a comic strip style promotion. The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor and Ghost Rider will be entertaining their fans on a daily basis via various slot tournaments, generous reward offers, cash prize pool and multiple match bonuses.”

Visit the MARVEL-ous March Promo Now!

The Marvel slots can be played on either the Instant Play or download
versions of the casino. Most of these games are also available in ‘play for fun’ mode at the free online games section of the website.

About InterCasino

InterCasino is the longest established online casino in the world, launched in 1996. The site provides a large variety of the most
popular and well-known online casino games, video games, and slot machines from around the world.
For more information, or to play, please visit: InterCasino.

As great a game as poker is and as much as we all love it, there is nothing that quite tops a big tournament where you are pitted against other players you don’t necessarily know or only know by reputation.

This is no different than any other sport. Football is a great game but there is a deeper emotional meaning to a playoff game. In golf, The Masters beats playing a normal league round.

What stinks about Poker Tournaments is the necessity many times to travel to casinos far away from home with the huge time commitment and most especially the large money commitment for travel and lodging.

Against this backdrop is the exciting reality that free online poker against other live players is catching fire all around the globe. Video and chat technology is making possible the exciting potential to have tournament excitement and intensity without leaving the comfort of home. We are talking about real player-created pots on the line featuring other players with all their varied unknown skill levels and strategies for victory.

What a blast really. There is nothing like playing for real against competitors who want to take the very thing you want. That level of meaning goes even beyond the money.

Face Up Gaming has the cure for the same old, same old poker night or online hand. We’re talking real tournaments of up 200 players played until one player has one all the chips. Face Up Gaming offers sit and go one table tournaments, and also Free Roll Tournaments open to everyone with cash prizes at stake of up to $10,000. Free Rolls are no cost to join.

There are also Points tournaments. These include player numbers between 10 and 100 up to as large 10 to 1000.

Face Up Gaming even offers Play Chip Tournaments with buy ins of 2000 up to 20,000 chips.

The great thing is there is an option for every preference as far as size and what you want to play for. Tournament poker excitement doesn’t need to be a huge drag on your time where you tick off family members with far flung travel. Even better, with the technology Face Up Gaming brings to their online poker tournaments, the games have real time excitement and strategy elements just like being there.

Players frankly cannot find a better way to hone their game from the comfort of their own homes then a Face Up Gaming online tournament. The reason is simple. You get exposed to so many different styles of play and advanced skill levels without the high risk of traveling to an off-line tournament.

Tournament formats with the smaller buy-ins than a more common ring game, actually are a great advantage for the beginning player. He or she can play against highly skilled players with much less at stake. Also with a tournament, you play until there is one player standing. There is a thrill to that which greatly exceeds a non-tournament format, where a player can simply creep ahead and quit.

Face Up Gaming continues to offer variety and fun options for players of all experience and skill level.

The online poker giant has agreed that they will hand over 6.75% on the rake from the revenue generate within the state plus an additional 4% on the global profits. Since PokerStars stands as one of the two largest online poker rooms in the world, that 4 percent could become quite a substantial boon for the Nevada economy. Additionally, moving a PokerStars office into the state will create numerous jobs and increase the local revenue significantly. The forecasted numbers will be reflected when representatives of PokerStars speak to state legislators this week.

Should Nevada become the first state to legalize and operate online gambling facilities, they will lay the foundation for an intrastate challenge. This foundation may grow and Nevada and PokerStars may find themselves in a position to address this on the federal level. The global poker community will be watching the small state of Nevada very closely.

John Dolan starts 2nd in chips at this year’s WSOP final table with 46,250,000 in chips. This online pro, who plays online under the name”JRD312,” has numerous strong live tournament performances, including making the final table of $1,000 NL Hold’em Event #36 earlier in the 2010 WSOP and his $94,000 win playing online in a Full Tilt Poker $1k Monday tournament in 2009. John Dolan WSOP final table could be either legendary or short-lived, since the pro has had a tendency in the past to blow through bankrolls. Still, Dolan’s professional record is impressive, boasting over $1 million in lifetime earnings, including nine titles and 91 cashes. Dolan was born in New Jersey but grew up in Bonita Springs, Florida and attended Florida State University, where he studied Business.

The enchanting and dynamic game of poker has thousands of fans and loyal players all across the world. Earlier all the players’ beginners and experts would make their way to the eminent casinos to play the game of poker to earn money and fame.

New players added to the poker rooms increases the popularity and traffic of the poker room. Poker rooms hire poker affiliates to do this task and in return, huge sums of money are earned by poker affiliates for their referrals. In, fact it is a very lucrative means of earning money sitting at home. All you need to do is network with the right people.

Miscellaneous poker rooms have diverse means of earnings for a poker affiliate. One of the most widespread methods is called CPA that refers to the phrase cost per affiliation. This very simple method gives you a fixed amount ($75-$200) depending on the popularity of the poker room. Many frauds have happened in the past that has caused losses to poker rooms as new players that were introduced by poker affiliates. Why would a poker room pay a poker affiliate a lump sum if the player is not active and definite amount of rake has not been generated that meet the needs of the poker room.

Another method of earning for poker affiliates is the MGR or revenue sharing method. This method is a very time-consuming method and requires a lot of patience. A poker affiliate gets a fixed percentage of the rake that is generated by all the new players introduced by an affiliate to the online poker room. This is a very lucrative means of earning money, as a percentage of the rake generated by each player will be deposited in your account.

How does a poker affiliate decide which is a better method to earn more money. Just as a coin has, two sides the same applies for these two methods .If you carefully observe then the negatives associated to CPA makes earnings very easy and at the same time tough for poker affiliates. The new players introduced by you should be active and the amounts earned by them are paltry then you may bid goodbye to $100 per referral as the manager can cancel the credits earned by you, as the poker room is not benefiting from the addition of these new players. A poker affiliate should know that CPA will never be a lucrative deal and you cannot earn more than the worth of the players that are introduced to the poker room.

Poker affiliates are a boon in disguise for the poker rooms as they generate more business by introducing new players in the existing system. This increases the popularity and the traffic of the site, tournaments are the best ways to make loads of money for the rooms, and poker affiliates both.

Ever since the “poker boom” that took the world by storm, there have been amazing players popping up from places all over the globe. One of those great players is the young man from Vantaa Finland named Patrik Antonius. After bursting onto the scene in the 2005 World Series of Poker, Patrik Antonius has made a name for himself as not only one of the best European players in the game, but one of the best players in all of the world.

One of his most crowning achievements as a pro came in the 2005 European Poker Tour event in Baden bei Wien as he earned first place honors and a prize of nearly 300,000 Euros. There is nothing quite like winning a major poker tournament, but Antonius might be most happy with his 2nd place finish in the 2005 World Poker Tour event called the Diamond World Poker Classic. His efforts earned him just over $1 million, not too shabby for finishing runner up.

Those tournaments in 2005 no doubt gave him a great deal of confidence as he moved further in his career. Through the end of 2009, Antonius is reported to have earned approximately $2.8 million in all of his live tournaments with almost $800,000 of that money coming on the biggest stage in the World Series of Poker events.

It is true that Antonius is a dominant force in the high stakes tournament arena, but he has also made a killing playing in cash games. Both online and live, Patrik Antonius has been making it a habit to rake in massive pots. He is no stranger to the hit TV show “High Stakes Poker” where he regularly plays against the fiercest competition in the game. One of the best aspects of Antonius is his demeanor at the table. He rarely shows emotions even after he lost a poker pot worth over three quarters of a million dollars to the animated Jamie Gold. That loss did anything but deter Patrik because he continued to play the richest cash games in the world and he has the distinct honor of winning the biggest single pot ever recorded in the history of internet poker, $1,356,946.

Even though he has quite a lustrous past playing in high stakes cash games and huge buy-in live tournaments, his passion remains heads up poker. The thrill of playing against a single opponent and the massive amounts of money that is up for grabs seems to really make his poker clock tick. His confidence is so high that he is willing to play for almost any amount of money at any time. He even agreed to play against fellow poker star Tom Dwan in a heads up battle for $1 million dollars. The marathon poker challenge has not been finished yet, but one thing is for sure, whether Antonius wins or loses, we will remain one of the best and richest players in the world.

Fresh young faces at the poker table have been a reoccurring theme in the past 5 to 10 years. With the boom of internet poker and televised live tournaments, there has been an ever-growing amount of people wanting to take a shot at stardom. Enter Tom Dwan: the 23 year old internet poker sensation turned high stakes live tournament player. For 6 years, Tom has been playing poker as much as possible and really mastering the game.

His dream began when he was just 17 years old with a modest $50 initial investment. It was a gift from his father placed on an internet poker room that gave Tom the start he needed. Amazingly, he lost over half of his $50 and was ready to write off his possible talents. But Tom was not satisfied with giving up so easily. He pushed on and turned a meager $15 into a promising career.

Play Online Poker

As Tom Dwan, aka “durrrr” – his internet poker nickname, started to build his bank roll, he experimented with many different games. Sit n Go tournaments, cash games and multi-table tournaments until he found his favorite. That favorite game was heads up no limit poker. Tom was not afraid to go up against the big guns either. He regularly battled against some of the top pros both from the internet and from the pro circuits. With Tom’s newfound confidence and his impressive knack for the game, it was not wonder that he showed up at the World Series of Poker to try and make a name for himself. With 2 cashes at the World Series including one final table, Tom has really brought some attention his way.

One of the most interesting aspects of Tom Dwan is his fearlessness. Amazingly, Dwan reports that he has lost huge amounts of money in very little time periods. It is believed that Tom lost of about $2.5 million in a just four month’s time. What is even more remarkable is that Dwan has managed to gain it all back. He is even challenging huge name players to go heads up for $1 million. It seems like the kid has ice in his veins. If there is one thing we can count on from Tom Dwan, it is that he is not going anywhere for a while. Look for Dwan to make a lot of noise through his heads up challenges and he might even be a threat to win some events at the World Series of Poker this year.

One of the poker players in contention is Doyle Brunson in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas. The tournament is unique and there was a lot of speculation if Brunson would be able to play as he had a dental surgery after the Super Bowl which took place last month. Doyle Brunson not only played in the tournament but also reached the Round 2. He defeated Brock “t soprano” Parker to qualify to this round.

In the final hand Brunson had A-Q of diamonds whereas on the other hand Parker had wired pair of eights. His had truly had created a tight spot. Brunson did not need to look back as soon as the queen came in the form of window card. In the round of 32 Brunson will now play Don Cheadle. Cheadle reached the second round by defeating J.P.Kelly.

The first round of the game truly saw the clash of the titans, when Howard Lederer played against Phil Hellmuth. This match was also very interesting like the match between Brunson and Parker. There was a race situation and Hellmuth finally won. In the 2nd round will have to play against Annette Obrestad who is another giant in the industry. He is the winner of the World Series of Poker in 2007 and he reached the second round by beating Orel Hershiser on Friday.

Davin Moon is the other player who qualified to the second round. He was the runner up in the World Series of Poker in 2009. The table on which he played along with Bill Huntress was the ‘quietest table on the set’. Moon held the best hand and showed a K-10 which included ten of clubs. The game also was very interesting and after a point there was no hope for Huntress, the Caesars qualifier to qualify to the second round. In the second round Davin Moon will play against Annie Duke who is a guest columnist in the Poker News Daily.

There were seven players who entered and out of these one was eliminated in the first round. These are the updates on the second round of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship for the year 2010. The action is taking place at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. It starts at 1:00pm PT. The winner of the championship will be declared on Sunday after the final match happens that day.