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There has been a buzz of excitement over the last week when news about the 2014 WSOP Main Event having a $10 Million guaranteed prize for first place.

The news was originally leaked prematurely by mistake on the official WSOP website, but now it is confirmed and set in stone.

There will be a massive payday for the 2014 WSOP Main Event winner as they will be taking home a guaranteed $10 Million.

The guaranteed prize is to celebrate 10 years of the World Series of Poker taking place at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas.

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There have been some changes to the Poker All Time Money List in 2014, some poker pros have had a successful start to the year cashing at the 2014 Aussie Millions.

Phil Ivey has moved up from 6th place to 2nd place after his biggest tournament win in the 2014 Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge.

Still topping the Poker All Time Money List is Antonio Esfandiari who’s biggest win was the million dollar buy-in 2012 WSOP The Big One for One Drop.

Daniel Negreanu is also hot on the heels of Phil Ivey with only a few dollars behind in tournament earnings in 2014, both players having success at this years Aussie Millions.
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Bovada players will now be transferred to Ignition Casino and Ignition Poker, new USA players looking to Join Ignition may do so from our Ignition Poker review, all prior download links on this page and other pages through out our site will direct players to the new brand name “Ignition” for both old and new joining Bovada players.

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BovadaPoker have anonymous poker tables, a new unique concept which is meant to prevent poker sharks abusing the recreational poker player.

Players based outside of the USA can continue to play on the Bodog Poker software.

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The War on Online Poker has been dramatically increasing in 2014 with the villain Sheldon Adelson ready to spend whatever it takes to get a federal ban to Stop Internet Gambling.

The billionaire Las Vegas Sands CEO, Adelson has unfounded claims against gambling online including: targets the vulnerable, threatens public interest, promotes underage gambling, funds criminal enterprises and international terrorism.

A new organization, The Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection, has recently launched a campaign to counteract Adelson efforts to discredit online gambling in the USA.

The C4COP embraces regulation as it will protect minors, prevent money launderers and end the black market as it is currently doing.

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888Poker players around the world experienced some major problems with disconnections and some players weren’t able to login for several hours on 28th-29th January.

The problem may be related to issues with localized servers in certain countries as some players are having no problems playing on 888poker.

PokerScout.com traffic stats also reflect that there have been no traffic data being recorded for more than 3 hours.

Players from Canada, Australia, Estonia, Ukraine, Germany and Ireland having been reporting the problem for the last 17 hours.

Anyone who was affected by disconnections during the downtime should contact 888 Poker Support to lodge their complaints.

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