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PartyCasino’s Gold Mega Jackpot was hit today by a player under the name of “Gamago” winning a massive $4,978,336.20 on PartyCasino Mega Fortune Wheel jackpot slot, just shy of the 5 million mark.

This is the largest ever jackpot won online at Party Casino who always offer large progressive jackpots at their online casino slots.
Earlier the same day the smaller PartyCasino Gold Super Jackpot progressive was also hit for $52,224.32 USD as well as the PartyCasino.com Gold Quick Jackpot $24,693.45 USD being hit a day before.
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Shark Out of Water is a short film based on the downside of playing poker and shows how gambling addictions and bad runs can affect players personal lives. The new poker movie features cameo roles from profession poker players Phil Hellmuth (UB Poker) and Brad Booth and although the film is only eighteen minutes long, it has created much hype in the film industry and the poker world recently.

The movie was made by poker player Juan Riedinger who has had many ups and down while playing poker and he wanted to capture the true reality of poker with it’s constantly changing swings of wins and loses.

The Poker DVD was released last week and hopefully through it’s success a full feature film will be released some time soon. Check out the official Shark Out of Water trailer here.
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Great poker news for USA players is that the Bush administrations UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) which was set to be enforced from 1st December 2009 is expected to be pushed back by a further six months until 1st June 2010.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is expected announce tomorrow (Friday) or at the latest Monday, that the U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has agreed to delay the compliance date as set out by the Poker Players Alliance’s petition which aimed for a full years grace to be given a comprise was reached and a rumoured 6 month extension granted.

Under the UIGEA, banks and credit card processors are held responsible for ensuring that no “illegal” Internet gambling money transfers occur, which would severely dent the USA poker market as no Americans would be able to play for real money, if the law was enforced. It would also prove difficult to cash out their winnings.

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Once again the record books need to be updated as the previous record for the largest online poker pot was once again smashed by a monster pot of $1,356,946.50.
This time around the hand included well known poker pro Patrik Antonius and unknown Swede “Isildur1“, prior to the hand both players were stacked at a high stakes $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha game at Full Tilt with Isildur1 having about $678k and Antonius approximately $1.26 million.

Preflop the pot was already $160,000 as both players raised and reraised each other.

All the recent action and large pot activity at FullTilt by the unknown Isildur1 begs the question to be asked, just who is Isildur1?

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UltimateBet Poker have re-branded to UB Poker and updated their poker room with a slick new look, the new major changes are a huge improvement to the UB poker software. New features and tournaments have been added to suit every players needs in a completely redesigned poker table and user-friendly lobby that looks modern and up to date with other competitive US player rooms like Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars.

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