Great news for French poker players, today both PartyPoker and PokerStars announced the launch of their legal poker rooms as both have been issued a license for France.
Access for french players to PartyPoker.com and PokerStars.com will no longer be available to players, in order to comply with the new online gaming law in France.

The great news is that french poker players can now play from the .fr domains of these top poker brands legally.
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The UWIN Facebook Poker Freeroll series will begin in July 2010, it offers over $250 in daily private poker freerolls with very limited fields, these small tournaments offer players exceptional value as they require no deposit to play, simply create a new account and play.

The Facebook Poker freeroll series at UWinPoker has been created in order to promote awareness to the UWin Poker FaceBook app which was created in flash and can be played in your browser requiring no download, simply play from Facebook. Those who would rather play the full version of the game are also welcome to join the freeroll series as there is a full PC version of the game available for download and a stand alone flash poker version for those who play poker via a Mac or Linux using a browser.

UWinPoker is a new room on the Everleaf Poker network, the game play is smooth and graphics are above par with 24/7 live chat and email support along with accepting players from all over the globe with many deposit and cash out options, a brilliant card shuffler and top notch security in place the room is set to dominate the network.

In addition to the private freeroll series the network runs daily freerolls and a monthly $1000 first deposit freeroll.
UWin Poker offer a great venue for holdem cash table players as players on the network tend to be weak along with an excellent sign up bonus all you need to get started playing and build up a sizable bankroll.

UWIN POKER BONUS :

UWIN$ – 100% to $600
UWINEURO – 100% to €600
WIN$ – 300% to $1500
WINEURO – 300% to €1500

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Have a bit of time on your hands, enough for a poker quiz?

PokerStars have added a quiz that comprises of 12 questions about events held throughout 2009 at PokerStars.

Players who answer all 12 PokerStars quiz questions correctly will get an invite to play a $5 buy-in tournament entry with $20,000 added to the prize pool. The PokerStars quiz will run until 17 December 2009.

To find the PokerStars Player Quiz 2009 simply login to your account and look at the news banners in the lobby, even if you answer a few questions wrong you can retry until you get the correct answers.

We have helped a bit by providing the answers to the Poker Stars Quiz questions in the self help cheat sheet below.

Click the links in the PokerStars Quiz questions to find the correct answer, the answers are  highlighted in bold yellow text.

PokerStars deposit bonus code:  STARS600 – 100% of first deposit match up to $600 – PokerStars minimum deposit is $10.

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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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PokerStars freerolls to the value of $500,000, have been added to the tournament schedule, to qualify for your seat in this freeroll series, players must make a deposit even if it is just the minimum PokerStars deposit of $10 before the 28th November 2009. Not only will you get the PokerStars deposit bonus of 100% up to $600, you can participate in 8 daily $2,500 freeroll tournaments which are taking place between 28th November – 13th December.

Time is running out join today and make a deposit and use the pokerstars marketing code FIRST500K for your first deposit. Players who have already deposited can use the poker stars marketing code 500K to qualify for the Poker Stars freerolls.

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