London – It’s not often that you attend the world’s most international and largest gaming exhibition only to find out that you’ve won a free round the world trip, but that’s exactly what happened to Simon Beacham, Head of Electronic Gaming for Grosvenor Casinos / Rank Group at February’s ICE…

Casino/Integrated Resort of the Year – Galaxy Macau Integrated Resort, Casino Operator Of The Year Europe – Casinos Austria International, Casino Operator Of The Year Americas – Foxwoods Resort Casino, Casino Operator Of The Year Australia/Asia – Galaxy Entertainment, Casino VIP Room of the Year – Crown Limited…

Customer Experience of the Year – City of Dreams, Melco Crown Entertainment

Gaming Software Supplier – Playtech

A busy week for the gambling industry got under way in style in London 25 January as the online and offline community rubbed shoulders, clinked glasses and celebrated their overachievers at the International Gaming awards. The Place to Be, will once again transformed the Millenium Hotel event room into Glittering ‘Oscars’ atmosthere, offering attendees the chance to “Meet, Mix and Mingle with Architects of Change.

Espelkamp/London. The awards ceremony of TAB-Austria took place now for the 5th time during the International Gaming Expo (IGE). Awards totalling 20,000 Euros were made in altogether three categories, each of which had three nominations. One of the prize winners was Merkur Gaming. The subsidiary of the eastern Westphalian Gauselmann Group that brought the game entertainment table Fun4Four and the juke box ‘Max Fire Video’ of TAB-Austria to Germany received the prize in the category ‘Best Overall Performance’.

Die neun Finalisten gingen gestern in London an den Start des Main Events der World Series of Poker Europe. Durchsetzen konnte sich Barry Shulman, der in einem dreistündigen Heads-up Daniel Negreanu besiegte und sich neben dem Preisgeld in Höhe von GBP 801,603 sein zweites Bracelet holte. In der finalen Hand waren Shulman und Negreanu preflop All-In.

Event #1 der 2009 World Series of Poker Europe ist geschlagen und das erste Bracelet vergeben. Zur Freude der Briten blieb das Bracelet im Land, denn der Sieg ging an John Paul Kelly, der sich damit ein Preisgeld in Höhe GBP 136.803 und sein zweites WSOP Bracelet in diesem Jahr sicherte. Das erste erhielt er im Sommer in Las Vegas, wo er bei Event #20, dem USD 1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em Turnier siegreich war und im Heads-up den Deutschen Marc Tschirch besiegte.

Biloxi, MS (January 17, 2009) – Poker commonly uses boxing metaphors. All poker players know what it’s like to “step into the ring.” The very best players can “take a punch.” The goal of every tournament player is to “go the distance.” And the sweetest poker victory comes when delivering the “knockout punch.” On January 17th, Beau Rivage Casino & Resort, perched on the shores of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, hosted two enormously popular sporting events — a World Poker Tour championship and a Don King world title prize fight.

Las Vegas (AP) – A 22-year-old college dropout from Denmark won the World Series of Poker and its USD 9.15 million prize, then spent the night partying with friends at a suite reserved for this city’s biggest gamblers. And why not? He’s one of them. Peter Eastgate became the tournament’s youngest champion early Tuesday, making a wheel straight and eliminating his final opponent, 27-year-old semiprofessional card player Ivan Demidov.

The 2007 winner of the Irish Open, Marty Smyth, won Event No. 50 at the World Series of Poker on Tuesday, taking down the USD 10,000 World Championship of Pot-Limit Omaha. Smyth pocketed the first prize of USD 859,549 in the event, which had a prize pool of USD 3,581,400, the largest ever for a pot-limit Omaha event. Michael “the grinder” Mizrachi finished third in the event after entering the final table with the chip lead.

Las Vegas (AP) — Poker professional Scotty Nguyen won nearly USD 2 million at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas on Monday, topping a field of 148 players and emerging from a marathon final table with his fifth gold bracelet. Nguyen beat out 23-year-old Michael DeMichele in H.O.R.S.E., a rotating-game tournament that cost USD 50,000 to enter. The various games and limited betting structure reward all around play and is said to truly reward the best players over the long haul.

J.C. Tran has done in his career what most tournament poker players can only dream of. He has more than USD 6 million in winnings, a World Series of Poker Circuit ring, a World Poker Tour title, a WPT Player-of-the-Year award and he currently sits at the pinnacle of the Bluff Magazine/ESPN Poker Power Rankings. The one noticeable absence on his career record was a World Series of Poker bracelet.

John „the Razor“ Phan became the first person to win two World Series of Poker events this year. He won Event No. 40: USD 2,000 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball, for the first prize of USD 151,896. Phan outlasted a talented final table that included pro and author David Sklansky (6th) and Robert Mizrachi, brother of Michael, “The Grinder.” Former main event winner Greg Raymer finished 11th.