Bovada This Week
Take Asia All In
By subscribing to this promotion, you will earn up to $50 in weekly bonuses for a period of six weeks, and you will receive an entry into the grand prize draw with each bonus installment. The Grand Prize given away at the end of six weeks, on August 12, is a $5K package that includes a $2,500 airfare to Southeast Asia, $1,100 spending cash, seven nights hotel accommodations, and special invites to all APS exclusive events.
To receive bonuses, you need to subscribe to the promotion at Bovada.lv, play in APS (Anonymous Poker Series) tournaments, and earn weekly poker points according to this schedule.
APS Tournaments Poker Points Draw Entry Bonus
1 or more 50 1 $10
1 or more 75 1 $20
1 or more 150 1 $50
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Carbon Poker Promotions
$100K Race for the Riches
For the next two months, Carbon Poker offers up eight weekly races, each worth $12,500 to give away the combined $100,000. The top finisher each week will receive a cool $2,000 with top 250 spots on the leaderboard getting paid cash. Any member who is playing in tournaments on the site will be entered into the race, but you can also increase your points total by earning multiplier bonuses playing in specialized tournaments during a Race Week.
Two-A-Days
Earn at least two VIP points every day throughout the month to qualify for a $1,000 freeroll on the second Saturday of the following month.
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Pundits Dismiss Online Gaming Stand of CEO Adelson, Poker Players Outraged
Sheldon Adelson, CEO and Chair of Las Vegas Sands, the largest gaming company in the world, recently wrote an opinion article in Forbes, vehemently criticizing online gambling and arguing against its proliferation. Citing obscure European studies, he predicts that online gaming can lead to a loss of up to 600,000 jobs in the U.S. He also calls online gaming “immoral” and dangerous for its potentially negative effects on children, teenagers and adults with gambling problems, warning of a “societal train wreck waiting to happen”.
This comments outraged thousands of poker fans and the boycott of the sumptuous poker room at Adelson’s The Venetian casino and resort is being organized.
Two prominent industry experts – Martin Owens, a California attorney specializing in the law of internet and interactive gaming, author of “Internet Gaming Law”; and John Pappas , president of Poker Player Alliance – have dismissed Adelson’s claims.
Owens explains decreased attendance at brick-and-mortar casinos in Europe with changed demographics: younger people switch to internet for everything, including gambling. He also quotes Harvard School of Medicine studies that show that those at risk of becoming addicted to gambling make up only 2 per cent of all people playing online to downplay the threat of “societal wreck”.
Pappas called Adelson’s worries baseless, indicating that all of the perceived evils can be addressed with appropriate oversight, which is even greater than that available at brick-and-mortar setting. He called the fact that every person’s action is tracked online in real time “a regulator’s dream”.
Read the full overview in this ABC News article.