The PokerStars management team has undergone a seismic shift over the past year, with CEO Gabi Campos now the third high ranking official to exit the worlds biggest poker site since Black Friday.

In May 2011, the European Poker Tour (EPT) tournament director Thomas Kremser was the first to depart PokerStars in order to explore new ventures, followed earlier this month by EPT creator and CEO John Duthie, who also announced his resignation to take on new challenges, Now Gabi Campos, has also parted ways with PokerStars having been CEO at the company since October 2010.

Campos had held senior executive positions at 888, and then its B2B arm, Dragonfish before joining PokerStars.

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Online gambling firm Playtech Limited has given the industry something to chew on with a slew of announcements that include its Q4/2011 results, two joint venture announcements, clarification on its Sciplay joint venture and the announcement of the acquisition of a sports book developer.The companys fourth quarter ending December 31 2011 performed strongly with the Board confident in meeting full year expectations.Key Performance Indicators include:- Gross income up 79% to Euro 78.4 million, (Q4/2010: Euro 43.9 million)- Total revenues up an impressive 89% to Euro 69.6 million, (Q4/2010: Euro 36.9 million) and 13% higher than the Euro 61.5 million achieved in Q3/2011.Quarter on Quarter:- Casino revenues up 13% to Euro 32.8 million, (Q3/2011: Euro 28.9 million)- Poker revenues down 2% to Euro 5.5 million, (Q3/2011: Euro 5.6 million)- Bingo revenues up 9% to Euro 4.1 million, (Q3/2011: Euro 3.8 million)- Services revenues up 18% to Euro 23.1 million, (Q3/2011: Euro 19.5 million)- Videobet up 22% to Euro 2.7 million, (Q3/2011: Euro 2.2 million)12 months ending 31 December 2011:- Gross income up 41% to Euro 243.6 million, (2010: Euro 173.1 million)- Total revenues up 46% to Euro 207.5 million, (2010: Euro 142.3 million); an increase of 15% excluding impact from 2011 acquisitions- Share of profit from William Hill Online (WHO) up 17% to Euro 36.1 million for the full year (2010: Euro 30.8 million), including Euro 8.8 million in Q4/2011- Cash balances net of credit facility debt at 31 December 2011 in excess of Euro 137.3 million, after 2011 payment of Euro 83.3 million for PTTS, IGS, Mobenga and Ash Gaming.Trading update:The company reports a robust start to the year with the first 22 days of January ahead of Q1/2011 by 25% in software royalties and 2% ahead of the average for Q4/2011.Joint Venture Announcements:- Playtech has entered in a 49.99% joint venture with German land-based gaming operator and owner of the Merkur gaming brand, Gauselmann.The joint venture has been formed in advance of German regulation and will offer broad-based sports betting and gaming products and services, where permitted.Gauselmann will retain a technical controlling interest of 50.01 per cent and the partners have agreed to equal board representation. Full article…

She’s battered and bruised. She spent a day at the circus but Melanie Weisner has heart and commitment. How did her $10,000 unicycle challenge go? S

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Jackpotjoy Bingo wants to bring a bit of sparkle into some of their online bingo players lives on Friday 27th of January, so they will be throwing their first massive guaranteed jackpot of the year.

Drum roll please Jackpotjoy Bingo will be giving away a sizzling hot £13,000 guaranteed jackpot and best of all, you can have a shot at winning it just by putting your hands in your pockets and forking out 50p per online bingo card.

It is going to be a ‘sitting on the edge of your seat’ kind of night, as you could win a fab £1,000 for 1 line, £2,000 for 2 lines, or a crazy £10,000 for a full house – we don’t know about you, but we all think we would pass out if we won that much money.

Jackpotjoy Bingo continuously have fun and exciting online bingo games running at their site, that not only give away life changing cash prizes, but also don’t have to cost you the earth to take part in. When you also

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In its first weekly newsletter of the year, the Casino Rewards group of online casinos announced the names of some big winners at the online casinos.

The first big winner, according to the newsletter, is S.F. who was wagering on the 5 reel, 30 pay line slots game Deck the Halls at the Microgaming powered Villento Casino when he won a whopping EURO 20,660.

The Deck the Halls logo in this slot game is the Wild symbol that substitutes for all the other symbols with the exception of the Bell symbol. The jackpot of 4,000 coins is won when five Wild symbols appear on an enabled pay line.

Villento Casino is powered by software from Microgaming and offers players more than 300 casino games.

The second big winner at Casino Rewards online casinos is M.H.

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Have you seen that Blockbusters is coming back to television this year? Although it was announced a while ago that this was a possibility it has only just been confirmed.

40 episodes if an all new Blockbusters have been commissioned by Talkback Thames and the show will be broadcast on Challenge TV. Challenge TV have been testing the water by running the old shows, but one fundamental change that has been made is that this will be a Blockbusters that will feature adult players and not schoolkids.

The childish innocence was part of the charm of the original show, but most are so streetwise these days that would probably be lost anyway.

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A Retro Cash Blast slots promotion which runs at PartyCasino until 23:59 ET on Sunday 16 October will pay out $90,000 in prizes to hundreds of participants. The promotion is running to celebrate the launch of Joystick Generation, a slots game which boasts the same kind of graphics that were common in video games during the 1980’s, though the event does allow participants to play almost any of the other slots games available at PartyCasino, including big money jackpot slots titles.

You have to Opt In to take part in this promotion and you can do that by visiting the Retro Cash Blast page at the PartyCasino website and clicking the Opt In button. T

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