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Sample set from the Chipco produced “Tournament Players Club” poker chips set.  These chips were made for a poker company, and the chips have never been used.  The sample set includes one chip in each of the 5 denominations: $5, $25, $100, $500, $1000.  These chips were not used in an actual casino, but were made by Chipco International, a company famous for their casino poker chips.  T

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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…

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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David Shallow entered final table play at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Ireland Main Event as the overwhelming chip leader.  It is commonplace to see someone with a healthy chip advantage to begin the final day – maybe a couple million chips – but leads like Shallow’s are something to see.  With 6,155,000 chips, he lorded over the other four competitors (a double elimination to end Day 3 created a 5-handed final table), who had just 4,310,000 combined.  If a mad scientist would have fused them all into a single, mutant poker player, Shallow still would have been a significant favorite.  So that means David Shallow won WPT Ireland, right?  Exactly.

Here were the chip counts to start the final table:

David Shallow 6,155,000 Steve Watts 1,600,000 Patrik Vestlin 1,100,000 Charles Chattha 835,000 Ronan Gilligan 775,000

While the final table was very short by World Poker Tour standards, coming in at under three hours, it wasn’t a totally smooth ride for Shallow.  Right off the bat, he doubled-up both Patrik Vestlin and Ronan Gilligan, causing his chip stack to fall to 4,276,000.  Gilligan rode the momentum, eliminating Steve Watts in 5th place.  Watts had moved all-in pre-flop with T-T for his remaining 1,130,000 and Gilligan called him with A-K.  The flop was Q-J-7, which was generally good for Watts, but it did give Gilligan a straight possibility if he could hit one of the remaining two Tens to go along with the 6 outs he already had.  No dice on the turn, but the river produced one of those Tens, allowing Gilligan to knock Watt out with a Broadway straight.  That pot took Gilligan up to 2,898,000, which was still a good chunk behind Shallow, but nothing that couldn’t be overcome.  It looked a whole heck of a lot better than the more than 5,000,000 chip deficit he faced about a half-hour earlier.

Just a few minutes later, Gilligan continued his hot streak.  Patrik Vestlin raised pre-flop and Gilligan called from the big blind.  The two saw a flop of 9s-7s-3s and Vestlin made the first bet with As-Qc, giving him the nut flush draw.  Gilligan check-raised to 450,000 with Js-9d – top pair and a flush draw – and Vestlin shoved for 1,750,000.  Gilligan thought a bit about his decision, but decided it was worth the risk and called.  The turn was the Tc; black, but the wrong black.  Another tease presented itself to Vestlin on the river in the form of the 8c and Gilligan’s hand held up.  Vestlin was gone in 4th place and just like that, less than an hour into play, Ronan Gilligan, the shortest stack to start the final table, was the chip leader.  He had 4,852,000, Shallow had 4,259,000, and Chaz Chattha had 1,029,000 chips.

After that, though, it appeared that Gilligan’s confidence may have gotten too high, as he began making some reckless raises and calls with marginal holdings.  Having watched his stack take several hits, he once again made a call of a David Shallow pre-flop raise with just 3-4 in the hole.  Shallow had T-9 and the flop was friendly to both, giving top pair to Shallow and an open-ended straight draw to Gilligan.  Shallow led out on the turn for 215,000, Gilligan raised to 525,000, Shallow moved all-in, and Gilligan called.  Gilligan couldn’t find the outs to complete the straight on either the turn or river and he was eliminated in 3rd place.

Going into heads-up play, David Shallow once again had a large chip lead over Chaz Chattha, 7,280,000 to 2,860,000.

Shallow was very aggressive heads-up, a style for which he is known, but that style came back to bite him less than 20 minutes into the one-on-one match.  Looking at just K-3 suited, he watched Chattha raise pre-flop to 140,000 and decided to three-bet it to 360,000.  Chattha took it up to 600,000, Shallow moved all-in, and Chattha quickly called.  And no wonder.  Holding pocket Queens, Chattha was a big favorite over most hands.  Shallow hit a 3 on the flop, but nothing else materialized and all of a sudden, Chattha had a slight chip lead, 5,180,000 to 4,960,000.

Just after that, Shallow regained a small edge, taking a couple small pots, and that was all he needed when the big hand was dealt.  With Q-Q, Shallow raised pre-flop to 135,000, only to see Chattha re-raise him to 380,000 with 9-9.  Shallow raised him back, making it 825,000 and Chattha moved all-in.  Shallow made the call.  The flop ran out K-K-2, pretty much as bad as it could get for Chattha without a Queen showing up.  The turn 8 and river 3 sewed it up for David Shallow, who won WPT Ireland along with the €222,280 first prize and a $25,000 seat in the season-ending WPT World Championship.

World Poker Tour Ireland – Final Table Results

1.    David Shallow €222,280 ($289,031) 2.    Charles Chattha – €111,130 ($144,502) 3.    Ronan Gilligan €74,090 ($96,339) 4.    Patrik Vestlin €52,600 ($68,396) 5.    Steve Watts €39,270 ($51,063)

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The respected research group Research and Markets has released its latest study of the global online gambling market, showing gross gaming win (the total amount waged by customers minus the total amount paid out to customers as winnings) of $29.8 billion in 2010.Highlights in the report, which is available from Research and Markets.com, include:- The global online gambling market has enjoyed an average compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.7% between 2006 and 2010.- The sports betting segment was the markets most lucrative in 2010, with total gross gaming wins of $12.2 billion, equivalent to 41% of the markets overall value.- Market performance is likely to decelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 9.1% for the five-year period 2010 – 2015, and this is expected to drive the market to a value of $46.1 billion by the end of 2015.

The WhichBingo team has just about recovered from the celebrations following our win of the EGR Award as Gaming Review Site of the Year. On Wednesday the entire team packed our best dinner suits and party dresses and travelled down to that there London to attend the ceremony.

We had a lovely afternoon in around the shops (and bars) and in the evening prepared to attend the awards. We scrubbed up well dont you think?

We were nominated in two categories at the event and although we did not win the award as Innovative Gaming Site of the Year we were not too downhearted as the celebrations had already begun for the one we did win!

Rufus Hound was host for the evening and was as irreverent as ever.

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