Cash in is down significantly and online poker players are trying to get money online. The players are not aware that their funds are not being deposited using credit cards. They will still be billed for the transactions because their deposits still go through. There is an issue that the gaming company never receives the funds as they are intercepted. The processor that is used by the company has its account with MasterCard closed and they are fined for it, which goes directly to the gaming company.

Rumor has it that MasterCard blocked internet gambling transactions by auditing thousands of transactions manually, looking at coded declines and subsequent approved transactions. The reason is unknown as to why MasterCard blocked the transactions.

Players are directed to methods such as e-wallets whenever their cards are declined. Online pokers cannot use debit card to deposit on their accounts with MasterCard because it does not run debit cards. Visa or the banks can run debit cards.

Paul Wasicka was known from the time he started in the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event and finished as a runner-up. Furthermore, his NBC Heads-Up Championship win in 2007 boost his popularity. Antonio Esfandiari, Josh Arieh and Gavin Smith had firm tournaments results when they work with Sam Chauhan. The same thing happened with Paul Wasicka. Having a mind-set coach like Sam Chauchan brought remarkable results for Wasicka.

In a current press release, Chauchan stated “Part of being the best in poker is getting rid of your limiting beliefs. Those are the beliefs that stop one from going forward. Some athletes in the world have mindset coaches. It only makes sense that poker players wanting to take their game to the next level commit to learning various forms of neurological linguistic programming through hypnosis and physiological reading.”

Considering the skip that Paul Wasicka accomplished from the ninth place to the top, being at the headlines is expected.

The total revenue of Party Gaming was $13.2 million for the year 2009. It showed an increase of 32% compare to the profits last 2008 that was only about $100.4 million but showed an increase of 17% in the 3rd quarter of the year 2009.

Party Gaming reached a total of $446.2 million revenues for the year but drops 6% from their profit last 2008 due to the World Poker Tour that they purchased in 2009. Along with their announcement of their total revenues, they also announce its new Chief Operating Officer, Per Widerström. This new executive has been in the online gaming industry for the longest time already and had been the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Mangas Gaming Malta, Limited.

Widerström has also previous jobs as the head position at Expekt.com Ltd and Telenor Mobile Sweden and was a Vice President and COO at Kyivstar GSM. In addition, he was the one-time Director of Operational Marketing and Business Development with Coca-Cola.

Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands CEO has been very busy for the past few days and for being hired as a Tallahassee lobbyist. He has made a lot of important contributions in Florida in regard to the pro-casino political campaigns.

Recent reports confirmed that Ft. Lauderdale legislator Ellyn Bogdanoff left with the plan of the expansion despite his early disagreement on the expansion of the State. He seems to side to the other side now.

The poker gaming industry has been looking for different markets to help them survive the stress they are undergoing for the meantime. Stress was brought about by the major investments that gaming industry has provided in places like Las Vegas and Macau.

In recent times, Miami has been attracting more and more companies to invest in their state. Miami is becoming on the target market of other big companies who wanted to invest in a different state. Big companies are targeting Miami in order for them to increase their stock values due to Miami’s economy at this point.

Everyone is wondering the logic behinds Jon Kyl protest considering the financial crisis in the society. It shows that Kyl’s political temper tantrum has again slows down the action at the federal level. Taking into consideration the Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner that was left without any support of political appointees from the policies on the dollar and international reform.

On the other hand, Anurag Dikshit sold his share in one of the top online gambling sites. Dikshit was the former Partygaming PLC founder and his final move of selling his assets drop the stocks of Partygaming by 5.4 percent in London according to the Bloomberg report.

Anurag Dikshit made 105 million pounds off the deal when he sold his assets to 270 pence per share to institutional investors. Compared to other Partygaming founders, Anurag Dikshit travelled back to United States to pay $300 million fine after pleading guilty to illegal Internet gambling.

Brunson, ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner made a comment to President Barrack Obama made from his twitter account. In response, he received a barrage of Tweets in response to his post that say “The Democrats say ‘give Obama time.’ Us Republicans [sic] agree, 25 to life seems appropriate!”

Some persons commented on Brunson’s post that it was stemmed from racially motivated feelings towards the President. However, after a couple of hours, Brunson made a new statement that his post has nothing to do with the color of the skin of the President. He also added that he may not like the 1st year of ruling of Obama but this has nothing to do with his physical features.

As of the moment, Brunson appears to be laid off the political Tweets for a while. The Full Tilt Red Pro and the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen disagreed with the Tweets of the poker legend.

The deal from the Commerce Casino together with the Bicycle club is being worked out by the Morongo to pursue the online poker in California. According to the Morongo’s spokesperson, Patrick Dorinson, they have been asking added support from different tribes to pursue with the deal that fell apart due to the issues that risen that it was rush through the legislative process.

One of the most influential groups, California Tribal Business Alliance has shown their disagreement in the proposal. They claim that it could violate the exclusivity clauses in gaming compacts with the casino tribes.

There are around 1.4 million Californians enjoying poker in an online poker via offshore websites. The proposal seems to gather potential revenue streams for the state and the Senate Governmental Organization Committee will take up all the questions about this online poker on the 9th of February.
Invitations have been distributed and speakers for February 9 are all ready to support the hearing. However, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) prohibits the use of credit cards and all fund transfer for the illegal online gambling except for the intrastate internet gambling.

Full Tilt Poker, as the world’s second largest poker online site raise a total of $586,423 from all the donations of the poker players from the site together with the funds from the no-play tournaments and aid for Haiti programs that they have made. In addition, Full Tilt created a special user account to accept incoming donations for the Haiti victims. This account allows the poker players all around the world to send their contributions easy.

Poker Players Alliance claims that their 7-digit donation does not include private contributions and the contributions from Red Cross and UNICEF. They revealed that 50,000 online poker players have donated a total amount of $ 760,000.

PokerStars also made a special player account named Haiti Fund. Poker players can easily transfer their funds to this account to help the Haiti victims. On the other hand, Cake Poker as another USA-friendly site that also made another effort to collect funds from their tournaments for the victims. Together with the three online sites mentioned above, RedKings, UB.com, Absolute Poker and DoylesRoom also held their poker tournaments as fund raising for the Haiti victims.

Photographs that became head turning and bits of bad news begun to appear in the media show a massive disaster has fallen to Haiti. Due to this bad news, poker community has step up on its own by offering financial assistance to all the victims of the Haitan capital city of Port-au-Prince.

Calvin Ayre, founder of Bodog has issued a personal challenge to the only gaming industry as stated in his website. He mentioned in his blogs that his foundation will make an inital donation of £10,000 to a charitable organization that deals with natural disaster known as the U.K.- based Oxfam.

PokerStars starts their charity efforts through its online poker clients. Players can now contribute through their website by visiting their website and following these simple steps. They should click the Menu in the PokerStars, and then choose Requests and then Transfer Funds. All the funds sent through this will go directly to the Haiti Funds.

Another way to contribute is to enter one of the place-tournaments called the “Haiti Earthquake Relief” that is located under the Tourney, and then choose Special. It is not considered to be an actual tournaments but simple dummy lobbies where players can donate and display their support to all victims of disasters. Buy-ins range from $1 to $1,000 in this tournament.

Isaac Baron has claimed that he has been playing live poker and enjoying it more compare to playing online. He claims that playing live games allows him to improve his attention span and is interested more than live tournaments. In addition, he can meet more cool people in the society.

During a tournament, Baron claims that he usually prepares before hand and would wake up around 9:30 in the morning to prepare himself. Eating two eggs, bacon and sourdough toast for his breakfast after an appointment from the gym and steam room. This is his usual routine before playing any cash game as claimed.

Isaac Baron was so calm and entertained all the questions of the people towards him. He even claimed that he plays differently in cash games and live tournaments compare to his online counterparts. He has been playing 20/40 limit hold’em and even bigger when he starts to play nice. Another good cash game that would reach up to 100/200 no limit most of the time. Playing live is much more exciting for him.