The deal will see the online casino provided with live roulette, baccarat and proprietary blackjack games around the clock.

“We are thrilled to provide our Live Casino Game Feed product to Amsterdams Casino.com,” said Martin Reiner, chief executive officer for Visionary iGaming. “This deal proves there is room for another premier live gaming provider.”

Visionary iGaming revealed that it has already provided a limited service to Amsterdams Casino which have been well received “….with growing gross gaming revenues and tips to its live dealers through the roof,” confirming how much players enjoy the live deal gambling experience.

A spokesman for the online casino said: “We selected Visionary iGaming because it is an innovative group offering exceptional video and audio along with the most interactive live dealer experience available in the market.”

The Dutch language casino, which is owned North Dakota Enterprises in the UK but operates from Costa Rica, also offers more conventional random number generated Internet gambling in a gaming suite from Boss Media.

The night’s session started when Tom Dwan and Isildur1 met on the Internet nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker in a confrontation that saw Isildur1’s aggressive and utterly fearless style of play beat down Dwan, who eventually retired after losing $770 000. Speculation that Isildur1’s bankroll must have been severely dented in earlier clashes with top players seemed not to figure in the Swedish player’s strategy at all.

Isildur1 then moved on to confront Phil Ivey on the $500/$1 000 No-Limit Hold’em tables, where the two battled it out for 1 431 hands, with Ivey up $900 000, after which play switched to Pot Limit Omaha.

Ivey seemed to be in control until the duo got into a pot that was eventually worth $1.1 million – the second largest ever – which Isildur1 took to reverse Ivey’s fortunes, although ice-cool Ivey still left the heads up with a $337 000 profit.

Overall, thanks mainly to his winnings from Dwan, Isildur1 was up more than $430 000 on the night, ameliorating some of his earlier losses.
The independent statistics site MarketPulse points out that Isildur1, apart from setting the Internet alight with his high stakes hubris, has now been a particpant in all of the top ten largest online poker pots ever…and all over the past week!

Expanding its successful partnership projects in the past in the 125cc and 250cc racing classes, the company has signed up 250cc world champion Hiroshi Aoyama as a rider for 2010. Daniel Epp will manage the team.

“Interwetten is one of the most modern betting providers in Europe,” said Wolfgang Fabian, chief executive officer.

“Our dynamic innovation should also be reflected in our commitment to motorsports. Just like Interwetten, MotoGP stands for spectacular action, first-class sports and excitement until the last corner.

“Interwetten markets itself in countries such as Spain and Greece and also in Germany and Switzerland and, therefore, MotoGP is the ideal platform to increase the popularity of our brand in these countries.”

Interwetten relaunched its sportsbetting website at Interwetten.com in the Spring and revealed that it would also partner with Thomas Luthi next year for its Interwetten Moto2 team.

“We want to support Hiroshi in gaining experience in MotoGP and to establish ourselves together in the premier class,” said Epp.

“With Thomas Luthi, Interwetten made its first steps in the motorsports World Championship and was very successful. Especially in Switzerland, we are profiting enormously from Thomas’ popularity and image.”

The company claims that it’s latest game, Multi-Player Wheel of Wealth, Special Edition is the world’s first true multi-player slot game.

Players entering the game are randomly allocated a playing room and are seated at one of the six independent five reel, twenty five line slot machines within that room. If a player wishes to change their slot or their room, a simple control button enables this to be done immediately.

Players can interact with each other through an in-built chat function.

The individual slots play in the conventional manner, with Wilds, Scatters, and Multipliers used to pursue wins. But in addition to this, players can benefit from the randomly triggered, shared Wheel of Wealth feature. Players who have qualified by accruing bonus multipliers on their individual slots are each invited to select one of twenty, big paying, stops on the Wheel of Wealth. The wheel spins and each player wins according to their position on the wheel.

Microgaming slots spokesman Mike Hebden said this week: “We monitor gaming trends closely and are always on the look out for areas where we can innovate and introduce high quality games which enhance player experience. We are in no doubt of the importance of the social interaction element in online gaming, and it is clear that this trend is gaining ever increasing momentum.

“Multi-Player Wheel of Wealth, Special Edition is the first game of its kind to introduce the combination of chat-inclusive community action, mixed with interactive slot play. We will continue to innovate in this area and remain committed to delivering high quality games that directly respond to this evolution in gaming.”

Further recognising the importance of the community and social aspect of online gaming, Microgaming’s Bingo products also incorporate a wealth of chat functions. Specialist bingo managers offer fun side games in chat and are a key part of the bingo experience.

Meanwhile Microgaming’s Multi-Player casino platform has seen entries into its slot + blackjack tournaments rise to more than one million each month. The biggest of these tourneys was the recent Tomb Raider themed Grand Slam of Slots, where nearly 8 500 players battled to be a part of online gaming history and become the world’s first online slot tournament millionaire.

In the latest episode, respected Finnish poker pro Patrik Antonius felt the pain of Isildur1’s bite, going down $700 000 in a tough, 5 028 hand session on Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed tables.

With the current record for largest online poker pot set earlier this week at $1.356 million the latest session failed to crack the record books, but it did produce an uncommonly large number of big-money pots, with eighteen worth around $400 000 and another five valued at $500 000 or more, according to the independent stats site MarketPulse.

Isildur and Antonius faced off Monday night on the $500/$1 000 Pot-Limit Omaha tables and stayed there for the entire twelve-and-a-half hour session, with the largest pot – taken by Isildur1 – around the $555 000 mark.

It just wasn’t Antonius’s night, and the fighting Finn had his work cut out to contain his losses at $700 000; at an early stage in the match he found himself a scary $1.6 million down, and it is a mark of his skill and determination that he managed to come back from that low point, although it took him most of the session to do so.

For Isildur1 it was another good night in a week where his fortunes have swung as widely as his aggressive and audacious style of playing.

The action sued the Canadian owner of an Internet domain name, charging that it wrongly associates one of the Boyd casinos with an online gambling site.

Boyd Gaming legal representatives claim that Canadian resident Erik Hall in 2006 registered a domain name infringing on the trademarks of Boyd’s Blue Chip Casino, “a famous casino hotel spa”.

The allegedly infringing domain name was linked to the Full Tilt Poker gambling Web site, the suit charges, claiming that Boyd has a righful complaint of Internet cybersquatting, trademark infringement, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices.

“Defendant’s use of a domain name containing plaintiff’s Blue Chip marks has created a likelihood of confusion among consumers who may falsely believe that the infringing domain name and Full Tilt Poker Web site are associated with the Blue Chip Casino or that plaintiff sponsors or approves of defendant’s services or commercial activities,” Boyd charged in its lawsuit, filed Monday.

To mark the occasion and spread a little Christmas good cheer around, Neogames is running an online raffle where affiliate marketers can earn a Euro 4 000 holiday, and is giving players on the new game 50 percent of their losses back during the month of December.

Brit and Full Tilt pro Brian Townsend is the latest to risk a major bankroll against the unknown Swedish player, and he managed to emerge victorious and $1.1 million wealthier after a murderous thousand hand $200/$400 Pot-Limit Omaha midweek session.

The match lacked the massive swings in fortunes experienced in previous confrontations, with Townsend playing a tight, disciplined strategy that paid off across a series of sub-$300 000 pots, none of which reached record breaking heights.

Earlier, the Swede had hammered the hapless French pro David Benyamine for $268 000 on the $200/$400 PLO tables, filling in the spare time with some $500/$1 000 NLHE action against Phil Ivey…who lost another $85 000 over the 200 hands.

The unfortunate Tom Dwan was back for yet another crack at the Swede, and after Townsend retired with his spoils, Isilidur1was happy to oblige. The two got it on in around 545 hands of $300/$600 PLO which saw Isildur1 take Dwan for another $175 000.

Isildur1 finally called it a day after a clash on the $500/$1 000 PLO tables with Ilari Sahamies, where his good fairy failed and he went down $267 000.

Due mainly to his losing streak against Townsend, the mysterious Swede’s results for this session as recorded by MarketPulse showed a loss of some $976 000.

London-based Playfish was recently purchased for a reported $400 million by eletronic gaming industry giant Electronic Arts and is testing the waters with its new product following the success of Texas Hold’em Poker on Facebook by rival developer Zynga.

Avatars feature in ‘Poker Rivals’ as players adopt virtual identities to compete with one another to win prizes or points enabling participants to purchase virtual properties and other assets using their winnings. The software includes a full tutorial.

He leaves the world’s biggest poker spectacular in good shape with solid registrations, impressive prizes and sponsorships and good media viewing statistics. The 2009 WSOP drew a record 60 875 entrants over 57 tournaments, and the final table television screening was watched by some 2.5 million viewers.

New of Pollack’s departure broke on the Las Vegas Review Journal and was later confirmed by Pollack on Twitter, where he posted: “Thank you for allowing me to be part of the WSOP these last few years. I will always be a fan and a friend to the poker community.”

Joining WSOP in 2005 after working at Nascar and the NBA, Pollack has spearheaded many of the changes that have made the event such a popular competition. He has also been at the helm through challenging times like the introduction of UIGEA and the impact that had on online poker room sponsorships to WSOP hopefuls.

Judging by comment from the WSOP communications chief, Seth Palansky, there are no plans to replace Pollack. He said in an interview: “…we are well positioned for the future. There is no intention at this time to replace the Commissioner role.”

It is presumed, but not yet confirmed, that Pollacks resignation includes his presidency of the new Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment subsidiary where he worked with CEO Mitch Garber.