The Weekly Poker News Roundup

As you've probably seen on the forum, Juicy Stakes Poker along with Intertops, are giving away 20 free roulette spins. Players must play the spins at a max of 3 at a time before 23rd September. The maximum you can with in $250 so if you reach that figure before your spins are up, you can't play any more free spins. You must wager your winings by 5 or 10 (it's not clear which is correct). A hearing for online poker in New York resulted in positive feedback. 7 witnesses gave evidence including Poker Players Alliance executive director John Pappas, James Featherstonhaugh the president of the New York Gaming Association, Michael Pollock of the Spectrum Gaming Group, John McManus of general counsel of MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment government relations VP David Satz, Borgata president Tom Ballance, Kevin Cochranwho is a legal analyst for the publication Gambling Compliance and Richard Schwartz, president of Rush Street Interactive. Amongst the topics discussed was the $10 million licensing fee. Yue Feng Pan from China won the Macau Poker Cup. This was a 3 day tournament and he took home the first place prize of US$272,000. 888 Poker have increased the prize pools of thirteen of their guranteed tournaments and named them "Special Edition". Special Edition prize pool guarantees include the Whale with a 4x prize pool from $50k to $200k, the Mega Deep increasing from £20k to $120k and The Sunday Challenge increasing 4 fold to $100k from $25k. A new deposit option for Mexican players at PokerStars has been agreed with 13,000 retailers in Mexico. The convenience store Oxxo will be taking cash payments to be credited to players accounts within one business day. The player must first select Oxxo as their deposit option once logged into PokerStars, enter the amount they wish to deposit and then the player must print the voucher and take it to their local Oxxo store within 3 days. Mexico's plans to allow gambling should be finalized by the end of 2015.
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