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Remember the classic bowling teams from the 1990s, well they could be making a comeback in the form of a local poker team. Atleast this is concept being developed by some casinos around the country.

Poker Teams would assemble in one part of the casino complete with uniforms, and special tables, and compete head on head against other teams. While this could be appealing the point would be to increase local casino revenues while drawing bigger crowds to the casinos.

I personally can´t see myself joining a local poker team.

Casinos could look a lot like a neighborhood bowling alley if the forward thinkers at Beverly Hills, Cal.,-based Dream Team Poker have their way.

Brace yourself for team gambling that just might be the next Big Thing for the U.S. casino industry.

The company’s team-poker concept will be unveiled next month at a weekend-long trial for industry insiders at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas.

If it works the game could roll out quickly to the rest of the gambling nation, said Dream Team chief executive and co-founder Dan Delshad.

Team Poker?

“Poker is inherently an individual game,” he said. “But team poker is not a new concept. A lot of the difficulty in introducing it is in structuring it both for the general public and for the casinos to be able to manage the game.

“We’ve put together a patent-pending scoring system without changing how normal tournaments are run.”

Players win cash prizes based on their own play, but even when eliminated still have a prize stake in how their team performs.

The game format is sociable and friendly, with team names and team jerseys or uniforms _ just like league night at a neighborhood bowling alley.

“This is new. I like it,” said Rick Bartlett, table games manager at the Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa in Riverside, Mo.

Delshad said team play would typically consume some of a casino poker room’s alleys_er, tables_while regular walk-in business could still find a seat at a casino game.

The game might be immediately appealing to casinos in today’s wobbly economy.

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It’s been said that a couple who plays together, stays together, and that could not be more true than for the Zogmans.

At the most recent Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) event, Mary Jo Belcore-Zogman won first place, outlasting 201 players at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Minnesota. Not only did she take home the nearly $86,000 top prize, but she also joined her husband on the list of HPT champions.

This couple becomes the sole couple on the list of HPT Champions. I guess that is the ideal romance for both of them being able to stay together,win together, and be champions together.

This is going to hurt UltimateBet.com right where it counts. Internet Sleuthies unveiled that it offered rigged games intentionally to defraud users while teaching others how to overcome odds.

The former operator of a popular online poker site faces a $75m claim after internet sleuths presented evidence that for more than three years it offered rigged games that allowed cheaters to win hands at astronomically unlikely odds.

According to a special report published last week on msnbc.com, scammers were able to manipulate the software running UltimateBet.com, one of the top 10 online poker sites. The unauthorized software code allowed certain players to see the hole cards of their opponents, according to the report, which cited a report from Tokwiro Enterprises, a company that claims ownership of UltimateBet.

The scam was unearthed by some of the players who got burned. They noticed that certain players in the highest-stakes games were winning at a rate that seemed to defy statistical odds. Two of the players, who went by the handles “trambopoline” and “dlpnyc21,” eventually closed in on a particular account as a prime suspect. Using the screen name “NioNio,” the player netted $300,000 in profit in just 3,000 hands. They later discovered that NioNio had won 13 of the 14 sessions recorded on MyPokerIntel.com, a website that tracks high-stakes online tournaments.

I am not thrilled by this press release:
Carlyle Gaming & Entertainment Ltd. announced today that the launch date for the Company’s PokerTwin(TM) site will be on December 19,2008.
PokerTwin(TM) is a poker product that is viewed as a skill game and legal in most jurisdictions in the United States, including California and New York State. United States based Poker players can deposit funds using their credit cards including Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express.
PokerTwin(TM) is a Texas Hold ‘em based poker game that removes the luck of the draw and lets a poker player rely on their skills to win. PokerTwin(TM) players in corresponding seats at two different tables are dealt identical poker hands and prove their skill not by how lucky they are, but how well they play each hand in comparison with the other players who have the same cards.

First off creating games that are aimed as gambling alternatives allow big corporations unheavy leverage in what I consider a sport that should be unregulated or deregulated.