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February 15 – If you haven’t yet opted in to Mansion Casino’s fantastic new ten week promotion, now’s the time to do it.

You have from now until the middle of April to try out all the games at this excellent Playtech powered online casino and earn points while doing so in the $150,000 promo at Mansion Casino.

The $150K Race will run for a period of ten weeks in total, with the first week already behind us.

Over each week’s race, you’ll  be asked to play the hundreds of games at the online casino and earn points in the process.  The more points you earn, the higher your chances of coming in the top one hundred players of the week and taking home part of the $10,000 prize pool being put up by Mansion Casino – each and every week.

But that’s not all: Besides the weekly races, the promotion also includes an Overall Race, with a total prize pool of $50,000, with the top winner in the overall category earning a holiday worth $15,000.

To start earning points in the $150K Race at Mansion Casino, players naturally first need to open an account at the site and become a real money player.  They then need to opt in to the promotion and start racking up points each time they visit the casino and play the games.

All the points that are accumulated during the ten week period count towards the overall leader board promotion, where one hundred top players get to win cash prizes – from $200 to a luxury $15K vacation.

How to Win Big at Mansion Casino

Opt in to the promotion and start racing each week, according to the following schedule:

#1 – Feb. 6

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You might remember back in November of 2010, when 2008 World Series of Poker main event winner Peter Eastgate auctioned off his bracelet, raising over $140,000 for charity. The winner of that auction, William Haughey, talked to a poker news website to discuss the bracelet and revealed how he wants to work with the WSOP organization to arrange a charity event where he’d match any money raised, up to $1,000,000.

Haughey’s got a history of such generousness: the British businessman (who has made his fortune through his own City Refrigeration Holdings) has donated over £5 million to various charities and thinks that the bracelet might be an “in” to raising more for them through the world of poker.

When asked how he was planning on doing that, Haughey responded: “Since I purchased the bracelet, I’ve never had it on and I never have my picture taken with it.

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4,500-chip, four-color starting stack at Stratosphere.

The Stratospheres quaint 10-table poker room sits in the back of the casino, past a row of slot machines, craps tables, another row of slot machines, down the ramp past Roxy’s Diner, near the escalators to the Top of the World restaurant just before the Double Down Pit and Back Alley Bar. On Thursday, there was a sole 1-2NL table of action about 30 minutes before the nightly tournament.

Youd hardly know that this room has supposedly become the new Sahara when it comes to Las Vegas most popular small buy-in dailies with the 7pm event drawing consistent fields of 50 players or more.

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After a terrible losing streak last weekend, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom took a break at 16:00 on Monday. It didn’t take long before people started speculating in whether or not the young swede had cleaned out his PokerStars account. But at 01:00 am on Tuesday he returned to the $50/$100 and $100/$200 Omaha tables and continued playing.

Things went much better for him then, and after about 3,600 hands against several regulars at the nosebleed tables he got away with a $560,000 profit.

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January 16 – International Game Technology (IGT), the Las Vegas-based gaming giant has announced its intention to acquire leading online social games developer, DoubleDown Interactive.

IGT will spend up to $500 million to acquire the group, which has been in operation since 2004, and has a powerful presence on social networking site, Facebook thanks to its popular DoubleDown Casino.

The deal for IGT to acquire DoubleDown Interactive will see it pay $250 million in cash upfront, $85 million in retention payments over the next two years, plus an additional $165 million over the next three years, depending on whether DoubleDown hits pre-agreed financial targets.

“The addition of DoubleDown Interactive launches IGT into a leadership position in social gaming, extends our global reach through new mediums and leverages our unmatched expertise in game development,” said the Chief Executive Officer for IGT, Patti Hart.

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