Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
AlamoPoker.com Joins On-Line Poker's Big Names by Offering a More Than $1,900,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool for the Grand Series of Poker Being Held April 24 - 31, 2006
AlamoPoker.com Joins On-Line Poker's Big Names by Offering a More Than $1,900,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool for the Grand Series of
LOS ANGELES, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- AlamoPoker.com (http://www.alamopoker.com/) -- The Home of Texas Hold 'Em is offering a series of six big money prize pool tournaments culminating with the Grand Tournament VII, a No Limit Texas Hold 'Em poker game guaranteeing players $1,000,000 of prize pool money. An additional $900,000 of guaranteed money is spread among five tournaments of varying games. These including Hold 'Em Short Handed, Limit, No Limit, Omaha Hi/Lo and 5 Card Stud. Ultimately the Grand Series week adds an additional $50,000 Table of Champions Free Roll Tournament. The week kicks off April 24th 2006 with a Short Handed, No Limit Texas Hold 'Em game guaranteeing a $300,000 prize pool.
Date Game Guarantee Blind Levels
4/24 Hold 'Em No Limit Short Handed $300,000 30 Minutes
4/25 Omaha PL $150,000 30 Minutes
4/26 Five Card Draw PL $150,000 30 Minutes
4/27 Hold 'Em Limit $150,000 30 Minutes
4/28 Omaha High Lo Limit $150,000 30 Minutes
4/29 Grand Tournament VII
Hold 'Em No Limit $1,000,000 30 Minutes
4/31 Table of Champions Free Roll $50,000 30 Minutes
Players can qualify for these big money events through Sit & Go play and Multi-Table Satellites. Seventeen Multi Table Tournaments are held daily as qualifiers with Buy Ins from $7 + $1 to $100 + 8.
Currently for any new account opened at AlamoPoker.com and a deposit of a minimum $100 customers will receive a free $11 + 1 Grand Series VII qualifier entry.
"The ability for players at AlamoPoker.com to compete for such huge sums of tournament money is exciting. There are a variety of on-line options for playing poker but few able to do tournaments like these. Our goals are high and this really helps in reaching them," said J. Fisch, Marketing Director of AlamoPoker.com and its brands. "We offer friendly, personalized service to our players and they tell us we have the best customer service in the industry. Alamo Poker combines the best of both worlds for on-line poker players, small company service and attitude with big company payouts".
AlamoPoker.com currently offers more than 24 tournaments per day providing over $250,000 in tournament prize money weekly. Buy ins range from $1 to $1,000.
AlamoPoker.com is an on-line poker room and casino incorporated in Gibraltar with its operations based in San Jose, Costa Rica. Popular games such as Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha and 7 Card Stud. AlamoPoker.com is owner/operator of http://www.alamopokertour.com/ a Texas Hold 'Em Charity Tournament Series for TV with participants being celebrities, professionals and the public alike. http://www.alamopoker.net/ a free play for fun non-gambling site and http://www.alamovip.com/ the On Line Gaming Customers Banking Solution. http://www.truewestcasino.com/ has over 100 Casino games.
For More Information. Contact: J. Fisch, Marketing Director
Phone: 866-843-2526, Email: Jeremy@alamopoker.com
This release was issued on behalf of the above organization by Send2Press(R), a unit of Neotrope(R). http://www.send2press.com/