Flickr Bans Bodog Girls

Flickr Bans Bodog Girls

Press Release Source: BodogBrand.com On Thursday February 11, 2010

LONDON, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Online gambling brand Bodog have been bringing betting and hot girls to the world wide web for 15 years and for the last 8 months the Bodog girls have been good enough to share their charms with the world via the soon-to-be-less-popular photo sharing website, Flickr, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bodoggirl/ . Nearly two million viewers have logged in to admire the girls but this week, without any correspondence at all, the girls have been banned by the powers that be at Flickr. Why? We have no idea.

The girls are very upset that they cannot share their fashion tips for hot weather conditions and should you wish to register your support for the girls to be reinstated please log onto http://www.facebook.com/bodog and state your case!

Bodog Brand founder, Calvin Ayre, takes a very keen interest in his girls and does not like to see them hurt in this way: "I cannot believe we are in 2010 and girls are not allowed to share their photos with the world - this is just sexist!"

For further information and photos please call the Bodog Brand International Press Office (London) on +44(0)7825-064776.

PokerStars players' Haiti relief donations pass $670,000

PokerStars players' Haiti relief donations pass $670,000

26/01/2010

Let no one say PokerStars players don't have hearts.

With five days left to go in PokerStars' Haiti relief fundraising drive, PokerStars players have donated more than $670,000 to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

As you're no doubt aware by now, PokerStars is matching every dollar of its players donations. After the first $500,000 in donations came in, PokerStars shipped $1 million to the IFRC. When the end of the month comes, another big check is going out.

Donating is easy. There are two ways you can send money for the relief effort.

In the PokerStars lobby, go to Tourney >> Special and enter one of the dummy 'Haiti Earthquake Relief' tournaments listed there. 'Buy-ins' range from $1,000 all the way down to $1. You will not need to play an actual tournament, instead all of the 'entry fees' go straight to the fund.

You can make a private player transfer for any amount to the account 'Haiti Fund'. Go to 'Requests' in the client top menu and select 'Transfer Funds'.

 

And where is that money going? We asked and learned quite a bit.

So far, more than IFRC 40 flights have landed in Haiti. More than 550 tons of relief supplies have arrived on the island. More than 17,000 people have already been helped and the expectation is that another 80,000 people will get the help they need this week.

Haitian Red Cross volunteer Shiela Gabriel checks up on Oresto Orglori, 4, who suffered severe injuries including the loss of his right arm in the earthquake. Hopital General, Port-au-Prince. January 23, 2010. -- Credit Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross

This is the largest single-country deployment in Red Cross Red Crescent history. So far, the relief workers have distributed health kits for 30,000 people across Haiti's capital. More than 1,000 people are getting emergency medical treatment every day. More than two million liters of water have already gone out from the Red Cross Red Crescent group across Port-au-Prince.

That's just a glimpse of the efforts going on in Haiti.

Again, thanks to everyone who has donated and will donate before this Sunday. Your generosity is unparalleled and more appreciated than you will ever realize.

Visa declining USA egaming payments

 Visa declining USA egaming payments

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THE CRACKDOWN on US online gambling credit card payments that began on Wednesday is being operated by Visa as well as rival US credit card giant Mastercard, tens of thousands of US online gamblers likely to have been affected.

As reported yesterday, US-facing operators were hit by an overnight tightening of restrictions on the use of credit cards for egaming transaction ahead of the implementation of America’s Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) law on 1 June, which bans the facilitation of online gambling by banks and other payment companies. 

The action was at the time of writing confirmed as applying to US-registered cards issued by Mastercard, but rumours that a crackdown had also been launched by Visa had not been substantiated. 

Repeated attempts to use a US-registered Visa card on PokerStars last night were declined, with the American poker giant sending an email in response that read: 

“Status: DECLINED. 

“Your credit card transaction has been declined. If your credit card information was entered correctly and you have sufficient funds, your transaction was probably declined due to Internet gaming restrictions set by your credit card issuer.” 

Other sites likely to have been hit by the action will include PokerStars arch rival FullTilt and US sports betting giant Sportsbook.com, which yesterday announced that it will leave the Cake Poker network to join that offered by Ireland's Merge Gaming.

UIGEA was originally supposed to have been enforced from 1 December 2009, although the US treasury later approved a delay allowing companies until 1 June 2009 to comply.