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A Seat At Poker’s Biggest Table Beckons For Players Taking GGPoker’s Road To Vegas
Hundreds of World Series of Poker® Main Event tickets to be won at GGPoker.
GGPoker, the World’s Biggest Poker Room, today launches the Road to Vegas series of online poker tournaments, offering hundreds of ticket packages to this summer’s WSOP $10,000 Main Event.
Players can win their WSOP tickets via satellite tournaments hosted at GGPoker and at ClubGG, the world’s leading subscription poker platform. Qualifier and step satellite tournaments are running daily, with buy-ins starting from $1.
As in 2023, GGPoker has an additional sweetener for those that qualify for the 2024 Main Event; if any GGPoker qualifier becomes this year’s WSOP Main Event champion, they’ll snag an extra $1,000,000 bonus on top of the winner’s purse.
The highlight of the annual live poker schedule, the WSOP $10,000 Main Event is where reputations are cemented and legends are born. This year’s event begins on Wednesday, July 3, in Las Vegas, Nevada, with final table play scheduled for July 16-17. Last year’s event saw a record 10,043 participants battle across the felt, with Daniel Weinman claiming the title of world champion and a $12.1M prize, the biggest in WSOP history.
Each WSOP 2024 Main Event package won at GGPoker will include:
- $10,000 WSOP 2024 Main Event tournament entry
- $1,000 for Las Vegas accommodation (credited to each player’s GGPoker account)
- Promotional code for discounted accommodation at Caesars Entertainment properties
- $1,000 for travel expenses/spending money (credited to each player’s GGPoker account)
- GGPoker-branded merchandise & gifts
- Access to the exclusive GGPoker Platinum Lounge
- Direct registration to tournament with no need to queue
“It’s time to think about the biggest live tournament in the world again, and after last year’s record-breaking Main Event, I’m already super excited for this year’s WSOP,” said Daniel Negreanu, GGPoker Global Ambassador and six-time WSOP bracelet winner. “It’s the tournament that every single one of us players wants to take down more than any other. Get onto the Road to Vegas and meet me at the tables in Las Vegas this summer; I can’t wait for this year’s WSOP to begin!”
Added Sarne Lightman, Managing Director of GGPoker: “GGPoker is the only place for international players to qualify for the WSOP $10K Main Event, and after 774 players snagged their seats with us last year, we hope to see even more on the Road to Vegas in 2024. Let’s see if we can send 1,000 GGPoker players to experience the ultimate poker dream!”
New GGPoker players can also claim the poker room’s Welcome Bonus, earn even more rewards with the Honeymoon for Newcomers promotion and automatically join GGPoker’s Fish Buffet loyalty program, with regular cash prizes on offer.
To learn more about GGPoker’s Road to Vegas 2024 online tournaments, please visit: ggpoker.com
To learn more about ClubGG, please visit: clubgg.net/
Following a hugely successful first event in Cincinnati, Ohio in September 2023, the Moneymaker Tour is returning to the Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati on September 17 – 30, 2024 with a packed schedule that will guarantee more than $1 million across 15 trophy events.
In September 2023’s inaugural stop at Hard Rock Cincinnati, the $1,500 Main Event was contested by 788 players and won by Joseph Bakun for $208,034. He was joined at the final table by Chris Moneymaker himself and WSOP Champion Joseph McKeehen and as well as the top cash prize, he also took home a crystal Moneymaker Tour trophy and a guitar trophy.
The Moneymaker Tour was created in 2023 by 2003 WSOP Champion and ACR Team Pro, Chris Moneymaker and Moneymaker Tour Executive Manager, Tony Burns. The Tour was conceived as a way for Moneymaker to give poker players opportunities to have their own ordinary to extraordinary moments as he did.
Despite its relative newcomer status, the Moneymaker Tour has made a name for itself, recently being voted the third most popular live poker tournament series behind only the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour, in a State of Poker survey. Since its inception, there have been eight events throughout Florida, Cincinnati and Houston.
The Tour has also recently announced new venues including a first visit to the birthplace of the Moneymaker boom with an event in Las Vegas from June 28 – July 6 at MGM Grand and its first international Main Event at Casino Aruba in October.
“Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati will team up with the Moneymaker Tour for a return in 2024” said Christopher Herbert, Hard Rock Cincinnati Manger of Poker & Sportsbook. “Hard Rock Cincinnati is grateful to be a part of the fastest growing poker tour in 2023. Chris Moneymaker, Tony Burns and their staff delivered an incredible experience for our guests during the 2023 Moneymaker Tour stop. There’s no better place to be in September 2024 than Cincinnati Ohio!”
“After an amazing series last September, we are excited to return to Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati”, said Tony Burns, Executive Manager of the Moneymaker Tour. “Continuing to partner with one of the most recognisable brands in the world amplifies our reach, resonates with our audience, and rocks our business to a whole other level.”
Poker players who want to cash-in on Vegas’ biggest summer series without playing a hand are heading to ACR Poker.
The popular online poker site is debuting its Fantasy Poker League: Vegas. “Everyone loves Fantasy Sports and now we’re capturing the same excitement for all the hot poker action in Vegas this summer,” stated ACR Pro, Chris Moneymaker. “This is truly the ultimate Fantasy Poker showdown, and you won’t want to miss it.”
From May 15th to 28th, the Fantasy Poker League: Vegas offers players worldwide the opportunity to draft their dream poker team for a chance to win cash prizes. Participants choose up to eight poker pros with an allotted budget amount. Points are then earned as the pros compete in live poker events in Sin City’s hottest summer series.
As the series unfolds, players can track their team’s progress on the daily leaderboard to determine how their selected teams are performing against the competition.
There are three fantasy leagues to choose from, and they cost $20, $100, or $500, with no added fees from ACR Poker. And there’s no limit on the number of teams that a person can create. Moneymaker also added that participants can conveniently choose their team(s) from the Rewards Section of the ACR Poker client.
For more info on the Fantasy Poker League: Vegas, visit the promo page at ACRPoker.eu.
Global developer commits to providing a transparent player experience amid growing trend
EvenBet Gaming, a leading developer of online gaming software and solutions, has reinforced its anti-fraud detection technology to combat the rise in AI-powered bots and align with stringent anti-money laundering (AML) policies.
The increase in machine-learning technology sophistication has resulted in AI bots becoming harder to identify within the global gaming industry, posing huge financial and reputational risks to operators and affecting the transparency of the player experience.
To combat this escalated risk, EvenBet has introduced rigorous measures that can pinpoint potential bots with up to 99% precision, including Fingerprint JS Pro technology, multiple anti-fraud verification processes, and behavioural analysis procedures.
This includes cutting-edge in-game player inspection during poker rounds, monitoring several factors such as hand strength, potential knowledge of opponents’ cards, session duration, location, and jackpot hunting or tournament endgame dragging. Each factor is then compared to normal player behaviour to calculate the likelihood of AI-powered bots in poker rooms.
EvenBet has also supplemented its registration process with further Know Your Customer (KYC) checks, implemented to tackle the 112% and 184% growth in identity theft and synthetic identities respectively. The leading developer utilises temporary email identification techniques and assesses potential email forwarding and re-login attempts to ascertain the risk of a new sign-up.
The improvement of existing technology and the addition of new measures analyses risk from the moment of registration and monitors behavioural factors throughout the player journey, demonstrating EvenBet’s dedication to eliminating AI bots, complying with rigid AML guidelines, and providing the optimal gaming experience.
Dmitry Starostenkov, CEO at EvenBet Gaming, said: “With the rapid development of artificial intelligence in the 21st century, it has never been more important to stay ahead of the curve with regards to anti-fraud processes.
“EvenBet continues to develop and implement the latest anti-fraud technology to ensure our platform remains a trusted industry leader providing an entirely transparent user experience.”
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