Betfair Poker – Adds Ukrainian Stop To Their Live Poker Festival

Posted:August 2012

The Live poker Festival sponsored by Betfair is scheduled to take place in September 2012 – a mere month away. Now a new live stop has been added to the line-up, and the Black Sea resort of Yalta, Ukraine, gets their chance to host what has become a popularly attended tournament. The dates it takes place are September the 5th to the 12th.

Betfair Poker FestivalYalta has become rather a hot-spot now it is the first stop of the new season, while Cork, Ireland, comes in the second spot. The tour takes place here in October. This competition hosts a main event of a $1,650 buy-in no-limit hold ’em which carries a guaranteed prize pot of $150,000. There is a 60 minute clock and a 30,000 chip limit. Online qualifications are already well underway – check it out at Betfair Poker online where they are guaranteeing Ten Packages as prizes – each are worth $2,200!

 

Whilst on the subject, Betfair Poker has a mobile product has exploded during the last 12 months. Recent stats see the value of mobile gambling, across casinos, lotteries, sports betting and more – totalling $19.5 billion during 2011. Word on the street, or should we say in the biz, is that this marketplace will be worth over $100 billion by the year 2017.

 

No wonder then that Betfair, and other gambling brands are prolifically releasing mobile apps for poker as well as other real money games. Richard Hewitt, Head of Mobile at Betfair, has been intensively involved in the writing of a white paper to set out the scale of opportunities available in mobile gambling. The paper also goes into great detail on the opportunities that mobile gambling represents, and detail major challenges that operators could expect to could inhibit this growth.

 

Visit Betfair Poker today for a $2,500 welcome bonus and free entry to a welcome $2,500 tournament.

 
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