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One of the largest consulting firm’s which specialize in software security and quality, Cigital, has announced that it has confirmed the reliability and security of the RNG that PokerStars’ online poker site uses to shuffle cards, showing that the results either meets or exceeds best practices in generating statistically random and unpredictable values when dealing cards.

“Truly random numbers are the heart of fair online gaming,” said Cigital’s Gaming Services Manager. “Our assessment looked at the entire solution, including the hardware and the software, and confirmed that the output of the RNG is cryptographically random and truly unpredictable.”

Given the results of this inspection poker players everywhere should have confidence that there is NO doomswitch.

You Tube are set to allow videos which advertise onling gambling for the first time, According to new guidelines which have been published on their site “licensed entities located in England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, France or Spain” will be allowed to run the adverts.

To be eligable to view these adverts, viewers must first confirm that they are at least the age of 18. Companies will be allowed to run their ads campaign on YouTube’s home page, video pages and on their own channels.

The $2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em WSOP tournament has been won by Will Haydon who netted $630,031 early on Thursday morning. Haydon, who has been playing poker proffesionally for about 4 years now, dropped out of school to play full time poker and had been offered a full college scholarship in golf before he turned pro.

Haydons all time WSOP stats now read, In the Money 1, Final Tables 1 and Wins 1.

The 27-player field set to play in the 2010 WSOP Tournament of Champions are Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Chris Ferguson, Allen Cunningham, Scotty Nguyen, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth Jr., John Juanda, Erik Seidel, Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Huck Seed, Dan Harrington, T.J. Cloutier, Sam Farha, Johnny Chan, Howard Lederer, Joe Hachem, Mike Matusow, Antonio Esfandiari, Annie Duke, Mike Sexton, Joe Cada, Barry Shulman, Andrew Barton, Mike Sexton and Bertrand Grospellier .

The tournament who many are saying is the World Series of Poker’s All-Star event will start on June the 27th and the Final table is scheduled to begin on July the 4th with the winner walking away with a cool $500,000.

Sammy Farha has won the $10,000 buy-in Omaha High-Low Split championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker and with it his third WSOP bracelet.

After a 13 hour  final table, which included this years $1500 buy in Pot-Limit Hold’em bracelet winner James Dempsey and also 2 other bracelet winners Abe Mosseri and Michael Chow , the final hand was won at around 7am on sunday morning netting Farha $488,241.

$102 Million USD has been seized and 3600 people arrested after a clampdown on online gambling during the 2010 World Cup being held in South Africa.

Among the arrests, which happened in China, were 180 people who have been linked to gambling operations in Macao, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

One lucky player has netted himself £63,791.38 after hitting the Jackpot on Casino UK’s  Cash Splash online Progressive slot game.

The player only known as M.W, won the Jackpot, (which totals $92,170.77) on the online slot which offers both 5 reel video and a classic 3 reel variants, both versions offering different ways to win the progressive jackpot.

After CCTV footage was used, a man who stole chips at Resorts World Sentosa casino in Singapore has been fined $2,000,it has been reported.

The man stole 5 chips from a 57 year old woman by convincing her friend that the chips actually belonged to a friend of his, the report stated.

The man was facing a three year jail sentence for his crime, but escaped with a fine.

The World Series of Poker Academy, the educational provider of the WSOP,  has announced today that they have been awarded the final sponsors exemption seat for the WSOP Tournament of Champions 2010. The Academy are to hold a one table sudden-death tournament for nine of the players who were not eligaible for the public to vote for them to fill the last seat. Gus Hanson, Tom “Durr” Dwan, Andy Bloch, actor Don Cheadle, Liv Boeree, Sorel Mizzi, Bertrand “ElKy” Grospellier, Michael Mizrachi and Paul Wasicka will play it out to be able to play in the WSOP Tournament of Champions All-Star event, and with it a chance at the $1 million prize pool. The single table tournament is to be held on June 10th.

RedKings.com have launched their online sports betting site which is called BetRedKings are now taking World Cup bets.

BetRedKings’  launch includes live betting, competitive odds, a great World Cup Predictor game (which is free) with great cash prizes and also a series of $1000 World Cup freerolls which are to be held at Red Kings Poker.

BetRedKings entry into the online Sports betting industry is an important new adventure for RedKings, which alongside their other new launch Casino Red Kings means that they now offer a lot more than just poker to their customers.