By Jason Kirk
By anyone’s measure, we’ve just experienced a monumental year for poker. With unprecedented growth in the number of people involved in the game and the number of places where they’re playing, not to mention a few scandals big enough to make 60 Minutes, the game was bigger than ever in 2008.
That sets the stage for an even bigger year ahead. Here’s a look in the PokerListings crystal ball to see what’s in store for 2009.
The news from the economic front keeps getting worse day by day. Layoffs, bailouts, and dismal economic figures are all taking their toll on the average person. Everyone is looking for inexpensive entertainment and online bingo players are no exception. People are spending less on entertainment and other non essential items.
There is some good news in all this doom and gloom. BingoHouse.com has just launched its ‘Hard Luck Diner’ where bingo cards are only a penny. Not only that, players can win real money! The game graphics are awesome and the Hard Luck Diner has all the features of BingoHouse’s big money games.
The Hard Luck Diner has many options for online bingo players including auto daub, best card sort, and the ability to control sound effects, animations, and caller voice. The game has its own chat room like all the other high quality games on BingoHouse; the only difference is that cards are only a penny.
For entertainment value the Hard Luck Diner is hard to beat. No driving to the local or not so local bingo hall. No transportation or babysitting expenses; players can just log on from their home computer and play to their heart’s content. Players can forget all their economic woes at the Hard Luck Diner.
BingoHouse also offers many high quality bingo games with huge jackpots. The Jeeves’ Jackpots and Pleasure Pots have combined jackpots of $20,000–all for the price of a .25 cent card! Bingo Central offers six variously themed games and the Desperate Lounge has a chat room so hot it’ll melt your mouse! For fast paced action, BingoHouse has a new Speed Bingo game and players new to the world of online bingo can play for free in BingoHouse’s free bingo game.
Players can forget those economic worries at BingoHouse. For a penny a card BingoHouse’s Hard Luck Diner is easily one of the best entertainment values anywhere. Log on to BingoHouse and check it out.
Don’t forget your pennies.
At 17 hours, it was the longest final table in World Series of Poker history. Thanks to some seamless editing, it was fit neatly into a two-hour time block for ESPN.
Depending on whom you ask, the 2008 main event final table was either a massive failure or a huge success. Or you could ask the outspoken poker pro Mike Matusow, and he’ll tell you it was both.
“If I was a fan, it’d be a big letdown,” Matusow told Card Player TV. “As far as that, I think it was a failure. As far as Harrah’s and ESPN, I think it was a major success.”
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) played an important role in the national elections this year by supporting pro-poker candidates for Congress all across the nation. While the voters casted their votes based on a number of important issues it is clear that poker players made a significant difference in several key race
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