“The Aviation Club de France is delighted to welcome back a WPT event in Paris,” said Bruno Fitoussi, poker consultant for Aviation Club de France. “The WPT Grand Prix de Paris is guaranteed to be a high-class tournament in the highlights of the international poker scene and will, for sure, attract players from all around the world.”

Home of arguably the best cash games in Europe, the world famous Aviation Club de France is located in the heart of Paris on the Champs-Elysées. The club was created in 1907 by a group of pioneer aviators whose achievements conjure up the most remarkable milestones in aviation history.

Land-based satellites for the WPT Grand Prix de Paris main event will begin at Aviation Club de France on May 1. Schedules and additional details will be available soon at Aviation Club de France.com and at World Poker Tour.com.

The last WPT tourney in Paris took place in 2006, attracting a field of over 230 players and crfeating a Euro 2.2 million prizepool. The main prize of Euro 712 500 was won by Danish player Christian Grundtvig but was not televised following legal wrangles with French authorities.

Statistics have shown that the older age demographic all over the world are increasingly turning to the online casinos and learning how to use the internet as a communication tool to bridge some of the loneliness that creeps up in the twilight years. But a big problem right now centers on the fact that some of the elderly just can’t keep pace with the new innovations fast enough to make the online casino gaming sites work effectively for them. In the past year nearly every single major gaming site has announced a move into the social networking arena. Instead of just connecting with friends and other gamblers on the site, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and other sites are brought into the mix creating a bit of confusion for gamblers who just like the steadfastness of the old internet gaming communities.

By and large though, although some online casinos may be developing and changing at too rapid of a pace, there is a lot of good coming out of this new move to really connect senior citizens with the internet. From uniting families split by distance via Skype to creating communities to find new friends, the internet opens up a whole new world for the elderly.

The senior citizen population has really begun to take to the internet – and even the online casinos out of necessity as much as a desire to join the internet age. New programs are cropping up on a global scale that teach computer skills to the older generations. And one of the key reasons motivating this push is the fact that computer and internet use can fight depression and isolation according to recent research. Online casinos especially provide seniors with a community – something they may not readily have if they are in nursing homes or confined to their homes for much of the day.

The rate of senior citizens gambling at online casinos and bingo sites has doubled annually since 2000 – and the rate is likely to hold steady because of the natural aging of an already internet savvy generation. As the internet gambling sites report more and more of this age demographic accessing the sites its entirely likely that the industry will see far more programs and games aimed quite specifically at the elderly and senior citizens within the internet gambling community.

Bwin is one of the largest online betting companies in the world – the company has a strong brand presence all over the world and has long built up a strong reputation for high quality gaming offerings. To better the site though, Bwin has added in side games for its gamblers that give them options beyond Bwins existing betting platform. Specifically, a slice of the online casinos has come to Bwin with the launch of Dynamite Media’s Aztec Keno progressive jackpot game. Dynamite is a subsidiary of GTECH G2, a global leader in emerging technologies and gaming systems.

This new side game has been launched to augment and round out the other side games that are already available at Bwin. The site has found that the side games really keep online casino gamblers happy and engaged in the site for longer. This new game launch adds in the fun and potentially lucrative progressive aspect to the site.

Industry news is circling around the announcement that Will Hill’s Financial Director, Simon Lang leaving the company this month. Will Hill is in the process of some huge shifts as the company moves headquarters out of the UK, so new shifting at management levels has been expected as some previous management chose not to make the move offshore. Additionally, the Ladbrokes online casino gambling group announced that Patrick Jay is switching market sectors to take a management position in Jockey Club, a position based out of Hong Kong.

Some of the shifts show a natural progression of a persons career, through the online casino gambling industry. Anna Sainsbury, the Commercial Director for TST Global is moving into consultancy in the very near future. She will no longer work out of TST’s Vancouver offices, but rather start her own business offering the skills she learned over the past five years working with TST.

Additionally though, it would be entirely remiss to not mention the online casino gambling companies that are doing charity work and raising funds for a huge variety of worthy causes. And it’s all sectors of the industry that are willing to put some of their broad market and cash-flush gamblers in front of the right charities. For the poker industry the prominent cause is Darfur and other African nations. But several online casino sites have also raised money for illness-based charities and schools in developing nations to name just a few.

And that’s what the online casinos are choosing to do – there is also a lot of potential good to be found in how state governments are spending their internet gambling tax revenues. The US government might (although not likely at this point) pass legislation to use tax revenues as one way to help fund universal healthcare while the one of Australia’s states is considering using online gambling tax revenue to fund campaigns related to saving endangered animals.

Sandra V. and a player whom wishes to remain anonymous, both from France won €20,000 each whilst playing on the online scratch card gambling sites. Sandra V. won her €20,000 fortune on Lucky 21 at Hopa whilst our anonymous player scratched his way to €20,000 at Scratch2Cash’s Jungle Joy.

Both were absolutely thrilled by their winnings. A very excited Sandra V. spoke to Hopa support. Here is what she said:

“I want to thank Hopa for my win! My heart actually started to pound like a mad because I couldn’t believe it. But yes!!! I really won. I thought it only happens to other people, but I would say play because you really win!!! Nothing ventured, nothing gained!” If you want to win great cash online gambling prizes, just like Sandra V. and our anonymous player, come and play now at Scratch2Cash and Hopa.

On September 22nd, Drake launched his new music video for the song “Forever,” featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem. The song is a single for the feature film, “More Than A Game,” a movie about the life of Lebron James and four of his friends. Lebron is featured in the music video playing poker online in the opening sequence. The video has garnered more than 4 million views on YouTube while the song has reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on Billboard’s Top Ringtones chart.

PokerStars.net is holding three days of freerolls, from Oct. 19-21 at 8:00 PM EST. Each tournament will award two tickets to play against Drake in the grand final on Oct. 22. In addition to the three days of freerolls, PokerStars will also run a first deposit freeroll on Oct. 21 at 9:00 PM EST, awarding three tickets to the grand final. Drake will take on the nine qualifiers, as he attempts to stop them from winning $5,000.

Drake originally became known as an actor, playing the character Jimmy Brooks on the TV series, Degrassi: The Next Generation. In February 2006, Drake released his first mix tape, made available via his website and official MySpace page. The mix tape was so successful, soon after, he signed with Lil Wayne and became only the second artist to have two top ten hits in the same week (”Best I Ever Had” and “Every Girl”).

The deal includes the entire Wagerworks portfolio of online games via its rgs system, such as Cleopatra, Monopoly with Pass “Go” Bonus, Cluedo and Da Vinci Diamonds, and will augment Mr Green’s current game offering from Betsoft Gaming.

Following the agreement, Mr Green will also offer the WagerWorks MegaJackpots progressive-style series of games with a current jackpot of GBP 2.2 million (Euro 2.6 million) and the largest online reset jackpot value of GBP 1 500 000.

Commenting on the agreement Oliver Lofthouse, Director and General Manager at WagerWorks said, “This is a first for WagerWorks in the supply of game content to the Scandinavian market and supports our development into Continental Europe. With the seamless integration of WagerWorks rgs Mr Green will now be able to offer their players world class slot entertainment without any re-programming expenses or operating software changes.”

Speaking for Mr Green, managing director Mikael Pawlo said, “We were looking for big jackpots and top quality games with great gameplay from the same vendor and WagerWorks could provide both in quite a unique combination. Mr Green has been recognised as the leading online brand in the Scandinavian market and it is important for us to continue to provide the best and most innovative products to our players. With the integration of WagerWorks rgs we can now provide top class online slots assisting in our strategic growth aims as we expand in Austria, Finland and the UK.”

Controlling the online casinos in an unregulated market is extremely difficult and this is why both France and South Africa have no choice but to threaten the companies into good behavior. The internet is such an invasive medium that any attempts to block financial transactions or block the IP addresses of the gambling sites can all be easily circumvented. To that end, since both France and South Africa do plan to license online casino gambling sites in the near future, the best remedy is to put out a public notice to all of the gambling companies that they will not receive future licensing.

Why will this work you might ask? Well, even though these offending online casinos will presumably still have access to the French and South African online casino gambling markets after the regulations take effect, there will be so much advertising and market saturation from the legal companies that the illegally operating ones will have a hard time remaining profitable in the marketplace.