Online Casino Patrons Denied Mastercard Deposit Option

Mastercard has designed a system that effectively prevents customers from using their cards to fund accounts at online casinos and Internet gambling sites.
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Robert Williamson III “Poker a day to learn and a lifetime to master.”
Paul Newman “If you are playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can not tell who the sucker is, its you.”

Mastercard has designed a system that effectively prevents customers from using their cards to fund accounts at online casinos and Internet gambling sites.
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Playing poker and sports betting have long gone hand in hand. In virtually every casino, the poker room is adjacent to the sports book, allowing players to sweat their bets and their cards at the same time. With that in mind, Poker News Daily thought it was fitting to seek out players’ opinions on who [...]

The Borgata Winter Poker Open, a $3,500 buy-in tournament that was formerly a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), began back on January 31st with 766 players. In the end, poker pro Jeff Madsen walked away with the title and $625,000 top prize on Friday.
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The inaugural North American Poker Tour (NAPT) event on U.S. soil will include a special $25,000 buy-in High Roller Bounty Shootout, according to the PokerStars Blog. The world’s largest online poker site serves as the sponsor of the NAPT series.
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CakePoker.com, a major online poker site, announced that they had purchased one of the World Series of Poker championship bracelets won by poker legend TJ Cloutier from an eBay auction earlier this week. Mr. Cloutier earned the bracelet when he won the US$5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em even at the 2005 WSOP.
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