GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 9 - June 2009

$1.4million Total prizemoney awarded insixmonths to CarterKing (ckingusc) afterhewonboth the WorldChampionshipof OnlinePoker (WCOOP) and theSundayMillionat PokerStars. 2,395 Thenumberof Web sites reportedlyonan Australiangovernment “blacklist.” $52billion Theamount of money theUnitedStatescould raise in revenueby lifting theUIGEAand taxingonlinegambling, according toastudyby PricewaterhouseCoopers. $105million Thesettlement reached betweenPartyGamingand theU.S. government. 11million Thenumberof Facebook userswhohaveplayed theTexasHold’Em application, according to theFinancial Timesof London. $57,825 Theamountwon ina weekbyCanadianwoman on twoseparateslotsat YukonGoldCasino. 23.1% Percentageof YouTube’s traffic that comes from the UnitedStates. $4million Theamount Full Tilt pro PatrikAntoniuswon in the first quarterof 2009. 180,000 Thenumberof players whohad theiraccounts moved toPokerStars afterBugsysClubceased operations. 5,000 Thesize, insquare feet, of Bodog’sCalvinAyre’s penthousecondo in Vancouver. It iscurrently on themarket for$10 million. 10 Thenumberof days it took BoylepokerplayerAdrian McCarthy to turn$100 into $135,000. £10,000 Theamount raisedby JackpotCityBingo for the CysticFibrosisTrust. 25billion Themilestonehand PokerStars reached in February. -10000 Theoddsof HeathLedger winning theOscar forBest SupportingActor.Many onlinegamblingsites, includingBetUS, pulled theoddsbefore theaward ceremony. $435 (AUD) Theamount anaverage AustralianandNew Zealandgambler spends onlineeachmonth, according toastudyby Universityof Lethbridge professorsRobertWood andRobertWilliams. $500,000 TheamountwonbyHuck Seedafterdefeating VanessaRousso in the finalsof theNational Heads-UpPoker Championship. 25 Thenumberof pro-hosted eventsat the twelfth runningof theFull Tilt OnlinePokerSeries (FTOPS). BY THENUMBERS By the Numbers GPWA Times |