Recently there was an earthquake disaster in Sichuan, China, where hundreds died and others were made homeless. Due to this situation, BackgammonMasters have decided to aid relief efforts and help those who were involved in the disaster. Not many online casino service providers would offer help for humanitarian reasons but obviously BackgammonMasters are the exception to the rule. They have offered to match $5 for every $1 donated from a months worth of tournament buy-ins ranging from $4.50 to $200. Players will participate in online backgammon and blackjack tournaments where all of the prize money will go directly to the UNICEF organization whose main focus of attention and assistance is on child victims of the quake.
This effort from this reputable online backgammon company would certainly serve to inspire others to join their effort. It is but a small contribution from an online company which other online casino services should try to emulate as well to help in a worthy cause for the unfortunate.
Here is a case in a subject of self-control on the online poker games that one might have ever heard. In December 2005, one Carl Valentine was agreed to something that was appeared, at least on the surface, a decent enough challenge. It was however presented by some multi-millionaire. The challenge went in this fashion – by 18th of April 2006 Valentine should send 2 million unique visitors to particular website they contrarily named as savemyfinger.com. If this goes fine, Valentine qualifies to play in a heads up online poker championship against that rich guy with 1 million dollars at stake. If Valentine gets a victory, scores a million smackers and in case of lost, there is nothing to lose!
Grand Theft Auto IV, or “GTA IV”, was finally released amidst great anticipation from loyal followers of the franchise and gamers alike. A week after it was made available in game stores everywhere in the world, GTA IV broke records and is set to be one of the most profitable games in history, even rivaling the Halo 3 which was recently released. In the UK alone, GTA IV managed to sell 609,000 copies, and if this continues, hitting the 10 million mark is not impossible for Rockstar, the developers of this soon-to-be award-winning game.
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