Jetbull Service and Security

Service and security is 24/7 of course and this is maintained by means of Thawte which uses SSL encryption protocols for discretion and data protection. Security is paramount to the success of their site, hence they make use of a proven coding technology. Customer support may be contacted by in-game live chat between 8am and 23:30pm, or on an email support ticket. I was however disappointed to see no telephone contact number. This needs to be rectified soon.

Jetbull Deposit and Withdrawal Methods

These are the same as most other sites offering a similar service and deposits and withdrawals may be made by Moneybookers, Visa, Visa Electron, Mastercard, Maestro, Neteller, Ukash, ClickandBuy, Envoy and PaySafeCard. All are reliable options for players in the UK. US players need not worry about deposit or withdrawal methods; they are not welcome at this site.

Jetbull Games

There are tons of games as Jetbull.com caters for casino players, sports bettors and poker players. If you are into slots, Net Entertainment has one of the best ranges of these games, and if you want a hand of Texas Hold ‘em, you will be just as well taken care of. Play roulette, craps, blackjack or place a proposition bet if you like, you get it all under one umbrella and we are not going to go into all the names of the games because that will take forever.

Jetbull Promotions and Bonuses

Create a player account today and they give you an initial 50% bonus of up to 150€. Which I have always maintained is far more sensible than whopping great bonuses, where players struggle to meet wagering requirements. They also give different bonuses per product, for example if you play poker it is 110% bonus up to $600, but you need a healthy bankroll for this game.

The news, however, about the popular unknown Swedish high stakes player do not stop just there as this weekend Isildur1 will go one step further in building up his win or lose way of thinking by taking his seat in the first Super Star Showdown hosted at PokerStars.com were Isildur1 will face Isaac ‘philivey2694′ Haxton at 6pm ET in a game that is predicted to bring major attention to both railbirds and online poker critics.

Isildur1’s playing pattern is yesterday’s news so we should expect nothing less than fully loaded action against Haxton which is an excellent online and live player with experience at the highest levels of online cash games. Haxton’s best results up to date were second place in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event in 2007 with a win of $861,789 and the WSOP 40th Anniversary $40,000 event in 2009 were Haxton took home $1,168,565!

PokerStars SuperStar Showdown

Haxton and ‘Isildur1′ will compete online Sunday on December 19 at 18.00 ET on a heads-up cash game which will count 2,500 hands of $ 50/$ 100 No-Limit Hold’em, with each player participating with a bankroll worth $150,000.

To watch the SuperStar Showdown you will have to maintain an account at pokerstars.com regardless if it is funded or not on Sunday evening. The tables will be located in Hold’em> No Limit / Pot Limit> All and table names will be called ‘Showdown’.

If you may not have an account at pokerstars.com you can select to issue on today by using the PokerStars Bonus Code STARS600 after coupling it with PokerStars Marketing Code PSP13011 as shown in the image to the left in order to claim the full 100% sign up bonus for all deposits up to $600.

Our editors will be watching the game and comments will follow on luckyroom.com on late Sunday evening.

Changes to fonts

The lobby has undergone some visual changes. PokerStars changed the main font theme to another which is more legible. The cash tables that have a waiting list now appear highlighted in bright blue and italic. Similarly, the cash table(s) where the player is already seated are displayed in bright red and italic. In any tournament the player is registered the column ‘state’ will be in bright red and italic.

Find Seat – A great convenience for multi-tablers

Multi-tablers should be delighted as PokerStars has made easier the process of finding a table of a specific type. So when a player chooses to play on an already full table now there is a button labeled as ‘Find Seat ‘ instead of the old ‘Seat Me’. When you click it, PokerStars will find for you a vacant seat in a table of the same type! Players also have the opportunity to press Ctrl + S (keyboard shortcut) which has the same effect. Pressing Ctrl + S multiple times will allow players to choose more available tables of the same type making the multi-tabling poker experience easier than ever.

Sliders to adjust the intensity of sounds

There are also some other points that PokerStars has improved in the latest upgrade. A general slider was added where you can adjust the volume of all sounds (Master Control) while there are also separate sliders for each type of sound for perfect tuning. This is accessible under the Options menu  Sound Settings.

Graphical Heads-Up Tournament Representation

PokerStars is now offering the possibility of a graphical representation of the Heads Up tournament in the Lobby, which shows the pairs of opponents and their progress in the tournament (winners / losers). This feature is currently available only when a tournament of this type has 64 or fewer poker players.

New mixed game

A new mixed game that combine the two most popular variations of poker; the No Limit Hold’em and the Pot Limit Omaha will begin to appear gradually during the month of December so don’t miss it. Also, in late December there will be announced some changes to the PokerStars VIP system so stay tuned with us here in Luckyroom.com for the latest details regarding world’s leading online poker room. New players can sign up at pokerstars.com with the latest PokerStars Bonus Code STARS600 after they have coupled the bonus code itself with the PokerStars Marketing Code PSP13011 in order to claim the full 100% sign up bonus offered by pokerstars.com to all new players.

After the midterm elections in November the legislature of the U.S. is in a transitional period, which means that there will not be many bills, which is why Harry Reid is pushing to pass the law on online poker before the Republicans take the reins; as the specific group are surely not famous for their sympathy towards online poker in a whole.

“We will know for sure by the end of next week whether the online poker will be part of a bill that will pass this time”, said the executive director of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) John Pappas. “Whether it becomes a law or not will be something that we will find out in the coming days”.

The greatest concern, however, for poker players is based on the fact that the senator is supported and influenced by the interests of land based casino owners (mostly in Nevada). The final version of the bill has not been published yet but it is expected to occur within the next few days. However, a version of the bill has already leaked towards the public and it does include provisions that do not look very good for online poker players.

Many existing car room websites that will receive the necessary permits including Full Tilt and PokerStars will probably be allowed to maintain the level of the rake and reward programs but there will be a cost of taxation of 20% on all deposits. This is acceptable but the issue with the bill is that in order to give the time to casinos and new businesses to create their own software and their own websites to strike towards the internet based poker market there will be a delay of full 15-month period in which no online poker room will be legal in the United States,

If the above mentioned bill does pass through professional poker players might find themselves stuck in to a 15-month blackout period which could be disastrous as they will not have the opportunity to earn money by playing poker via the internet and many of them have reported that they would move to different countries in order to continue to play poker online.

“It doesn’t makes sense for the player or the poker industry”, says Pappas. “I do not know why some companies will want to enter an industry decimated and the players have moved to other sites. There will never earn back these individual players. If anyone cares to run an online gaming site they would like to see a far smoother transition”.

Another point of concern is the so-called three-year trial period. The main concept is that the first three years the Americans and non-American players will be divided between them. The American websites will not be allowed to accept non-US citizens and PokerStars, for example, should open a new poker room exclusively for American citizens by the end of that period.

Pappas asks players and members of the PPA to support the bill because if the bill will not pass during this transitional period the majority of Republicans will force a total ban of online poker in the United States.

“There will be obviously parts of the bill that the players will not like and we should push for corrections. Perhaps, we have to push now to pass the bill and then to correct some points. I think the most important is to provide a clear framework and to establish a long-term institutionalized online poker market. There will definitely be Harrah’s on the scene and some new entries in the field perhaps may be Google, Yahoo and even Facebook in addition to the existing companies. There will be a dynamic market with strong consumer protection and competition which will ultimately prove beneficial for the players”, states Papas.

Although the beginning for Isildur1 was quite exciting when he won the biggest portion of Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s bankroll the next events were disappointing as Isildur put his bankroll on fire In a heads up game of $500/$1.000 Pot Limit Omaha played against Phil Ivey, “Ziigumnd” and Patrik Antonius, all at the same time. After gradually losing much of his money, he faced Brian Hastings at a session that cost him his presence at online poker games of these stakes. The $4 million which were lost in one night was enough to make him stop and to switch to smaller stake games.

For some time now there have been rumors that the personality called “Isildur1″ will join a well known online poker room as a member of the Pro’s team; early last night rumors had reached their peak, but as of this morning it is official that as from today the online poker phenomenon is an official member of the professional team of Pokerstars after an announcement made to all partnering websites from pokerstars.com. The card room is celebrating this by conducting a cash game, where there is an open challenge/invitation to anyone who wants to play against him.

The popular online card room said also that they MAY reveal the actual name of Isildur1 before January at the PCA, but until then he will be playing on Pokerstars under the name “Isildur1″.

“I decided to respond positively to the invitation to join the team of Pokerstars because it is the largest site and it will be a great challenge for me”, said “Isildur1″. “It’s a very good deal and I will now play against the Daniel Negreanu, Dario Minieri and Johnny Lodden. My goal is to improve my game especially for live tournaments as I will take part in some of the following events while I will focus on the Heads up NL Hold’em and to the Pot Limit Omaha”.

We are confident that the true identity of “Isildur1″ will be revealed in the PCA next January, the largest celebration of Pokerstars, so that he can represent pokerstars.net in the next live events that follow. The official announcement made by pokerstars.com follows:

“We are pleased to announce that one of the most mysterious online high-
stakes players in the world “Isildur1” has joined Team PokerStars Pro. The
enigmatic player, who has still yet to publicly reveal his identity, shot
to fame in the poker world in 2009 when he took on and beat some of the
biggest heads-up players in the game. But with a place on Team PokerStars
Pro now confirmed, Isildur1’s real identity is set to be unveiled in the
near future.

In a bid to prove that Isildur1 is the best heads-up cash game player in
the world, he will be playing a series of high stakes heads-up matches at
PokerStars.com. The specially developed SuperStar Showdown format consists
of a single session of 2,500 hands at stakes no lower than $50/$100. His
first match will take place at 6pm ET on December 19, with the opponent to
be named in the coming days.”

The challenge is open to both new and existing players at pokerstars.com with the latter having the opportunity to join the worlds largest online poker room by using the new updated PokerStars Bonus Code which unlocks 100% up to $600 in super sing up bonus. Read more how to claim the bonus under the PokerStars Bonus section.

All you got to do is collect five points and the following day partypoker.com will enable you to participate in one $5,000 free roll therefore offering each player 31 opportunities to claim their share of this Christmas extravaganza that will be playing out during the whole of December.

Players that manage to qualify for a total of 5 free rolls will have the opportunity to take their seat on the $50,000 final which will be played out on the 2nd of the New Year.

The above promotion is open to all new non US players that wish to issue an account at partypoker.com which additionally have the opportunity to join the action with a 100% bonus for deposits up to $500 by using the Party Poker Bonus Code LUCKYROOM. As for existing players; all players already registered at partypoker.com regardless if they have used a Party Poker Bonus Code when they issued an account or not are entitled to join the above promotion. The offer is also available for players that maintain account with Party Casino or with Party Bingo.

Mike Johnson of Pokercast.tv, started a thread in popular poker forum “2 +2″ in which there are chances that Phil Hellmuth will withdraw from Ultimate Bet. Johnson believes there is a conflict between the site and the popular player, which could result the end of their cooperation. As Johnson states – whose opinion is always respected because of its position and experience – Hellmuth does not wear the logo of the Ultimate Bet for several weeks now. This happened in the recent NAPT Bounty Shootout – which was filmed for television broadcast. Johnson believes that perhaps Ultimate Bet is not willing to meet the financial demands of Hellmuth who will remain – possibly – without a sponsor in the near future.

Many believe that Hellmuth is no longer the player who he was once, and that the fact that he states that he is is the “best player in the world” is a fact that can true only in his own complicated head which is what drives him to do what he has done during recent years in land based poker appearances! Even so, however, Hellmuth is one of the most famous players in poker worldwide which, itself, raises his value in the marketing of the game.

The scenarios discussed in this thread, after the eventual departure of the “Poker Brat” from Ultimate Bet (ub.com), were many. The main were a possible integration of the dynamic Hellmuth to one of the two giants of online poker, PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker as their increasing popularity lacks Hellmuths contribution which does have a big audience behind him.

Of course, given the personality and character of Hellmuth, it is not sure whether he would like to share the focus of “spotlights” with other professionals who are already part of the teams of the aforementioned poker rooms. For this reason, a good choice for Hellmuth seems that would be PartyPoker – if and when, of course, the poker room returns to the U.S. market. As Party Poker doesn’t have a “No. 1 Professional” on its team, Hellmuth would be the” No. 1 Poker Pro of the poker room.

However, there is another scenario that Hellmuth can follow – if he eventually stops cooperating with Ultimete Bet as he can always follow in the footsteps of Doyle Brunson and set up his own poker room – although, as someone pointed out very successful, “Few European poker fans will want to play at a poker site, whose owner called some customers ‘idiots from Northern Europe’! All this of course will remain only in the realm of fantasy, until the rumors / suspects of Hellmuth’s departure from the Ultimate Bet will be confirmed.

It is worth mentioning that several problems with security during the recent past with the overall network hosting UB.com and Absolute Poker have of course driven players away and have downgraded credibility of the network in a whole. During this period pokerstars.com and fulltiltpoker.com have increased their player volume and their overall online exposure with pokerstars.com increasing is sign up bonus from 100% up to $50 to 100% up to $600 with the new PokerStars Bonus Code while fulltiltpoker.com has introduced a patent pending product coming under the name Rush Poker which has changed the overall concept of poker online. Just recently the latter has announced that its patent pending game has been released for mobile play which is also expected to increase the overall popularity of both its name as an online poker room and its new product.

As far as a possible migration of the Poker Brat to any of the above mentioned online poker rooms we personally would like to comment on the threads posted on 2+2 as we don’t believe that Hellmuth would take the hit on moving to pokerstars.com or fulltiltpoker.com as his way of thinking is just not fit to be confronted with Ivey or Negreanu; as far as opening his own online poker room we again think that its just not going to be a profitable business with the way things are evolving with processing in the USA. We would put our money on a possible retirement or a possible reinforcement of Hellmuth to Party Gaming as the brand is said to be preparing for a possible entry to the US later in the New Year.

The event has a guaranteed $80,000 as total prize with the final event giving away $30,000. Buy in for the final table has been set at $215 while buy in for the event itself is available for various bankroll holders in addition to the qualifiers which can be entered with 75 FPP.

The tournament is open to both new and existing players from the above countries; new players can sign up using the PokerStars Bonus Code and claim an additional 100% up to $600 to start with while existing players that wish to enter can reach out to the Tourney tab and locate the Regional sub tab where they will find all the information they need on how to register on this event.

A government official of the Department of Justice explains: “A central database will offer significant help to the judicial authorities in their efforts to detect and combat international organized criminal groups such as drug cartels, terrorist financing and fraud”.

Despite what the U.S. Treasury Department and the Department of justice declare the community of online poker in the U.S. seems to have a different view on the matter. Many people believe that because online poker is legal in several countries outside the U.S., President Obama has decided to target the processors of financial transactions.

So after all the announcements, the concerns of poker players are too strong and recorded in all online forums and in particular Two Plus Two. Where, amongst others, one member wrote: “The detection of transactions of Americans to online poker sites will be very simple and easy. To date these transactions were practically “invisible” and never referred to any authority. Now, however, if someone transfers money to a company that has been linked to money laundering you are at risk of being involved in any future legal proceedings of that company if your name is associated with it. Now any financial relationship or transaction that has someone with such potential “accused” company will be known to the government”.

It also appears that the US authorities plan to release a fund worth of $30 million, to create a committee to manage the weekly reports of banks. If all these rumors and informal announcements apply, online poker rooms in the U.S. will receive the heaviest blow they have received after the UIGEA.

Although several poker sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt, never stopped accepting U.S. players, this is a historic agreement for the game as the poker network will be the first to operate legally in the United States since the UIGEA law established in 2006. The legitimacy of the business is determined by the special activated status to Indian lands as the UIGEA provides “certain exceptions to Indian casinos, to interracial online gambling activities and to the states that allow online gambling activities under an intra-constitutional framework law.”

Commenting on this historic agreement for online poker in the USA, Donald Bailey, CEO of the Atlantis Group, said: “The Indian version of the CGN, termed ‘Tribal Gaming Network’ is a direct and legitimate solution to the Indian casino at national level by providing the largest network of online poker in the United States; It is a landmark agreement for ATIG and Cake as they will offer a direct solution t to the tribes and states facing economic problems at national level”.

The National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) has received the Atlantis ‘Tribal Gaming Network’ technology in September 2009 and after a year all the details of this operation have been resolved. Although the TGN involves the Cake Gaming NV, the Tribal Gaming Network is different from the Cake network with its own unique customer database. From the moment the company start its operations, the players in Indian casinos in 30 states will be able to play online poker directly with other players from the U.S.