In the ever-expanding beverage field where consumers seek the next "new" item, a 400-year-old 22% alcohol spirit -- shochu -- is leaving its ethnic base and becoming the next hot trend. And, the newest premium entry -- Haamonii Smooth -- is Bay Area/San Jose produced and marketed in a very new way.

PokerNews Ltd (http://www.pokernews.com/) announces the next leg of the successful PokerNews Cup (http://www.pokernewscup.com/pokernews_cup_alpine.php) series as it moves to the Austrian Alps next March, 2009.

It all started with a single wager and a spin of the reels, and ended with one member at the Online Casino, Casino Tropez scooping a monumental €1,005,000. Jesus M. of Spain received his colossal win at Casino Tropez after playing their exclusive Global Traveler slot machine for just over an hour.

Partnership Will Enable Operators to Extend Enterprise Data beyond Revenue Management.

Do you want to learn how to play online poker like the pros? Everestpoker.net, the largest poker school in Europe, is currently enrolling players for 27 events across the continent for the Everest Poker European Cup to teach you how to play.

With the recent exit of Microgaming from the US online casino market, leading online gambling portal and player advocate, Online Gambling Insider, has fast-tracked its certification of US friendly online casinos and offers visitors a variety of options with the protection of its $1000 deposit guarantee.

Luxury online Casino and Poker room Purple Lounge has launched another impressive package of rake races in November. From Saturday 15th of November until the end of the month Purple Lounge will be adding a further $30,000 in daily rake races into their prize pool. Any player earning the highest number of raked hands or the highest number of Purple Lounge VIP points on any of those days will be guaranteed a prize of between $500 and $1500 dollars. This is in addition to the more than $50,000 of monthly rake races already offered by the site

Online poker site UltimateBet is on board as sponsor of two-day charity event to benefit the TASER Foundation. 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth will be hosting the event.

Looking to getaway for a spa vacation? Spas of America and the Pala Casino Spa & Resort are giving away an exciting Southern California Dream Spa Prize Package. One lucky winner will receive three night's accommodation, a Pala Spa couple's treatment and dinner for two. Enter online at www.spasofamerica.com.

Chillingo Ltd, Europe's leading iPhone Application publisher has teamed up with mobile gaming veterans ZingMagic Limited to launch Chess Professional on the iPhone and iPod Touch, available through the Apple App Store worldwide.

Free bingo will launch this weekend on Crown Bingo and players have a chance to win great cash prizes at no cost.

Leading poker news site Poker News Daily has been tracking poker's most prestigious tournament every step of the way. Ever since Harrah's officials announced that the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table would be pushed back until November, the poker industry has been anticipating the moment when play would resume from the Rio. This week, the 2008 WSOP Main Event crowned a champion, Peter Eastgate, who became the youngest Main Event winner ever.

PokerSoftware.com is quickly becoming the go-to destination for poker players looking for answers on which poker software programs are legitimate and which are rip-offs amid the wide variety of poker software available nowadays.

PokerNews (http://www.pokernews.com/freeroll-tournaments/) and Titan Poker (http://www.pokernews.com/titan-poker/) have joined forces to give players exclusive access to three $12,500 Aussie Millions Packages.

Inside the Line Sports Information Service holds kick-off meeting in San Francisco. Inside the Line Sports has a new interactive web site, enhanced quality of sports information offered through packaged services and presented by world-class models.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals granted a motion by an Internet trade association to stay a Dec. 3rd forfeiture hearing for 141 Internet domain names, sought by Gov. Stephen Beshear as part of a suit to protect the state's gambling industry from online gambling Web sites.

Privacy Networks offers self-learning anti-spam software free of charge to customers purchasing its market leading email and message archiving platform

Since Google lifted its ban on gambling related advertising, allowing it to appear against search queries in Great Britain, many big name gambling sites have started to venture into the realm of PPC.

LifeofSports launched its successful North America Online College Poker Championship in North America. LifeofSports has partnered with CakePoker.com in North America for the weekly free roll College Championship that runs each Sunday evening.

ACGG Firearm #24 (www.acgg.org) 'The Special Hornet' will be raffled off in January. This outstanding rifle, based on a traditional American action and cartridge, is a Winchester 1885.22 Hornet.

DevilfishPoker.com expands poker offering with exciting new games and features for its poker client

€1,500 buy-in five-day televised main event sees another swathe of well known pros sign up as final satellites precede main event on Fri. Nov. 15

'Poker Wizards' book contributors: Chris Ferguson, Daniel Negreanu, T.J. Cloutier, Kathy Liebert, Marcel Luske, Dan Harrington and Mike Sexton unable able to defeat the overwhelming odds in 2008 to make the recently televised WSOP final table, but as a group, they have been paid in excess of $4,000,000 for tournament winnings in 2008 even without cracking the Main Event. (Learn how, or arrange an author interview at http://pokerwizards.org/Home_Page.html)

While Microgaming online casinos have been forced to shut their doors to American players this week, RomeCasino.com confirms that it will continue to serve US players and is increasing its support staff to accommodate a flood of new players that have been blocked by their former favourite casinos. Rome Partners, the popular online casino's affiliate program, has been extremely busy with inquiries from webmasters that are scrambling to reroute their US traffic now blocked by their previous partners.

The Canadian Affiliate Management Company -- CanAffco.com -- and Reefer Poker announced today an unprecedented offer for online gaming affiliates. The Bad Beat Jackpot on Reefer Poker is smoking hot, and yesterday this jackpot surpassed $600K. In an industry first, Reefer Poker affiliates are set to earn a piece of this huge Bad Beat Jackpot!

FullTiltPoker.Net welcomes Randy Couture as a Friend of Full Tilt Poker:"The Natural" returns to the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 15th for the UFC 91 Heavyweight Championship Bout

Xcel Products, Inc. of Brooklyn Center, MN received top honors for its entry of the Visual Magnetics™ Graphic System in this year's DPI, Product of the Year competition at SGIA '08. Entries for the DPI Product of the Year competition were judged on the SGIA Expo show floor by a team of digital imaging professionals. SGIA '08 was host to some of the biggest, most advanced and innovative North American product launches, making it the only show that represents the full range of technology for all production levels -- from the smallest screen and digital devices to the equipment capable of the highest print production.

James Sudworth known online at Ldbrokes Poker as James666 has won over £25,000 playing poker in the recent Ladbrokes online poker festival the LEOCOP (Oct 26th - Nov 9th). This is all the more extraordinary as the lad from Molash, Kent is only 22 years old.He is now on course to win a credit crunch busting $1m in the Ladbrokes Poker Million to be shown on Sky Sports 2 in December. James who has won around £200,000 in cash and prizes has used some of his winnings to put his mum, who's studying Speech Therapy through university.

Gaming Law Professor, I Nelson Rose is one of the first industry experts to comment and analyze the new regulations and what it will mean for the US online gambling industry. The final UIGEA regulations set forth for banks to begin the process of blocking gambling deposits to online poker sites and casinos was just released.

Poker Royalty, the industry's premier poker representation agency, announced today that 2008 World Series of Poker Champion Peter Eastgate has selected Poker Royalty for worldwide management and marketing representation across all major platforms, including media, sponsorship, licensing, commercial endorsements and appearances.