A recent identity theft case which includes Fouad Mourtada getting 3 years sentence in jail by the Moroccan government in jail for opening a false Facebook profile in the name of the Moroccan Prince, Moulay Rachid caused alerts on popular blackjack and game sites.

BackgammonMasters, the leading online backgammon site checked their system and found several users in their system using famous persons’ names like Prince William, Madonna and Tom Cruise. They were all found to be fake thru their activities and real location.

”We’ve seen a trend in the industry for people to register popular names, as we call them “Gold usernames” such as backgammonking, pokerking, blackjack-king and celebrity names which are just as popular. We see people in game forums even buying and selling these usernames. For these people its status, kind of like having a custom license plate. As long as the games are for fun, we are not concerned,” a BackgammonMasters.com spokesperson said.

This coming May 8, 2008, history will be made as 888.com presents the World Poker Crown, a live poker tournament which will be held in Barcelona, Spain.

The event gave chance to all poker players around the globe to win millions of dollar, though this is mostly a poker online tournament, the final event will take place at a casino as a live poker event wherein the final 10 players to reach the final stage of the online tournament will face each other, live on tv. There is a guaranteed first prize of 1 million dollars, a huge portion from the total give away of $3,000,000!

You can watch the live tournament online via http://wpc.888.com where you can also vote for who you think will win. Viewers will get a chance to win a $17K package to the WSOP (World Series of Poker - another live poker event that will take place in Las Vegas later on - these are two separate events).

Poker has always been a favorite card game in casinos. For someone uninitiated about the sport but would like to know more about it or play it, there is now an alternative to the drunkard uncle.

Online poker rooms are now available to anyone who has a computer and an Internet connection. What are online poker rooms? You can think of it as your online casino. This is where the game happens. But apart from that, online poker rooms are user-friendly. Unlike in the real-life casinos, beginners are often ridiculed. This actually dissuades them from learning to play poker.

What online poker rooms have introduced is a more accessible way to know more about the sport, learn how to play it, practice it and actually play for money on their websites. Call it a poker hub station; everything about poker is there in one easy location. And that’s why these sites are successful. They know what the people want and were able to give it to them.