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As yesterday was Valentine’s Day the majority of EuroMillions players were hoping to win themselves the lovely jackpot on offer by matching the five plus two combination drawn. However, the EuroMillions results for Tuesday 14th February 2012 reveal that unfortunately no ticket holders managed to match the numbers drawn meaning that it is now a double rollover for this pan-European lottery. This means that the EuroMillions jackpot is now estimated at £28/€34 million for the next draw that will take place on Friday night.

Latest EuroMillions Results for 14 February 2012

Although no one won the top prize last night there were three ticket holders that managed to match all five numbers and one Lucky Star drawn to win the second tier prize that came out at £260,001/€368,058. In addition to that there were 1,405 that matched four numbers to each win £80.90/€115.00 and then over 960,000 ticket holders won the smallest EuroMillions prize which came out at £3/€4 by matching just two of the main numbers drawn.

Quite a few of the numbers that were in the EuroMillions results last night are amongst the least often drawn numbers. Both the numbers 46 and 27 were selected and both made just their 38th appearance ever in the results. To add to that the Lucky Star number 11 was picked and last night it made its 16th appearance since it was introduced to the EuroMillions on the 10th May 2011.

If you fancy winning the jackpot in this pan-European lottery come Friday night, make sure you have your tickets ready and you might just match the EuroMillions results to scoop the desired top prize.

Since a lot of our readers have recently sent in questions lately about how XML feeds work at various sportsbook sites, we decided to prepare a handy FAQ just for your reading pleasure. Although we try our best to cover every possible basis when preparing these types of articles, be sure to send us an email if we happened to miss anything.

An XML feed is nothing more than a few lines of code that tells your computer how to pull information from your favorite websites and places it on your homepage or desktop. If youre still not sure what it is, think of a stock ticker that pulls very specific information from Wall Street brokerage firmsits basically the same thing.

Almost any website can offer an XML feed but it is most common at sports and news sites. When searching cyberspace to see who carries this technology, keep an eye out for the orange logo.

Websites can transmit just about anything; from live weather updates to breaking news stories. Sports betting websites usually broadcast their latest odds and betting lines.

To access XML feeds, youll have to either download a program that can use this technology (search for feed readers) or subscribe to a website that has it built-in. Yahoo, Google, AOL, and all the major homepage websites can access XML feeds already. Once thats out of the way, you simply have to copy the feed information from your favorite website and enter it into the reader.

Sportsbooks use XML feeds because they are a quick, easy way for you to stay up to date on the various line changes and odds. The great thing about XML feeds is that you can access them from any computer, laptop, or smartphone straight through your homepage.

Yes and no. While all XML feeds are updated in real time, it can sometimes take as long as five to ten minutes for the information to refresh. Some sports betting websites have eliminated some or all of this delay by making it a true live feed, which means you see the odds change every few seconds.

Our personal favorite is probably the XML feed offered by Sports Interaction, it updates in real time and it is fully customizable so you can track specific games or sports teams. Since thats where the majority of the internet bets on various sports anyway, thats probably the one that you want. BetEd.com and 5dimes.com also have very good XML feeds as well.

Since all three XML feeds we recommended come from very reputable sportsbooks, we honestly think that most gamblers would be better off installing all three of them to their homepage. Even though they contain the same information, sometimes one will have slightly better odds than the others so it allows you to do a quick comparison check before placing your wagers.

Winner James Dempsey – Brighton UK, outlasted a 413 field of talented tournament players at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond $10,000 buy-in event. The final table included, 2010 amateur November Niner Soi Nguyen-Santa Ana Ca, who went heads up with Dempsey -Brighton UK, the reigning champ Antonio Esfandiari- Las Vegas, WSOP-bracelet winner Vanessa Selbst- New Haven CT, who was looking to add a women for a first ever WPT title, young tournament player from N.Y. Andrew Lichtenberger, and Vitor Coelho from Tampa Fl. who took 4th in the WPT Jacksonville. 1st: James Dempsey $821,612 (includes $25,500 WPT World Championship seat) 2nd: Soi Nguyen $517,478 3rd: Vanessa Selbst $338,351 4th: Andrew Lichtenberger $218,933 5th: Vitor Coelho $159,224 6th: Antonio Esfandiari $119,418 Press Release JAMES DEMPSEY WINS THE DOYLE BRUNSON FIVE DIAMOND WORLD POKER CLASSIC AT BELLAGIO IN LAS VEGAS Stacked WPT Final Table Featured Defending Champion Antonio Esfandiari and Vanessa Selbst Twitter: @WorldPokerTour Facebook.com/WorldPokerTour Las Vegas (December 12, 2011) As one of the worlds most prestigious poker events, the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic once again attracted the biggest players in the game. 413 runners, including nearly 40 WPT Champions Club members, created a prizepool of more than $4 million. A week of phenomenal action at Bellagio led to an impressive final table featuring Vanessa Selbst and defending champion Antonio The Magician Esfandiari. However, only one player could claim victory in this historic tournament and in the end, James Dempsey triumphed over the talented field to etch his name on the WPT Champions Cup. Day 1 commemorated the tenth edition of the first event ever on the World Poker Tour as Mike Sexton, Vince Van Patten, Kimberly Lansing, the Royal Flush Girls and Tournament Director Jack McClelland celebrated this legacy before announcing Shuffle Up and Deal. The most famous names in poker including Daniel Negreanu, Erik Seidel, Phil Hellmuth and the tournaments namesake Doyle Brunson turned out in force as players registered through the opening eight levels. The money bubble burst during the middle of Day 3, and by the end of the day, five WPT Champions had hit the rail, including Will The Thrill Failla (93rd $11,942) who picked up 50 more points to extend his lead for WPT Season X Player of the Year. WPT Raw Deal Analyst Tony Dunst made his first deep run at a WPT Main Event, busting late on Day 4 (18th $31,845) to eventual champion James Dempsey. WPT Season IX Ones to Watch William Reynolds (13th $39,806) and WPT Season VIII World Champion David Williams (10th $47,767) couldnt survive the final playdown day, and when Soi Nguyen knocked out Larry Wells (7th $91,554), the WPT final table was set. In World Poker Tour history, no player has ever won the same event twice, let alone in consecutive seasons, but defending champion Antonio Esfandiari nearly pulled off this heroic feat. During the WPT final table, The Magician came out swinging, and moved all-in on just the tenth hand. While Esfandiaris Ah10s had James Dempseys Ad4h dominated, an unlucky Four on the turn eliminated The Magician in sixth place. The action had begun at a feverish pace and did not let up. Two hands later, Soi Nguyen busted Vitor Coelho in a three-way pot involving Vanessa Selbst. Vitor not only picked up $159,224 for his fifth place finish, but also 900 WPT Player of the Year points to push him into 2nd in the Season X POY race. Vanessa Selbst was looking to become the first woman to win an open WPT Main Event, and soon after Coelhos elimination, Selbst doubled through WPT Season IX Ones to Watch Andrew LuckyChewy Lichtenberger. Once again, only two hands later Soi Nguyen eliminated another challenger as his pocket nines held up against Lichtenbergers pocket eights. Three-handed play did not last long. Just fifteen minutes after LuckyChewy hit the rail, Vanessa Selbst would fall to Dempsey, ending her bid to make WPT history. To get his name onto the Cup, James Dempsey had to overcome a strong challenge from Soi Nguyen. The two players entered heads up play nearly even as both held slightly over $8 million in chips. Nguyen went up early and maintained the lead during a stretch of back and forth action. However, after doubling up, Dempseys KhQc held up against Nguyens KcJd as Dempsey made a straight on the river. James Dempsey claims $821,612 for the win, in addition to receiving the Tiffany and Co. WPT Champions Award, the WPT Champions Trophy, and entry into the WPT Champions Club. Final Table Standings 1st James Dempsey $821,612 2nd Soi Nguyen $517,478 3rd Vanessa Selbst $338,351 4th Andrew Lichtenberger $218,933 5th Vitor Coelho $159,224 6th Antonio Esfandiari $119,418 Player of the Year Standings 1st Will Failla 1,650 2nd Vitor Coelho 1,500 3rd James Dempsey 1,400 3rd Bobby Oboodi 1,400 5th Vanessa Selbst 1,300 6th Soi Nguyen 1,250 7th Andrey Pateychuk 1,200 7th Jin Hwang 1,200 7th Matt Waxman 1,200 10th Daniel Buzgon 1,150 The final WPT Main Event of 2011 kicks-off tomorrow from Italy. WPT Venice runs from December 13 18 at Casino di Venezia. The 3,300 re-entry tournament is poised to attract a strong turnout of local and well-known professionals. Coming up in 2012, WPT Season X will feature many of pokers biggest events. WPT returns in February to Commerce Casino for the world-renowned Los Angeles Poker Classic. In March, Season X visits San Jose, CA for the popular Bay 101 Shooting Star. April will become a milestone month for Florida poker, as WPT arrives for back-to-back televised Main Events the second-ever Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown and the debut WPT tournament in the brand new Jacksonville Poker Room. WPT Season X concludes in May with the WPT World Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas. WPT Media Contact: Max Sloan About World Poker Tour World Poker Tour (WPT) is the premier name in internationally televised gaming and entertainment with brand presence in land-based tournaments, television, online and mobile. Leading innovation in the sport of poker since 2002, WPT ignited the global poker boom with the creation of a unique television show based on a series of high stakes poker tournaments. WPT has broadcast globally in over 150 countries and territories and is currently airing the ninth season on FSN in the United States. Season X of WPT is sponsored by ClubWPT.com, a unique online membership site which offers inside access to the WPT as well as a sweepstakes-based poker club and is available in 35 states across the U.S. WPT participates in strategic brand license, partnership and sponsorship opportunities. WPT Enterprises Inc. is a subsidiary of bwin.party digital entertainment plc. For more information, go to WorldPokerTour.com.

When most people think about their first live tournament cash, they have fond memories of a low buy-in tournament, probably at their local casino, when they were able to just eek out a profit.  Its an exciting time, even if the cash is so tiny that the cost of food and drink that night makes the player a net loser.  Now imagine how Edoardo Alescio must feel.  He scored his first ever live tournament cash this weekend, not in some $60 shove fest, but in the €3,000 World Poker Tour (WPT) Venice Main Event.  By World Poker Tour standards, it was rather small with just 213 players registering, but its still the World Poker Tour and Alescio is now €175,000 richer.

Edoardo Alescio entered the six-handed final table in second place with 1,714,000 chips.  There was a clear divide between the haves and have nots at the table, with three players over a million chips (Michele Caroli led the way with over 2 million) and three players at half a million or under.  Here were the chip counts to start the day:

Michele Caroli 2,097,000 Edoardo Alescio 1,714,000 Andrea Benelli 1,143,000 Steve ODwyer 501,000 Alex Dovzhenko 480,000 Andrea Dato 461,000

Alescio started quickly, winning the first pot and taking a one million chip lead in less than an hour.  It was American Steve ODwyer who took the first pelt, though, eliminating Alex Dovzhenko in a race: ODwyers A-K outflopped Dovzhenkos 9-9.  Dovzhenko was out in 6th place, while ODwyer was right back in the match with a million chips.

That cushion lasted less than an hour, as in what would be a preview of a face-off wed see a lot of later, Alescio knocked him back down to near his final table starting stack.  Alescio continued to soar, growing his chip stack to over 3 million in the first two hours of play.  It looked like it would be a short day for all involved.

There was no quit in ODwyer, though.  Despite sinking lower, he kept up the fight, doubling up once through Andrea Benelli and then making a big move in a three-way hand.  Benelli moved all-in for his last 76,000 chips with K-T, ODwyer called with a dominated Q-T, and Michele Caroli called from the big blind with K-3.  The flop of 9-8-2 kept Benelli in the lead, but the turn was not so happy, as a Queen shifted the power to ODwyer.  Another Queen on the river sealed Benellis fate and he was gone in 5th place, while ODwyer climbed up to 1,743,000.

Just a few hands later, Andrea Dato moved all-in pre-flop for 249,000 with K-9 and ODwyer called with A-4.  Neither player improved through the river, which meant that Dato, the chip leader after Day 1A, was eliminated in 4th place and ODwyer moved into the chip lead.

From there, ODwyer looked like he was going to run away with the tournament, just like it appeared that Alescio would earlier.  His two Italian opponents couldnt make any good moves, both attempting big bluffs at exactly the wrong time.  They kept sinking while ODwyer kept rising.  Eventually, Alescio need to just start shoving, something he did in an astounding eight of ten hands at one point, and in none of those instances was he called.

Finally, about six hours after the start of the final table, Alescio was looked up on an all-in.  He committed all his chips pre-flop with A-Q and Caroli made the call with A-J (considering the hand and Alescios shoving frequency, it was a good play, just bad timing).  The community cards were all blanks and Caroli hit the rail in 3rd place.

It was down to the decorated ODwyer versus the devoid-of-live-cashes Alescio, with ODwyer holding about a 3-to-1 chip lead.  Put your money on ODwyer, right?  Not so fast.

ODwyer got it up to around a 5 million to 1 million chip lead, but then Alescio went on a tear.  He picked up about 600,000 in two hands combined by – what else – moving all-in pre-flop.  He then picked up another quarter million before taking down what was probably the most important pot of the tournament.  With the board reading Q-9-4-7 with two diamonds, ODwyer bet and Alescio went all-in, holding 6-7 of diamonds.  ODwyer made the call with Q-T, giving him top pair versus Alescios third pair and flush draw.  The river made Alescios flush, allowing him to double up to just over 4 million and regain the chip lead for the first time in hours.

He extended his lead over the next few hands before finally putting the nail in ODwyers poker coffin.  ODwyer was all-in pre-flop with A-7 and Alescio called him with pocket 5s.  The dealer laid out one of those yeeeaaahhh….nooooooo! flops, as he gave ODwyer a 7, but at the same time put down a 5 to give Alescio a set.  ODwyer couldnt get lucky after that and Edoardo Alescio had made his first live cash, just a little thing called the WPT Venice championship.

WPT Venice – Final Table Results

1.    Edoardo Alescio €175,000 2.    Steve ODwyer €95,530 3.    Michele Caroli €66,090 4.    Andrea Dato – €43,170 5.    Andrea Benelli €34,245 6.    Alex Dovzhenko €27,035

New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak is moving quickly to get another online gambling bill to the desk of Governor Christie before the current legislative session ends on January 9.

Clarification of the scope of 1961 Wire Act by the US DOJ released last month confining the Act to sporting events has cleared the way for states to regulate online gaming and Lesniak sees being an early adopter as a distinct advantage.

We can be the Silicon Valley of Internet gaming, Lesniak told the Associated Press. Its the wave of the future. Its going to come and we can be in the lead on it.

Governor Christie vetoed an online gaming bill last March, but the political climate surrounding online gambling has changed dramatically since then. In December, Nevada approved online gaming regulations where the first gaming sites could be open in early- to mid-2012.

In July, Lesniak sent a letter to the DOJ challenging the position of US Senators Reid and Kyl. The Senators had authored a letter to the DOJ asking it to “reiterate the Department’s longstanding position that federal law prohibits gambling over the Internet, including intra-state gambling (e.g., lotteries).”