It now official, as it was already revealed on late Thursday that UB.com and Absolute Poker both under CEREUS Poker Network are now purchased and under Blanca Games. Early next week, a press release from former owners Tokwiro Enterprises will be out.

In relation to the acquisition, Stuart Gordon, the Chief Executive Officer of the CEREUS Poker Network’s new parent company, Blanca Games shared some comments regarding the press release circulated last Thursday evening. According to him, the company’s acquisition of CEREUS is a big opportunity for them because CEREUS has already established its name and is a major platform of assets that are properly managed. In the past few years, CEREUS was able to introduce new brands like the UB.com and was able to have the brand positioned in the online gaming market to players with age bracket of 20s and 30s. In addition, both the UB.com and the Absolute Poker accept players from the USA.

In addition, Gordon also said that according to their understanding, they were able to acquire an online gaming operation that is large and sophisticated and has the state of the art capabilities and surely can manage well various aspects like compliance, business intelligence, online marketing, and customer service to name a few. Gordon’s group has foreseen a tremendous growth with the acquisition. Gordon had founded and is the one manages BingoMania.com and Helix Gaming International and like UB.com, both of Gordon’s sites feature licenses from the Kanawake Gaming Commission or KGC. In addition, Stuart also owns licenses from Antigua.

Despite of the acquisition, it has been confirmed that there will be no change in staffing or operation at UB.com and Absolute Poker when the transition to Blanca Gaming took place as well as the gaming experience on both sites according to Gordon. Blanca Games is based in Antigua and has offices in Costa Rica, where UB.com and Absolute Poker are based.

Just recently, 181 individuals were nominated for the Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2010. The voting trend will be closely similar to last year said Harrah’s officials.

If one of your idols will be included or nominated and want to nominate him or her, all you have to do is to submit a nomination by filling an entry of up to 250 words containing your full name, address, country, date of birth, e-mail, your nominees name, and comments if any. According to World Series of Poker (WSOP) Communications Director Seth Palansky the nomination in going well and they have a good batch of candidates to consider and all we have to do is to wait and see who will get in.

Nominations are accepted until August 31, 2010 and can be done on the official website of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) website. After closing the nomination, Harrah’s will then release the names of the Top10 nominees on September 1^st. After which, the list will be sent to a Hall of Fame nomination committee for them to review. It has been known the Tom “durrrr” Dwan was weeded out on the grounds last year because he was not able to stood the test of time, which is one of the five required criteria.

After the review has been done, the 16 living Poker Hall of Fame member along with a small media panel will determine who will stay still in 2010. Those who are worthy to be included in the Poker Hall of Fame are the only ones to be ranked on the final nominating list. Additionally, every member of the Hall of Fame have the right to write one candidate the will be automatically added for consideration for the following year.

All of the votes will then be forwarded to the Hall of Fame nominating committee and are the ones to resolve any issues like tiers and errors. As we noticed, last year’s hall of fame requires the candidate to have 75% of the vote to be considered. This year the ones that will get 50% of the vote will become part of the Poker Hall of Fame.

Those who will be lucky enough to be considered to become part of the Poker Hall of Fame will be inducted during the November Nine Weekend at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Those who have plans to witness the event, expect a grander affair this time, as what the event promised.

If you want to nominate your favorite player but do not have any idea about the requirements, you can simply visit the WSOP website for details. To give you a sneak peek of the requirements, players in order to be considered must have:

• played poker against acknowledged top competition
• played for high-stakes
• played consistently well, gaining the respect of peers
• stood the test of time
• for non-players, contributed to the overall growth and success of the game of poker with indelible positive and lasting results

With the issued Gamin Intelligence story recently, it looks like Holland will be the latest European country to include online poker in its online gaming options.

According to the statement of the Gaming intelligence, the Ministry of Justice of Holland had created the Online Gaming Advisory Committee, a group of individuals responsible in reviewing the potentials of expanding their current online gaming laws to include online poker. It has been known that the said country is currently having a state-run monopoly on online gaming that offers sports betting and national lottery using the country’s state-authorized sites. The committee’s findings will definitely affect the laws because they written and enforced in the country currently.

The Online Gaming Advisory Committee was formed last September, its six members had investigated the country’s current market conditions, and its application of laws towards online gaming and according to the group, their recommendations to support legalization of online poker in Holland is closely similar to France when the country opened up its online gaming market. According to the group’s report, the suggested changes are twofold wherein the first one is when Holland provide license to sports betting and national lottery and found no problem at all under the current national laws. The second one was when the committee found out the existence of various illegal online gaming including online poker and has not been inhibited by the current legal system. The only way that they ever think of to prevent access to the online sites is to have different Internet Service Providers or ISPs throughout the country in order to block the sites.

It has been known that earlier this year, France had overhauled its monopoly on gaming that was run by the state for three years already and created the ARJEL, the country’s online gaming regulatory authority that handles the dispersal of online license for sports betting, horse racing and online poker. In June, the group handled the licensing of online gaming sites like PokerStars, PartyPoker, Everest Poker, and bwin to name a few.