Online casino GoldenRivieraCasino.com has recently upgraded its bonus structure to include a new freeplay $2500 and 60 minutes casino bonus where players get to keep everything they win.

Pop punks Blink-182 have announced that they will reunite for their first tour in five years with a series of concerts scheduled to kick off at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on July 24th, and closing on October 3rd in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The 40th World Series of Poker has officially kicked off yesterday with the 2 day Event #1 ($500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em), registering a total of 866 entries and generating a $389,700 prize pool. In 2008 the event registered a total 930 entries and generated a $418,500 prize-pool, almost 10% more than this year.

Online poker site CelebPoker.com is giving its players the chance to enlarge their bankroll without spending a dime with the recently added Daily Freeroll Series running every day and giving away hundreds of dollars in free cash prizes.

Officials of the online poker site PartyPoker.com have expressed the site may host a heads-up match between socialite, failed singer and actress, Paris Hilton and World Poker Tour Host and professional poker player Host Mike Sexton. The winner will take home a brand new Bentley.

Online poker site UltimateBet.com has informed that its 8th Annual Aruba Poker Classic will be this year for another exciting week of parties and poker action at the back Radisson Aruba Resort, Casino & Spa from October 3rd to the 10th.

Harrah’s Entertainment has released the list of celebrities playing in the third annual Ante Up for Africa poker event held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino during the 2009 World Series of Poker. The event will take place on Thursday, July 2nd at 2:00 pm and will gather some of the best poker players, actors, sports celebrities, musicians, etc.

Leading online poker room, PokerStars.com, has recently implemented a series of software modifications and improvements conceived with the intention of simplifying the life of  hundreds of thousands of users around the world.

Officials of the Cannes Film Festival, the Wilhelm & Karl Maybach Foundation and the Sunflower Children Foundation will join forces to host a special celebrity poker tournament scheduled to take place on May 17th, 2009, at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cannes, France, in where music, film, business, fashion and sports celebrities will gather for an evening of poker action hosted by actor, screenwriter and director Edward Norton, and WSOP Champ Jamie Gold.

The Madame Tussauds Museum located at the Venetian Resort and Casino in Las Vegas has unveiled a new wax sculpture of Australian actor Hugh Jackman as Marvel Comics’ Superhero “Wolverine”.