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Here’s a shocking find regarding the online poker industry: Zynga Poker, which runs the internet poker application for Facebook, is valued at over $7 billion. And what’s amazing about this fact is that Zynga only offers free poker games! The news of Zynga being worth over $7 billion comes after a Wall Street Journal article discussed the specifics of Zynga Poker and their holdem poker application. The article also talked about how Zynga is looking to promote their site even more by holding a 2011 PokerCon convention in Las Vegas. Getting back to the main issue at hand, how does …

Instead of earning online poker money the right way through hard work and rakeback, Ashley Mitchell chose to do it the easy/illegal way by stealing 400 billion chips from Facebook’s poker provider Zygna. Mitchell, who is an IT businessman from the UK, hacked into Zygna’s holdem poker application, then transferred 400 billion poker chips to his Facebook accounts. So how much can 400 billion in free poker chips be worth? According to Zygna, the 400 billion chips are worth over $12 million, which makes this a pretty serious offence. What makes the situation even more serious is the fact that …

The Facebook revolution has changed a lot of things about how we keep in touch and contact people. Status updates are used all the time to keep people informed on what’s going on in their lives and other important information. For instance, you can check up on what’s happening with your favourite online poker rooms and even the latest rakeback promotions by following them on facebook and twitter. Now just imagine that you are signing onto your Facebook page and you see an update that tells you that you have just won the lottery! That is exactly what happened to …