Full Tilt Poker: FTOPS Twenty and Double Guarantees Week

At Full Tilt Poker, two events are coming up that are guaranteed to please, no pun intended.

For the second time this year, Full Tilt is resurrecting the successful Double Guarantees Week, a weeklong celebration between March 28 and April 3, during which every guaranteed tournament on the schedule will be worth double its usual guarantee.

The $30 Million Double Guarantees Week promotion will apply to all their weekly guarantee tourneys, and will all be in the Multi Entry Tournament format, with the exception of the Shootout and Cashout tournaments.

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NEW SALES DIRECTOR FOR OPENBET

Online gambling software developer and provider Openbet has appointed former Microsoft UK business manager Amanda Bicknell as sales director.Bicknell will have commercial responsibility for OpenBet’s existing sportsbook and casino customers, including betting giants like William Hill, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and Sky Bet. She will also be responsible for managing, strengthening and developing key partner relationships among Openbets 100 business partners.Bicknell and the recently appointed senior vice president technology, ex-Google exec Nikos Kryvossidis, will report to Jeremy Thompson-Hill, chief operating officer at Openbet.

I want a new job in 2012! Improve Your Job Search With These Online Resources

Undertaking a search for a new job in 2012 is nothing like what it was when I started in recruitment 20 years ago. I seem to remember we looked in the local newspaper on a Thursday. If we were aspirational and wanted to move up the employment ladder we would buy a copy of a national newspaper to find the higher paid jobs and marvel at the salaries on offer for the really top jobs… oh, and we might have asked a friend if he knew of anything suitable.

Well have times changed. I haven’t bought a newspaper for 4+ years, local or national. Its

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Casino owners rank high on support for gay, transgender rights

Casino operators Caesars Entertainment Corp., MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts Ltd. scored high Thursday in a ranking of companies for their support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation in Washington, D.C., issued its annual Corporate Equality Index assessing how corporations treat LGBT employees and how supportive they are of the LGBT community.

The scores are based on returned surveys and cover factors such as whether a company has an inclusive work environment and commitments to the LGBT community through philanthropy and supplier diversity.

The rankings also consider whether equal health care coverage is provided for LGBT employees and their families including domestic partner benefits.

Numerous Fortune 500 companies such as 3M Co., Apple Inc.

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How To Bet On Horse Racing

Many people enjoy watching horse racing today. There are many different styles that can be watched including the standard horse race with the quarter horses or there are other events such as cart racing that also can be watched. Many people that watch the races also usually place bets on the outcome as well.

Getting good tips can be difficult. For a beginner, there are many things that must be learned before you could make an educated guess of your own. Things such as the classes of horses and types of horses will be important to understand.

Many different types of horses race today. Some are professional races and others are show. In addition there are various clubs that show their horses in addition to racing them such as 4H.

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