Due to U.S. legislation preventing credit card companies from collecting payments for wagers made by U.S. residents, Poker770 has determined to suspend all real-money gaming business in the United States.

Poker770 is one of the largest rooms on the iPoker network, with a huge presence in particular in France. Several French pros head up its pro team, including Pascal Perrault, but players are welcome from all over the world and several languages are supported.

As one of the rooms on the iPoker network, Poker770 offers its players a number of high-value promotions, frequent satellites to major live events and plenty of action to be had around the clock - particularly during European peak hours.

The games at Poker770 also tend to be a little looser than standard, with a lot of new players from the network's casino and sportsbook joining daily.

Poker770 offers all the common poker games usually played online, including all versions of Hold'em and both versions of Omaha and Stud. All games are offered as ring games and tournaments and tables are available as heads-up, full-ring or shorthanded.

As with most online poker sites, Poker770 offers plenty of multi-table tournaments and sit-and-gos. What's special about Poker770 and the iPoker network is the sit-and-go jackpots offered for winning several sit-and-gos in a row – jackpots hit $50,000+ on a regular basis.

Traffic volume overall is in the top segment of the industry. Real-money player statistics as of April 2009 show 8,200 ring-game players at peak hours and 45,000 tournament players at peak hours.

 eToro is a brand new trading platform that just might be the most novice-friendly FOREX learning tool on the market today.  eToro makes learning and mastering your FOREX trading skills an incredibly fun experience with a graphical user interface like no other FOREX platform.  Beginners first venturing into the world of FOREX now have an entertaining solution to the difficulty that comes in trying to initially understand FOREX and making sense of the most highly regarded, widely used but complex FOREX platforms out there.

The people behind eToro didn’t look to create another drab platform with absolutely no user interaction or a sense of community amongst users.  They’ve instead produced a very lively alternative.  eToro mixes the traditional FOREX platform with elements of a video game.  The graphics are enough to make even a small child curious about “playing” FOREX.  You keep score with other traders in the community – sometimes with a cash prize on the line to be rewarded to the champion.

The eToro lobby has four trading areas.  The first one is the FOREX Marathon.  Graphic characters, ranging from a farmer (US), sumo wrestler (Japanese Yen) and a European businessman (Euros) represent each currency in the FOREX Marathon.  Simply choose the currency that you’d like to buy, pick the currencies to compete against, select the amount and click the “Open Trade” button at the lower bottom right of the screen.  Within these four simple clicks you have a visualization of the marathon, showing you exactly how your money is moving as you watch your character race for the finish line.

If you’d like to run more than one trade, simply click back to the lobby to open additional trades simultaneously.  You can click back and forth between whatever simultaneous trades are active with the My Open Trades section in the lobby or the Trading Log screen.  My Open Trades does a really nice job of allowing you to view all running trades, regardless of the trading arena, detailing the currencies you are buying/selling, the amount, profit and gain.