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U.S. dispute with Antigua over internet gambling may lead to piracy 2008-03-21 11:03:57 What started as a trade dispute over internet gambling between Antigua and the United States may turn into a much bigger issue.
Antigua, which previously won a trade ruling against the U.S. over internet gambling issues, is threatening to ignore intellectual property treaties with America. That would mean piracy
of things like movies and music would [...]
Back for Moore: Wynn Classic finds winner 2008-03-21 10:03:43 Few storylines resonate more than those that involve redemption. Last night, the $10,000 Wynn Classic
in Las Vegas was the setting for a redemption tale a year in the making, complete with an antagonist and a series of crucial battles before the decisive victory.
In the starring role was Chris Moore
, who finished in third place [...] Read more:winner
Scottish man loses firm?s money playing online poker 2008-03-21 10:03:21 Twenty-five-year-old Chris Proudfoot of Scorguie, Scotland, has been accused of losing more than £2million pounds of his company’s money — by playing online
poker.
Proudfoot worked for as a finance and credit controller for a telecommunications firm, HIGHnet.
According to a story on majorwager.com:
A pal said last night: “The word is that he was playing high-stakes poker [...] Read more:Scottish
The First 5 Minutes On The Table 2008-03-21 10:03:08 The First
Five Minutes On The Table
First things first, determine exactly what everyone’s trying to accomplish. Is the individual there to learn, have fun or play for a living? Most of your profit in no limit Holdâem games is going to come from picking a target and going after him. A lesson taken from [...]
Shannon Elizabeth Report: Week 1 2008-03-21 07:03:24 The sixth season of Dancing with the Stars got under way this week with actress and poker player ShannonElizabeth
stepping away from the card table and onto the dance floor. Stay tuned to PokerListings.com each week to see how she fares in the competition against fellow celebrities.
Dancing with the Stars made its season debut [...]
Irish Open begins Thursday in Dublin 2008-03-24 11:03:10 Players from around the world will converge on Dublin
, Ireland Wednesday for the Irish
Open, Europe’s largest and oldest poker tournament.
The Irish Open was started in 1980 by Terry Rogers at his Eccentric Club in Dublin. Since then it has switched venues to the Citywest Hotel to accommodate the growing playing field, and the prize [...] Read more:Thursday
Playboy Mansion a hotbed for charity poker 2008-03-24 10:03:20 Hollywood and the poker world are getting together again this year for the third annual Celebrity Poker Tournament and Casino Night at the Playboy Mansion
in Los Angeles, Calif.
Hugh Hefner and his Girls Next Door are set to open the Mansion grounds up for the tournament Saturday, May 18, with the event running from 6 [...] Read more:Playboy Mansion
Omaha high-low vs Texas Holdem 2008-03-24 09:03:57 Some of the major Omaha
vs Texas
holdem differences can be outlined as follows:- * In Omaha high/low games you need to use 2 from hand and 3 from community cards whereas in Texas holdem only the five cards count like in Omaha, but you need not necessarily cope with the 2 from board and [...]
Charity poker event at UNC canceled because of legal issues 2008-03-24 09:03:05 A charity poker tournament that was supposed to be played at the University of North Carolina was canceled because of worries that the event
might be illegal
.
The event, called Hold’em for Hunger 2008, was supposed to take place on April 20 on the campus at UNC. The event had been played in each of the [...] Read more:Charity
Navajos set to build first casino in New Mexico 2008-03-24 08:03:46 Leaders of the Window Rock tribe of the Navajo Nation announced Thursday that they were planning to build their first-ever casino in Church Rock, New Mexico
.
Construction is slated to start in April, with the casino hoping to open this fall.
According to a story from the Phoenix Business Journal:
“It’s actually a great strategy for the Navajo [...] Read more:New Mexico
Online poker developer not worried about proposed Canada ban 2008-03-30 08:03:36 GigaMedia Limited, which develops and licenses online poker and casino software, said in a statement that it was not worried about the possibility of a ban of online poker and gambling in Canada
that may be on the way. Canada has been considering laws — similar to what the United States has in place regarding [...] Read more:proposed
U.S.-Antigua online gambling impasse near end? 2008-03-30 07:03:43 The United States is planning to propose a settlement that would end a bitter trade dispute regarding online
gambling between the U.S. and Antigua and Barbuda.
The settlement, which should be offered by the end of the month, could end five years of acrimony and legal wrangling on an international scale.
A story on majorwager.com had the [...]
How to Bluff without Lying. 2008-03-30 07:03:10 Poker players are not liars. Likewise, a bluff is not a lie - it is a test. Thinking of a bluff as a test of your opponent rather than a lie can lay the groundwork for a paradigm shift worth a whole lot of money.
First of all, know your opponent. Knowing your opponent is [...] Read more:Lying
PokerStars Sunday Warm-up gets RaiN’ed out 2008-03-30 06:03:51 The fact it was Easter Sunday
didn’t keep people away from the virtual tables on PokerStars.com.
PokerStars pro Hevad Khan benefited as much as anyone from the large turnout by winning the Sunday Warm-up.
Khan, who plays online as RaiNKhAN, outlasted 2,504 players to take down the first-place prize of $97,856. It’s one of Khan’s biggest scores [...]
MansionPoker.com Opens VIP Loyalty Shop 2008-03-30 06:03:07 MansionPoker.com, well known for its massive prize pool guarantees, has opened doors for its own VIP loyalty shop allowing players to get rewarded for the time they spend at the tables.
Currently, the VIP shop offers only tickets to the various ManionPoker.com tournaments. You can get free seat for the daily $20+2 for 48,499 VIP Points, [...] Read more:Loyalty
Josh Arieh taken out of blogger tourney by Abby17 2008-03-31 09:03:14 Fifty-two bloggers showed up to play in the weekly Bodog Poker Blogger Tournament this week, including Josh Arieh with a price on his head.
Josh Arieh didn’t get much of a chance to make any moves in the tournament however, as Abby17 took him out fairly early to collect the $100 bounty.
Abby17 found his chance to [...] Read more:tourney
Fun ways to play bingo 2008-03-31 08:03:56 Fun ways to play bingo by BTP
There are many fun ways to play bingo on the internet. Bingo is the fastest growing game online and playing online bingo is becoming a favorite. There are many fun ways to play bingo online. In the United States, regular bingo games are played using 75 balls, [...]
Massachusetts to go ahead with gambling study 2008-03-31 08:03:26 Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has said a $189,000 study on the possible impact of casinos in the commonwealth will still be conducted — even though the state legislature has tabled a bill that would have licensed three casinos in Massachusetts.
The bill, which would have also banned online gambling in Massachusetts, will not come to a [...] Read more:Massachusetts
, ahead
Fantastic First returns at Paradise Poker 2008-03-31 07:03:14 On Friday, April 4, ParadisePoker
will once again kick off the beginning of a new month with its FantasticFirst
events.
This time, up to $100,000 will be added to events at Paradise Poker, with ways for all types of players to get in on the action.
The first option is through multi-table tournaments. Paradise Poker [...]
Wagerworks Elvis Slot Launched at Online Casinos, Not In U.S. 2008-03-31 07:03:10 While the United States government fumbles around in their efforts to make changes to their online gambling policy, other countries are having fun with brand new slot games.
The latest game that was launched by Wagerworks is an online Elvis
Slot. The game has a bunch of different features that can keep [...] Read more:Launched
UIGEA hearing to be held in U.S. on Wednesday 2008-03-31 06:03:03 The United States House of Representatives will hold a hearing on Wednesday
about how the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act should be enforced.
The House Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology subcommittee will hold the hearing regarding the rules of the UIGEA that have been proposed by the Department of the Treasury and the [...]
Mississippi considers bill that will try to retain Florida gamblers 2008-04-04 20:04:23 The state of Mississippi
is considering measures and tax breaks that would help keep Florida
gamblers coming back to the state.
Mississippi is reacting to casino expansion by the Seminole Tribe and new Florida laws that will expand poker and greyhound racing in the state.
According to pokerpages.com:
This week, Florida’s poker expansion bill, sponsored by Senate Minority [...]
WSOP champions: Where are they now, Part 2 2008-04-04 19:04:52 This is the second article in a 10-part series taking a look at the World Series of Poker champions from the very first to the most recent and at what they’ve done since in the world of poker.
After 37 years of events staged under the World Series of Poker rubric, 32 men have been named [...]
Pot sizes bulging across online poker 2008-04-04 19:04:25 There’s always money to be made in online
poker for a skilled player. Always. But if early returns in 2008 are any indication, there might be a bit more “easy” money kicking around online these days.
How to tell? Growing average pot sizes
across the board, with no less than seven of the top online poker [...]
Deadline passes for U.S. to settle online gambling dispute with Antigua 2008-04-04 18:04:31 The United States is apparently not interested in settling its dispute with Antigua regarding online
gambling — at least not right now.
The U.S. had a deadline of April 1 to offer a proposal that would rectify its dispute with the Caribbean nation via the World Trade Organization. The WTO had ruled earlier that the United [...] Read more:Deadline
More Congressmen call for details on U.S. gambling settlements 2008-04-03 12:04:31 Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) have requested more information from the United States Trade Representative on U.S. concessions regarding foreign online gambling and poker operators.
The two high-ranking Congressmen want to learn more about a deal brokered with the EU, Japan and Canada to [...] Read more:details
UIGEA tough to enforce, officials say at Congressional hearing 2008-04-03 11:04:55 Federal officials
at a Congressional
hearing on Wednesday said the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) will be very difficult to attempt to enforce because of its vague wording.
Representatives from the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve were among some of the officials who testified at a hearing held by the House of Representatives International [...]
Ziigmund’s wild ride continues 2008-04-03 09:04:56 If you’re into railing high-stakes online poker, there are plenty of super-skilled, technically sound pros worth watching as they toss their bankrolls around.
But seriously: there’s only one Ziigmund.
Quite possibly, pound-for-railbird-pound, the most entertaining player on the Internet, the one and only Finnish flashpoint Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has been up to his usual tricks again [...]
Hearing discusses UIGEA problems 2008-04-03 09:04:21 The House Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology held a hearing today to discuss the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
Representatives from the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve, which have been tasked to find a way to implement the UIGEA, were on hand to discuss where they were at in the [...] Read more:Hearing
, problems
WSOP main event final table: No delay this year? 2008-04-09 23:04:41 A post at pokerati.com apparently quashes rumors — for now — that this year’s World Series of Poker main event
final table could be delayed by months for the purpose of broadcasting on television it almost live.
Here’s the blog entry:
With all of the references to the possible changes to the 2008 WSOP main event final [...]
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