11 Jun 07
Full Contact Poker merges with PokerStars
casinocitytimes.com - Full Contact Poker will shut down its online poker room effective tomorrow and current players will have the opportunity to move their accounts to PokerStars as part of a merger between the two online poker rooms, according to the FCP Web site.
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11 Jun 07
Poker champ will keep his day job
canada.com - Jason Warner [of Langley, BC] may have joined the international poker elite on the weekend, earning almost half a million dollars, but he has no plans to quit his day job at a Surrey building supply store.
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11 Jun 07
Computer to challenge top poker players
edmontonsun.com - University of Alberta researchers are betting their poker-playing computer program will beat two of the sharpest human professional players in the world, and they're not bluffing - yet.
The developers of the Polaris program have challenged Phil (The Unabomber) Laak and Ali Eslami to 2,000 hands of Texas hold 'em.
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11 Jun 07
WSOP Wrap-up: Week 1
poker-king.com - In terms of player turn-out, the World Series of Poker has shown no signs of suffering in the post-UIGEA environment. One of the $1500 No Limit Hold'em event had the third largest turn-out of any World Series of Poker event EVER, only lagging behind the 2005 and 2006 World Series of Poker main events. Turn-out for each event has surpassed tournament organizer expectations.
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11 Jun 07
House Committee focuses on online gambling
eog.com - I think the likelihood of a law being passed that makes Internet poker illegal (in the law's eyes) has gone down dramatically this year. Goodlatte promised to introduce a bill that expands the Wire Act to include poker....seems he hasn't done that. I don't imagine he'll do it next year, as it's an election year.
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08 Jun 07
All Eyes On BetonSports Case
“I think any ruling in any online gambling case will affect the industry in general and the legal landscape regarding U.S. law as applicable to online gambling,” online gaming specialist and attorney Lawrence Walters told WinnerOnline.
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08 Jun 07
Negreanu criticizes poker ban
casinocitytimes.com - Canada's most famous poker champion said it is 'ridiculous' that private, for-profit poker games -- like the ones busted by Winnipeg police last week -- are not allowed to take place.
Daniel Negreanu, a 33-year-old Toronto native has made more than $9-million playing poker and is an international star in the casino community. "It's ridiculous. Everything in Canada seems to be government owned," Negreanu said from Las Vegas, where he now lives.
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08 Jun 07
SEC Drops Investigation Of Doyle's Room and WPT
gambling911.com - [T]he SEC has dropped its investigation into online poker room Doyle's Room and the World Poker Tour. ...
The SEC had been looking at whether Brunson and company broke federal securities laws ....
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08 Jun 07
Wexler's Poker Bill Detailed
online-casinos.com - A much anticipated bill designed to exempt poker and other games of skill from the provisions of the anti-online gambling Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act will be introduced this week by Florida Congressman Robert A. Wexler.
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08 Jun 07
Media Creates Problems for WSOP
bodogbeat.com - Upon arrival to the 2007 WSOP this morning, fans were greeted by black curtains around one of the final tables due to concerns over potential cheating. ...
The fear is that a player at a final table will be able to find out information about specific hand histories or a player’s tells from a friend watching the webcast.
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07 Jun 07
Euro Commission Taking Action Against U.S.?
In a report in the eGaming Review, Mark Mendel is quoted as saying that the United States' withdrawal from the GATS agreement could have reprecussions.
"There is a very real possibility of massive claims being made," said Mendel.
"The U.S. may be shutting the door on the rest of the world, but they are not shutting the door on us."
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07 Jun 07
U.S. Lawmaker Seeks Online Gambling Exemptions
A Florida congressman is expected to introduce legislation on Thursday exempting poker and some other games from the Internet gambling ban passed by Congress last year, the lawmaker's aide said on Wednesday.
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07 Jun 07
Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act Introduced
The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative announced its support for the Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act, introduced today by Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA). The bill would create a taxation regime for online gambling companies to be licensed under the recently introduced Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (H.R. 2046).
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06 Jun 07
Bracelet Could go to Annie Duke
gambling911.com - Annie Duke, one of the world’s best poker professionals and arguably the best female player to ever grace the poker tables, is on course to win her 2nd WSOP bracelet.
Annie has secured a seat at the final table in the Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi/lo 8/OB event at this year’s World Series of Poker.
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06 Jun 07
WSOP card row
pokerplayermagazine.co.uk - Players were disappointed with the new style cards introduced by Harrah’s and the United States Playing Card Company, known as ‘Poker Peek’.
Complaints were rife, and mostly focused on the fact that the nines and sixes were difficult to tell apart, and the digits too small.
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05 Jun 07
Canada: 60 people charged in poker raids
Three Winnipeg clubs have been accused by police of illegally profiting by holding Texas Hold'em poker games and taking a cut of the money.
The Barca Club, the Bari Club and Shooter's Billiards were raided last Thursday, along with a Tuxedo home belonging to one of the club's owners.
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05 Jun 07
Rap Dealer Wins WSOP Poker Title
online-casinos.com - Eric Narciso, a 24 year old Vegas dealer at Orleans Casino is the latest champion in a World Series of Poker Casino Employees competition that attracted 1 038 entries.
Narciso, who also seeks fame as a rap singer using the handle QuietLike and has made a record album of his verses, took down the main prize of $104 701 after a long 14 hour competition which he entered via a $90 satellite.
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05 Jun 07
Poker After Dark Returns
gambling911.com - Poker fans are eagerly anticipating the filming of the second season of Poker After Dark is scheduled to take place this May at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, with the first episode scheduled to air on NBC during the week of June 11. Shana Hiatt returns as the program’s host, as does Oliver "Ali" Nejad to provide limited commentary.
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05 Jun 07
U.S. House Holds Net Gambling Hearing
A U.S. House of Representatives panel said on Monday it will hold a hearing on Friday to look at Internet gambling, which is effectively banned in the United States.
The hearing will examine whether Internet gambling can be regulated to protect consumers and the payments system, said the House Financial Services Committee.
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04 Jun 07
WSOP Event #3: 3rd Largest in Poker History
bodogbeat.com - While preliminary reports and estimates were seemingly very wrong concerning the number of players that registered for the $1,500 buy-in event (something to do with double-counting pre-registrations), the hyperbole-ridden official “news flash” we received tells us that the number of players is actually a new record. The event still did break its own record from last year of 2,891, but also apparently set a record for poker as a whole.
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