04 Apr 07
GSN Announces 4th Season of High Stakes Poker
bodogbeat.com - For three seasons now the television show "High Stakes Poker" on the Game Show Network has given poker fans a rare table-side look at the high stakes world of cash game poker, with many of the game’s best facing off with up to a million dollars of their own money on the line. Now GSN’s No. 1 rated program ... is slated to come back for a fourth season
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04 Apr 07
Poland to Legalize Online Gaming
pokerpages.com - Poland is planning to introduce regulations to license and tax online gambling similar to those in Italy, according to a recent article in the Polish newspaper, The Warsaw Voice, signaling that European markets continue to open up for online poker and online gambling.
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04 Apr 07
ex-FBI Navarro: All About Poker Tells
cardplayer.com - In poker, players make decisions based on incomplete information. The results of these decisions determine how good a player someone is.
This past weekend, former FBI agent Joe Navarro looked to help players gain more complete information by teaching them to observe the nonverbal behaviors of their opponents during his seminar at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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03 Apr 07
Texas: New Bill Would Allow Live Poker
cardplayer.com - A bill that would allow poker to be played publicly in Texas will have a public hearing in Austin tomorrow. The bill is currently in the Texas House Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee, which will decide whether to move it forward or kill it.
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03 Apr 07
Everest voted Favourite Poker Room
casinocitytimes.com - Everest Poker has been voted this year's Favourite Poker Room by readers of one of the industry's leading titles, Gambling.com Magazine.
The world's fifth-largest online poker room (according recent statistics from PokerSiteScout), Everest Poker received the prestigious 2006-2007 High Roller Award in the April issue of Gambling.com. The High Roller Awards are given out to online gaming sites that offer the best experience to players and are based on voting by the Platinum Members of the magazine.
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02 Apr 07
UK Poker League Sues British Police
pokerpages.com - Nuts Poker League, which organizes poker in pubs across the UK, has launched legal action March 23 against West Mercia Police claiming that the police misled pubs about the legality of League poker games, causing it to lose earnings.
The case centres on a letter that was sent to pub licensees by the police last December warning them they could lose their licence if they continued to host poker games.
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02 Apr 07
EU Forcing German Hand on Poker
cardplayer.com - EU Industry Commissioner Gunter Verhuegen has contacted the heads of Germany’s regional governments regarding their ban on online gaming, mainly online lotteries and sports betting.
Mr. Verhuegen has given them a month to change a restrictive draft treaty on online regulation.
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30 Mar 07
WTO Rules U.S. Web Gaming Ban Illegal
The U.S. ignored a ruling that found it discriminates against foreign gambling companies by banning payments to gaming Web sites while allowing bets on its own soil, the World Trade Organization's highest judges said.
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29 Mar 07
Mizrachi edges Hellmuth for "Player of the Year"
casinotimes.co.uk - Online poker room Absolute Poker have announced the results of their recent pro-related poker survey.
The survey asked 50,000 Online Poker players which pro they think most deserves to be called Player of the Year.
The results confirm why Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi earned Cardplayer's Player of the Year title. In Absolute Poker's survey, Grinder came out on top, claiming 42% of the votes. Legendary poker pro, Phil Hellmuth, came in a close second, capturing 39% of the votes.
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29 Mar 07
Club Owner Fined Over `Game of Chance'
bloomberg.com - The former co-owner of a private London poker club was fined 10,000 pounds ($19,500) today after a jury found him guilty of profiting from a game of chance in violation of Britain's gambling laws.
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29 Mar 07
Tran Captures WPT Title, Leads "Player of the Year"
businesswire.com - After making five World Poker Tour® (WPT) final tables in his career—with three in the past two months—professional poker player J.C. Tran won his first WPT Champion title yesterday at the World Poker Challenge at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev. Beating out a field of 475 pros and amateurs, the 30-year-old Sacramento, Calif., native will take home a first place prize of $683,473 and a $25,000 seat in the WPT World Championship at the Bellagio in April.
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28 Mar 07
UK House of Lords rejects govt casino proposals
forbes.com - The government's plan for 17 casinos to be set up across the country lay in tatters tonight as members of the House of Lords rejected it by 123 votes to 120.
This means that Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell's gamble on an 'all or nothing' approach has failed spectacularly, even though the House of Commons passed the package by a narrow margin of 24 votes, 274 to 250.
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28 Mar 07
Gambling News From Poland: Thumbs Up
online-casinos.com - The Warsaw Voice had some good news for online gamblers in the Eastern European nation of Poland this week, advising them that following the European Court of Justice in the Placanica case (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa reports) the government is preparing to license online gambling.
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28 Mar 07
WPT Finals: David Pham Leads
cardplayer.com - David Pham, who has more than $4.5 million in lifetime tournament winnings, is the chip leader with $1.655 million. He’s playing excellent poker, with two first-place finishes since March 14, when he won two events at the Winnin O’ the Green for a total of $106,400.
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28 Mar 07
2nd Go For Negreanu Poker Book
online-casinos.com - American poker ace Daniel Negreanu is counting rewards other than those from major global poker tournaments on the news that his book on poker's most popular game "Daniel Negreanu's Hold'em Wisdom for All Players" has not only been listed as the best-selling book in its category at Barnes & Noble, it is also going into a second printing less than three months following launch.
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27 Mar 07
US Pros Headed for Irish Poker Open
launchpoker.com - It is the second longest running poker series in the world, coming in behind the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, but the Irish Poker Open hasn't always drawn the bigger names in American poker to make the trip. This year that won't be the case as a number of leading names in the poker world have been confirmed for the event, playing for the lion's share of the Euro 2 million guaranteed prize pool. Mike Sexton, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, and Antonio Esfandiari, among others, will be there Easter Weekend to play for the big bucks at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin.
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27 Mar 07
Blackberry Based Online Poker
online-casinos.com - Blackberry owners will soon be able to play Texas Hold 'Em on their hand held communications devices following the release this week of a new version of the popular online poker game from software developer Gameloft.
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27 Mar 07
Gov't-Owned Poker a Mega Success
onlinecasino.org - Svenska Spel AB, a Swedish government-owned and -licensed online gaming company, has posted record profits of $685 million for 2006, thanks to its online poker division.
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27 Mar 07
Poker Stars' Team Canada
cardplayer.com - Poker Stars is looking for 10 Canadian players to make up Team Canada to represent it at this year’s World Series of Poker main event. ...
The team will be made of players who win freerolls. The freerolls are open to new and existing Canadian players. ...
The promotion began March 3, and will run until May 12.
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26 Mar 07
Ex-soapstar scoops £100,000 poker win
rte.ie - A former 'EastEnders' actor turned professional gambler is in the money today after winning the regional leg of a British national poker competition.
Michael Greco walked away with £100,000 following the climax of the third round of the Grosvenor Poker Tour in Cardiff during the early hours of the morning.
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