01 Feb 07
'World' Poker Legend Back on Top
yahoo.com - John "Johnny World" Hennigan makes history winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event at the Borgata Winter Poker Open. Hennigan joins Daniel Negreanu as the only player to win a World Poker Tour title, a World Series Of Poker (WSOP) Bracelet (Hennigan has won two), and the US Poker Championship. Not only did "Johnny World" win $1.6 Million for first place, he re-established himself among today's poker elite.
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01 Feb 07
Rules for "no license" Poker in UK Pubs Released
pokerpages.com - Besides pubs, clubs of all sorts will also be able to host poker events in what amounts to the most radical overhaul of 40 year old drinking and gambling rules. The clubs include, for example: sporting clubs, working men's clubs, political parties, commercial clubs, miners' welfare institutes and branches of the Royal British Legion.
For the first time clear stake and prize limits on poker games have been set, and a number of conditions under which the games must be run have been laid out
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31 Jan 07
In Europe Hold'em isn't as popular
pokernews.com - In Europe, the most popular poker variant isn't Texas hold'em, despite the worldwide media saturation of televised no-limit hold'em events such as the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker. Europeans continue to prefer the drama and action of pot-limit Omaha (or PLO for short) and it is spread live in most casinos across the continent.
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31 Jan 07
Mega Casinos Coming to Britain
cardplayer.com - At long last, British poker players and gamblers alike will get their own local taste of Las Vegas in the United Kingdom. Manchester, UK’s third-largest city and home of the ultra-popular football (soccer) team Manchester United, will be the site of a new Supercasino.
The Liberal government led by Tony Blair is easing 40-year-old restrictions on casino gaming in the United Kingdom in an effort to spur employment, tourism, and investment in Britain’s poorest areas. It is estimated that the supercasino in Manchester will bring in over $520 million in investment, creating 2,700 new jobs.
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30 Jan 07
Manchester wins super-casino race
news.bbc.co.uk - Manchester has been chosen as the surprise location of Britain's first Las Vegas-style super-casino. ...
The licence will allow Manchester to build a venue for up to 1,250 unlimited-jackpot gaming machines.
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30 Jan 07
Survey: players see gambling as leisure activity
bookmakersreview.com - The Global Online Gambler Survey, a comprehensive study into player behaviour commissioned by gambling industry self-regulatory body eCOGRA, revealed that although playing for money is important in terms of making games entertaining, the majority of gamblers appear to not be playing to win money long-term, but for the entertainment and excitement.
Among the findings of the survey, it was determined that the average online poker player is likely to be male, aged 26-35, have played for 2-3 years, play 2-3 times per week and to have visited more than 6 poker sites in the preceding three months.
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30 Jan 07
First Ultimate Women's Poker Challenge
pokerpages.com - The first Ultimate Women's Poker Challenge is scheduled for February 9 & 10, 2007 at Binion's in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Ultimate Poker Challenge (UPC) is America's number one syndicated poker show, and as with all UPC events, the women's event will be syndicated nationally on local television beginning in March.
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30 Jan 07
EU may challenge US Ban
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. restrictions on online gambling may be challenged by the European Union, the bloc's top financial regulator said on Tuesday.
"In my view it is probably a restrictive practice and we might take it up in another fora," EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy told the European Parliament.
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29 Jan 07
NETELLER a Non-Issue?
cardplayer.com - The numbers were down for all of the big online poker tournaments last week – down by very large percentages. It seemed very likely that the news of the NETELLER pullout from the U.S. markets was the catalyst for the change. However, one astute CardPlayer.com reader offered another possible factor in an e-mail: football.
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29 Jan 07
2007 WSOP Schedule Announced
eog.com - Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. said today the 2007 World Series of Poker Presented by Milwaukee's Best Light will offer the most diverse event schedule in the tournament's illustrious history.
The 38th edition of the world's most prestigious poker tournament, set for June 1 through July 17, 2007, at the Rio® All-Suite Hotel & Casino – and televised exclusively by ESPN – features 55 bracelet events with buy-ins up to $50,000.
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29 Jan 07
Raymer discusses the state of Poker
Who has four eyes (two of them reptilian), is trained as a scientist and a lawyer, won five million dollars, fights for the rights of poker players everywhere, and might just possibly be the next Vice President of the United States-- yet describes himself as a "pretty normal and boring guy?"
That would be 2004 World Series of Poker ("WSOP") champ Greg Raymer, who answers questions about a Vice Presidential run, discusses the state of poker today, and shows that the smart, approachable, classy gentleman poker fans see on TV is the genuine article
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29 Jan 07
Bryan Sumner Wins WPO
allinmag.com - The field may have been small, but the competition was fierce at the World Poker Open in Tunica. The starting field of 294 players ... included many of the game's best players, and they dominated from Day One. In a common twist, an unknown, Bryan Sumner, ended up stealing the championship from one of the game's best players: Daniel Negreanu ....
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26 Jan 07
Canadians Help Americans Fight US Poker Ban
Since the Internet Gambling Bill came into law, there has been much confusion over what US based poker players can actually do. Lots of sites are still accepting US players, while others have stopped.
"Americans are not sure if it is still legal to play online or not", says Arif Khan, founder of PokerBandits.ca, "The law is really confusing at the moment, and many Americans think they can be prosecuted for playing online poker, which is not the case."
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26 Jan 07
U.S. confirms WTO loss
reuters.com - The United States has suffered a new setback in a four-year-old legal battle with Antigua and Barbuda over U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling, a U.S. trade official said on Thursday. ...
Gretchen Hamel, a spokesman for the U.S. Trade Representative's office, confirmed press reports that a WTO panel "did not agree with the United States that we had taken the necessary steps to comply" with that ruling.
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26 Jan 07
Swede Player Wins EPT
onlinecasino.org - At this years European Poker Tournament (EPT) in Copenhagen, 29-year-old financial adviser from Stockholm, Magnus Petersson, won more than 4 million Danish Kroner (approximately €537,000), after beating out some of the world’s best poker players.
During a $475 PokerStars online satellite tournament, Petersson won his seat for the EPT, giving him a chance to beat last year's record of $30,000 as 438th position in The World Series of Poker.
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24 Jan 07
Poker Inches Closer to Exemption
gambling911.com - President of the Poker Players Alliance, Michael Bolcherek, claimed on Tuesday that the PPA was very close to introducing a bill to Congress that would ultimately have online poker exempt from recently passed legislation.
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24 Jan 07
February: more Mansion Poker $100K a Day
pokerlistings.com - Fueled by player demand, Mansion Poker's $100K a Day promotion will keep trucking through the month of February. ...
And now not only is the site extending the promotion, it's also accommodating European players with a new start time. For the remainder of the month through February, the $100K a Day events will kick off at 6 p.m. (GMT) each day.
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23 Jan 07
Largest Study Of Online Gamblers Released
eCOGRA - The first comprehensive picture of the 'average' online gambler emerges today from a huge new research project involving nearly 11,000 players from 96 countries. The ‘eCOGRA Global Online Gambler Survey’ commissioned by industry self-regulatory body eCOGRA and undertaken by the Betting and International Gaming Research Units at Nottingham Trent University, is the largest study to date into player behaviour and attitudes to the industry.
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23 Jan 07
DoJ Widening Attack On Online Gaming
pokernews.com - After initial attacks on the online sports betting industry during the summer of 2006, the U. S. Department of Justice has been expanding their reach. ...
In an article in the New York Times by Andrew Sorkin and Stephanie Saul, it was announced on Monday that the Department of Justice is now using the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act, 2006) to go after four Wall Street investment firms who may have participated in underwriting of the initial public offerings (IPOs) of several online poker rooms and gaming sites.
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23 Jan 07
Publisher, Handicapper Lash Out at DOJ
gambling911.com - The poker community is steaming mad and no person is more furious than Bluff Magazine publisher, Eric Morris, who relies heavily on ad revenue from internet poker sites to keep his popular magazine going. This time last year, the demand to appear in the publication was so great, Morris had to tell interested poker sites something he never thought he'd find himself saying: "I can't take your money right [now]."
Now Morris feels he might have to start panhandling in the streets of downtown Atlanta.
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