25 Oct 07
Pros lobby for online gaming
latimes.com - When trying to convince lawmakers that her career is more than just a card game, professional poker player Annie Duke refuses to fold. "What I do is not gambling," she said.
The world-champion player joined other poker hotshots lobbying Wednesday on Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade members of Congress that poker, like chess and mah-jongg, is a game of skill -- and not, like roulette, a casino game that leaves players' fortunes to chance.
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25 Oct 07
PartyGaming shares jump 10%
marketwatch.com - PartyGaming said its poker revenue from continuing operations slipped 3% to $74.8 million after the loss of a number of high-value, non-U.S. players, who have moved to gambling sites that still cater to U.S. customers.
The loss of those players broadly offset a 37% rise in the number of unique active players to around 430,000.
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24 Oct 07
Macau To Host China's 1st Intl. Poker Tournament
allinmag.com - PokerStars today announced the first ever real money No-Limit Texas Hold’em poker tournament to be held in the People’s Republic of China. The ‘PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau: Asian Poker Open’ USD $2,500 buy-in Main Event ... takes place from November 22-27 at the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino on the historic Chinese island of Macau.
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24 Oct 07
Party Poker Returning to the US?
poker-king.com - When the first person that I trust in this industry told me that he heard that Party Poker might be trying to find a way to get back into the US market, I had [this] reaction: "Stop teasing me, it'll never happen."
However, after speaking with a number of people that I trust and hearing them say the same thing, I am starting to think that there might be some truth to this rumor.
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24 Oct 07
AP, SBG Global Controversies a PR Nightmare
gambling911.com - Today, in the midst of what is arguably the biggest scandal to ever hit the billion dollar industry, the press is paying attention....close attention.
ESPN's Gary Wise is already promising a major expose on the Absolute Poker scandal come later this week. Apparently ESPN has been in contact with customers of another online gambling establishment, this a sportsbook, SBG Global.
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23 Oct 07
Poker Pros Bet Big on Lobbying Congress
nysun.com - Nearly 100 leading card players are flying into the nation's capital this week to urge lawmakers to roll back a ban on Internet gambling. They are led by Senator D'Amato, the New York lawmaker turned lobbyist who serves as chairman of the Poker Players Alliance.
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23 Oct 07
More news on Absolute Poker
pokerlistings.com - According to Peter Norton, a former Grand Chief of the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake and the owner of Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, which has 100% interest in AP, the issue is still being investigated by both AP and the Khahnawake Gaming Commission. One of the primary goals of the investigation is to find out whether the accused consultant, who Norton said had subsequently been terminated, was working alone or in concert with others.
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22 Oct 07
Ladbrokes Launch Pub Poker
pokernews.com - Samantha Alleyne, PR Manager of Ladbrokes Poker commented, "To play costs a fiver and the prizes on offer make it well worth the small buy-in. Over 400 pubs have signed up so far to play and 15 of those, via the points they accumulate, will be brought to London to play in the final. A further five players will be wild-carded in to make up a 20 MTT."
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22 Oct 07
Absolute Poker Joe Norton Releases Statement
4flush.com - Joe Norton, former Grand Chief of the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake, and current owner Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG sent out a statement regarding the allegations of insider cheating, and security breaches that occurred at Absolute Poker.
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22 Oct 07
$1 Million Poker Tourney at Taj Mahal
pokerpages.com - There will be One Million US Dollars in cash on the table in the poker room of the Trump Taj Mahal after ten players buy in for at least $100,000 each, when the Trump Taj Mahal hosts the largest cash poker game in Atlantic City, New Jersey USA, beginning at 7:00 PM on October 24, 2007.
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22 Oct 07
Book Review: The Mathematics of Poker
pocketfives.com - In The Mathematics of Poker the authors present a vision of math based reasoning that is not only elegant and accessible to the average reader, but is the wave of the future for the poker world.
A word of warning: The Mathematics of Poker reads like a math textbook. If you flip through it you will see pages filled with formulas, diagrams, graphs, charts and more formulas.
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22 Oct 07
Absolute Poker Cheating Blamed on Employee
pokerpages.com - [A]n anonymous source told MSNBC that at least one of the accused cheaters, whose winnings were estimated to be upwards of $700,000, did indeed have the ability to see players' hole cards.
"This is literally a geek trying to prove to senior management that they were wrong and he took it too far," MSNBC reports their source at Absolute Poker as having said.
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19 Oct 07
Online Gambling In France: All Bets Are Off
French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Wednesday that she wanted to liberalize online gambling, in order to allow French casinos "to be present in these new markets without lowering the level of vigilance that operators and the state must maintain on the quality and offering of games."
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19 Oct 07
Absolute Poker Security Breach Investigated
cardplayer.com - The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) has hired an independent auditor to investigate claims that Absolute Poker’s security system was breached during a $1,000 buy-in tournament held last month. There is speculation that a former Absolute Poker employee shared holecard information with the winner of that tournament.
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18 Oct 07
Poker Gate: Exec Tom is the Potripper
gambling911.com - Fraud in the land of poker: Scott Tom, former CEO of Absolute Poker.com, one of the major poker sites online, programmed his software in a way he was able to see his opponents cards.
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18 Oct 07
WCOOP disqualification
The Kahnawake licensed Pokerstars.com has released a statement regarding their World Championship of Online Poker main event. ...
Pokerstars.com found Thev0id to be in breach of their terms of service and so in the interest of fair gaming, all winning players will move up one place and be awarded the equivalent prize within the next 24 hours.
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18 Oct 07
Doyles Room ReOpens To US Players
4flush.com - Doyles Room have confirmed the rumors, Texas Dolly’s poker room will again allow poker players from 39 states in the United States to log in to the online poker room starting tomorrow.
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18 Oct 07
Is PartyPoker up for sale?
According to the Financial Times, the CEO of PartyPoker Mitch Garber stated that he would be interested if Vegas casino’s approached him with the offer of a sale. The comment was reportedly made at the EiG 2007 conference in Barcelona last week.
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17 Oct 07
Absolute Poker to Submit to Third Party Audit
poker-king.com - Absolute Poker have now said that they will be submitting to an independent third party audit, which will be done by Gaming Associates. Absolute Poker has said that Gaming Associates will be conducting a thorough investigation to determine whether someone may have had access to hole card information, and how they may have exploited that information.
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17 Oct 07
'Battle of the Mags' Happens 8th November
pokerpages.com - Readers of Europe's top poker magazines will compete in a televised single table tournament for the 'Battle of the Mags' title and more than 14,000 Pounds in major poker tournament entries on the 8th November, sponsor Paddypowerpoker.com announced today.
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