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Push to Repeal the U.S. Online Gambling Ban
Congressman Barney Frank is still hard at work on trying to repeal the three year old U.S. online gambling ban that has hurt ties to the European Union .. He has been in the corner of the American Gambler since day one of the UIGEA. A House aid...
SC judge rules Texas Hold 'em is a skill Game
Earlier this week in my home state, a South Carolina judge ruled that Texas Hold'em Poker is a game of skill. An old 1802 South Carolina law makes any game with cards or dice, including popular board games such as Monopoly and Sorry illegal. D...
Poker’s 2009 successes at State Levels
So far 2009 is turning to be a year of success stories at the State levels thanks in a large part to the efforts of the PPA . They are constantly in discussions with leading House and Senate lawmakers about reintroduction of pro-Internet poker legisl...
Million Dollar Jackpot !
PDC Poker and their sister site Carbon has now broken the million dollar mark for it's badbeat jackpot ! This is the largest jackpot I have ever seen online and as far as I can tell it just may reach the record for any online poker network ever any d...
Bad Beat Jackpot Nears a Million Bucks !
Can you imagine sharing in a million dollars because you lost a poker hand ? Most online poker players know all about bad beat jackpots, but they also know that the prize reaches that amount very seldom if ever at online poker rooms . You'll find tha...
Vote to Boost America's Economy
OK online poker players, here is your chance to let Mr. Obama hear from you again and vote to boost America's economy with the help of online poker . The voting poll is over at President-Elect Obama's site aptly named Change.Gov. I have posted articl...
CardSpike Poker Scam
There's been a lot of talk from insiders lately about how CardSpike Poker has scammed some of the players and affiliates out of money . There's also been a lot of talk that one of the leading gambling affiliate forums even owns the poker room. Let me...
More on the Clonie Gowen Lawsuit
As some of you know I reported on a short piece on Clonie Gowen's Sues FullTilt Poker. Just days after she was dropped by FullTilt Gowen decided to sue for $40 million in damages for five causes of action:fraud, breach of the covenant of good f...
U.S.A. Ignores European Union Demands
The U.S.A. still ignores demands from the European Union to cease with violating the WTO in the area of internet gambling. A PRNewswire released in London on December 16 states :The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) today urges the European Commissio...
Norway Bans Internet Gambling Transactions
I had brought up about a year ago at our forum that Norway was leaning towards trying to ban online gambling or something along those lines. An old poker buddy of mine that used to play online poker a lot thought at the time that nothing of the sort ...
CBS Airs Show About Poker Cheating
Last night CBS's 60 Minutes aired a segment on the online Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet cheating scandals. I was hoping that they would have made the point the scandals were a good reason for the U.S. Government to start regulating online poker, bu...
Bad Beat Jackpot
Today I want to try and explain exactly what a bad beat jackpot is. The reason I'm doing this is I had a family member ask what it was. (obviously they do not play online poker or they would have known) . A bad beat jackpot is a prize that is paid wh...
Clonie Gowen Sues FullTilt Poker
I read last night from a source, www. poker.com, that FullTilt Poker has decided that Clonie Gowen is not a good representative of their U.S. friendly poker room and has kicked her out. Cycalona "Clonie" Gowen received notification that Full Tilt wou...
Letter to President Elect Obama on the UIGEA
Yesterday was another bad day for online gamblers and poker players fighting against the UIGEA . Regardless of all the efforts of the Poker Players Allaince and it's members, and the recent news exposing inappropriate influence by the White House,&nb...
Peter Eastgate wins 2008 WSOP
It was a long wait for the final table known as the November Nine, but the 2008 WSOP winner has now been crowned and it's 22 year old Peter Eastgate . The young man from Denmark defeated Russian Ivan Demidov to become the youngest winner of the WSOP ...
Microgaming Casinos stop U.S. players
Microgaming Network has pulled the plug on U.S. gamblers for casino play . The newsletter that some of the online casinos sent out says that most of the casinos will continue to let current members to play the casinos, but they will no longer accept ...
Two years since the UIGEA signed
Today marks the second anniversary of President Bush signing the Port Security Bill that had the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) attached to it . I recall that day almost like it was yesterday, just sitting here at my desk watching...
Contributed Rake Method
If any of you ever wondered why online poker rooms allow such numbers of players word wide for free there’s an answer, Rake!!! It is the method that online poker rooms use for to earn money. Rather than have you play poker against the House, which ...
Duplicate Poker calls it quits
Talk about a big surprise, I never saw this one coming at all. A U.S. friendly poker room calls it quits !Duplicate Poker had plugged itself as the only legal online poker room in the United States, now just has a message to its players on its homepa...
House passes Barney Frank's Bill
The House Financial Services Committee passed the Payment Systems Protection Act by a 30-19 vote yesterday. I know this is just the first step in a long process, but it's still some good news for the online gambler. To make it law the next step is to...
Let Senator McCain know how you feel .
I just want to share this with my readers that may not have received it or that may not be a member of the Poker Players Alliance. I am not endorsing Senator McCain by any means , I personally feel that he is of the age that he'll not change his mind...
Rules not being enforced in WSOP ?
I've always liked watching Scotty Nguyen as a poker player, but after watching his win on ESPN the other night of the 2008 H.O.R.S.E. event I have lost a lot of respect for him . It was obvious that the man had a problem with his attitude even with a...
Should Poker be an Olympic Sport?
One of the mods, Cerberi from the forum, posted an article from Bluff Europe titled "Should Poker be an Olympic Sport ?" I thought this had to be a joke for sure, but it seems that a lot of folk think it should be. Surprisingly, a third o...
Two Sides to Every Story
Just recently, July 30th to be exact, there has been a story put out by Forbes.com about how the U.S. Feds are hounding Bodog. According to the article the U.S. government recently seized $24 million from bank accounts linked to Bodog, the gian...
New Payment Option at Carbon Poker
Today I want to let everyone know a little about Pic-Club.com . This is the latest payment option at Carbon Poker and most the rest of the Merge Gaming Network . I've read a lot of good things about them over at the APCW, and it looks like it's going...
Poll - Should Online Poker be legal ?
I was sitting around the house yesterday reading the Sunday paper when I ran across an ariticle in the little Parade section about online poker . The story is a short one, but it's still good to see something in print that's Nationwide about the laws...
10 More Join the Fight for Online Gambling Rights
According to PokerListings.com, 10 more Representatives agree that the UIGEA implementation needs to be stopped , the following congressmen signed onto the H.R. 5767 bill April 24 that U.S. Rep Frank introduced :Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)Shelley Berkley ...
Senator Graham responds to online poker exemption .
I received a reply back from Senator Lindsey Graham on the letter I had sent off to my Congressmen about exempting online poker from the UIGEA bill . It's nothing that I would say is good news , but his reply is not bad neither compared to some I hav...
ePassporte Bails Out of Online Poker
Some bad news for U.S. players. It looks like another payment processor that has worked for U.S. citizens to use with the online poker rooms has bailed out of the business . United States owned ePassporte had got some bad reviews in the past about th...
Congressmen reply on expemption of poker from UIGEA
I write my Congressmen on a regular basis to let them know my displeasure about the current laws here in the U.S., and thought I'd fire off a round before the Congressional Hearing on the UIGEA yesterday. In my letter this go round I stated my suppor...
