In a staggering blanket vote, all 16 German states recently approved the new German gambling accord that will prohibit all forms of online gambling in the country. This new law will come into effect on January 1st 2008 and will present a great obstacle for Germany’s online poker players.
The motivation backing this vote has been [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | December 31, 2007

Josh “JJProdigy” Field will not be welcome at the PCA event as stated in his apology letter submitted earlier this week on PocketFives. In his letter he stated that he was planning on playing in the PCA and Aussie Millions.He also stated that he would refrain from any underage gambling for the remainder of his [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | December 28, 2007

Poker fans that tuned in to Full Tilt Poker Christmas night were treated to an epic high stakes Pot Limit Omaha heads up round between Phil Ivey and Niki Jedlicka. The two poker giants both have reputations of winning (and losing) massive sums of money most mortals don’t even bother dreaming about and Tuesday did [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | December 27, 2007

Can you remember a time before online poker? It seems that Party Poker and its fellow poker sites are now a part of our mental landscape, and we cannot imagine a world without them. Yet 20 years ago if you wanted to play poker you needed a deck of cards, a table and some friends [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | December 26, 2007

Last week the World Trade organization made a ruling requiring the United States government to pay $500,000 in damages to the Antiguan government for disruptions in commerce as well as allowing Antigua to suspend its WTO obligations to the US in respect of copyrights. This is due to the fact that the WTO panel agreed [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | December 26, 2007

Josh “JJProdigy” Fields, one of the world’s youngest and most controversial players of all time, recently issued an apology on 2+2 and PocketFives for his previous crimes of multi-accounting and account-buying. Fields was banned in February of 2006 from certain well-known sites such as PokerStars and PartyPoker when the sites found out that he was [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | December 24, 2007

After a disappointing compensation deal that was recently struck between the United States and the European Union in order to settle the issue of the US halting all online gambling other than horse and dog racing, European online gambling companies have begun to file a discrimination complaint against the Americans.
The companies have claimed the US [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | December 21, 2007

United States Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway, one of the foremost crusaders against the online gambling industry, announced Wednesday that Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! have entered into settlements with the United States “to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling.”The settlements are as follows:
Microsoft - $21 million
• $4.5 million to the United States• $7.5 million to the International [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | December 21, 2007

Sixteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives, all Republican, signed a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board of Governors Chairman Ben Bernanke, urging them to tighten up the proposed rules for the enforcement of the UIGEA.
They express the same concerns many have, stating that the rules place too much of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | December 20, 2007

Consider them the “cool kids” of poker.Twenty poker players, almost all household names in the poker world, have been extended invitations by NBC to compete in the 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which will run February 29 through March 2 at Caesars Palace.
Nobody has officially accepted the invitation yet, but expect most, if not [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | December 20, 2007