Antigua came under fire once again this week, adding another chapter to the ongoing Antigua-US WTO dispute that arose after the United States Congress passed an illegal accord banning all forms of online gambling in America. The most recent challenge to Antigua has come from the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). They claim that [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | January 24, 2008

The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs isn’t going to get its way so easily.Last week, the Ministry announced that it will propose an amendment to the country’s current gambling laws which would allow online gamblers to be refunded their losses, effectively banning online gambling.But now another Ministry, the Ministry of Culture and Sport, has come [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | January 24, 2008

Jason Potter estimated that it was only about a three minute walk, but the distance between his hotel in Melbourne and the casino might as well have been a mile.The twenty-two year-old poker pro was blindsided and pilfered of $30,000 in winnings from the Aussie Millions tournament this past weekend, providing all of us a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | January 24, 2008

The highly anticipated 2008 Los Angeles Poker Classic is just about ready to jumpstart its new season. The LAPC (not to be confused with LAPD) will start this Thursday, January 24. This year there will be 30 events on tap over the next six weeks at California’s famous Commerce Casino. Last year’s event drew over [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | January 23, 2008

Last week, the Las Vegas Sun reported how Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards weigh in on the prospect of legalizing and regulating internet gambling.This was one of the major issues the candidates had to tackle during the build up to the Nevada presidential nominations caucuses, which took place Friday.
The candidates’ positions, as summarized [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | January 23, 2008

The World Series of Poker announced Tuesday that it is launching World Series of Poker Radio, which will air Mondays from 8:00pm to 10:00pm ET.The show is produced by Bluff Media and can be heard on one of the more than 200 stations of the Sports Byline Radio Network.For those who do not have access [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | January 23, 2008

Online poker players can use software to analyze their play, as well as their opponents’.Now, similar analyses will be available for select live players.The World Poker Tour, with the aid of STATS LLC, is developing a comprehensive database of all the hands at every televised WPT final table in order to produce detailed statistical analyses [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | January 23, 2008

These days it seems as if there is a constant battle in Europe regarding the world of gambling between sovereign nations and the European Union. Sweden, who generally stays out of the gambling world spotlight-compared with other more controversial states such as France and Germany - is involved in a dispute surrounding the legality of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | January 22, 2008

The World Poker Tour launched a second online poker room this month, but this one is different than the standard pay-as-you-play virtual card room.This one, ClubWPT.com, was designed to allow Americans to play, and play legally.
ClubWPT, which runs the same software as UltimateBet, is subscription-based, meaning that for a monthly fee of $19.95, members get [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | January 22, 2008

NBC has released an updated list of invitees for its fourth annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC), to be contested at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.Out of the field of 64, only four seats remain (provided all of the invitees accept the offer and plunk down $20,000), which will go to various promotional winners.
The list [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | January 22, 2008