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Federal Online Gaming Hearing Success—This week saw a discussion and hearing on American online gambling and the possibility of federal regulation held by a subcommittee of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee. Overall the hearing is being viewed as a positive step forward. After opening statements by the Subcommittee’s chairwoman, the subcommittee on Commerce [...]

NHUPC Canceled—The National Heads-Up Championship (NHUPC). With no budget for advertising, promotion or pricey entrance fee for professional players the tournament has been canceled indefinitely. PokerStars and Full Tilt were major advertising players in the NHUPC but of course they are banned from operating in any way shape or form on American soil. Without the [...]

Hinrichsen Wins Largest WSOPE Event to Date—Andrew Hinrichsen became the sixth ever Australian to take home a WSOP gold bracelet this week when he won the second event of the WSOP Europe. It was a No Limit Hold em event that had a record breaking number of entrants and supplying the final table folks with [...]

There may be other things happening in the world of poker but the issue on most online players minds is the state of the Full Tilt poker site, it’s possible legal issues and the chances that players, loyal customers of the company, will receive the money that they are owed. So what’s happened in the [...]

Full Tilt Fears Increase: Warrant Issued—We all know that Full Tilt’s Black Friday Fallout continues to make headlines and today is no exception. It was announced on pokernewsdaily.com that the state of New York has issued a warrant to seize the assets of the individuals that have been named in the Full Tilt civil complaint. [...]

The global poker index website is enjoying traffic as many a pro and amateur alike check out the cream of the current crop in the poker world. On a winning streak to match all others this year you would think Erik Seidel would enjoy first place without worry but things they are a changing. Jason [...]

In the last couple of weeks the saga of the Full Tilt online poker folks has saturated the poker chat rooms, blogs and forums like a piece of wet tissue paper you just can’t seem to get off your shoe. In between the federal shut downs and thievery, blame shifting and secret meetings there have [...]

Full Tilt Offers Another Press Release of Excuses—Forbes magazine shared with PokerNews.com the latest press release from Full Tilt this week. The online casino company is now claiming they had financial and legal issues for two years before Black Friday and it was only because of Black Friday and the U.S. Department of Justice that [...]

EPT Spain Main Event—Day one of the EPT PokerStars Barcelona main event came to an end with 179 players. There was an original 346 and it wasn’t only amateurs that didn’t make it to day two. Vanessa Selbst made herself known but the chip lead went to German player Martin Schleich. To date Schleich has [...]

Location, Location, Location—Pocket Fives has begun a relocation service for professional poker players. Since the Black Friday debacle, American professionals struggle to find legal ways to make a living. For a thousand dollars per person Pocket Fives will help you find accommodation, deal with visas, set up bank accounts and best of all, find you [...]