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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 [...]

Full Tilt Not Paying Players? — According to Pokernewsdaily and the folks over at EGR magazine, Full Tilt has had enough of their assets unfrozen by the Department of Justice to pay out one third of the U.S. players. The amount available is somewhere in the 60 million dollar range. But Full Tilt says its [...]

Feds Seize Major Poker Sites—The claims of the federal government are pretty serious with Full Tilt, Pokerstars and AB Poker all accused of money laundering, fraud and operating illegally. The websites as well as the bank accounts of the casinos have been frozen by the government. Pokerstars, in reaction to today’s drama, has stopped taking [...]

Proposed Legislation in Florida— This week the politicians down in Florida are looking at two separate bills that could effect the game of poker in the sunshine state. The first bill, SB 1594 is directly related to dog tracks in Florida. SB 1594 hopes to eliminate the requirement that dog tracks must have live races [...]

Despite the early hiccups for this year’s NAPT tournament (formerly/originally sponsored by PokerStars) the “Big Event” is now underway at the Bicycle Casino in California. There are 263 players who each paid a buy in of $5,000. At the end of day one play the field has dropped to 133 players. With a chip count [...]

WSOPE—Every year the WSOPE is held at the Casino at the Empire in London, England. Early Wednesday morning this tradition came to an end as executives announced the European leg of the WSOP would move to France. The casino to host the French version of the WSOP will be Casino Barrière de Cannes Croisette. Officials [...]

New Jersey passes Internet Gaming Bill With a few technical hurdles still to go, New Jersey residents can celebrate the fact that the recent passage of online gaming laws allows New Jersey based casinos to enter the world of online gaming. The hope is to boost the economy of the Atlantic City and the state [...]

It was reported this week that Senator Harry Reid, house majority leader, would attempt to add the online gaming legislation to the current tax bill dominating congress during this lame duck season. Next term the republicans will have the floor and the future of this poker legislation may be desperate if not dire. After months [...]

Legislation and lame ducks. House leader Harry Reid is proposing the online poker legislation be address during the lame duck session or quiet season in congress. Politicians from across the aisle sent Reid a letter stating they would not support the bill as it seemed to take advantage of young gamers incapable of making informed [...]

It’s been quite a mess in the world of poker legislation in recent weeks. Here’s a quick blog sized rundown of the three main issues. Poker stars.com announced that they would no longer accept cash money players from state of Washington. This is due to the recent decision by the state regarding the prohibition of [...]