Poker Player Blog

Absolute Poker in Court—In court this week Brent Beckley, the co founder of Absolute Poker website plead guilty to charges. Beckley admitted before the court that he knowingly filtered American player funds through cover companies so their payment could be processed by American banks. In American online gambling is illegal and most banks will automatically [...]

Influential Casino Owner Does NOT Support Online Gaming—Chairman of the Las Vegas Sands and campaign contributor, Adelson may hold up the passing of a national law. Adelson is a fixture of the Las Vegas gaming community and unlike many of his colleagues he does not see the positives of legalized online gaming outweighing the negatives. [...]

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 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 [...]

Its fun to look back at old blogs and do the whole ‘what happened on this day four years ago’ thing. This time I had a look at last year and struggled to conceive just how much things have changed since last summer. I guess we will start calling it the pre-black Friday poker world. [...]

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 [...]

Poker Pros website—The arrival of a new online poker site came to the public light just a few short weeks ago. This weekend the site Pokerprosnetwork.com a member of the Cake Poker family, came to life and offers a number of exciting promotions. Players will receive a $500 deposit sign up bonus and the chance [...]

Poker Legislation Back on the Table: Despite past objections, disgruntled politicians and anxious poker fans the online gaming legislation is about to be back on the table. Barney Frank D-MA has teamed up with John Campbell R-CA to propose the passage of an online gaming bill. The bill would regulate the online gaming industry, provide [...]

WSOP Announce 2011 Schedule—its main event time again already? This years WSOP tournament includes a couple extra bracelets as well as a little shake up to the order of things. The full schedule can be viewed on the WSOP site (PDF). The tournament runs from May 31 to July 11, 2011. That gives you time [...]