2006 June 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 4

The Poker Players Alliance is a young grass-roots organization that lost its first round recently when the House Judiciary Committee approved tougher legislation against Internet gambling, specifically online poker. But the PPA claims it has about 27,000 poker-playing members and says it won’t be…

Bluffing is a way of life for professional poker player Johnny Chan. So he never expected to ante up $150,000 in a con allegedly perpetrated by a Temecula man.

Some people think that online poker is addictive and should be illegal. Well, I’m addicted to basketball. It would be nice if I had a normal addiction to, say, crack or sex-there are focus groups for that-but being addicted to basketball just makes me a loser.

Poker is a game in which danger lurks around every corner, and one of the game’s more devious aspects is the temptation to enter too many hands from the small blind.

Online wagering and gaming company Centrebet is placing its bets on a new generation of sport and poker lovers as it looks to raise $70 million and list on the stock market.

The tiny island state of Antigua and Barbuda has been involved in a cross border online gambling dispute with the US for more than a year now. And although the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled in favor of Antigua, the U.S. hasn’t made any effort to comply with the WTO ruling so far.