2006 June 05 Poker News, Events and Happenings

(RALEIGH) - It came as no surprise. The State Senate voted overwhelming, by a 44 to one vote, to get rid of video poker. “I do believe our state will be a better place because of this, said Sen. Charles Alberston, a Democrat who represents Duplin, Lenoir, and Sampson counties.

Long before the PlayStation invaded the family basement, another game ruled the rumpus room. Poker and its many variants have held an allure for guys who wanted to sit around in the low light of the household netherworld and partake in pleasures that seemed a little prurient to everyone upstairs.

North Carolina’s General Assembly approved a bill that bans video poker machines by next summer.

Josh Arieh, who plays his online poker at Bodog.com Poker, was the $500,000 winner of the Calvin Ayre Wild Card Poker tournament, which airs on Fox Sports Net. Ayre, the billionaire founder of Bodog, brought together forty players at the Bodog compound in Costa Rica…

RALEIGH, N.C. — The General Assembly approved Monday a bill to ban video poker machines by next summer, a decision stalled for years as the House and Senate disagreed whether losing industry jobs was worth a complete prohibition.

RALEIGH — State senators overwhelmingly approved Monday night a gradual ban of video poker.

North Carolina’s legislature on Monday approved a bill to ban video poker machines by next summer, a decision stalled for years as lawmakers disagreed whether losing industry jobs was worth a prohibition.