2006 October 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

Full Contact Poker is aware of the recent online gaming news coming out of Washington D.C. and remains business as usual. The United States Congress has recently passed legislation that aims to make it illegal for U.S. banks to process transactions related to online gaming.

British royal PRINCE CHARLES was left red-faced last night (02OCT06) when cheeky actor STEPHEN FRY joked about enjoying a game of strip poker with him

Fallout from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 may land hard on two of Las Vegas’ biggest gaming companies, Harrah’s Entertainment and MGM Mirage. Each has tapped poker fans who love Internet play and then turn to Vegas for the real action.

As you may already know, the U.S. Congress approved an online poker prohibition late Friday evening.

Congress raised the stakes on the online gaming industry over the weekend, and some of the biggest players in the Internet poker business are folding.The Senate tacked anti-online gambling legislation onto a homeland security bill Saturday that would effectively halt much of Internet gaming, including poker, by blocking money transfers from U.S. banks to gambling Web sites and the financial middlemen that service them.PartyGaming - a publicly held company traded on the London Stock Exchange and

Today has been a crazy day for those of us who follow the online gaming industry. This article will attempt to give you information about how the major online poker rooms have reacted to the news of the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act. Thi

Amid all the news surrounding the online poker world and a recent bill passed by the US Congress, the world of live poker is alive and well. The best possible example of the solidity of poker’s future in the live, land based market is a recent bid from private equity firms Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group to buy out the world’s largest casino owner and operator, Harrah’s Entertainment. The bid, which clocked in at $15.1 Billion, shot Harrah’s stock prices into the stratosphere, while online poker room stock plummeted…