2006 October 08 Poker News, Events and Happenings
In what some see as an ironic turn of events, World Poker Tour announcer and poker professional Mike Sexton has come out to say that he will fight for online poker in the public forum. What makes his decision interesting is that the World Poker Tour’s parent company, WPT Enterprises, has also recently come out with a statement, saying that they are in favor of the recent passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. Pro poker players, even those under contract, have always been a very independent bunch, so perhaps it isn’t a surprise after all that Sexton would act counter to his employer on the matter, and it fits with his past history of acting as an ambassador of poker, a game that he obviously loves very much.
While much of the poker world seems to be in a state of entrenchment thanks to recent changes in the United States’ legislation on the industry, evidence that it is business as usual in some areas is easy to find. The European Poker Tour, a series of big buy in events that take place in Barcelona, Vienna, London, Dublin and more cities across Europe, has still been getting their fair share of online qualifiers, such as Bedford resident James Reid. Reid won his spot into the EPT via an online satellite played on PokerStars.com, and thus gets to sidestep the 5,000 Euro entry fee, a practice that is largely responsible for the huge playing fields in today’s big poker events…
A HIGH-stakes charity poker match co-hosted by Shane Warne has sparked a political stoush.
The Senate bill approved in Congress last weekend restricting Internet gambling had some local poker players cashing out their online accounts, calling their attorneys and blabbing less about their online play.
Carl Johnson submits: The semiconductor memory business — it’s a giant No-Limit Poker game. You have to play every hand. The stakes go up every single round. If you leave the table, you are out of the game.
WHEN Congress banned online gambling in the USA last week, in one fell swoop they declared economic war on Britain while simultaneously ending the notion of cyberspace as a “government-free” territory.It is estimated that British-owned online gambling companies who specialise in poker - a game 50 million Americans play regularly either in person or on the worldwide web - lost 75 per cent of their revenue overnight when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was passed. Shares in
In part one of this two-part series, I discussed the relative benefits and drawback of playing poker at the Gold Strike, and the Grand in Tunica….
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