2006 October 10 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2
Team Full Tilt continues to be one of the true forces on the tournament poker and online poker scenes. Already boasting a contingent of the finest players in the world…
The Guardian in the U.K. is reporting that top online poker executives have spoken with Antiguan authorities about the possibility of teaming up to mount a legal challenge against the recently passed Unlawful Internet Gambling Act….
When Australian cricketer Shane Warne co-organized a high profile poker party in order to raise funds, the idea was to send the money to the Shane Warne Foundation and Ecology Grants. The funds, coming close to $500,000 thanks to $25,000 per person tickets (paid by the likes of actor Hugh Grant and pop singer Sting), have allegedly found their way to the Conservative Party. It turns out that the Ecology Grants organization was founded by Conservative leader David Cameron, supposedly to develop political policies for the Conservative Party…
While the bill was recently passed by the US Congress and is waiting only on President George W Bush to sign for it to become law focuses on online gambling as a whole, many have come to think of it as an “Anti Poker” bill, but Democratic Congresswoman Shelley Berkley says that it may not have any effect on the individual poker players. According to Berkley, the bill was created solely to protect the betting industries covering horse racing and lottery ticket sales over the Internet. Berkley, who says she is a firm supporter of researching ways to legislate and legalize online poker and other forms of online gambling, claims that the move to pass the bill was the efforts of the Republican party, that wants to dictate how adults should spend their money.
(PRWEB) October 10, 2006 — In an act that seems more like extending US economic colonialism into cyberspace than eliminating the countrys moral turpitude, the US Congress succeeded in confusing the heck out of a lot of online poker players in the US.
Poker has become so popular, pari-mutuel wagering facilities (dog tracks, jai-lai arenas) are getting in on the action. Yet, Pensacola Greyhound, nor Mobile Greyhound offer poker at its locations. When I first moved to Pensacola from South Florida a year ago, I was surprised to find this out.
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