2006 October 12 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2
(PRESS RELEASE) — The Great Poker League is delighted to announce that ‘molim’ (Renato Cattani) from Switzerland won the September league in style but making the highest number of points a player has ever made in a single month.
When you think of poker TV, it is nearly impossible to do so without thinking of the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker. Celebrity Poker Showdown might also pop up, as might the new Professional Poker Tour - but what about the show that currently ranks Number Three behind the WPT and the WSOP? The Ultimate Poker Challenge, which is kicking off its third season at Binions this Saturday, has over one hundred and fifty shows planned over the next year, ending with a $10,000 buy in, No Limit Texas Holdem tournament. The bulk of the shows are for the new, amateur players, and spokesman Jeff Todd wants to get over a thousand new players on TV.
When the Safe Port Act was passed - and along with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that so many poker players feared - one California man took action. Getting an online petition up within a few hours, Jim Perkins set to work to build a groundswell of support for getting poker back in the good graces of the US Government. Nearly six thousand poker players and their supporters have signed the petition, which can be found at petitiononline.com, and these names were all generated by word of mouth…
PokerStars, the world’s second-biggest Internet poker firm, said on Thursday that a looming U.S. ban on online gaming would not apply to poker, as it is a game of skill, and its business would continue as usual.
PokerStars has received extensive expert advice from within and outside the U.S. which concluded that these provisions do not alter the U.S. legal situation with respect to online poker. Furthermore it is important to emphasize that the Act does not in any way prohibit you from playing online poker.
WASHINGTON — Online poker players are nervously awaiting President Bush’s expected signature this week on legislation that would kick them out of their virtual casinos.The measure, designed to block the financial transactions that have fueled Internet gambling, was quietly attached to a port security bill in a flurry of last-minute activity before Congress adjourned in late September.The legislation threatens to cripple the $12 billion online gambling industry, cutting off about half of the wor
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