2006 October 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

The Royal Bank of Scotland has a bone to pick with one of their partners. When the United States Congress passed a bill that will likely be signed into law in the coming weeks that says that banking institutions should not allow transactions to poker websites from US customers, RBS said they will be happy to comply. Considering they have extensive American banking interests, this is not surprising…

His party members want to remove nearly two thousand poker machines from some of the poorest suburbs of Victoria, but Premier Steve Bracks says no. The pre-election push to get rid of the machines has been rejected, and in its place there is a plan to relocate just over five hundred machines from Hume, Warrnambool, Maribyrnong, Latrobe, Monash and Greater Dandenong, areas that have been labled as over saturated with poker machines. The Labor Party plan is quite different from the goals of the Liberal Party which, if they win in November, plans on dropping some 5500 poker machines from Australia’s gambling stations…

Fri, October 13, 2006 70 charged as poker dens busted By DONNA CASEY , OTTAWA SUN As the song goes, you’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, but for 70 cardsharks at four Ottawa poker houses, it was the OPP who knew when to fold ‘em. The OPP’s illegal gambling unit raided four locations late Wednesday, charging eight people with operating an illegal gaming house and busting another 60 for being found

After carefully studying the U.S. situation the world’s second largest online poker company, PokerStars.com announced today (Thursday) that it would continue to accept business from American players.

Almost 9 000 American poker players have signed a petition started by a corporate financial attorney in Santa Monica this week, protesting the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and urging Congress to regulate and tax online gambling rather than trying to destroy it.

With a turbulent industry week drawing to a close, Neteller announced the welcome news that it has no intention of pulling out of American market and will continue to provide services for US players.

A Washington protest against the new Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act has produced new information that runs contrary to the almost universal view that President Bush will sign the Act into law tomorrow as part of a port security measure.