2006 October 15 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The World Poker Tour takes its business online and offers players a comprehensive, interactive online poker education center. The World Poker Tour is a televised collection of Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments held internationally, featuring most of the world’s professional players.

Vip.com online poker room has picked out specific states in America and said they won’t be able to play on the site in response to the new law recently signed into being by President Bush. Michigan, Illinois, Louisiana, Oregon, Wisconsin, Washington, Indiana, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, and South Dakota are the states, and residents in those eleven places will not be able to reach VIP.com poker site. These specific states have legislation that bans online gambling…

World Series of Poker owners, Harrah’s Entertainment, has made an unofficial statement that has the online poker world reeling in shock: they may not accept online satellite winners to the WSOP in 2007. Some 75% or more of the 8,773 players in the 2006 Main Event were online satellite winners, with the $10,000 buy in paid for by online poker rooms. Now that the US has passed a law enforcing a ban on online gambling, poker included, Harrah’s has moved to show respect for the law…

United States pro poker player and New Zealand and Australian resident Lee Nelson is to be the co-host of a new poker TV show called Celebrity Joker Poker. The show, to air on Network Ten, will also be hosted by Mike Goldman, who will accompany the 63-year-old cancer survivor on the show. Nelson, who beat out prostate cancer and draws some similarities to the fight with cancer and being a poker player, has been the number one ranked player in Australia and New Zealand for the past six years, since 2000…

NEW YORK - Despite repeated warnings from law enforcement officials, offshore Internet gambling companies have continued to advertise heavily in the United States. Giant billboards in Manhattan, some several stories high, brazenly advertise Internet gambling sites like Sportsbook.com, now based in Antigua. Promotions for BetUS, a Canadian and Costa Rican company that takes wagers on American sports, run regularly on the Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio. Fantasy football magazines on s

Late-night poker programming featuring some of the biggest names in the game? That’s what’s on tap when NBC rolls out its newest poker entry, ‘Poker After Dark.’ Currently slated for a kickoff on Jan. 2nd, 2007…

Just one day before US President Bush signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act into law, Excapsa Software sold its entire operation to Blast Off Ltd, a privately owned Maltese company, for a reported $130 million…