2006 October 18 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3
Doylesroom.com, the innovative poker room and home of the popular Bounty Tournament, announced today that they will honor all individuals that have earned VIP status from any of the major online poker rooms. (PRWeb Oct 18, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/WmV0YS1JbnNlLUluc2UtQ3Jhcy1JbnNlLVplcm8=
Not all poker rooms have jumped ship when it comes to US players, despite the new law signed into being by President Bush on October 13th that targets the financial transactions between banks, online poker rooms and poker players. Publicly traded companies had little choice but to block US participation, as they are required not to knowingly break laws, but private institutions can make a judgment call on what will actually happen now that the law has been passed; one such room is Jungle Poker, which has decided to stick around and accept US-based poker players at their online poker room. In a recent press release Jungle Poker announced that it is “business as usual” and that their operations are “100% legal under International and Costa Rican law”.
When the new US law targeting the financial transactions of online poker players went into affect, many online poker rooms began to bail out of the US market, giving up the ghost and moving on to greener pastures. Some online rooms, such as Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars, were better able to stick around and let US players play, thanks to their status as privately held companies, and they saw good turnouts over the weekend for online tournaments. Poker Star’s Sunday Million event saw more than six thousand online players, putting together a prize pool topping $1.2 million, and Full Tilt saw massive attendance as well…
EAST CHICAGO | Police broke up a high-stakes poker game in East Calumet, arresting 12 adults and seizing a large amount of cash and 19 cases of beer.
Reports from The Star in Toronto indicate that the Ontario provincial government is about to crack down on advertising for Internet gamblingeither direct or indirect.
The row between UK betting group Ladbrokes and the Dutch government over cross border provision of online gambling services is becoming increasingly bitter and heated, with the betting company now about to complain to the European Commission after losing an appeal case in the Netherlands preventing it from accepting bids from Dutch citizens.
There was some pretty intense briefing activity going on at the World Trade Organization in Geneva early this week as a delegation from the island government of Antigua and Barbuda held consultations with representatives from the European Commission, Japan and China, which are third parties to its Internet gaming discrimination case against the United States.
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