2007 October 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings

WASHINGTON Coming off a resounding defeat in Congress a year ago, the country’s top poker players are trying their hand at a time-honored Washington parlor game: lobbying. Nearly 100 leading card players are flying into the nation’s capital this week to urge lawmakers to roll back a ban on Internet gambling. They are led by Senator D’Amato, the New York lawmaker turned lobbyist who serves as …

Internet connection problems plagued multiple players across continental lines and on multiple sites, suggesting that it was a major Internet infrastructure problem. These frequent disconnections went a long way toward deciding…

A former FBI spy catcher has transferred his behaviour-reading skills to the equally devious world of international poker.

With so many people headed to Wheeling Island for poker’s opening weekend, nearby businesses say they felt the impact.

Poker might not be a sport, but it is a game of skill. That’s according to the Poker Players Alliance, which is mobilizing support Tuesday and Wednesday for legislation that would end federal restrictions against playing for money online. Nearly 100 of the PPA’s 809,000 members will lobby legislators for changes to Internet gaming bills.

Internet poker players are raising the stakes in Washington. Threatened by a federal law that restricts online gambling, the Poker Players Alliance, a two-year-old lobbying group that says it represents 800,000 poker enthusiasts nationwide, plans on pressing Congress this week to consider several new bills that would exempt poker from the law or regulate the gaming industry.

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