2009 July 31 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Starting today and tentatively scheduled to be a twice-a-month feature is a column on poker, currently played at three Pahrump casinos. News on all of the poker disciplines will be included in this piece.
The Legislative Black Caucus and the State Employees Association of North Carolina have stooped to new levels of irresponsibility in endorsing the re-legalization of video poker.
It’s been about two months since the funds for many online poker players were frozen and payment checks bounced due to actions taken by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Players affected by bounced checks were refunded, typically with a bonus in the neighborhood of 10 to 20%.
For a guy who spends a lot of his time playing poker in a Full Tilt jersey, it may come as a surprise that Greg Mueller’s nickname…
After recently celebrating their fifth anniversary, Full Tilt Poker could have sat back for a bit on its laurels and waited for its next FTOPS schedule to begin in less than a week (August 5th, to be exact). Being one of the more aggressive online poker rooms, however, Full Tilt has charged ahead with changes and is offering a bonus program that is open to nearly every player on the site.
In recent news released by Playtech, which operates the popular iPoker Network, it was revealed that the company’s Gross Income for the second quarter of 2009 rose by 23.3% year over year to €33.1 million. That figure was slightly below the €33.8 million recorded during the first quarter of 2009.
This week saw Congressman Barney Frank’s (D-MA) HR 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, officially break 50 co-sponsors. The bill establishes a complete licensing and regulatory framework for internet gambling outfits to solicit U.S. customers.
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