A video poker investigation caught another sheriff's deputy in its web recently. 55-year-old Danny Crawford Dye was arrested Wednesday. He has been charged with keeping illegal games and possession of a stolen gun. This is the second Berkeley County sheriff's deputy to be arrested during the course of a video poker sting. Last week it was 66 year old Chester Howell Jr., a former deputy, when he was caught with illegal poker games in his home, breaking the poker law of the land.
Marseille will be the next and almost final stop of the 2011 France Poker Tour. The action will kick off during Easter Weekend. Poker pros and poker players will gather for the event, hoping to win a seat to the sixth grand final of the poker championship of France. The final event will take place at the Aviation Club de Paris, a popular destination venue for poker tours. The grand final of the France Poker Tour will have a prize pool of € 1 million.
In 2010 the poker lobby rang up a $2 million bill trying to get online poker legalized in the United States. Mostly headed by the PPA, the poker lobby has become a strong force in America. Once labled a “grass roots” oganization, the Poker Player's Alliance has grown much, funded by poker pros and lead by Al D'Amato, a former United States Senator. The bill breaks down to $1.8 million spent on lobbying activities, getting the word out to the benefit of online poker
The PokerStars SCOOP schedule has changed a bit. We’ll tell you about that, the World Team Poker event being postponed, and more.
In light of the recent actions by the U.S. Department of Justice against the founders of Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, and PokerStars, the World Team Poker Championship Event scheduled for May 24th to 26th in Las Vegas has been postponed.
In an Associated Press article this week, Steve Wynn, the Chief Executive Officer of Wynn Resorts, discussed the recently dissolved deal between his casino conglomeration and PokerStars. The deal, which was signed on March 24 and terminated a week ago, would have seen one of the biggest names in the worldwide brick-and-mortar casino industry team up with the largest online poker site in the world.
One week after Black Friday, players respond with plans for their future after having their livelihoods threatened.
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