• Historic Online Poker Victory in Republican Party| Leave a Comment

    For the first time in over ten years the Republican Party Platform does not include language stating that online gambling should be restricted in the United States. Earlier in the month it was discovered that the Platform did include such language, but a loud outcry by the Poker Players Alliance, along with the rest of [...]

  • The U.S. Presidential Race| Leave a Comment

    There’s no doubt that voting is just like gambling and politics is a sport so it’s of little surprise that popular online sports books are taking bets on the next President of the U.S.. You can’t predict an absolute future so when you vote – just like in poker – you’re taking in all the [...]

  • Legalised Gambling in Guyana| Leave a Comment

    President Bharat Jagdeo said that draft regulations for the establishment of a gaming authority under legislation to facilitate casino gambling should be on Cabinet’s agenda very soon. The Stabroek News newspaper reported on Sunday that President Bharat Jagdeo said he had seen the draft regulations – *just the basic elements of the gaming authority.* One [...]

  • Joe Biden has been declared Barack Obamas running mate| Leave a Comment

    What is Joe Biden’s stance on Online Poker ???  The answer has proven hard to come by. According to several websites Joe Biden has a favorable stance on the legalization of gambling. No information can be found about Joe Biden’s specific stance on Internet gambling, online poker, or other Internet related issues. There is one site [...]

  • World record of bad beat jackpots| Leave a Comment

    The world record of bad beat jackpots was hit 14th august at party poker where a german poker player lost with quad 9′s against a Royal flush and the jackpot was a fact. The new bad beat jackpot record of $1,013,381.63 was in estimates 21K more than the old industry record. The german player “judith75″ [...]

  • Using a computer to beat Poker| Leave a Comment

    By Michael Stetz UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Using a computer to beat chess masters is so 1997. Today - programmers are gunning for the world’s best Texas Hold ‘em players. Forget Deep Blue’s mastery of bishops, queens and knights. Think pocket aces, open-ended straight draws, the flop – all calculated by increasingly popular poker bots. Last month [...]

  • Online gambling empire Bodog| Leave a Comment

    In April - former Vancouver resident Calvin Ayre caught industry observers by surprise when he announced he was quitting his online gambling empire - Bodog -, purportedly to regain his privacy and further his charitable activities. The surprise was compounded when he claimed he had transferred ownership of Bodog a year earlier to the Morris Mohawk Gaming [...]

  • EU requested meetings with U.S.| Leave a Comment

    Just one week away from a scheduled meeting with the European Union about current online gaming regulations, the U.S. has postponed the trade talks. The EU requested the meetings because they feel the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) is in violation of a treaty laid out by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The two [...]