The movement to bring intrastate online gambling to California recently took a giant leap forward, courtesy of State Senator Roderick Wright. With his introduction of a marked-up SB 1485 to the California legislature with the intention of moving it quickly through the voting process, Wright has ignored efforts to put an indefinite hold on the process by Indian tribes. The issue is now moving quickly toward a vote in a state that is financially strapped and in desperate need of the revenue that could be provided by intrastate gaming.
It was in 2008 that the issue of intrastate online poker and other games first came into discussions, courtesy of a California representative that is no longer in office. Read full
Just as it appeared the final touches were being put on a deal to sell the World Poker Tour to a subsidiary of PartyGaming, a third offer to buy the company has been made.
At the beginning of August, Gamynia Limited agreed to pay $9,075,000 plus a percentage of future revenues for almost all of WPT Enterprises assets, including its television, sponsorship, distribution and licensing units.
The deal was put on hold pending stockholder approval and in the interim another offer was made.
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On Thursday, the oral arguments for one of the most prominent poker-related cases will take place in Kentucky. And you can watch it live.
The hearing, which is open to the public and available on http://courts.ky.gov/, could be the conclusion of what has been a lengthy battle between the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (IMEGA) and Kentucky Governor Steven Beshear.
The court case is a result of Gov’s Beshear’s controversial move to seize the domain names of several online sites, including many poker sites, such as PokerStars, Full Tilt, DoylesRoom, Bodog, UltimateBet, Absolute Poker, and Cake Poker.
In all, 141 domain names were seized.
IMEGA, an organization that has fought for poker players’ rights in the past in both federal court and in state courts, immediately took up the fight. The o
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One of the men who were responsible for Las Vegas becoming the gambling mecca of the world has passed away at the age of 67. Bob Stupak, the builder of the Stratospher and a poker and gambling legend, passed away after fighting a battle with leukemia. Stupak was taught poker by Puggy Pearson and used those skills to win a WSOP bracelet in 1989 in the $5,000 Deuce-to-Seven event. He also took a turn on the High Stakes Poker show and made the final table of the 2003 WPT L.A. Poker Classic
22-year-old Andrew Feldman is quickly becoming the new face of British poker.In just eight months, a fresh-faced Andrew Feldman spun a few hundred pounds into a $100,000 bankroll playing poker online.
It took less than 24 hours to make it all disappear.
“One night, I was coming home from the casino where’d I’d lost quite a bit of money, £2000 on 3-card poker, so I was a bit steamed up,” he said. “I thought yeah, whatever, I’ll go and get it back from poker. So I played out of my bankroll at $25/$50.
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