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SC Bill to Legalize Poker in Homes Failed

Apr 24, 2008
The bill that would have made playing poker at resident's homes in South Carolina has failed.  A measure that could have legalized recreational poker game...

PPA Launches New Voter Registration Program

Apr 22, 2008

The Poker Player Alliance (PPA) has reported that they have gone over the one million membership mark earlier this month.  At the time this was written they h...

California Investigates Legalizing Online Gambling

Apr 18, 2008

California is busy investigation whether they should legalize online gambling and if they do decide to legalize online gambling what should be permitted in the sta...

Lee Russo's Fight For Online Poker Delayed Til May 15th

Apr 14, 2008

The new court date for the Washington State Online Gamblin and Poker is now May 15th.  Lee Russo is the former gubernatorial candidate and Poker Players ...

Lawyer in Pennsylvania Says Drop The Poker Charges

Apr 12, 2008
A lawyer that was recently charged with operating illegal poker games says that they weren't illegal at all.  Larry Burns, 63, lives in Westmoreland Count...

Bill in Florida Made it Through one Committee

Apr 8, 2008

People in the US are trying to make poker an acceptable game and some people are trying to get legislature passed so that poker can be played in more states and ev...

Poker Player Alliance Statement on UIGEA Hearing

Apr 2, 2008
Former Senator Alfonse D'Amato is the Chairman of the Poker Player Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group that is comprised of almost on...

Florida Expands and Mississippi Worries

Apr 2, 2008

The Seminole Casino expansion and recent bills that have expanded their poker and greyhound racetracks that won approval from the Florida Senate Committee on Tue...

PPA Launches Litigation Support Network

Mar 24, 2008

The Poker Player Alliance has announced the launch of a free Litigation Support Network (LSN) that will provide basic poker legal advice and it will also provide...

MA Bill To Criminalize Onling Gambling Defeateded

Mar 22, 2008

The controversial bill in Massachusetts that would have allowed three new resort style casinos while making online gambling illegal was defeated by a House vote ...

Harvard Law Group Rallys Agains Gov.'s Plan

Mar 17, 2008
A Harvard Law professor and his poker playing students are going to stage a protest outside of the State House to rally against Governor Deval Patrick's casi...

Drew Lesofski Joins Poker Player Alliance

Mar 10, 2008

It was formally announced today that Drew Lesofski has joined the Poker Player Alliance (PPA) as their director of Grassroots and External Affairs.  Lesofsk...

North Carolina Raised 2 Much $$ For Charity

Mar 8, 2008

The North Carolina charity tournament is no longer as they have apparently tried to raise too much money.  One would think that raiseing a lot of money for ...

Ottowa's Government Trying to Ban Online Gaming

Mar 5, 2008
Canada's federal government in Ottawa has considered the 400 online poker and gambling sites in the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory (Canada's First Nations) t...

US Casino Players Face New Tax Rule

Mar 3, 2008
Poker Players aren't going to be able to bluff the IRS about their poker winnings anymore on Tuesday.  Casinos are now going to have record winnings of ...

Isreal's New Bill...Sound Firmiliar

Mar 3, 2008

There is currently a bill being proposed in Israel that will automatically block access to onlin...

Poker Player Alliance Lobbys Fed. Government

Feb 25, 2008
The Poker Player Alliance says that they represent 800,000 poker players nationwide and spent over $900,000 in 2007 to lobby the federal government about onl...

Powerhouse Club Won't Get Gambling License

Feb 22, 2008

The new owners of the well known poker club, Powerhouse Sporting Club is going to have to set a £250 gambling limit on their tables after losing their bit ...

Lee Rousso Gets His Hearing

Feb 22, 2008

Lee Rousso will finally get his day in court, he has filed a lawsuit against the State of Washington in the US in regards to their online gambling ban. In a stat...

Attempts To Put Online Poker Back in California

Feb 20, 2008

Back in 2006 Congress tried to stop the booming online poker industry and since then people ...

Five Million Spent to Stop Gambling in Pennsylvania

Feb 17, 2008

Five million dollars worth of grants are soon to be distributed to local jurisdictions in order to help eliminate illegal gambling in statewide private clubs.&nb...

Dice and Cards Legal Only in Church

Feb 17, 2008
In South Carolina a senate committee approved a bill that would allow legalized gambling in churches, even though it isn't allowed throughout the rest of the...

Battles Over Poker Brew in Europe

Feb 12, 2008

There are battles brewing over online poker in Europe, European Union and National Governmen...

Superior Poker Owner Looking at 165 Years

Feb 11, 2008

One time part owner of Superior Poker is now facing more than 165 years in prison for the online gambling offenses that accrued according to sources. 

No More Pokies says Australian Gov.

Feb 10, 2008

News came from Australia that a new plan could rid Clubs of Pokies in about five to ten years.  Tens of thousands of pokies are going to have to find a new ...

Illegal Gambling Bust....No Biggie

Feb 9, 2008
The first person involved with last May's poker busts in Winnipeg pled guilty yesterday but received no punishment.  Neil Faderon who is 27 was granted ...

Gambling Firms to Pay Addiction Tax

Feb 5, 2008

Over the weekend the Sunday Mail reported that Kenneth Gibson, a Scottish politician, has stated he would like to see a mandatory tax brought on all gambling fir...

Swedish Government to Recover Taxes from Undeclared Income

Feb 1, 2008

Last year the Swedish government were investigating online poker players and gaming affiliates. The Swedish tax authorities have released some of their findings ...

Players Take Advantage of Glitch on Befair Poker Website

Feb 1, 2008

A few players enjoying a game of poker on the Betfair website recently got a surprise when they all received money they were not supposed to get. Six players wer...

Florida CCG wants funding for Gambling Addiction Treatment

Jan 31, 2008

The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling(FCCG) are calling out the State government today in hopes that the State will set aside funds that would go toward gam...

European Union Taking Action against Sweden and Germany

Jan 31, 2008

Germany and Sweden have taking measures over the past few months to restrict or completely ban online gambling companies from servicing their citizens. For the m...

Lee Rousso Is Running for Governor to Overturn Online Poker Ban

Jan 27, 2008
Lee Rousso announced last month that he is running for Governor of the state of Washington. He will try to do so by winning an August primary over the current Gover...

State Owned Online Poker a Possibility for Finland

Jan 23, 2008

In recent news, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Finland was planning on introducing a new amendment that would essentially leave Finland online gamb...

Can Ron Paul Gather Enough Votes From Online Gamblers

Jan 18, 2008

U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul has taken an affirmative stand on Internet gambling, but will it sway enough voters to win him the election? According to ma...

Online Gambling Talks Again between United States and Antigua

Jan 18, 2008

Representatives from both the United States and Antigua are supposed to meet today and discuss the online gambling issues between the two countries. The World Tr...

Possible Online Gambling Ban for Finland

Jan 16, 2008

Over the past few months several other countries have followed in the footsteps of the United States and placed some sort of ban or restrictions on online gambli...

The EGBA Files Complaints against Germany

Jan 16, 2008

On January 1st a ban went into effect in Germany that prohibits online gambling. Because of this the European Gaming and Betting Association has filed a complain...

Online Gambling: UK WhiteList Extends To Tasmania

Jan 16, 2008

The UK WhiteList, as it has become known, defines what jurisdictions can and cannot legally advertising online gambling operations in the UK. Newly added to the ...

Online Poker Relief From US Presidential Candidate Obama

Jan 8, 2008

Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, is an avid poker player hoping to become the 44th president of the United States. Last Thursday, Obama won the Iowa State Cau...

Australian Cyber-Safety Creating Online Gambling Censorship?

Jan 7, 2008
A re-election campaign in 2007 called for Cyber-safety regulations that would require ISP's to enforce censorship of all age-restricted materials over the In...

Norway's New Responsible Gambling Code

Jan 2, 2008

Norway has enacted a new Responsible Gambling Code in an effort to avert the proposed Norway UIGEA. The proposed ban would prevent their citizens from transferri...

New Year Brings Online Gambling Ban to Germany

Jan 2, 2008

Many countries seem to be following the United States footsteps by banning online gambling in some form or fashion. Norway was the first after the US and then Tu...

Poker Addiction At Hand In Australia

Dec 30, 2007

In the ongoing effort to protect gambling addicts, Reverend Tim Costello, an anti gambling and poker machine campaigner has made a request to newly app...

Gambling May Soon Become Reality East Of The Philippines

Dec 30, 2007

Gambling establishments are close to become a reality east of the Philippines, to the island of Rota, part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islan...

February Marks Beginning of Yahoo!, Google Civil Trials

Dec 29, 2007

It was recently reported that Hagen Berman Sobol Shapiro, the law firm in the Yahoo!, Google case, released a stat...

No Smoking For Colorado Gamblers

Dec 29, 2007

2008 will bring a sombrous change to smokers who gamble in casinos in the state of Colorado (US). December 31st will be the last day that those players can ...

Ireland To See Big Changes in 2008 Regarding Gambling

Dec 29, 2007

Ireland will soon have their own gaming commission to ensure that upcoming new laws are followed by companies seeking to attain a casino license. Justice Ministe...

RGA Claims Discrimination From The U.S. in Complaint with EU

Dec 27, 2007
The Remote Gambling Association filed a complaint with the European Union this week arguing that the United States discriminated against them "based on viola...

Is The UK Running Illegal Satellite Tournaments?

Dec 23, 2007

Seats at United Kingdom (UK) poker tournaments or satellites cannot be won as prizes to those that are not in the UK Gambling Commission’s list approv...

Denmark Could be in Court over Internet Gambling

Dec 22, 2007

The European Commission has come under fire from the European Gaming and Betting Association over their delay in taking the Denmark government to the court. Denm...

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