The advocacy group Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has become the main lobbying group for the online poker industry. John Pappas is the new leader of this 760,000 member force and now that the organization is based in Washington, it is stepping up its pressure to get US politicians to change the status of poker to a game of skill.
A policy conference is set for Washington, D.C. between October 22nd – 24th which the [...]
Four years ago after amateur poker player Chris Moneymaker won $2.5 million in the televised World Series of Poker, the dreams of millions of players flourished. So when Chris Benton needed a summer job, he thought online Texas Hold’em. Now listen to this, Benton can easily make an average of $40 to $50 an hour playing 5 hours a day. Compare that with what he’d make waiting tables for minimum wage plus [...]
2003 saw the first of 2 World Trade Organization complaints come against the United States pertaining to online gambling and the ban and build up there to by the United States Government. Both in 2004 and 2005 Antigua and Barbuda won their case in the international court. Even with the ban in place, US customers continue to migrate to the online poker rooms and casinos.
Over the last number of years, the US has established [...]
This time what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas and for a yet unnamed poker professional and Pamela Anderson, this might be a good thing.
Actress/model Pamela Anderson is in Las Vegas as the star attraction in the master illusionist Hans Klok’s stage show. She revealed she was down $250,000 in a poker game when she got an “indecent proposal” from a yet unknown poker professional. So now this unlucky night in Sin [...]
The World Series of Poker Europe is already setting records, milestones and making names. This inaugural event began on September 6th with the largest prize for any Live H.O.R.S.E. event in Europe. The final table competed for the 70,875 GBP first place, and the very first WSOPE Bracelet.
The first bracelet went to Thomas “Buzzer” Bihl, a German man, not brand new to poker, he has been playing for four years. He played [...]
Learn to beat the pros, from the pros. That’s what some are doing at the WSOP Poker Academy and the WPT Boot Camp. Both offer similar criteria and are held at different cities through out the year. They are basically two or three day poker sleep away camps were the WSOP welcomes around 200 amateur players to help improve their game and get advice from the pros. The WPT offers their camp to [...]
Less than a month ago we asked everyone to show their support for a Mac Pokerstars version. The turnout was great - I’d estimate that more then 100 people sent personalized emails to PokerStars. Just today PokerStars released a major update in their Mac beta software, the first big visual update in… well, about a year. Coincidence? 
They got rid of that ugly brushed metal lobby and replaced it with a fresh clean look. It’s [...]
As many of you who follow this site know, PokerStars has been hard at work on a Mac version of their poker room. It seems like they’ve been working on it forever now (It has been about a year), but it looks like they’re finally closing in on a release date soon.
I’ve been staying in touch with the Mac PokeStars Beta team, and lately, more then ever, it seems like they’re getting to [...]
Endorsements abound in sports of all kinds, but now they are reaching into Poker, more deeply than ever before. In a commercial created for ESPN, the American sports television network, Kentucky Fried Chicken (commonly known as KFC) has filmed professional poker players Gavin Smith, David Williams, and Paul Wasicka, eating chicken and discussing their ability to read different people, their tells and skill.
Poker Royalty, a player management, marketing and representation agency working with [...]
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