Dusk Till Dawn, the United Kingdom’s only licensed poker club, has partnered with Bluff Europe to give free copies of their magazine to Dusk Till Dawn members. Bluff Europe is the top poker magazine available in Europe. Both companies have stated they are glad to be working together.
“We’re tremendously excited that Dusk Till Dawn has finally been given the green light. We’re committed to being Europe’s premier poker club,” said Dusk Till Dawn’s Media Executive, Adam O’Connell. “Furthermore, our [...]
Yet another Representative has signed on to support Barney Frank’s IGREA bill. Representative James Moran of Virginia signed on to help this past Thursday. This happened right after the Poker Players Alliance held a conference in Washington D.C. Moran has not been a fan of online gambling in the past. He voted yes for the passing of the UIGEA last year and in 2003 voted yes to ban Internet gambling using a credit card.
Times seem to be changing as [...]
The World Trade Organization partners have agreed to give the U.S. until December 14, 2007 to negotiate compensation settlement agreements with countries that have filed damage claims against the U.S. The claims are from the U.S.’ withdrawal of access to their online gambling market. This is a penalizing move it made following Antigua’s triumphant WTO challenge of U.S. online gambling restrictions earlier this year. There are many countries that have filed damages against the [...]
The Unibet’s CEO Petter Nylander was arrested on the 22nd of this month on French charges and has now been released to a hotel. He has agreed to stay in the Netherlands until he was transferred to France. He agreed to this after going to court on the 24th when his legal team stated they would not fight his extradition to France.
The arrest was made after Nylander did not appear in front of a judge that was investigating Unibet’s alleged [...]
PokerStars is announcing that they are offering the first-ever real money No-Limit Texas Hold’em poker tournament. It is going to be held in People’s Republic of China, with the establishment of ‘PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau: Asian Poker Open’. The whole APPT Macau tournament will be from November 22-27 of this year and it will feature a main event with an opportunity to buy-in for $2,500 in US dollars. The main event will [...]
The Poker Players Alliance, as known as PPA, is making new attempts to fight the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, also known as UIGEA. They started last night and it will continue for the next two days. The PPA will be hosting a string of policy conferences and engage in citizen lobbying sessions with Members of Congress in Washington D.C. Many of the world’s most respected poker players are planning to be there. Some [...]
Petter Nylander was on his way home to the UK when he was arrested by Dutch authorities on Tuesday. He was detained on charges of a warrant from 2006. It was a French warrant that was based on court filings by PMU the Francaise des Jeux and horse betting monopoly. They stated that Unibet had broken French National laws protecting lotteries and horse racing. The laws considered to be broken were from 1836 and 1891.
The arrest brought confusion to many [...]
A statement was finally released by Absolute Poker on Sunday by Joe Norton about the inside cheating scandal. He was the former Great Chief of the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake. In the statement he identified himself as the owner of Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, which is the holder of 100% interest in Absolute Poker.
The statement that was released acknowledged that there was a security breach in Absolute Poker’s systems, which allowed information about other [...]
80-year old Vaughn ‘Curly’ Fitzgerald was shot to death in Illinois on Tuesday when he was confronted by police on gambling charges. Fitzgerald was enjoying his usual poker game at a building he owned on Tuesday night when the police showed up. Fitzgerald came outside his property holding a rifle while police took up post out front. Fitzgerald shot Byron Starks after he ran across the parking lot with a handgun. Police ordered him to the ground but he did [...]
Absolute Poker scandal is breaking news today in the poker world. More and more information is coming out about what happened to the security breach in Absolute Poker.
The whole thing got rolling when some players started to suspect that certain players were cheating. Then a player by the name Marco played in a tournament at Absolute Poker on September 12 and lost to a player named Potripper. Marco thought some of the plays were [...]
