The World Trade Organization arbitration panel finally has revealed their decision that they made for Antigua on the U.S. ban on online gambling.
The World Trade Organization awarded Antigua the right to violate the U.S. copyright laws on their movies and music up to $21 million per year. They can’t exceed this amount but this is a good amount of money that they are getting for free.
When Antigua first filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization they were seeking $3.4 [...]
The invites for the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship have been sent out. The poker players have been informed and now the tournament just needs to start.
Many well-known poker pros were invited to the poker tournament. They also invited some poker players that aren’t as well known but had a great run in 2007. There were 64 poker players around the world invited to this tournament and they are playing for a big first-prize [...]
The Card Player Player of the Year was announced and the winner is David Pham. This will be his second year getting this award. He beat out Jonathon Little, who was the only one that could have caught Pham for the title by winning the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic that is going on right now at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Little was eliminated out of the tournament earlier and so was [...]
Everyone is going to have to wait a little longer to hear how much the United States have to pay in compensation to Antigua and Barbuda. The World Trade Organization arbitration panel, that is making the decision on the amount they owe, said that they need a little more time before they give their decision.
A representative for the U.S. Trade office named Gretchen Hamel had said that the report that would tell how much [...]
Poker Players Alliance, also known as PPA, has done a lot of good this past year to get the awareness out there about online gambling and player’s rights. The PPA has also written their half year report and said that the fight for poker has received a lot of support.
Alfonse D’Amato, who is the PPA Chairman, is the one that released the report that tells what they have accomplished this year. Also in the [...]
PokerStars.com the largest online poker room boasting over 100,000 live players online at any given time has recently announced they’ll now be offering Apple Mac users a downloadable client.
While other online poker rooms have offered java or flash based poker games for some time now, PokerStars now joins Full Tilt Poker as the only major online poker sites to offer native downloads for online poker on the mac.
Poker Stars Mac [...]
Dimat Enterprises has announced this week that they have signed three well-known poker players to write a series of poker books that are focused on No-Limit tournament strategy.
Some of the well-known poker players that are involved are Eric Lynch, Jon Turner, and Jon Van Fleet, who together have more than 200 wins, 1,000 final tables and cashes of more than $6 million the last few years playing in both live and online poker tournaments. [...]
A legend in the poker world has died at the age of 56. Chip Reese, who was the 2006 winner of the inaugural $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at the World Series of Poker, passed away Monday night.
Reese was admitted into the hospital late Monday evening in Las Vegas and then passed away in his sleep during the night, reported by a few media outlets. The cause of his death has not yet been announced but [...]
It seems that Bodog has won one of their battles for once. On November 28, a federal magistrate judge in Las Vegas ruled in the case 1st Technology, LLC vs. Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A. The judge ruled in favor of a motion that was filed by the defense team stating that the Bodog Entertainment Group is not a resident of Nevada and so they are not [...]
