Rep. George Miller (D-CA) has signed on to be a cosponsor of Rep. Barney Frank’s (D-MA) Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act. The IGREA is a response to the Unlawful Internet Gambling and Enforcement Act, which bans financial institutions from processing payments to online gambling companies. The IGREA is attempting to allow online gambling companies to operate legally in the United States, but under regulation, with online gambling companies required [...]
The European Commission, continuing its crackdown on violations of the EU Treaty, which forbids countries from prohibiting fair competition in the market sector, has sent a formal request to the governments of The Netherlands and Greece, asking them to remove the restrictions that are currently in place on online gaming.
The European Commission has made their formal requests to block the formation of online gaming monopolies and to destory the monopolies that are [...]
Last night the matchups for today’s first round matches at the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship were revealed. The 64 players have been separated into four brackets, with the hearts bracket starting at 10:15 a.m, the diamonds bracket at 1:15 p.m., the clubs bracket at 4:15 p.m and the spades bracket at 6:45p.m. There will be no easy matches for anyone, as teh player field is full of high-caliber competitors. There [...]
Ben Hock was the underdog heading into heads-up play Michael Martin, who had been the chip leader throughout the finaly table, but he overcame his disadvantage to capture the tournament, the championship ring, an entry into the 2008 World Series Of Poker Main Event, and most importantly of all, the first place prize money.
Howard Wolper, who had been the chip leader on day 1, made it to the final table as the short stack. [...]
A poker game was being held in a house in San Antonio when three masked men stormed into the house through the back door, robbing the players of the $3000 in the game as well as their wallets. During the robbery, 49-year old Charles Lineberry was shot twice in the chest. According to police, the buy-in for the game was $300, guaranteeing the bandits a lot of money to make off with.
Charles [...]
In Limit Omaha tournaments, especially when playing online, you will feel pressured to call with a lot of hands, as a large portion of your table is doing the same, calling to see what they hope will be the perfect flop for their hand. The players are very loose and love to limp in, as very few people are confident enough to raise preflop when they know they’ll likely have five or six callers. Pressure will be placed [...]
Tim Vance, an amateur poker player from St. Louis, Missouri took a huge chip lead into the final table and emerged as the champion of the European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open, which took place in Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark. Vance qualified online for the tournament through Poker Stars. When the final table began, Vance had nearly twice as many chips as his next nearest competitor.
Patrik Andersson would be the first [...]
Duane Demaris Crittenden II was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder for killing three men at a private poker game he had attended. Crittenden had left the poker game, but believing that he had been cheated, he returned only to kill three other men. A statement by the Putnam County Sheriff’s offices says that Crittenden shot Jerome Anthony Henry and Richard David Smith one time each, and he shot [...]
One of the most difficult decisions to make in poker is to risk your entire chip stack. There is so much uncertainty in poker that it is never a comfortable decision to make. You could hold pocket aces and still be uneasy because you don’t know whether your hand will survive the community cards that are revealed. Anytime you push all your chips into the middle, there will always be the chance that none of them are [...]
With the conclusion of the playoffs, the final table had been set, with Tony Guoga, Andy Black, Alex Kravchenko, Marcel Lüske, Roland de Wolfe and Annie Duke fighting it out for the honor of becoming champion, as well as for the money that went with it.
Excitement was in the air as play began, and chips were flying around the table as the players jockeyed for position. After forty-nine hands of [...]
