The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association has opposed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act since its creation, and on Monday the latest development in iMEGA’s legal assault upon the UIGEA occurred when iMEGA filed their brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals.
The UIGEA does not actually outlaw online gambling, what it does is make it illegal for banks, credit card companies, and other financial institutions to ...
Last Thursday Kentucky governor Steve Beshear arranged a court-ordered seizure of 141 domain names with connections to online gambling. A hearing that was held in Frankfort, Kentucky halted the forfeiture of the domain names, pending the result of another hearing scheduled for early October, possibly the 6th or 7th. One owner representing two of the sites agreed to discontinue operations within Kentucky, but the remaining owners are digging in ...
The investigation into the Ultimate Bet cheating scandal has named Russ Hamilton, winner of the 1994 World Series of Poker Main Event, as one of the people behind the scam that involved superuser accounts with the ability to see other players’ hole cards.
This is a similar cheating scandal to the one seen at Absolute Poker when a superuser named Potripper was detected winning a big tournament through suspicious ...
165 players entered the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Seoul Main Event, and the sole survivor would be Yoshihiro Tasaka of Japan. Tasaka would finish off another Japanese player, Hidenari Shiono, in heads-up play to capture the tournament ant the $128,216 first prize. Nine players entered the final table, with Brian Kang of Canada holding the chip lead.
Play was very cautious at the beginning of the final ...
Party Poker recently brought a fresh buzz to their online poker room as it has just undergone a major redesign to both the poker room’s lobby and the poker tables themselves. Party Poker remains committed to providing the best possible poker experience to its players and have proven this in their new and convenient design.
The poker lobby is often overlooked, as it only needs to ...
Event #33 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was the one everyone was waiting for, the $5,200 No Limit Holdem Main Event. The Main Event saw 2,185 players enter the tournament, some buying in directly while others earned their entries through satellite tournaments. The prize pool stood at nearly $11 million with $1,260,000 going to the Main Event champion, ckingusc, a 22-year old poker player from South ...
Event #32 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $10,300 HORSE, an event sure to attract highly skilled players with large bankrolls. A total of 125 players entered the tournament to prove their poker aptitude and win a large amount of cash. In the end it would be DocHolatchya who would survive the gauntlet to capture the title.
The first elimination of the final table would ...
Event #31 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $1,050 Limit Holdem and 580 players signed up for a shot at grabbing a chunk of the $580,000 prize pool. Aasezz had put up a great fight to survive at the final table, and would gain momentum as he survived all the way to a first place finish. PokerStars was well represented in the money as Chris Moneymaker ...
Event #30 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $1,050 Pot Limit Omaha and 742 players paid to compete in the event and prove their skills at the game of Omaha. In the end it would be salamandra24 who would win the tournament and earn a WCOOP bracelet.
Stryoben33 was the short stack upon entering the final table and was the first to exit. Styroben33 shoved ...
Event #29 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker was $530 No Limit Holdem with Rebuys, and the 852 players who entered also forked over 1,011 rebuys and 658 add-ons to drive the prize pool to over one and a quarter million dollars. PiKappRaider would be the last man standing to collect the first prize of $211,133.76.
Roothlus would exit quickly after the start of the final ...
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