According to Senator Harry Reid, new online poker legislation is on the table and “will get done”. I suppose the ultimate question is ‘when?’. However, with Reid (who represents the state of Nevada in the Senate) behind the new pro online gambling legislation, it does stand to reason that it may actually get pushed through. [...]
A new bill proposed in the state of Iowa will allow those over twenty one to engage in internet poker and other online gambling activities. If the bill passes, would-be online poker players would be able to create accounts at state-regulated casinos and then log in to online poker tables at particular websites. According to [...]
A British hacker has admitted he stole approximately 400 billion virtual poker chips worth somewhere among $285,000 and $12 million in actual dollars from a popular Facebook Texas Hold’em poker game and then sold some of them for money on Facebook. Ashley Mitchell gained administrator access towards the Zynga site where he posed as administrator [...]
Young, beautiful and rich is how you could describe Natalia Nikitina, the lovely Russian young woman (of only twenty three years old) who recently bested 188 players in her bid to win the €243,830 ($330,500) top prize in the WPT National Series Paris. This is the first time that a woman has come out on [...]
Hot British poker player Jack Ellwood is no doubt enjoying life these days as he has beat the odds and won f £870,000 after taking the risky move of dropping out of all of his university courses. The twenty five year old Brit ended his studies just a year ago with the aim of spending [...]
2007 World Series of Poker winner Sally Anne Boyer is suing Harrah’s and the World Series of Poker Academy for using her name and likeness in their advertising without her permission. She says that they are saying she endorses the academy. She filed her suit on Monday at the Clark County District Court in Las [...]
The bubble is the stage in an online poker tournament where the last player that must leave the table will go home with nothing while the rest of the players is in the money. If you’re playing a Sit’n’Go with 10 players the first three usually are getting paid while the fourth place gets nothing. [...]
It’s hard to imagine you could start out with absolutely nothing in the way of an online poker bankroll, and end up with a padded virtual wallet. Honestly, it’s not that uncommon. But with a little skill and a solid poker strategy, you can do just that. Take famed female poker pro Annette Obrestad for [...]
A prominent UK professional poker player was recently extradited to the US (more specifically, Colorado) in order to face murder chargers relating to his wife’s death in 1997. Sabrina Bebb-Jones (deceased) owned a Grand Junction hotel with her husband, Marcus Bebb-Jones when hotel employees reported her missing in 1997. Police questioned Marcus Beb- Jones, who [...]
Those who use or intend to use BC’s officially sanctioned online casino, playnow.com, will be relieved to hear that the BC’s Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham says that she is now satisfied with the security of the playnow.com website. This comes as the BC Lottery Corp has patched a bug which enabled users of the site [...]