There are a couple of district courts across the country that made the same ruling however there is no declaration from the state legislature. The declaration of poker as a skill game will give the people the opportunity to enjoy the game of poker live or online at the comfort of their own homes. Therefore, the PPA believed that the argument about the skill is an essential battleground.

The hearing in Massachusetts went well. The Massachusetts state director Randy Castonguay and litigation support director Patrick Fleming received no opposition when they presented their arguments. Another person who spoke in favour of the bill was the executive director of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, Andrew Woods.

The session took seven hours that made most of the representative leave the place. With the incident, the legislation seems unlikely to pass. The PPA is hopeful that the bill will be attached to a bigger bill in order to be recognized. Poker will definitely be a game of skill if the bill will pass.

Chiaradio told reporters that Lee’s professionalism and personality showed that a relationship would benefit both parties. Lee will be a valuable asset in bringing more energy and excitement to top poker rooms. Lee has also a vast experience from his career in business, particularly in marketing and new business development. He was a former marketing and new business manager for Fortune 500 company. Foxwoods will sponsor Lee’s radio show and as he will represent the casino’s World Poker Tour (WPT) room.

Lee is expected to appear in marketing campaigns for Foxwoods for two years. Lee made his mark in the poker scene in 2005, when he took the 13th WSOP Main Event for $400,000. Foxwood found the perfect candidate in the person of Bernard Lee. Chiaradio said that Foxwood Casino Resort is the premiere gaming destination and Lee is the top poker personality so the relationship is a perfect match. Lee has crashed tournaments around the United States. The question now is whether other casinos will follow Foxwoods’ idea of signing up with Lee to find the best match.

Joe Brenna Jr. is the Chairman of the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association. He claims that his clients from the trade association are in favour of the new bill in New Jersey. There is nothing in the bill that will prevent in the residents of New Jersey from continuing their game at different poker sites like Full Tilt and PokerStars.

The $100,000 fine would not apply to existing offshore sites for New Jersey has no jurisdiction for offering Internet wagering without the approval of the New Jersey Gaming Control Commission outlined in the legislation.

Brennan recommends a partner for the New Jersey with existing operators that have the expertise and software to run a successful poker site so that casinos only need to add their brand and can start immediately with minimum over head. Today, New Jersey already held a hearing on the sports betting bill about the State Government, Wagering, Tourism and Historic Preservation committee.

King Solomon players can no longer play starting the 1st of February but can still access their accounts to cash out before the closure. An email to all the players was sent by the Boss Media administrators last week to inform their players.

King Solomon was first under the Boss Media Networks, a Swedish company that controls and operates by the IPN. They have an average of 2,000-3,000 cash game players at any given time in their small playroom for the past six months. It is believed though that the site is not going to stop for good but will only switch networks.

Now, the new mover in the IPoker network, King Solomon, will be powered by the Playtech software. Other poker sites under the IPoker Network are the Chili Poker, Titan Poker, CD Poker, Mansion Poker, and Boyle Poker.

It was posted in the website of King Solomon that they will continue to offer its weekly $250,000 Guaranteed as well as the monthly event worth $1 million in the prize pool to all their players. In addition, this small poker room also offers poker variants like Omaha, Omaha High-Low, and Seven Card Stud in addition to No Limit Hold’em.

Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands CEO has been very busy for the past few days and for being hired as a Tallahassee lobbyist. He has made a lot of important contributions in Florida in regard to the pro-casino political campaigns.

Recent reports confirmed that Ft. Lauderdale legislator Ellyn Bogdanoff left with the plan of the expansion despite his early disagreement on the expansion of the State. He seems to side to the other side now.

The poker gaming industry has been looking for different markets to help them survive the stress they are undergoing for the meantime. Stress was brought about by the major investments that gaming industry has provided in places like Las Vegas and Macau.

In recent times, Miami has been attracting more and more companies to invest in their state. Miami is becoming on the target market of other big companies who wanted to invest in a different state. Big companies are targeting Miami in order for them to increase their stock values due to Miami’s economy at this point.

Their client’s home addresses, gambling histories in the poker site, account numbers, date of births, phone numbers and email numbers are the personal information of each client that are affected by the security breach.

Security breach from Ladbrokes is directed to Dinitha Subasinghe who happens to be the former Ladbrokes consultant and a Sri-Lankan-born IT expert. However, all the accusations were denied by Subasinghe.

It was believed by the Ladbrokes that the security breach happens through Mail Online. They have already passed all the files to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a British data watchdog that investigates the case.

O’Brien assures all their clients that they are doing the best that they can do to protect all the personal information of the clients. Their company has been working diligently t to find out the real culprit behind it. ICO together with the company are now working together to solve the case. Since it is considered as a criminal case, police as well as newspapers are working to identify and arrest the culprit.

As of the moment, Ladbrokes is working to reach out to all their clients to apologize for the said incident and reassuring them that their personal information is being protected.

Brunson, ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner made a comment to President Barrack Obama made from his twitter account. In response, he received a barrage of Tweets in response to his post that say “The Democrats say ‘give Obama time.’ Us Republicans [sic] agree, 25 to life seems appropriate!”

Some persons commented on Brunson’s post that it was stemmed from racially motivated feelings towards the President. However, after a couple of hours, Brunson made a new statement that his post has nothing to do with the color of the skin of the President. He also added that he may not like the 1st year of ruling of Obama but this has nothing to do with his physical features.

As of the moment, Brunson appears to be laid off the political Tweets for a while. The Full Tilt Red Pro and the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen disagreed with the Tweets of the poker legend.

The deal from the Commerce Casino together with the Bicycle club is being worked out by the Morongo to pursue the online poker in California. According to the Morongo’s spokesperson, Patrick Dorinson, they have been asking added support from different tribes to pursue with the deal that fell apart due to the issues that risen that it was rush through the legislative process.

One of the most influential groups, California Tribal Business Alliance has shown their disagreement in the proposal. They claim that it could violate the exclusivity clauses in gaming compacts with the casino tribes.

There are around 1.4 million Californians enjoying poker in an online poker via offshore websites. The proposal seems to gather potential revenue streams for the state and the Senate Governmental Organization Committee will take up all the questions about this online poker on the 9th of February.
Invitations have been distributed and speakers for February 9 are all ready to support the hearing. However, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) prohibits the use of credit cards and all fund transfer for the illegal online gambling except for the intrastate internet gambling.

John “JohnnyQuads” Wenzel, Canadian Poker Pro executive editor of the magazine made an elaboration behind their launching of a regional version of the popular magazine entitled Poker Pro Canada. As the games in Canada are exploding, they want to provide all the updates, in-depth profiles of Canadian players, news, scenes, strategy and even tips from the pros.

Wenzel believes that Canada has a bright future in the poker scene. There are numerous events in Canada in the past few months that give them a lot of publicity. These events would include the British Columbia Poker Championship (BCPC) and the Fallsview Poker Classic recently in Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada.

Canada has a long list of top players that includes the Team PokerStars Daniel Negreanu, Full Tilt’s Greg “FBT” Mueller, former European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo, Evelyn Ng, Shawn Buchanan and a lot more.

This is not the first time that this publication has released a new version for they already launched the Poker Pro Europe and Online Poker Pro. Canadian Poker Pro magazine will be released on March 2010 and will have an accompanying website to support its promotion.

Doubt still remains if this legislation can pursue or not due to political progress. As a rule, once the bill passed the Financial Services Committee, it will be pushed through passing the Judiciary and energy and commerce and will be conducting their own hearing in regards to the legislation of this bill.

Poker Players Alliance believes expects that they will be having a hard time to pass the bill this year for members of the congress will be busy entertaining their campaign strategy and planning their next candidacy for 2010 happens to be the election year again.

As of the moment, they vision the bill to get through on the last quarter if it will pass the House before the election campaign starts. But still members of the Poker Players Association seems to understand that poker legislation will not be pouched through this year for it start again its process in the House if it does not reach the Senate now. When election is over, new representatives comes in and that would mean a new convincing strategy is needed.