A support was given to the bill that would give poker a classification as a game of skill. It was given by a representative of Poker Players Alliance in front of the Massachusetts State Legislator committee.
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.
Poker author, commentator, radio show host, and professional Bernard Lee linked an agreement to represent Foxwoods. The deal brought together New England’s most prestigious poker venues and the area’s top media personality.
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.
King Solomon is the small online poker room with accounts from the old Boss Media Network has now moved to International Poker Network. The move is now almost complete and can no longer have any access to the Boss Media-powered tables.
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.
HR 2267 is the bill for online poker legislation still remains on a rocking chair if it will be passed or not. People has been talking on Capitol Hill in the year 2010 is more about regulation and not prohibition. This news is good news to all poker players in the world. Read more »
Online poker players that enjoyed mining capabilities will soon end due to the announcement of the Microgaming Network. They have been caught up by the times and will eliminate the data mining capabilities of the online poker sites.
Data-mining occurs when poker players’ uses third-party tools that isolate the common weakness in their game by the display of hand histories and gain an edge over their opponent. In line with this, the company decided to make an immediate action to stop these players from having any access to damaging hand histories. Read more »
With a field of 328 players the Doyle Brunson Diamond World Poker Classic event is a tough cookie. But someone was there to climb to the top and fated to crush his opponents. Daniel Christopher is the man to be who won the WPT title bagging more than $1.4 million as prize money.
Alaei specializes on NLHE cash games and has already collected more than $3.7 million dollars in live games during his poker career. He has 2 WSOP bracelets to his name and had won the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better event and made 18 cashes in the WSOP earning him an amount of $1,533,917 respectively. Read more »
Poker production has no limit with regards to their poker show in NBC called Poker after Dark. They are going all out by assembling the best of poker players in the world playing high stakes game in their Railbird Heaven theme in two weeks time.
In this show, Poker after Dark - the most popular players in the poker world will be up against one another. The show will also feature the best of online poker. The buy in will start with $100,000 and will not be more than $250,000. Read more »
A prominent official of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has affirmed that internet poker is not saved from schemes and manipulation in the web.
Sawn Henry, FBI Assistant Director have written to Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama as stated: “There are several ways to cheat at online poker, none of which are legal,” Read more »
It’s been a while since the PPA or the Poker Players Alliance has seen steps to improve the gaming experience of American poker players. The passing of the UIGEA has definitely starved the people in the United States who wanted to play poker online. This is due to the fact that the UIGEA has categorized poker along with other non-skilled gaming in the internet world.
At the moment people assume that they are obtaining what they desired when the Democrats took over the House in 2006, however, what occurred was not the direction they desire to take. Read more »
It’s been a long time since the UIGEA legislation suck out the demands of poker players in the United States to have online gambling legalized. The PPA or Poker Players Alliance has been pushing reforms and bills in order to erase the negative feelings poise by the UIGEA. The UIGEA has been discriminately grouping poker with other kinds of gambling which is not fair because poker is more a skill game compared to other online games which are purely based on luck.
But at present it seems like that the change people look forward since 2006 has been started even though not in the same way as they have expected. Read more »
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