U.S. PLAYERS are very tired of being told what they can do with their own money. The Poker Players Alliance which now has over 1 Million poker members! Has become a very powerful non-profit membership organization. Barack Obama is winning support for his White House campaign from – America’s poker players. Mr Obama, who is […]
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The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), which oversees numerous online poker sites using Kahnawake-based Internet services in Canada, has released an official statement regarding the unfolding situation on UltimateBet Poker. The statement follows by several months the KGC’s earlier involvement in the resolution of a similar scandal at Absolute Poker. In its statement, the KGC affirms […]
The Poker Players Alliance is making another big push for online gamblers to contact their elected Representative and ask them to support the bill, HR 5767. HR 5767 will basically block the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). This Tuesday, the House Financial Services Committee will review the bill HR 5767 and […]
Newspapers have been blamed for a rise in youth gambling, especially on football matches, a media report said Monday. As a result -Â newspapers should run betting coverage in separate supplements rather than include it as part of their sports sections to reduce youngsters exposure to gambling, the South China Morning Post said, quoting a survey. […]
The steps that France has carefully considered appear to do an excellent job of protecting their citizenry, far better than a ban leaving online gambling to uncontrolled entities. Maybe the United States could take a lesson. France will create a regulatory agency, responsible for monitoring and licensing applicants for legal online gambling. Servers will need […]
Washington and Antigua will not resolve their dispute over Internet gambling by a Friday deadline, according to Antigua and Barbuda’s attorney in the trade battle. Antigua and Barbuda accuses the U.S. of crippling its lucrative gambling industry by banning Americans from placing online bets with gambling operators -Â including those based in the twin-island country of […]
The World Trade Organization is not the only international body upset with the US over its gambling laws: the European Union has now also joined the fray. At the end of this month, EU officials will begin discussions with US trade officials over what they see to be a discriminatory and confusing enforcement position. The […]
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) had introduced legislation that would allocate up to $40 billion over the next decade to provide educational and job training assistance to current and former foster care participants as well as people in declining job sectors. How does this affect online poker, you ask? Great question! The $40 billion in revenue […]
When University of Western Ontario marketing professor June Cotte started researching online gambling, she never expected to recommend its legalization. “If you told me I was going to come to that conclusion at the start of research I would have laughed,” said Cotte. But when the Richard Ivey School of Business associate professor dug into […]
There’s no doubt that voting is just like gambling and politics is a sport so it’s of little surprise that popular online sports books are taking bets on the next President of the U.S.. You can’t predict an absolute future so when you vote – just like in poker – you’re taking in all the […]