By Michael Stetz UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Using a computer to beat chess masters is so 1997. Today - programmers are gunning for the world’s best Texas Hold ’em players. Forget Deep Blue’s mastery of bishops, queens and knights. Think pocket aces, open-ended straight draws, the flop – all calculated by increasingly popular poker bots. Last month […]
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A dispute over U.S. enforcement actions against European Union online gambling companies could be headed to the World Trade Organization soon, an European industry group said on Wednesday. That would open the door for possible European sanctions on the United States, although it could take years for any case to make its way through the […]
President Bharat Jagdeo said that draft regulations for the establishment of a gaming authority under legislation to facilitate casino gambling should be on Cabinet’s agenda very soon. The Stabroek News newspaper reported on Sunday that President Bharat Jagdeo said he had seen the draft regulations – *just the basic elements of the gaming authority.* One […]
A bill that would relieve a significant burden on U.S. financial services companies forced to implement a ban on Internet gambling passed a critical hurdle in Congress today. The Payments System Protection Act (H.R. 6870), approved today by the House Committee on Financial Services, would direct the Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve System, […]
Just one week away from a scheduled meeting with the European Union about current online gaming regulations, the U.S. has postponed the trade talks. The EU requested the meetings because they feel the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) is in violation of a treaty laid out by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The two […]
For the first time in over ten years the Republican Party Platform does not include language stating that online gambling should be restricted in the United States. Earlier in the month it was discovered that the Platform did include such language, but a loud outcry by the Poker Players Alliance, along with the rest of […]
The world record of bad beat jackpots was hit 14th august at party poker where a german poker player lost with quad 9’s against a Royal flush and the jackpot was a fact. The new bad beat jackpot record of $1,013,381.63 was in estimates 21K more than the old industry record. The german player “judith75” […]
PokerStars -Â the world’s largest online poker room, is pleased to announce another high profile recruitment to its poker team of international celebrity ambassadors. National Hockey League (NHL) icon and former Toronto Maple Leafs’ captain Mats Sundin will play poker both live and online as part of his new brand ambassador role for PokerStars. Playing online […]
What is Joe Biden’s stance on Online Poker ???  The answer has proven hard to come by. According to several websites Joe Biden has a favorable stance on the legalization of gambling. No information can be found about Joe Biden’s specific stance on Internet gambling, online poker, or other Internet related issues. There is one site […]
China said the number of Internet users in the country reached about 253 million last month, putting it ahead of the United States as the worlds biggest Internet market -Â according to the New York Times. The estimate, based on a national phone survey and released last week by the China Internet Network Information Centre in […]