Lobbying by Poker Groups
February 26, 2008
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The Poker Players Alliance (AP)spent $900,000 in 2007 lobbying for the federal government on online- gambling legislation.
This group says it represents 800,000 poker enthusiasts nationwide. They lobbied on a bill that would exempt poker from a law that restricts online gambling. Also for legislation that would regulate the Internet gaming industry. The alliance spent $780,000 lobbying on those issues in the second half of 2007.
Playing poker online is legal, but the law made it illegal for domestic banks and credit-card companies to process payments to online gambling businesses. The act, passed in 2006, bars financial institutions from handling gambling transactions, with exceptions for lotteries, horse racing and fantasy sports. Now this sounds a little one sided to me!
Alfonse D’Amato, a former New York Sen. Is chairman of the Poker Players Alliance.
Lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hHIHGfqLU4DFvZUD9E_DTWTa4t6gD8V1H12O0
Hearing Date On Internet Glambling
February 24, 2008
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Washington lawyer, Lee Rousso, will have his day in court soon. He recently filed suit against the State of Washington on the grounds that the state’s online gaming laws is in violation the Commerce Clause of the US constitution.
Reporting by Pokerlistings is that Rousso’s case has been assigned a court date of September 21st. Washington has arguably the strictest state laws regarding online gaming in the United States. Rousso is challenging those laws due to their apparent conflict with US Federal law. Here it is explained in an excerpt from his suit:
“Gambling, Internet gambling and poker are all legal in Washington. Therefore, the obvious purpose of the IGB as it applies to Internet poker is to force Internet poker players to patronize in-state, brick-and-mortar casinos rather than Internet poker rooms, which are legal where domiciled and not illegal under federal law, or to switch their Internet gambling from poker to horse racing.”
Read Article here:
http://news.parttimepoker.com/2007/08/03/hearing-date-set-for-lawsuit-challenging-washingtons-online-gaming-laws/
Meanwhile Internet poker: A Bill, AB 2026, by Levine, asks the California Gambling Control Commission to conduct a study by June 2009 on the feasibility of authorizing Internet poker in California.
It will be interesting to see what happens with all of this!! Stay tuned!!
Poker Appeal Fails!
February 19, 2008
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Judges from the high court ruled that poker is a game of chance, not skill. They rejected the appeal against a previous test case.
Former chairman of poker club Gutshot, Derek Kelly of London had appealed the decision last year, when a jury said poker was a game that depended on luck.
Kelly was found guilty on two counts of contravening the 1968 Gaming Act, for hosting poker games at the venue, in January 2007. Later he was conditionally discharged for 2 years.
To read more on this: http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=58694&c=1
Cake Poker New Depositor Freeroll
February 15, 2008
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$1.4 Million Poker Jackpot Won by 18 Year Old!
February 5, 2008
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20 hours ago
Mike McDonald, an Waterloo, Ontario Native became the youngest player to ever win a European Poker Tour.
Mike is a young pro, that is still in braces and not even finished his post-secondary schooling, has played hours of poker online in two major payouts.
After winning $20,000 in his forth tournament in Prague, his latest victory has brought his poker career to a new level.
His cash prize brings an invitation to compete at Europe’s biggest poker tournament in Monte Carlo in April, with a chance to win an even bigger jackpot.
McDonald stated in a release. “I start all tournaments thinking I could win or else I wouldn’t play.”
Everything seemed to go his way in the German tournament, when he ended up with three kings in his last and final hand.
He stated, “This event was great, when I had big hands the others seemed to just give me their chips.”
Mike learned poker after a chess teacher told him he could make good money by playing online.
He stated in an interview with pokerlistings.com, that he got the nickname, Timex, when he picked the first name that came to mind.
He said, “I just looked down at my watch, and it was a Timex. Now he can change it to Rolex..LOL
He says, he plans to invest his winnings, but may splurge on a hot tub for the townhouse he shares with friends.
