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Kentucky's online gambling case hearing tomorrow.
October 06, 2008Tomorrow, will be the most important day for online gaming industry. kentucky's online gambling case hearing is scheduled tomorrow on October 7th. Lets hope the poker player alliance and Imega wins this case, otherwise it would be a huge blow to our online gambling industry and along with that we'll loose our major poker rooms such as poker stars and full tilt poker rooms.
Poker player alliance and imega informed that they are all set to fight against Kentucky's governor Steve Beshear and we are confident that this case will be in our favor.
I hope everything goes well, see you tomorrow guys with good news.
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Online Poker bill in Senate
October 01, 2008This could be the best news for all the online poker lovers as senator Robert Menendez from New Jersey has established a bill S. 3616, which will regulate and license online poker and other skill games in United States.
The bill "Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act of 2008" will resolve many issue's with regards to online consumer protection, age verification process and other safety measures.
The senator stated that bill could bring millions in revenues from online poker industry if properly regulated and licensed. Apart from poker, the skill games mentioned in the bill is bridge, mahjong, card dice or tiles, in which success is purely based on the skill of the players.
Lets hope this bill gets through and we can see a major boost in online poker, which we saw in the year 2003-04.
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Ky governor wants domains
September 24, 2008Yesterday, I read a post, where Kentucky state governor, Steve Beshear is asking court to give him permission to seize all internet gambling domains. The reason, Beshear stated is that these online gambling operators do not contribute anything to society, like paying tax regularly, attracting tourism and further added that these gambling operators are leeches in our community.
I don't know why these politicians are against online poker, which is totally skilled game. These politician do not have any other work to do? Actually these politicians are dumb head they are not aware of any such things that online poker can be dangerous or not. The main culprit is the local gambling operators who feed these politicians to take action against these business competitors. Its all business.
Seizing big poker domains such as poker stars, full tilt poker and doyles room is because they are doing very well in United States despite UIGEA rules, which is not yet clear as to what is legal and what is illegal.
Anyways, I hope everything goes well and domains are not seized as it can badly effect our online gaming industry.
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Barney Frank's bill passed in the house.
September 18, 2008I can say, its a good news, yes, only good news, that Barney Frank's internet gambling bill H.R. 6870 cleared the house, but it will be great news if the bill clears the senate and signed by president George Bush.
Barney Frank's Payments System Protection Act bill, will now enter senate and we hope it gets green signal from the members of the senate. Bill if passed by the senate will give banking and other financial institution's a ray of hope as they have suffered massive due to current UIGEA payment processing rules.
Current UIGEA rules surcease all payment processing firms such as banks and financial institution's from making any transaction to online gambling industry. All the best Barney
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Barny Frank introduces online gambling bill again
September 12, 2008Election times ahead, many bills will be on the table to get approved by the senate. Thinking of that, congressman or chief of financial services, Barny Frank has once again introduced internet gambling bill to repeal UIGEA. The UIGEA bill currently outlaw all forms of payments to online gambling sites.
Barny Frank bill's main aim is to abolish the UIGEA law especially law related to all forms of payment processing. Most probably hearing for the bill will be on Tuesday.
Lets hope this bill gets passed and bring charm on the faces of millions of online players.
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Dutch passes online gambling tax bill
September 11, 2008Dutch government has passed online gambling tax bill in senate yesturday. The bill states that government will impose 40% tax on revenues from both legal and illegal gambling.
According to Dutch government online poker, casino games like blackjack and other are game of luck and chance. The bill further added that provisions laid down in oder target individuals who win at foreign online gaming sites.
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Top 4 Most Valuable And Informative Sites In Our Poker Industry.
April 30, 2008Guys, this post will be very much helpful for those people who find it difficult to search good informative poker sites. When I was new to poker game, I was totally confused at to what sites or books should I choose in order to learn the basics of poker games.
I'll provide some of the best poker authority sites where you can get lot of information, daily updated poker news, upcoming and on going tournaments and other important stuff related to poker.
When we talk about the poker information sites, the first think that comes to our mind is Poker news.
1) Online Poker news no doubt is the biggest No:- 1 portal in our industry. Poker news provides the best daily updated news, live tournaments & schedule and the best thing about them is, they have got the whole site in other global languages, so one can choose any language that he or she understands the best. Lets move on to our site number 2.
The other famous and huge poker portal is Poker listings:-
2) Online Poker Site poker listings, is no doubt one of the best and the most valuable poker portal, with lots of content related to tournament feeds, 50 major poker room reviews, traffic trends to major poker rooms, free rolls, poker odds calculator in different global languages.
Let's move on to our 3rd best poker portal. I find Play Winning poker to be the 3rd best poker portal:-
3) Online Poker Strategy play winning poker is suppose to be the 3rd best poker portal. The owner of this poker site himself is a great omaha poker player and a wsop champ, yes, his name is Steve Badger. Steve won the Omaha 8 or better event in the year 1999 WSOP(world series of poker) and holding a precious world series bracelet. His site looks pretty dull due to design and looks but has massive valuable content for players and he is specialized in omaha game, so Omaha game lovers will enjoy his tips and tricks
.Moving to our final 4th best poker portal, small things comes in big packages, yes, it's Pokker cards.
4)How to play poker Pokker Cards is a small poker portal, but has some very valuable and important poker content especially for newbie's. The oddly name site has got many interesting poker strategy articles. The best article from this site that I liked is Sit N Go poker strategy. This site provides room reviews only for limited and major poker rooms in other global languages.
Please do post your comments and rating for this post.
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E-passporte Denies Online Gambling Payments.
April 14, 2008Another major blow to online gambling this week, one of the most important payment processor's of United States "e-passporte " withdraws it business from accepting online gambling payments from the U.S customers. First it was Neteller and now its E-passporte. There hasn't been any confirmation whether e-passporte will accept gambling payments from non U.S customers.
Cake Poker players, received an email from the cake poker that they have removed e-passporte as one of the payment processing source and will be getting some other payment processor in its place, for safe and secure depositing. Another poker room, 'Full tilt poker' one of the major online poker room in U.S has removed e-passporte symbol from all its main and sub pages.
Poker Stars, the worlds largest gambling portal also took major blow because of e-passporte decision to withdraw U.S market. One of the spokesmen of poker stars added that there is nothing to worry as poker stars players can deposit through e-checks which is one of the poker stars safest mode of payments.
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Online Gambling Growing In Germany.
April 08, 2008Despite online gambling loosing more than 80% of market share due to UIGEA ( Unlaw full Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ) in the United States, gambling has gained momentum through growing European markets. Worlds' biggest public listed online gambling firms like party Poker, pacific poker lost 90% of its business from U.S, but has comes back strong ever since they launched their advertising campaigns in attracting major chunk of players from Germany, Netherlands , Spain and other growing EU countries.
According to a research more than 2,00,000 to 29,00,000 players gamble online regularly in Germany, despite gambling being banned in the German country too. Netherlands along with Spain is even attracting handsome amount of player sing ups. In order to boost the popularity of online poker, famous German Tennis star 'Boris Becker' was seen in an online poker ad campaign.
