- Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 4:55
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A Senate committee in the U.S. has recently approved Eric Holder, with the approval of President Barack Obama, to serve as the nation’s Attorney General leading the Department of Justice.
The vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee was overwhelming to Holder, who has served as Bill Clinton’s Deputy Attorney General. This week the Senate will ...
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- Friday, January 30, 2009, 9:46
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Jeffrey Pollack, who is the Commissioner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), is positive that the 117-day delay of 2008 of the final table at the Main event, which was a very controversial decision, benefited the game. That is the main reason that they look to have a similar delay at this year’s ...
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- Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 18:47
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Harrah’s has recently announced the schedule for the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP), which will be the 40th WSOP and is the biggest poker tournament in the world. The 2009 WSOP will, once again, be held at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious tournament will run from May 26th to ...
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- Friday, January 23, 2009, 6:52
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PokerStars.net recently announced that they will launch a new poker tour in Australia and New Zealand, which is called the Australia and New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT). The first event of the ANZPT will take place in Adelaide, Australia in Wednesday February 4th of this year.
The poker growth in both Australia and New Zealand in ...
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- Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 7:18
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Recently the Kentucky Court of Appeals handed down a ruling, which prohibited the Franklin Circuit Court from enforcing the seizure of 141 domain names in the seizure case. The findings of the Court were that Internet domain names don’t constitute a device for gambling under Kentucky state law. The Appeals Court also found ...
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- Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 12:31
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Party Gaming Managing Director, John O’Malia, has resigned his post less than a year after taking the position. He will remain at the company until the end of February and he is leaving in order to pursue other business interests. O’Malia recently stated about his resignation,
My time at PartyGaming has been extraordinary. We have ...
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- Monday, December 1, 2008, 10:57
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The stars of world poker descended on London, last week, for the PartyPoker Premier League III. JC Tran’s first visit to the Premier League proved to be a worthwhile one as the American star was victorious in Sunday’s final.
The player list for the Premier League III read like a ‘who’s who’ of world poker. ...
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- Monday, December 1, 2008, 6:02
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As I don't live in the US, I've no idea what was on the show or in the Washington Press. Here's
Poker News' article on the matter.
A cooperative mainstream investigatory piece offering an overview of the Absolute Poker and UltimateBet insider cheating scandals was aired by ...
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- Friday, November 28, 2008, 5:32
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60 Minutes and The Washington Post reveal how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That’s because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints. Steve Kroft and The Washington Post's Gilbert Gaul report.
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- Thursday, November 27, 2008, 5:07
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Compulsive gamblers now have an NHS clinic to treat them for the first time. The National Problem Gambling Clinic in Soho, central London, has opened it's doors for a 12-month trial.
Patients will be treated using motivational interviewing cognitive behavioural therapy alongside help with debt management.
More than 250,000 ...
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