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Manne wrote: Deep differences among members of the state’s politically powerful gaming industry, particularly tribes with casinos, have once again stalled legislation to legalize online gambling in California.

The chairman of the state Senate panel that oversees the gambling industry — and who has spent more than two years trying to craft a bill to regulate online games — suddenly pulled his measure to license online poker. Tuesday’s move surprised dozens of representatives of horse tracks, tribes and others, some of whom had traveled long distances to testify at what was to be the first hearing on the measure.

All indications were that state Sen. Rod Wright, D-Inglewood, lacked sufficient support for his bill. Its future is uncertain, as well as the potential $200 million in annual state revenue it would have raised beginning in 2014.

Read More: ONLINE POKER: Author pulls bill at first hearing | Breaking News | PE-com - Press-Enterprise
Online poker is legally played somewhere and there are lots of places which are running this illegally. I love to play poker game which are legal and licensed with authority.
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Manne wrote: The CEO of Caesars Entertainment has been crusading to legalize online gambling, and he makes some good points.

Online poker will become legal, Gary Loveman said in an interview with CNN. Already, several states are inching toward making it legal.

"I can say with tremendous confidence that people will be able to play play online legally in the United States in many places very soon," he said in the interview.

Read More: Will online poker become legal?- MSN Money
It is really a good news that online poker will become as soon as possible legally in United States. I love to play poker games and online poker playing is one of my passion.
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Despite federal and state bans on online poker, as many as 1 million Californians spend a total of about $300 million annually playing the game — typically on websites based outside the country. Lawmakers have been debating for more than four years whether to create a legal outlet for these players but have been stymied by opposition from powerful Indian gambling interests. Those forces appear to have scuttled a new proposal by state Sens. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) and Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) that was sidelined by a Senate committee last week just before a scheduled vote. There's a good argument to be made for legalizing and regulating online poker or, conversely, working more aggressively to ban it. With the tribes pulling the strings in Sacramento, however, California isn't doing either.

Read More: California's online poker problem - latimes-com
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David “Bakes” Baker gets his second bracelet while Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and Joe Cada come up just short of victories. Get up to speed with the World Series of Poker in our daily roundup.

What happened yesterday?

Event No. 29, the $1K seniors event, was won by Allyn Jaffrey Shulman, the wife of bracelet winner Barry and mother of Jeff. She beat former main event runner-up Dennis Phillips heads-up for $600K and the bracelet. Two-time bracelet winner Hoyt Corkins finished fourth. Report here. WSOP 2012 At a Glance: June 19th
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Bovada’s online qualifiers and satellites for the 2012 WSOP Main Event wrap up soon and so far, 49 players have won a prize package that will let them play in the biggest event in the game. Thanks to the online poker site’s player-friendly tournament schedule, you can join Team Bovada for the Main Event for as little as $1!
The WSOP has already started but Bovada is still hosting plenty of qualifiers and satellites and you can jump in and start playing your way to the Main Event right now. Players can choose from regular, turbo or Sit and Go qualifiers all week long to earn a seat in the weekly satellite or go for the gusto with Last Chance qualifiers that start as low as $25 + 2.50 on Satellite Sunday! On top of everything else, Bovada’s daily cheap seat events let you win your way into a quarterfinal for a dollar.
Here are the seat winners :
April 9: Pete M; Steve S; Nandit M; Michael H
April 15: John I; Michael T; John F; Doug S; Craig S
April 22: Steven K; Bryan O; Joseph J; Erik G
April 29: Erik S; Brian H; Michal S; Thomas C
May 6: Jesse O; Doug L; Travis K; Stewart K
May 14: Thomas P; Randen H; David B
May 20: Alec A; Kyle G; Thomas F
May 28: Santosh V; Joshua G; Randall J
June 3: Michael H; Josh P; Gay Y; Steven H; William W; Lance T; Jeffrey S; Ken K
June 10: Marlin G; Michael M; Ben G; Ivan A
June 18, 2012 Chris S; Michael B; Ralph B; Christopher B; Daniel M; Bill J
Winners from the weekly satellite get more than just a seat in the Main Event. They'll live large thanks to a $12,000 prize package that includes the $10,000 buy-in along with money for airfare, accommodations and a healthy dose of Bovada’s famous hospitality.
Visit Bovada's WSOP Main Event online qualifiers and satellite page and see just how easy it can be to find yourself in Las Vegas for the big show. The final satellite takes place this Sunday, June 24, so get started today!
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Manne wrote: There is no denying that Mike “The Mouth” Matusow is a unique talent in the live tournament poker arena with 3 WSOP bracelets and $7,907,302 in cashes to his name.

Playing online and especially cash games, however, is a different matter entirely and the outspoken 44 year old doesn’t mince his words when describing his lack of love for the format. As Matusow explained recently to pokerlistings-com:

“To me, I think they’re a bunch of criminals [online poker sites]. I just keep myself low. I don’t want to be around it. I’ve seen the downside of it. I’ve had millions stolen from me from Ultimate Bet. I’ve had my name smashed through the mud. God knows how much I had stolen from me by Full Tilt. I don’t need it. It’s disappointing to me.”

Read More: Mike Matusow Attacks Online Poker
Mike “The Mouth” Matusow has really made a memorable winnings in his life and there are lots WSOP wins are named of it. I think he is a great poker player.
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Manne wrote: Legislation in New Jersey that would authorize online casino games, including poker, has survived committee and now goes to a full Assembly vote, The Star-Ledger reported.

Gov. Chris Christie reportedly is on the fence about the current proposals (a companion Internet gaming bill sits in the Senate). According to a blog from John Brennan, the governor has “sidestepped” the issue in recent weeks. He also shot down an attempt at legalization last year, citing concerns with Atlantic City’s tourism.

Read More: New Jersey Online Poker Goes to Assembly Vote
New Jersey poker is going to online with poker and this is going to announce assembly vote for it. I love to play poker and New Jersey Poker is my favourite place.
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Manne wrote: Despite federal and state bans on online poker, as many as 1 million Californians spend a total of about $300 million annually playing the game — typically on websites based outside the country. Lawmakers have been debating for more than four years whether to create a legal outlet for these players but have been stymied by opposition from powerful Indian gambling interests. Those forces appear to have scuttled a new proposal by state Sens. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) and Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) that was sidelined by a Senate committee last week just before a scheduled vote. There's a good argument to be made for legalizing and regulating online poker or, conversely, working more aggressively to ban it. With the tribes pulling the strings in Sacramento, however, California isn't doing either.

Read More: California's online poker problem - latimes-com
The reality that this is a cheaper way to play the games we love does ending up being actually nice for a lot of people who are fantastic happy about this style of gambling these days.
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Manne wrote: Despite federal and state bans on online poker, as many as 1 million Californians spend a total of about $300 million annually playing the game — typically on websites based outside the country. Lawmakers have been debating for more than four years whether to create a legal outlet for these players but have been stymied by opposition from powerful Indian gambling interests. Those forces appear to have scuttled a new proposal by state Sens. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) and Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) that was sidelined by a Senate committee last week just before a scheduled vote. There's a good argument to be made for legalizing and regulating online poker or, conversely, working more aggressively to ban it. With the tribes pulling the strings in Sacramento, however, California isn't doing either.

Read More: California's online poker problem - latimes-com
The reality that this is a cheaper way to play the games we love does ending up being actually nice for a lot of people who are fantastic happy about this style of gambling these days.
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Carter Phillips won his second gold bracelet by defeating Joe Cada heads-up and Max Steinberg was able to capture his first WSOP title in this edition of ‘Battle for the Bracelets.’


Video: Carter Phillips and Max Steinberg Win WSOP Gold - Poker News Video
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The Illinois legislature is running another shameful budget, and so many of our citizens are unemployed. The government’s best chance to raise new revenue right now is to legalize Internet poker.

Whether you care about Internet poker or not, it is happening and will continue to happen. But unfortunately, Illinois gets none of the tax benefits because the market is occupied 100 percent by foreign operators.

We desperately need that money to stay in Illinois. We need a better law immediately. We cannot wait for the next legislature to do it. This is truly the most important measure our legislature could pass right now. It is a matter of fiscal responsibility.

Read More: Letter: State should OK Internet poker - Springfield, IL - The State Journal-Register
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The ladies have been performing extremely well at the 2012 World Series of poker thus far, and although they haven’t been able to capture that elusive bracelet to cap-off their 2012 WSOP, they have been making final table after final table, and it seems only a matter of time before the 4+ year drought is over.
In addition to their open-bracelet drought, the Ladies have also been stymied in the World Series of Poker Main Event, virtually since the tournament began in 1971. Since the beginning there has only been one woman that has made the final table of the Main Event, Barbara Enright in 1995; with Annie Duke coming oh so close in 2000, when she finished in 10th place.

Read More: Female poker players to watch for in the 2012 WSOP Main Event - National Online Poker | Examiner-com
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The United Kingdom and Ireland has some of the best poker players on the planet and also some of the most under-rated too. Over the next few weeks and months, UK & Ireland PokerNews are reaching out to poker players from the UK & Ireland and seeing what makes them tick. This latest instalment feature an online multi-table tournament grinder.

Hi and thanks for taking the time out to talk to us here at UK & Ireland PokerNews. Let's get things started with who you are, how old you are and what they call you online!

I'm Luke Fields, 22 years old and from Grimsby, England. I'm best known as LFmagic online.


Read more: Best Of British Isles: Luke "LFMagic" Fields | PokerNews
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Manne wrote: Coming finally to a stadium near you is what is being dubbed the International Stadiums of Poker Tour. Credibility was on the line for a considerable time as announced were made and then retracted or refuted. Most claims seem a little out on limb such as the one the Groupe Bernard Tapie presented to the public saying there will be 30,000 players playing online at Wembley Stadium using their electronic devises. The rolls will be reduced to 3000, who will challenge one another in an opportunity to take home a part of the €20,000,000 in prizes. Real felt tables will be placed on the playing field at Wembley which sounds somewhat strange indeed.

Well the dates for the first of the International Stadiums of Poker Tour have been announced as May 31st to June 6th 2013 at the Wembley Stadium with 2119 players who are now officially ready to compete for the €20,000,000 prize pool.

Calvin Ayre.com took the liberty of contacting the organizers behind this unusual concept. They have stated that officials at Wembley have “confirmed” the first poker event will take place from May 31st May to June 6th 2013 and they are expecting to have at least ‘20,000 to 30,000’ in attendance.

With this project there is still a certain amount of speculation the event is going to be a massive fail but there are actual bookings being made and there is advertizing being done and as some think when you build it they will come approach can work. “Ideas are a dime a dozen” someone once said but making an idea a reality happens all the time. Poker is about skill and gambling and that’s what the organizers of this dream are doing, using their entrepreneurial skill and gambling with someone else’s money. Nothing short of brilliant if it all comes together and good luck trying.
International Stadiums of Poker Tour has coming to enjoy all poker players in 2013 and its the most awaiting poker tour which I have ever seen in peoples mind.
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Manne wrote: It’s been a rough 18 months for Chinese Internet tycoon Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Early in 2011 a fraud scandal hit his business-to-business e-commerce site, Alibaba-com.

At about the same time, the U.S. government publicly shamed Alibaba-owned Taobao, a hybrid of Amazon-com (AMZN) (AMZN) and EBay, for enabling the sale of counterfeit merchandise. Last fall, thousands of small merchants protested online and outside Alibaba’s headquarters in Ma’s hometown, the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, against an increase in Taobao’s listing fees.

“I was so lonely at that time,” said Ma, who presents himself as a champion of local entrepreneurs and added the higher prices were necessary to fight piracy. “Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.”

Read More: China?s Loneliest Billionaire Ma Dabbles in Tai Chi, Poker - Businessweek
Ma Dabbles in Tai Chi has made a great history in China in the field of poker. He is very famous for his poker gambling and outstanding tricks.
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This is weird: Rafael Nadal has joined PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site.

The seven-time French Open champion will be an ambassador for the gaming site, playing in online tournaments, being featured in advertisements and appearing at charity events.

It's a natural move for PokerStars. Online poker was legalized in Spain on June 1. Getting one of the nation's biggest sports stars to endorse the product is a nice marketing coup.

Read More: Rafael Nadal to endorse online poker site | Busted Racquet - Yahoo! Sports
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IGT's interactive gaming service provider and manufacturer licenses allow the Company to partner with Nevada casino operators to provide online poker to their players.

"This is an exciting day for interactive wager-based gaming," said Patti Hart, IGT chief executive officer. "We are honored to be granted the opportunity to support our customers as they further expand their operations to include online play in the State of Nevada."


Read More: IGT Granted License from Gaming Commission for Online Poker - MarketWatch
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As professional poker players today we need to start thinking of poker as a business. We need to treat it like we all own a small piece of this business. The growth of poker will only enhance our opportunities to individually profit from the game in the future. Absent that growth, fewer and fewer of us will be able to call poker our profession. As a collective we need to understand the importance of giving back to the game.


Read More: The Poker Business - Matt Glantz Blog
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The big movement in the top ten this week was the return of Shawn Buchanan. After slipping recently from the top ten, Buchanan stormed back to the No. 3 spot by filling out his Period 1 results. He finished in sixth place in WSOP Event #22 ($2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball) for $20,322, and finished 62nd in Event #26 ($3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha) for $5,226 Along with two PCA cashes from January, Buchanan has a full slate of Period 1 scores.

Meanwhile, Jason Mercier slipped three spots to No. 5. His win in the High Roller Event at the 2011 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic (worth $709,767) dropped into Period 2, as did his seventh-place finish in the Epic Poker League Main Event #3 (worth $89,680).


Read more: Global Poker Index: Shawn Buchanan Back in the Top Three | PokerNews
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Lock Poker has just announced that the latest addition to their Lock Pro Elite team is Brazilian poker pro Felipe Mojave Ramos.

The multi-talented player began playing poker professionally in 2008 and got off to a great start after going deep in two international competitions, including finishing the €4,700 EPT Sanremo in 13th for €22,400 ($35,389) and the €2k EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo in 3rd for €44,400 ($70,257). Since then Ramos has racked up around $2.5 million in winnings, including cashes online under the screen name “mojave14.” Commenting on his latest deal with Lock Poker, Felipe Mojave Ramos said: Felipe Mojave Ramos Joins Lock Poker
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