Poker News: Florida Congressman Robert Wexler's Skill Game Protection Act, which seeks to obtain a carve-out from anti-online poker laws in the United States has seen substantially increased political support since June 27, with a number of politicians signing up for his proposal as well as that for Congressman Barney Frank's Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act for the regulation and taxation of online gambling. Play online poker
Since Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson signed up as Wexler's first co-sponsor in June, 11 more Representatives have put their weight behind the Wexler proposal, which now lists the following: Read poker blogs
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) Play route 66 poker Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) Play full tilt poker John Larson (D-Conn.) James Moran (D-Va.) Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) Play $500 match poker bonus Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
In a recent and widely read interview with the publication Poker News, Wexler repeatedly emphasised how important the support of the poker playing US public was to a more liberal US government approach to the pastime of online poker. Play Strip poker
Wexler urged US players to contact their political representatives to protest against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and similar attempts to deprive them of their right to choice on a personal pastime. Play poker tournaments.
Representative Wexler is also a co-sponsor of Congressman Frank's increasingly popular proposal to regulate online gambling generally in the USA. Play women poker Joe Bartholdi
Poker News: Poker is an age-old game that took on new-age significance once it was technologically molded into engaging entertainment for television. Previously unsung poker legends are household names today, and new stars continue to emerge.
It's the essence of the 38th annual World Series of Poker, which began June 1 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and will reach a crescendo next Tuesday (July 17) when players assemble at the coveted final table of the Main Event, the $10,000 buy-in Texas Hold'em Championship. The winner will walk away with millions. Play online poker
When Harrah's Entertainment acquired WSO Poker Tournament from the defunct Binion's Horseshoe Casino in downtown Las Vegas several years ago, it reached out to the company's newly appointed vice president of sports entertainment marketing, Jeffrey Pollack, as the tournament's first commissioner. Play route 66 poker
In less than two years, the 1986 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism has led a team that has transformed the WSOP into a marketing juggernaut. Play $500 match poker bonus
Pollack brings an impressive background in sports media to the WSOP. Among other positions, including founder of The Sports Business Daily in 1994, he's the former Managing Director of Broadcasting and New Media for NASCAR Digital Entertainment and Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the NBA. Play full tilt poker Joe Bartholdi
Poker News: Canadian researchers report they have solved checkers (also known as draughts), developing a program called Chinook that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than 1 000 years. Play online poker
"The program can achieve at least a draw against any opponent, playing either the black or white pieces," the researchers say in this week's online edition of the journal Science. Read poker blogs
"Clearly... the world is not going to be revolutionised" by this, said Jonathan Schaeffer, chairman of the department of computing science at the University of Alberta. Play full tilt poker
The important thing is the approach, he said. In the past, game-playing programs have used rules of thumb - which are right most of the time, he said - to make decisions. Play $500 match poker bonus
"What we've done is show that you can take nontrivial problems, very large problems, and you can do the same kind of reasoning with perfection. There is no error in the Chinook result. ... Every decision point is 100 percent." Play Strip poker Joe Bartholdi
Poker News: More than 140 players hit the South Indian coast this year for the inaugural Asian Poker Classic (APC), vying for their share of $1 million - the richest poker prize pool ever offered on the sub-continent. Play online poker
Pleased with the results from edition one, organizers have announced the APC will return to Goa for a second go at it in March 2008, hoping to draw even more money and more pros to the felt. Read poker blogs
"We are extremely excited about coming back in 2008," says Imran Hassan, director of operations for the Asian Poker Classic. "The inaugural APC was a huge success, so of course the planning started right after to produce a bigger, better and even more luxurious poker tournament in India. Play $500 match poker bonus
Poker News: The World Series of Poker’s final table will be seated today and odds on the nine remaining players’ chances of winning have been installed at mega online sportsbook Bodog.com. It is now time to deal the cards. Play online poker
Unlike 2006 when the poker tournament yielded several big names of the Professional Poker ranks, 2007 is vastly different dominated by lesser known professionals as well as a few internet pros from varying nationalities. The most known professional to make the final table is bracelet owner Lee Watkinson. Read poker blogs
Danish internet pro Philip Hilm, is favored to win with 14/5 odds. Hilm, cashed for some money in the 2005 WSO Poker tournament. He leads the group in chips with $22,070,000. Hilm is followed closely by poker professionals Tuan Lam and Lee Watkinson, both at 7/2. Play route 66 poker
Hilms' advantage is slight though with relative newcomer Lam close behind with 21,315,000 in chips. Experienced poker pro Lee Watkinson has only 9,925,000 in chips, less than half the amount of the chip leaders, but oddsmakers are obviously giving weight to Watkinson's past tournament success in which he has netted more than $2.6 million in cashes and a WSO Poker tournament bracelet. Play $500 match poker bonus Joe Bartholdi
Poker News: Bodog poker pro Evelyn Ng is the latest casualty of the World Series of Poker. An opponent at Ng's table had been playing like a maniac for a while and so when he came over the top preflop she thought she had him with her pocket nines. Unfortuantely this time he actually had great hole cards. The best hole cards in fact - A/A. Read poker blogs
With no help on the board, his aces held and the lovely and talented women poker player, Evelyn Ng was done at this year's Las Vegas World Series of Poker.Perhaps Evey will take another shot at a bracelet and head to London in September for the WSO Poker tournament Europe.
Other well-known poker players eliminated today include: Barry Greenstein, Dan Harrington, Paul Wasicka, Patrick Antonius, Brad Garret, Joe Hachem, Montel Williams, Hoyt Corkins and Jamie Gold's mother Jane Gold.Speaking of mother's of famous poker players, David Williams' mother Shirley Williams is still going strong with $35K. Play route 66 poker Joe Bartholdi
Poker News: Poker history was made today but it wasn't soon enough for the game's poster child, Phil Hellmuth.The Poker Brat and woman poker pro Barbara Enright were inducted into the World Series of Poker Hall of Fame in a casual ceremony at the Rio Thursday afternoon. Read poker blogs
"You waited this long to put me in the hall of fame?" Hellmuth joked to WSO Poker tournament commissioner Jeffrey Pollack at a press conference this afternoon. "I was supposed to be there in my twenties - my thirties!"The honor is a nod to Hellmuth's record-breaking 11 poker bracelets and an illustrious career that includes a Main Event win. After receiving the trophy, Hellmuth thanked everyone from his parents to a friend who founded the business 1-800-FLOWERS.
He also took care to thank his wife for, in the past, having to put up with the poker lifestyle and its accompanying ego. The comment prompted friend and fellow pro Mike Matusow to shout from the audience, "What's changed?"f Hellmuth has his way, not much will change - at least when it comes to the World Series of Poker. The consistent winner has lofty goals for both this Series and future poker tournaments. Play online poker
"I'm not done yet," he said. "I'd like to have a nice long run in the Main Event. I'd like 24 bracelets." Though overshadowed by the Poker Brat, three-time bracelet winner Barbara Enright was perhaps more deserving of the limelight as she made history this year by becoming the first woman poker player inducted into the hall of fame. Play $500 match poker bonus Joe Bartholdi
Poker News: Shankar Pillai is a half million dollars richer today thanks to his big win at the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP). The New York Post reported that first-time competitor Shankar Pillai, 22, of Commack was one of more than 800 players who put up $3,000 to buy into the no-limit, Texas hold 'em poker event, a game in which there are face-up community cards for all players to use and face-down hold cards for each player.Pillai plays online poker with PokerStars.com. He began playing poker on the Internet at age 15. Read poker blogs
"I'd never played in a World Series of Poker event. I wanted to give it a shot," said Pillai, who won $527,829. "It was pretty intimidating. We played for 12 and 14 hours a day. [But] I would say I held my own." The Finance Major is using online poker to pay for his college tuition. Play route 66 poker
"I make a lot of money playing online poker," enough to pay tuition and bills and to put some into the bank, he said. "At first, he said, his parents had no clue he was a cyber card sharp, but that changed when checks started arriving at the family home with his name on them. "They didn't like it, but when they saw how much I was winning, they said it would be OK, as long as I stayed in school," Pillai said. "Now, after this, they don't think it's so bad," he chuckled. Play $500 match poker bonus
His poker hero is none other than UltimateBet's celeb poker pro Phil Hellmuth, for whom he got a chance to play with recently "It was a really good experience. Even coming in, I told myself, I really wanna play with someone who I really look up to - basically, just to see what it's like. At first it was so nerve-wracking, and I felt like he just knew what I had every single time. And I just got used to it. I'm so happy I played with the best in the world and still came out and took it down." Women poker players can maybe ask a tip or two from the new boy in poker! Joe Bartholdi
