The federal internet poker legalisation bill that everyone is talking about – Texas Republican Joe Barton’s proposal – is to be unveiled later today (Friday) at a press conference in Washington DC, reports the political newspaper The Hill. Representative Barton’s proposal has the backing of Reps. Read the full post >>

A sense of deja vu was perhaps inevitable this week as Congressman Jim McDermott launched HR2230, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act, in the House Financial Services Committee, supported by Representative John Campbell and the committee’s ranking Democrat member Barney Frank. Deja vu, because McDermott was the man behind previous online gambling tax [...]

Kim Nguyen just missed becoming one of the exclusive band of women who hold a WSOP winner’s bracelet this week, but had the consolation of a runner-up prize worth $131,900 after a spirited but unsuccessful one-and-a-half hour clash with Brit player Darren Woods, who took the bracelet for event 19 – the $2,500 Limit Hold’em [...]

One of the notable online gambling breakthroughs in the United States this year – the adoption of an internet gambling legalisation proposal in Washington DC – is back under the media microscope following allegations that the measure’s author was in the pay of a legal firm at the time and did not disclose this. In [...]

Phil Ivey Shocks the Poker World Phil Ivey hasn’t played a single hand at the 2011 WSOP yet has managed to become the center of attention, announcing during the first day of play on May 31st that he was not only sitting out the entire 2011 WSOP but was suing online poker site Full Tilt [...]