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Online Gaming Coalition Promotes Consumer Protection and States Rights
Sheldon Adelson and his anti-online gaming team encounter competition for the mindset of Americans on the topic of online gaming.
- Lead by a team of political pundits including former Congress members Mike Oxley (R-OH) and Mary Bono (R-CA), the Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection (CCOP) will advocate for the regulation of online gaming to protect consumers from the pitfalls of unregulated igaming and the erosion of liberty that would accompany an igaming prohibition.
- “Millions of Americans are currently engaged in online gaming. A congressional ban would essentially ensure they are playing on an unsafe black market without the strong consumer protections that all Americans deserve,” Oxley stated in a press release.
- “Congress can neither legislate the Internet away, nor consumer demand for online products. We need to do all we can to make sure that the Internet is a safe place for businesses, consumers, families and children,” Bono added.
William Hill Offers Free HUD to Players
Rebranded and stripped down Magic Hold’em odds calculator and HUD available free for players.
HUDs Come to New Jersey
partypoker NJ and BogataPoker get official support from PokerTracker.
- PokerTracker 4, a hand tracking database tool, has announced that has added support for the regulated New Jersey market.
- The updated software will now automatically detect Borgata Poker and partypoker New Jersey clients.
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Schedule Released
The lower main event guarantee will still be double the prize pool achieved last year.
- The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown is scheduled to run from March 27 through April 16.
- The $5m guarantee for the main even was lowered from the announced $10m, but is still double the prize pool achieved last year.
- The expectations are still impressive as the buyin has been reduced from $5k to $3.5k.
- The ambitious $10m figure was prompted by the success of the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open which achieved a remarkable $12m prize pool.
Timing Out in Tournaments: PokerStars Clarifies Policy
An email to a high-volume regular warning of “punitive action” over repeated time-outs spawns lengthy debate.
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: #42 – Chris Moneymaker The Mental Game of Poker
My next guest on the Mental Game of Poker Podcast really does not need an introduction. Without 2003 World Champion Chris Moneymaker, poker
would not be the industry it is today. Not only did help spark the
poker boom, he has been a tremendous ambassador for the game. What you
may not know is that he is perhaps the first poker player to put me on
tilt. Find out how he out-mental gamed this mental game coach on the
golf course, and much more.
Podcast: Episode 66: Andre Coimbra Wraps Up the 100K Challenge Thinking Poker
Andre Coimbra returns to the show to reflect on his year as a full-time multi-table tournament professional. He shares what he learned from the experience, his poker plans for the new year, the charity to which he ended up donating his 2013 profits, and more.
Podcast: Druff & Friends – 02/04/2014 – Where Do Broken Ribs Go? Poker Fraud Alert
garrett co-hosts. Druff tells of his ugly last two weeks involving the norovirus and breaking 3 ribs. Some news is given about Brandon’s possible return to the show. A bonehead cheater sneaks numerous fake 5k chips into touranment, then gets caught in ridiculous way. It’s time to boycott Cardplayer Magazine & call them out for complicity in Lock Poker scam. Apparently Lock Poker pros were not really all fired. Todd Brunson accuses Chau Giang of stealing $800 during live poker game. Caesar’s screws up, accidentally leaks $10k and above event schedule for 2014 WSOP early. Update on Full Tilt repayment situation. More problems at WSOP.com: Foreign transaction fees, deposit failures. Opinion: VIP programs for NV/NJ poker rooms are modeled incorrectly & punish part timers. Why does Greg Raymer need a stake to keep playing poker? Is Steve Wynn really against online gaming now? Update given on Peter Falcone. Mtgox might be having big time money problems. badguy23 calls in to insist he only scammed cla because he knew cla himself was a scammer.
Exclusive Articles on pokerfuse PRO:
Rational Group: A Relative Comparison of its Poker Products
Spain and Full Tilt offset year-on-year growth in dot-com and regulated markets. Over the last 12 months, Rational Group brands combined have dropped 4.2% in terms of cash game traffic. However, a look at the individual networks shows this drop is attributed to just two of its sites.
PokerStars Spain overtakes Winamax in Global Rankings
Rational Group now operates the largest two dot-country networks in the world. PokerStars’ regulated Spanish site recently moved up into seventh place in the cash game rankings, overtaking the French-regulated Winamax. It now sits next to Iberian partner PokerStars Italy as the two largest dot-country networks worldwide.
Regulation in Review: Europe and Beyond
A weekly review of the latest developments in gaming regulation outside the US. This week: France, Portugal, UK, Italy, Ireland and Alderney. France