Poker group’s lobbying raises online law

February 27, 2008 on 7:24 am | In General | No Comments

The Poker Players Alliance spent $900,000 in 2007 to lobby the federal government on online- gambling legislation.

The group, which says it represents 800,000 poker enthusiasts nationwide, lobbied on a bill that would exempt poker from a law that restricts online gambling, and for legislation that would regulate the Internet gaming industry, according to a disclosure form posted online Feb. 15 by the Senate’s public records office. The alliance spent $780,000 lobbying on those issues in the second half of 2007.

It’s legal to play poker online, but the law made it illegal for domestic banks and credit-card companies to process payments to online gambling businesses. The act, passed in 2006, bars financial institutions from handling gambling transactions, with exceptions for lotteries, horse racing and fantasy sports.

The Poker Players Alliance is chaired by former New York Sen. Alfonse D’Amato.

Lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995.

 

 

 

Bad steps..

February 18, 2008 on 12:19 am | In General | No Comments

I’ve been playing the step tournaments at Empire/Party today and I have had a bit of a bad day with 5 step 1’s played and only one 4th place to show for it.

In the first game my AJ was all in was against AK(7th place finish – I admit that was bad play!). In the second my KJ shove was called by A5 (7th place again –at least this was a marginal +EV play). In third I finished 4th but I went out with a K 10 shove as short stack against QQ (eek!). In the 4th I pushed after the flop with an open ended draw whilst I still had a deep stack which was a critical error and in the 5th I pushed with 44 and was up against AQ and a substantially high board saw an Ace come. This was probably my best +EV play of the day so that is about the only one where I didn’t make a mistake!

Hopefully I’ll do better in the week.

The Biggest Poker League On The Net is Now Underway at CelebPoker.com

February 15, 2008 on 5:56 pm | In General | No Comments

CelebPoker League is now underway with a massive prize pool of more than 612,000 in prize money to be won through their new Poker League. The new Poker League will be run as a monthly competition for all CelebPoker players, factoring in a unique points system (which considers the number of participants and level of buy-in at each tournament) to ensure that only the best players rise to the top of the table. Indeed, with a staggering 51,000 to be won every month, the lofty position at the top of the leader-board is definitely a place that poker players will want to finish.

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Judges rule that poker is a game of chance

February 13, 2008 on 10:05 am | In General | No Comments

Poker is a game largely dependent on luck, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.

Derek Kelly, the former chairman of a private poker club, had argued that it was a game of skill, meaning that he did not need a licence under the 1968 Gaming Act, which required it only for games of chance. But a jury at London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court last year found him to have breached gambling laws in a test case prosecution that has caused considerable difficulties for a number of tournament organisers.

Kelly, 46, a financial analyst, of Greystones, Co Wicklow, was conditionally discharged for two years and his subsequent appeal over his conviction was rejected yesterday.

The 1968 legislation requires a licence for commercial games of chance such as roulette but not games of skill such as chess. Without a licence, it is forbidden to impose levies on winnings and charge participation fees to players hoping for a fortune from the world of flops, pairs, blind bets and Texas Hold’ems.

Kelly was convicted in January last year of illegally doing both after a jury decided that poker and chance went hand in hand. The five-day trial - which came amid the game’s growing popularity in Britain - centred on the Texas Hold’em version of poker in which players are each dealt two cards with a “community pool” of five more on the table.

The court heard that investigators visited his club - Gutshot Private Members Club in Clerkenwell, central London - in December 2004 and found that it was retaining a £270 cut on the £2,165 “prize pot”. The next month they discovered players being charged for a game.

Hendon Mob League disaster again

February 12, 2008 on 11:08 pm | In General | No Comments

Once again I seemed to completely misplay the non NL league game. This week was Limit and to be honest I didn’t realise that until the second level. I felt such a fool and yet I managed to get a few hundred chips above my starting stack and then I disconnected and it took a few mins for me to get back and 10 minutes later it went again and this time I almost missed the whole level at 80/160 so I was getting short and I had AK of clubs so I jammed the pot and two clubs on the flop ended up with me trying to get all my chips in. Unfortunately no further club came and my opponent had KK so I’m out early again…80th from 90.

I need to try and make up for that on Thursday when APAT have their next game.

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