Following the month-long WSOP promotion, we finally have 2 winners who will be representing PokerRoomSchool in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas, this month.
Congratulations to our winners Mike K. and Christoph D. who each won a WSOP package worth $14,000.
Antigua, which won a World Trade Organization ruling last year when the US restricted their access to online gaming services, is asking for WTO authorization to target American trademarks and copyrights if the US refuses to change its legislation.
Last December the WTO ruled that US law unfairly targets offshore casinos.
They told the US that restrictions against sport betting could be retained if they were also applied to American businesses, such as remote horse betting and fantasy sports leagues.
The fear of cheating in on-line pokers biggest tournaments has always been an issue. Over the past two years in two separate instances two very highly regarded young tournament pros we’re caught cheating when winning the big Sunday events at party poker for over a 100,000 $ each.
JJpordigy was caught taking over an account he claimed to be his grandmothers after he busted out of a party poker tournament, and Justin Bonomo was caught entering multiple account into the same tournament when he won the party poker 750,000$ guaranteed.
Antigua requested $3.4 billion in commercial sanctions against the United States from the World Trade Organization (WTO). According to Antigua, the US did not comply with a WTO ruling that said US Internet gambling restrictions are illegal under WTO treaty obligations.
While the United States acknowledges that their online betting ban was ruled illegal by the WTO, the government is challenging Antigua's right to retaliate because they claim to be in the process of changing the details of its obligations under the 1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services.
The Feds also claim Antigua’s request is excessive.
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David “chip” Reese, widely known as won of the best poker players in the world Died earlier this week at the age of 56 .
Reese was best known for winning the inaugural 50,000 dollar buy in tournament at the WSOP and was a very well known and respected cash game player in the biggest game in Las Vegas for decades.
As the World Series of Poker entered it second week, it showed no signs of slowing down. June 8 saw the largest number of poker players ever to enter a single day of events at the WSOP.
WSOP Communications Director Nolan Dalla reported that two tournaments combined for a record 3,009 entries. The $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em event attracted 2,628 entries.
I knew there’d be no chance, absolutely none, of recalling much of the details surrounding my play in the main event, so I tucked my Moleskine notebook—it’s advertised as the notebook of Van Gogh, Picasso, and Hemmingway—into my back pocket with a promise made to myself to record my thoughts and feelings after every significant hand, or every half-hour.
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced The Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act in the US Congress as a companion bill to the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (IGREA) that Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced last month.
For me, the World Series of Poker is over, and I’m just beginning to climb out of my suicidal phase. I hate losing. It’s a blow to the gut, and I’m doubled over. What’s worse is that I hate the walk of shame out of the tournament area, where I feel like every eye is on me, watching me leave in silence, shame, and despair.
