Archive | January, 2010

The US poker industry expects this week to learn the ruling in the long drawn case involving the Kentucky governor’s attempts to seize the domain names of 141 online poker and casino sites.

Republican senator Jon Kyl has a bone to pick with the current Obama administration over delays in the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act, and is allegedly penalizing the entire US population because of this nitpicking.

New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak has been praised by poker proponents for introducing S3167, a bill that has the potential to legalize online poker, as well as other casino games such as roulette, blackjack and slots.

The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday has left the world in shock, with hundreds of thousands feared dead and entire communities razed to the ground. Poker pros in the United States were no less shocked by the devastation and immediately got tweeting to urge their fans and friends to help in whichever way they could.

A Cornell University doctoral student, Kyle Siler, analyzed a whopping 27 million online poker hands and came to some very interesting conclusions. The results of the study were published online in the Journal of Gambling Studies and will be published in a print edition of the journal in the coming months.

Poker Stars online poker site announced the launch of a brand new poker tournament for the North American continent in the form of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT).

Apple has come out with a brand new application for poker fans in the form of Poker Outs which allows players to view their outs-to-win and outs-to-chop for various Texas Hold ‘em game scenarios.

News of the death of popular poker pro, Amir Vahedi spread across the virtual world in minutes over the weekend, and many people mourned this colorful player’s passing through tweets, Facebook comments and emails.