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A recent interview with the President and CEO of Caesar’s Entertainment Corporation, Gary Loveman, revealed a promising future for online poker. Loveman painted a bright picture for online poker, explaining that it is no longer a question of if online poker will be legalized and regulated, but rather when it will be. Loveman suggested that not only will legalization allow US players to engage in online poker again, but it will allow for the employment of thousands of people when jobs are very much needed in this nation.

Many states including New Jersey and California, as well as Washington District of Columbia have proposed, passed, or are working towards passing legislature that will allow online poker in the US at the intrastate level. State Senator Lou Correa has put forth legislature that is backed by the California Online Poker Association (COPA). Legal online poker in California could be a major move in the right direction for the cause, as more than half of the nation’s pro poker players are based in California. This move could be huge in creating a regulated market for online poker in the US.

Furthermore, President Obama has asked a Super Committee of 12 people to raise $1.5 trillion. Some members of the committee are well-known advocates of the legalization of online poker. They may in fact find that legalizing online poker would bring in a large chunk of that goal, and this committee has already been given absolute power; thus, making the whole concept an actuality.

Loveman said in the interview, “I can’t think of another example where there is something an American can buy that no American entity can provide. I do believe there is a will in Congress to correct this…. We ought to clean up the regulatory and policing environment and that’s what we’re seeking. First, it creates the appropriate legal and enforcement environment where the game is being provided fairly by regulated entities that are known to the American authorities. Second, there’s a lot of job creation associated with this; we could provide thousands of American jobs if given the right to do so and there [also] would be the benefit of tax revenues.”

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Providers of online gaming services spend a considerable amount of money to get their online gaming services regulated and licensed; and when they have finally obtained the license to provide online gaming services, they are permitted to display the logo of the licensing authority on their websites. Lock Poker, which had displayed the logo of the Lotteries and Gambling Authority (LGA) of Malta, is now in trouble because LGA claims that the logo has no business to be displayed on the Lock Poker website. LGA of Malta does not often declare that an online gaming service is not affiliated to it; but it recently announced that Lock Poker, which can be accessed at lockpoker.eu, is not affiliated to the regulatory body in any way.

The LGA has announced that it has not issued any gambling license to Lockpoker.eu. In an official notice published on its website, LGA of Malta has informed the public that lockpoker.eu is not connected in any way with the LGA of Malta and therefore has no right to mention LGA of Malta on its website. Terming such a mention as “false and misleading,” LGA urged the public to gamble in a responsible manner with online gaming service providers that have been issued by regulatory bodies, which follow online gambling laws.

In July, the LGA of Malta had provided a provisional Category 4 gambling license to Merge Gaming Network to which Lock Poker belongs. This license is meant for operators who provide online gaming software solutions to host services of companies having Category 1 – 3 licenses. Operators having Category 4 licenses have nothing to do with the management of players. Currently, Lock Poker is being regulated and licensed by Kahnawake Gaming Commission.

It is worth nothing that LGA of Malta has not made any similar statements against RPM, Black Chip Poker, Overbet Poker, and Hero Poker, which are all part of the Merge Gaming Network, and display the LGA of Malta logo on their websites.

The air is now thick with rumors that the reason LGA made a statement that Lock Poker is not associated with it in any way is because of an altercation between the LGA of Malta and Jose Girah, a professional poker player at Lock Poker. However, this is just a rumor and there is nothing to prove the truth of it.

Neither LGA nor the professional poker player in question has made any comments on this issue.

The online poker gaming community was plunged in gloom when the US federal government cracked down on three giant online poker services PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker and forced their withdrawal from the US online poker market. One of the advantages of this gloomy event is the legalization of online poker in Washington D.C., the US capital. The Lottery Modernization Act of 2010 was passed on April 7, 2011 without the Congress making any objections. This bill legalizes a few games of chance and online poker, enabling the Washington D.C. based Intralot, a provider of lottery services, to provide online poker services to players residing in the capital of the USA. The bill has made this possible by making a small change in its definition of the word lottery.

However, many professional online poker players in the US are hardly enthusiastic about the fact that Washington D.C. has legalized online poker. Phil Hellmuth, the internationally acclaimed online poker player, who has won almost every single championship title that the competitive online poker world has to offer and has more World Series of Online Poker (WSOP) bracelets to his credit than any other online poker player in the industry, has emphatically claimed that he cannot see how online poker can work out in the capital of the USA.

In the first place, he points out that there just aren’t many professional online poker players in Washington D. C. Hellmuth believes that people are basically looking for a place to play online poker; he said that it wouldn’t be surprising if people just don’t find enough opponents online. Stating that the legalization of online poker in Washington is a “nice test,” with Washington D.C.’s population of 600,000, Hellmuth believes that there will not be enough players at the online poker site.

Indeed, if what Hellmuth believes is true then there just won’t be enough players online at the same time to make playing poker fun at any online site based in Washington D.C.

The fate of Full Tilt Poker, which was ejected from the US poker market and later had its licenses to operate suspended by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC), is one of the worst results of the US online gaming laws on online poker. The capital city of the USA might have legalized the game, but it is still not available to a vast majority of the US population that wants to play online poker.

Poker pro Will Failla only took two decades to make it happen, but this week he earned his first major title with his victory at the World Poker Tour's Legends Of Poker Main Event. The $3,500 re-entry event was held at the Bicycle Casino near Los Angeles. It featured 757 entries and offered up a prize pool of $2.5 million. Failla's share was $758,085, the largest tournament score of his career, and for the first time ever, fans around the world were able to watch the crowning of a champion live on the World Poker Tour website.

When Failla hit the final table, he had more than the chip-lead on his side: he had experienced. According to the records, he'd played in more World Poker Tour under his belts than all of his opponents combined multiplied by nine. He played through a rough path where he lost the lead on the sixth hand and stumbled even more on the 14th hand when Jeff Vertes helf a full house against a set of queens. However, he kept at it and finally faced down Ken Aldredge after hours of play with a pair of jacks versus a pair of sixes.

80 players were in the money at the Legends of Poker event.

Well, that's one way to keep playing. New Zealand businessman Matty Yates made an agreement with his wife that she could keep any money he makes playing poker, but she can't complain about the time or money he sinks in the game. Turns out, that argument made her a lot of money after Yates finished second at the Snow Fest poker tournament on the ANZPT circuit for a very nice $60,000.

"His theory is that if he gives me the money he can keep playing poker," Hannah Yates told the Otago Daily Times.

"It's a deal. She's not allowed to complain [about] me playing poker and she gets all the winnings,"

Hannah, who's in Wellington as part of the crew filming The Hobbit, watched her husband's play over the internet. At the time of the interview, she still wasn't sure what she was going to do with the money won.

"Just dealing with this, so not really sure, sorry," she said.

Matty is a businessman who's invested and helps run multiple businesses in New Zealand (including Tardis bar in Queenstown) and plays poker when he can.

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A group of Washington D.C. Council members announced on Wednesday their plans to take another look at the district’s $38 million lottery contract and intent to launch the nation’s first online poker system, according to The Washington Times.

The proposals were approved without public discussion in a budget bill this past December. While online poker remains a hotly debated issue, the crux of the investigation stems from “irregularities in the underlying lottery contract and the oversight activities of Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi.”

As the lottery contract concerns are coming forth, some council members view online poker as a completely separate issue. “[Internet poker] should have been introduced as a free-standing bill; then we would have had the necessary hearings," D.C. Council member Jack Evans said. "Since that’s not what happened, we’re trying to play catch-up by holding hearings after the fact.”

The controversy has recently prompted council member Tommy Wells to seek legislation to repeal the online poker measure. Wells also cited the need for a public vetting process. Evans said there will be another hearing for online poker in September.

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This is the first Heads Up to feature at Titan, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Basically, a series of poker races will run every Sunday and Tuesday throughout September.

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A few years ago most people's idea of poker was based on western films from the 1950s, in which cowboys would shoot first and ask questions later if a game of five-card stud went against them. Not any more. Millions around the world now play poker, especially in its online incarnation. The game du jour is Texas hold 'em, and it's so popular that even teenagers play it on Facebook thanks to zynga.com – for "play" money, of course.

But just as law and order came to the renegade towns of America's wild west, so too has online poker cleaned up its act. There have been controversies, not least that which befell online giant Absolute Poker, which faced allegations that games were being manipulated by an insider.

Moreover, the situation in the US remains unclear, as the scope of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which became law in 2006, continues to be debated. In theory, UIGEA, which made money transfers to play online poker illegal in the US, should have dented the American market, but try telling that to the hundreds of thousands of US players who have simply migrated to overseas poker sites.

Once there, those players encounter an industry that is in the process of consolidation, predicated on what Will Chambers, of gamblingcompliance.com, calls the "holy grail" – regulated revenue. "A great many online gambling companies are now listed on public stock exchanges, and there's no upside to them in cutting corners," says Chambers. "The trend in most jurisdictions is towards regulation and control and operators look towards regulatory compliance for a sense of security. Regulated revenue is seen as secure revenue."

But even so, doesn't this make for a potentially fragmented industry, as smaller players go after different segments of the pie? Not so, says Chambers: "Balkanization, the term used to denote fragmentation and the advent of a number of hostile, non co-operative entities, isn't happening in the poker industry – quite the opposite, in fact. The bigger players are getting bigger; with bigger legal departments, they are better placed to ensure pan-European compliance."

Chambers cites Ladbrokes, which having abandoned takeover talks with poker site 888.com is now in active talks with Sporting Bet – which is in turn in the process of acquiring Australian Centrebet and selling off parts of its business to GVC holdings. But while consolidation and regulation do represent where the poker world is going, Chambers also observes that "regulators are always playing catchup with the online betting and gaming industry as a whole".

That this is true is illustrated perfectly by a remarkable case involving Zynga poker, which came before the UK courts earlier this year. Zynga, a San Francisco-based social network game developer, develops browser-based games for social networking websites. On Facebook alone, Zynga claims to have more than 270 million active monthly users, and the company – which, in July, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in America to raise $1bn (£611m) in an initial public offering – is reportedly valued at $15-$20bn. So far, so dotcom, but the conviction of a 29-year-old hacker from Paignton, Devon for hacking into Zynga's accounts might just mean that the regulatory spotlight begins to illuminate a hitherto grey area: virtual currency.

The hacker Ashley Mitchell stole around 400bn virtual poker chips and began selling the currency on the black market for people to use on the Zynga site. He managed to pocket £53,000 before his arrest, exploiting the growing market for the online sale of virtual goods. For Graham Hann of City law firm Taylor Wessing, Mitchell's prosecution "is a great example of how lawyers are trying to figure out how real laws apply in the virtual world".

Highlighting the issue, Hann says: "Are virtual online chips actually property that can be stolen? What right does a user have if his chips are taken from him? Can the people who bought the 'hot' chips be guilty of handling stolen property? Can flooding the market with illicit chips devalue the Zynga currency, like the Bank of England printing money?"

Mitchell's conviction suggests that, so far as the UK courts are concerned, virtual currency is "property", albeit that it is wholly intangible and theoretically limitless. That being the case, Hann is surely right when he suggests that "we're going to see more cases of virtual crime in the courts over the next few years. It will be interesting to see how the law develops and how industry responds." Not least, indeed, as the regulators play catch up.

For the first time without its American customers, PokerStars’ World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) will hit the felt today with the first of its 62 tournament schedule.

From the inaugural tournament in 2002 until last year, the WCOOP had become the online equivalent of the World Series of Poker. Since its inception, the WCOOP has handed out over $219 million to its competitors over the span of its 228 total events. This year, however, the celebration of the online game will be a bit sedated as players from the United States will not be able to participate due to the actions of “Black Friday.”

Even with that said, there is still plenty of action for the remainder of the international online poker community. There is $30 million guaranteed for the 62 events, with several No Limit Hold’em tournaments offering a guarantee of $1 million or more to its competitors. As expected, this is drawing several top poker professionals, both live and online, out for the feeding frenzy.

The Twitterverse has been abuzz all morning as players prepare to take their shot at the first event, a $215 Six Handed NLHE tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million. “Just bought into WCOOP event 1. GL all, let’s have a long night,” PokerStars sponsored pro Victoria Coren Tweeted to her fans, a thought that was echoed by many. “Grinding the PokerStars WCOOP High Roller today and watching the Magic Pro Tour Top 8 live webcast,” Adam “Roothlus” Levy commented regarding the second big event of today’s WCOOP action, the $10,300 High Roller tournament.

Though the excitement was running high for some players, those that couldn’t get to the virtual felt – for one reason or another – expressed their dismay at being left out of the party. “Well, based off all the WCOOP tweets, I guess I won’t be using Twitter this month,” American poker pro Carter King ruefully stated. For another pro, it wasn’t the after effects of “Black Friday” that caught him, but a frozen account. “Good luck in WCOOP everyone, my accounts still frozen sigh,” European Poker Tour San Remo champion Rupert Elder lamented.

Over the next three weeks, the money will be flying out of the PokerStars coffers as players take down tournaments. Today starts with three tournaments (a $215 Nine Handed NLHE tournament will finish off the action today) and each of the next 21 days features at least two tournaments for PokerStars’ patrons. The big action is sequestered to the weekends, with the higher guarantee tournaments running at that time. The Main Event, taking place on September 25, is a $5000 buy in tournament with a $5 million guaranteed prize pool and a $1 million guaranteed first place payday.

It may be tough for some Americans to look at, but last year’s WCOOP was the biggest online poker festival in the history of the industry. Over $62 million was dispersed to the winners, with 141,126 buy ins building that prize pool. Such notable online names as “Xaston” (American Jaime Kaplan) and Russia’s “Kroko-dill” (Andrey Zaichenko) and professional players Richard “Chufty” Ashby, Shaun Deeb, Jason Mercier and Alexander Kravchenko walked off with the prized WCOOP bracelet.

The 2010 WCOOP Main Event was the biggest online tournament ever by prize pool and also became the seventeenth largest poker tournament in the history of the game. The eventual champion of the tournament, Tyson “POTTERPOKER” Marks, walked off with a $2.2 million payday, while Australia’s “Andy McLEOD” scraped by “Kroko-dill” to take down the WCOOP Player of the Year award.

Perhaps poker professional Jon “PearlJammer” Turner, who finished third in last year’s WCOOP POY race, summed it up best when he Tweeted, “WCOOP is underway! Will post daily updates as if it’s a big live tourney series because, other than the WSOP, it’s bigger than them all!” Poker News Daily will follow the action and report on big stories as they occur.

The Entraction network has announced that from September 29th players from Canada, Israel, Norway, Russia and Turkey will be blocked from playing on Entraction poker sites.

Entraction provides poker skins for poker websites such as Bettson Poker, NoIQ Poker and Victor Chandler Poker.

The move is anticipated to open the door for Entraction to eventually move into the US market when online poker becomes regulated, however whereas Israel, Norway, Russia and Turkey all have laws which affect the online movement of money (similar to UIGEA), and the withdrawal from countries with unclear regulations was widely anticipated, the inclusion of Canada in the “exclusion” has surprised many.

Are the Lotteries to Blame?

Although no official word has come from Entraction´s owners – International Game Technology (IGT) – it is known that IGT provide many video lottery terminals throughout Canada and may have a “no competition” clause written into their contracts.

It might also be the case that IGT want to break into the US video lottery market and fear that any perceived irregularities in their peripheral activities may handicap business opportunities in the States.

Not a Unique Move

The Entraction is not the first company to withdraw from Canada. Neteller pulled out shortly after UIGEA and even though most iPoker skins still welcome players from Canada, Paddy Power Poker also declines players from the Land of the Maple Leaf. Boss Media (suppliers of software for BWin Poker) completely pulled out of Canada following province-wide online casino regulation and Entraction may not be the last company to announce their exit from the market.

The legalization of online poker in the United States has been for some time in the headlines of newspapers and in the heart of the concerns of all poker enthusiasts, operators of online gambling and also the government. To solve the problem, the proposed solution was to give freedom to each State to regulate online poker rooms that operate in their jurisdiction. Some operators have already made their proposal to the competent authorities and if these rules are adopted, we may be on the right way towards legalization of online poker at this time when poker enthusiasts fear the worst: the prohibition of its practice. In the State of Nevada for example, a proposal was brought in front of the Legislative Assembly of that locality. Its governor, Brian Sandoval accepted the bill already passed in the Assembly.

The proposal made to the Nevada Legislature concerns mainly the rules that online poker and operators must follow which is the quality of service, the legality of the game and the stability. The proposal also provides sanctions to be afflicted to operators that do not meet the said rules. But according to the U.S. Commission of Gambling Control, the approval of a State is only a first step in the regularization and legalization of online poker in the United States because the proposed rules should yet pass in front of the Congress. But according to this, if online poker in the United States sees its activity legalized, the State of Nevada bring a big contribution at least in the licensing of operators of online poker.

We're very sad to report on the death of Thuy Doan, the 25-year-old poker pro that proved that one can be beloved by just about everyone with a pulse, even in the brutal world of poker. Thuy took up poker while in school at the University of Virginia and became part of the online poker boom, multi-tabling in mid-stakes cash games, but unlike many of her peers, she completed her degree. After graduation, she drove to Las Vegas for the WSOP and then moved to Los Angeles.

A cash game player, Doan was also successful in the live tournament circuit, earning four cashes in World Series of Poker events and one final table. Doan was the type of player who presented others with a tough decision: you wanted to play with her because she was a terrific competitor and lively table-mate, but you were also at risk for losing money, especially i you were playing $10/$20 No Limit Hold 'Em poker.

In mid-2009, she was diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma and in December of that year, a tumor was discovered in her upper calf. The community rallied around her and while she fought valiantly, cancer finally took its toll on her. She wrote frankly about it on her blog, saying "There are so many things I want to do with my life. It’s not death itself that breaks my heart but loss of potential to do great things."

Thuy, the poker community will miss you.

More troubles for Lock Poker have surfaced. This time regarding the Malta Gambling Commission. Apparently Lock Poker has been displaying the Malta Gambling Commission seal of approval on their website, which is specifically for sites that are regulated and licensed in Malta. According to Malta Gambling Authorities, they have never been associated with Lock Poker, and therefore, they should not be displaying the logo anywhere on their site.

There has been no gambling license issued to Lock Poker from Malta’s gaming commission, which they have declared via a statement issued on their website. The statement explains that the LGA of Malta is notifying the public that they are in no way whatsoever affiliate with the Lock Poker online poker site, and they have not earned the Malta Gambling Commission seal of approval.

Furthermore, the LGA urges online players not to visit non-regulated or non-licensed sites that do not display the logo, for only the ones that have rightfully earned the LGA logo seal are trustworthy sites.

The LGA of Malta issues four different types of gambling licenses to online gaming sites. Three of them are for those gambling sites with operators providing software solutions to host services and player management. A category four license has nothing to do with managing players, which is what the Merge Gaming Network holds, which is affiliated with Lock Poker.

Lock Poker however is currently licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission of Canada. Other online gambling sites on the Merge Network such as Black Chip Poker, Hero Poker, and Overbet Poker all display the Malta seal and have had no objections from the Malta Gaming Commission. So the question remains, what do they have against Lock Poker specifically?

The only speculation is a rumor that it is to do with a public altercation that the Malta Gaming Commission had with Jose Girah, who is associated with Lock Poker, but again, this is only a rumor.

We're big fans of the World Series of Poker* Circuit here at Bodog. They're events that remind us a lot of our own online poker offerings: a player can go in for smaller stakes or enjoy bigger-stakes tournaments that give them a shot at poker fame and money alike (along with a piece of jewelry.) The eighth season of the venerable tour series kicks off this Thursday at the Horseshoe Bossier City, just outside of Shreveport, Louisiana in the southern US.

This season’s unofficial motto for the WSOPC is “12 Rings in 12 Days.” Beginning with the Horseshoe Bossier City event, the sixteen stops of the 2011/2012 Circuit Tour will each begin on a Thursday and open the three-day Main Event on the second following Saturday. This gives players a chance at one of 12 official WSOP gold ring events over 12 consecutive days.

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According to several published reports, PokerStars has gained access to another of their frozen bank accounts, reaching a deal with the United States Department of Justice to utilize most of the funds stored in that account.

The account is one PokerStars held with the Hapoalim Bank in Luxembourg. The bank is connected to Sphene International Limited, one of the many financial institutions named in the Black Friday indictments. Sphene was allegedly involved with the PokerStars payment processing procedures, which were a major part of the case brought against PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and the Cereus Poker Network back in April.

According to the deal, PokerStars now has access to most of the money in the account. While it is not known how much money is in the account, the US government dictated that $5.5 million must remain in the account. This figure was the amount “derived from online poker play for real money in the United States.” However, the remaining funds have been released to PokerStars to use as they wish.

In contrast to Full Tilt Poker, which has faced a litany of issues in the time since Black Friday, PokerStars has bounced back well from the USA online poker shutdown. To date, PokerStars has paid back around $125 million to American players, and has continued full service to their players in other countries around the world. Meanwhile, FTP has been unable to begin making payments to American players, and has had their operating license pulled, leading to the current situation where their site is inaccessible to players worldwide.