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The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), now over one million members strong, is taking advantage of the concentration of delegates and members of Congress at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions during the next few days, to continue to lobby for the legalization of online poker, by holding charity poker tournaments to benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of America.

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GUADALUPE COUNTY — Nearly a dozen people at two local underground poker parlors have been issued citations for illegal gambling in the wake of a months-long undercover investigation by county officials.

Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Investigator Lt. Kevin Jordan said sheriff’s deputies, Department of Public Safety troopers and investigators who work for County Attorney Elizabeth Murray-Kolb raided a home adjacent to the San Antonio Raceway Friday night in Marion and shut down an illegal poker game, issuing 11 misdemeanor citations.

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Colorado’s gambling law has put a damper on a star-studded charity poker tournament planned for next week during the Democratic National Convention.

The “Poker at the Ballpark” tournament initially had a seat in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, valued at $10,000, as the grand prize.

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Poker chips get advertised as Father’s Day gifts in sporting goods stores. TV shows with play-by-play tournaments are beamed into living rooms. Nationally, the poker craze is everywhere.

But in South Carolina, hosting a kitchen-table card game might still bring the police knocking on your front door with a warrant.

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ANCHORAGE — Alaska voters will be asked Tuesday whether they want to create a Gaming Commission that could expand gambling by allowing slot machines, poker rooms, lotteries or any form of waging game.

The seven-member commission would be created within the state Department of Revenue under Ballot Measure 1.

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Siobhan Grennan learned how to play poker to please a man. She was then just old enough to count the pennies from her paper route, and the man – her brother, three years her senior – was sufficiently bored that he was prepared to spend a few hours with his sis. But the hours added up, and by the time Siobhan was 14, her big bro figured she was ready for the big leagues: playing with his friends.

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It was only a matter of time before the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) became involved in the Republican National Convention (RNC), which kicks off on September 1st at the Xcel Energy Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the RNC, the PPA will be reaching out to members of Congress who have historically not been friendly to legalized internet gambling in the United States. The Republican Party led the charge to pass the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in 2006 and, at a recent hearing, forced the law’s ambiguity to continue. This time around, the PPA has partnered with the American Gaming Association (AGA) to benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of America.

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Judge Leslie Miller scheduled a Sept. 29 hearing to determine whether to issue a temporary restraining order to shut down the month-old Club Royale poker room.

The hearing starts at 2 p.m. in Room 475 at Pima County Superior Court, 110 W. Congress St.

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NITRO, W.Va. — The cards are finally being dealt at Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming Center, the last of three West Virginia tracks to implement voter-approved table games.

State Lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla says the agency has given the Nitro track the go-ahead to start offering poker on Thursday.

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MOUNT PLEASANT — Five “Texas Hold ‘em” poker players fighting gambling tickets from an April 2006 police raid finally get to argue that their case should be tossed out.

South Carolina’s anti-gambling laws are unconstitutional and unenforceable, they contend, and will ask a municipal court judge Friday to dismiss the case outright.

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