By NEWSCHANNEL 5
Monday, June 30th, 2008
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MISSION – A letter from a NEWSCHANNEL 5 viewer triggers a police investigation and an overnight raid of an illegal gambling operation in Mission.
A worried neighbor tipped us off with an anonymous letter. It says gamblers pack the neighborhood every Saturday night, and it’s been happening for eight months.
By Rep. Barney Frank
Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Two wings of the Republican Party engaged in political combat on Wednesday, June 25th over an important question of regulation of the financial sector of our economy. The result was about as one-sided as it could be – the social/religious conservatives who believe that the main function of government should be to impose various personal behavioral choices on individuals beat those whose main goal is loosening what they believe to be inefficient restrictions on the free market economy by better than 9 to 1.
By US House of Representatives
Friday, June 27th, 2008
By Online-Casinos
Friday, June 27th, 2008
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7 to 1 passage through key committee for Levine poker bill
Good news from the Sunshine State this week is that AB2026, a bill to legalise Internet poker in California proposed by Democrat assemblyman Lloyd E. Levine (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa report), passed the state Senate Governmental Organization Committee in a 7-to-1 vote this week.
By Noam Sharvit
Friday, June 27th, 2008
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The Tel Aviv Magistrates Court has convicted Eran Rock, a well known figure in the Israeli poker community, of organizing and conducting an illegal game. The court ruled that the Texas Hold ‘em game is not legal
By Dan Cypra
Friday, June 27th, 2008
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On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee defeated HR 5767, a bill proposed by Barney Frank and Ron Paul that would have likely opened the door for the return of legalized and regulated online poker in the United States. Instead, it’s back to square one for the internet gambling industry, which must continue to navigate turbulent waters.
By RawVegasTV
Friday, June 27th, 2008
By CardPlayerTV
Friday, June 27th, 2008
By Dan Cypra
Friday, June 27th, 2008
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It’s been an eventful week for the online poker community. On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee struck down HR 5767, a bill proposed by Ron Paul and Barney Frank that would have paved the way for legalized and regulated online poker in the United States.
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By PPA
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Washington, D.C. (June 25, 2008) – Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with over one million members nationwide, today issued the following statement on the House Financial Services Committee’s failure to pass H.R. 5767, the “Payment Systems Protection Act,” by a vote of 32-32.
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