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SALEM, N.H. — Like so many young men, he was drawn to poker through television.

“Watching the pros, I decided to learn about the game,” says this local 18-year-old athlete. “I love to compete. I do pretty well.”

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LAS CRUCES — The New Mexico Gaming Control Board is investigating whether a poker tournament hosted earlier this week in Akela by the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma was improper.

But the tribe contends the state has no jurisdiction over its 30-acre parcel of federal trust land, where the tournament took place.

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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – This Caribbean nation’s top finance official says another deadline has been set with Washington to resolve a feud over Internet gambling after recent talks have fizzled.

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Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee will review a bill, H.R. 5767, that would block the implementation of UIGEA regulations. In order to get this bill out of Committee on onto the House Floor, we need your help. We need you to contact the committee and express your support for H.R. 5767, as well as the King amendment which will refine the bill language. PPA strongly supports H.R. 5767 and the King amendment, but this important bill and amendment won’t pass without your help! (more…)

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Several big-name poker pros and celebrities have decided to ante up for a worthy cause. The second annual Ante Up For Africa poker tournament, co-founded by actor Don Cheadle and poker pro Annie Duke, will be played at the 2008 World Series of Poker. The tournament, designed to raise money for the victims and bolster public awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan, will start at 2 p.m. July 2 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, the WSOP announced in a news release Wednesday.

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Slipping through a loophole, Mardi Gras Racetrack & Gaming has received state approval to operate a 24-hour poker room.

The first non-Indian poker room in Florida to go 24 hours opens July 1.

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A transatlantic feud over online gambling is set to intensify after the US brushed off claims from the European Union that it was discriminating against its companies.

The European Commission is taking up complaints from online gambling operators that US gambling laws are being targeted at European companies to protect certain US operators, such as the websites run by the US horse-betting industry.

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A United States bill targeting the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act is scheduled to be amended by the House Financial Services Committee next Tuesday, a process which has already drawn criticism from professional sports leagues and religious conservatives.

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First, I am not going to appear on 60 Minutes. They wanted me to and I did go as far as meeting with an assistant producer in Atlanta for lunch, but I ultimately decided that I did not want to be a part of something that I felt would portray online poker in an unfair manner.

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