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Former Kansas Citian Blair Hinkle made World Series of Poker history last weekend by winning a tournament gold bracelet just 11 days after his brother, Grant, won a similar sanctioned event, also at the Rio in Las Vegas.

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Canada hosts more gambling websites than any other country in the world.

But with online gamblers four times as likely to become problem gamblers, Canada needs to solidify laws, a leading researcher into online gambling says.

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A number of US government agencies and gaming-related businesses have until next Monday 23 June to respond to a questionnaire from the European Commission regarding a formal complaint filed by European online poker and Internet gaming operators against the US for discriminatory and protectionist practices in violation of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.

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The long awaited 60 Minutes feature on the Absolute Poker online poker cheating scandal took a big step to hitting the small screen today. And Wicked Chops Poker is the only site with photos of the news event.

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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) – Washington and this tiny Caribbean nation have set a new deadline of Friday to resolve their dispute over Internet gambling, according to the islands’ top finance official.
Antigua accuses the U.S. of crippling its gambling industry by banning Americans from placing online bets with gambling operators, including those based in the twin-island country of just 70,000 inhabitants.

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Most people that visit casinos or use other forms of gambling such as the lottery or online casinos do it strictly for recreational purposes. However, about 3-5 percent of the world’s population gambles excessively, to the point that it damages their lives. According to the National Council on Problem Gambling, 4-6 million Americans are considered problem gamblers, and 2 million (1 percent of the US population) are diagnosed as pathological gamblers.

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To put it bluntly, the producers of the local poker TV channel are not doing their jobs; or they are not being given the budgets to do so. The camera work is amateur, the lighting nonexistent and the interviews and commentary are, well, embarrassing really.

Heard last week : “Ah yes, that flop will definitely increase his chances to about 64% — which leaves his opponent with only a 46% chance of taking the pot.” Look, we all love poker but do these guys really give it 110%?

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The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is the first step in card players and gambling enthusiasts realizing the strength of their political potential, and one of the initial exercises of this power will be seen in the upcoming Presidential election.

To that end, Rich Muny of the PPA has attempted to narrow down the position of the candidates, and grade them accordingly.

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In the United States, gambling issues drew upwards of $6.98 million in lobbyist spending in the first quarter of 2008.

But, narrowing the field to Internet gambling issues, gaming interests spent almost as much in the first three months of 2008 lobbying Congress as they did in the last six months of 2007.

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Talk of table games in West Virginia goes back a few years, and this week marks one year since two counties’ referendums pulled the trigger for table gaming in West Virginia.

Jefferson County voters defeated a measure allowing table games at Charles Town Races and Slots during a special June 2007 election, but Ohio County’s passed it. Hancock County voters approved it June 30, 2007, and, despite some ballot blunders, Kanawha County voters accepted table games by a slim margin Aug. 11.

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