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Who would have guessed that Bryn Mawr is fast becoming a poker hotbed?

For the second straight year, the upscale Main Line suburb has produced a big-money winner in the World Series of Poker.

Businessman Eric Brooks, a cofounder and former director of the investing powerhouse Susquehanna International Group, collected $415,856 and a champion’s gold bracelet from a Las Vegas seven-card stud table Monday.

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European Union officials will interview members of the Bush administration next month in advance of a potential trade challenge to the U.S. ban on Internet gambling.

The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) complains that a 2006 U.S. law placing new restrictions on Internet gambling has cost its members hundreds of millions of dollars in lost stock value.

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Frank Catania, former Assistant Attorney General and Director of New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, online gaming consultant and independent director of the player protection group eCOGRA gave a straight-from-the-shoulder briefing to state legislators last Friday, emphasising that Internet gambling is here to stay.

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A retired judge who operates poker rooms in southern Arizona in defiance of state investigators says his organization is opening a new card parlor in Phoenix later this month.

Texas Hold’em games operated by Harold Lee of Tombstone have been referred for criminal prosecution several times by agents of the Arizona Department of Gaming, but he has never been charged.

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European Union officials will interview members of the Bush administration next month in advance of a potential trade challenge to the U.S. ban on Internet gambling, the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which made it illegal for financial institutions to handle transactions between US residents and online poker and gaming operators.

The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) complains that the UIEGA, a 2006 U.S. law placing new restrictions on Internet gambling, has cost its members hundreds of millions of dollars in lost stock value.

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The other day I received an invitation to conduct an interview with Jay Lakin from Pokersourceonline.com, a very large poker affiliate site. My first inclination was to decline the invitation since my articles generally don’t focus on poker. But as a result of many incidents occurring with online poker of late (including the scandals at Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet), I decided to take Mr. Lakin up on his offer.

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BRANFORD — Police raided a West Main Street restaurant Tuesday and broke up an illegal poker tournament, police said.

They seized about $1,400, along with poker chips and playing cards, from the SBC Restaurant at 850 W. Main St.

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Imagine playing poker and not being able to hear what’s going on at the table. That’s the challenge for deaf players, but it doesn’t keep them away from the game they love, nor does it discourage them from pursuing opportunities to compete against the best players in the world.

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Freed from the burden of getting league permission and paying millions of dollars in licensing, fantasy sports businesses are likely to expand and proliferate. Already, the FSTA estimates, 18 million Americans play fantasy sports. Mostly they do it for fun, but they can also win prizes, ranging from bobble-head dolls to cash awards as high as $25,000.

In other words, sports fans are paying for the chance to win money in contests that hinge on the performance of professional athletes. Why isn’t this gambling?

One answer is that playing fantasy sports requires knowledge and skill. But so do sports betting and poker.

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NEW YORK – A Canadian company has agreed to pay $9.1 million to resolve charges that it facilitated illegal Internet gambling by processing payments for U.S. customers.

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