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Jim Moran had the nuts the whole time.

Not the longtime Democratic congressman from Virginia, Rep. Jim Moran — but his 39-year-old son, Jim Jr., a Washington, D.C. area regional manager for Dominos Pizza and online poker aficionado.

How do you know Moran had the nuts? His pal posted a YouTube video of him screaming, “I had the nuts the whole time!” (In this case, “the nuts” are a pair of queens. The term is used in poker to refer to an unbeatable hand.)

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ALBANY – A social club that was hosting underground poker games was shut down by the city today, two days after a group of armed men robbed the game and some 40 players of their money and jewelry.

The city’s order was tacked to the door of the Azzurri social club at 192 North Allen St., stating the location was being used “as a gambling club” with no certificate of occupancy or building permit.

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The pulse of the online poker world has been centered in the Pacific Northwest in recent weeks. In the great state of Washington, former horse racing handicapper turned lawyer Lee Rousso has carried the banner for online poker, attempting to overturn a heinous state law that makes playing online poker a Class C felony, the equivalent of being convicted of child pornography. In a hearing on May 15th, a judge ultimately sided with the State; however, Rousso plans to appeal directly to the Washington State Supreme Court. Rousso joins the PocketFives.com Podcast this week to talk about the law in question and his vision of the future.

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CONCORD – Charity poker tournaments could see bigger bets but would pay a new state tax under a tentative agreement that key legislators approved Thursday.

The tax would raise at least $2.2 million a year from this popular form of gambling, which is used to generate profits for charities at sites across the state.
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Antigua and Barbuda may be only days away from effecting a settlement with the United States on the internet gambling trade dispute.

This was the view expressed by Minister of Finance and the Economy Dr. Errol Cort, who was optimistic about an early end to the dispute after a series of meetings with US officials last week.

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“We are aware of it,” said South Precinct Lt. James Koutsky, when asked of the alleged illegal gambling taking place at the café. “And our community police team is following up on it.”

But there is a chance that what they’re doing is not illegal. According to Washington state gambling laws, it is not illegal to play poker unless the house, in this case Tong, is taking a portion of the winnings or charging a fee to play.
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Las Vegas, NV (May 30, 2008) – Poker players and poker enthusiasts attending this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) are now able to express their love of the game to policymakers. The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy organization, today unveiled its new Poker Advocacy Booth as play began at the WSOP.
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Almost one year ago Ed Leyden and Joe Brennan made noise at the GIGSE conference when they announced the formation of iMEGA, a trade group formed to protect freedom of the internet. While their larger goal was to ensure that basic freedoms set out in the constitution were not infringed on just because they took place on the internet, their more immediate concern was to somehow repeal the UIGEA, which Joe Brennan called “an unjust law that was cynically crafted to provide red meat for social conservatives for the 2006 mid term elections”. The group saw the UIGEA as the start of a slippery slope that would allow Congress to pass other laws which would curtail internet growth under the guise of national security. The group may have been correct.
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The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) is typical of Republican leadership efforts to legislate morality. The GOP leadership embraced the power of the federal government to tell Americans what to do in their own homes with their own money. The GOP leadership also embraced UIGEA’s deputizing of banks to enforce the law, as if America’s banks were an unpaid arm of the Department of Justice.
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Two representatives of Stoxpoker, the online training site, will battle against Polaris, a poker-playing series of computer programs developed by researchers at the University of Alberta. The match will take place July 4-6 during the Gaming Life Expo in the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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