Hello fellow poker players, I have news of the latest bust! I was at a game in Fayetteville last night on Yadkin Road otherwise known as Yadkin poker house and we we’re raided at about 10pm. There about 50 to 60 people there playing a “freeroll Friday tourney” and they shut it down, arrested everyone, and confiscated everything including our money in our pockets which was not even on the table.

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All bets are off.

That was the news organizers of Erath County United Way’s benefit poker tournament received just days before the charitable game was set to get rolling.

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Late last month in Barcelona, Spanish undercover police raided an event held by CasinoAffiliatePrograms.com (CAP) called the Affiliate Series of Poker (ASOP). Now, roughly a week after the incident occurred, CAP has issued an official statement on the raid.

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Despite allegations that its top brass had ties to the local poker scene, the district attorney’s office in Pueblo will not be disqualified from prosecuting a handful of defendants accused of participating in illegal card games.

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This past Friday, Professor Ben van der Genugten, an expert in probability and mathematical statistics, challenged the Dutch Supreme Court’s classification of poker as a game of chance, citing how a formula he co-developed and is used by the courts pegs poker at a higher skill level than most fantasy sports, which the court rules are a game of skill. Because of this inconsistency, the Professor is calling for the court to revoke the classification of poker as a game of chance.

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Reports from the Spanish media and online gambling websites claim that Spanish police, the Mossos d’Esquadra unexpectedly turned up at the Hotel Princesa in Barcelona Spain Sunday where the Casino Affiliate Programs (CAP) freeroll poker tournament was taking place, which has 2006 WSOP Main Event Champion Jamie Gold featured as keynote speaker.

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Sept. 29, 2008 – Today, iMEGA filed its brief with the US Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, in the matter of iMEGA v. Keisler, et al. The suit challenges the constitutionality of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), which prohibits US financial institutions from processing transactions between online gambling sites and US players, while shifting the determination, burden and cost of enforcement onto the financial institutions.

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — A judge yesterday declined to order 141 gambling Web sites forfeited to the state, saying he needed more time to understand the complexities of what experts call an unprecedented effort to crack down on illegal Internet gambling.

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