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They say Hollywood stars are dominating the show here. Ben Affleck certainly is.

Last night (or rather, early this morning), Affleck won a charity poker tournament sponsored by the poker industry’s lobbying group and made good on a promise he made before coming here.

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GUADALUPE COUNTY — Nearly a dozen people at two local underground poker parlors have been issued citations for illegal gambling in the wake of a months-long undercover investigation by county officials.

Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Investigator Lt. Kevin Jordan said sheriff’s deputies, Department of Public Safety troopers and investigators who work for County Attorney Elizabeth Murray-Kolb raided a home adjacent to the San Antonio Raceway Friday night in Marion and shut down an illegal poker game, issuing 11 misdemeanor citations.

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Colorado’s gambling law has put a damper on a star-studded charity poker tournament planned for next week during the Democratic National Convention.

The “Poker at the Ballpark” tournament initially had a seat in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, valued at $10,000, as the grand prize.

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Poker chips get advertised as Father’s Day gifts in sporting goods stores. TV shows with play-by-play tournaments are beamed into living rooms. Nationally, the poker craze is everywhere.

But in South Carolina, hosting a kitchen-table card game might still bring the police knocking on your front door with a warrant.

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ANCHORAGE — Alaska voters will be asked Tuesday whether they want to create a Gaming Commission that could expand gambling by allowing slot machines, poker rooms, lotteries or any form of waging game.

The seven-member commission would be created within the state Department of Revenue under Ballot Measure 1.

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It was only a matter of time before the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) became involved in the Republican National Convention (RNC), which kicks off on September 1st at the Xcel Energy Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the RNC, the PPA will be reaching out to members of Congress who have historically not been friendly to legalized internet gambling in the United States. The Republican Party led the charge to pass the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in 2006 and, at a recent hearing, forced the law’s ambiguity to continue. This time around, the PPA has partnered with the American Gaming Association (AGA) to benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of America.

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Judge Leslie Miller scheduled a Sept. 29 hearing to determine whether to issue a temporary restraining order to shut down the month-old Club Royale poker room.

The hearing starts at 2 p.m. in Room 475 at Pima County Superior Court, 110 W. Congress St.

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NITRO, W.Va. — The cards are finally being dealt at Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming Center, the last of three West Virginia tracks to implement voter-approved table games.

State Lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla says the agency has given the Nitro track the go-ahead to start offering poker on Thursday.

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MOUNT PLEASANT — Five “Texas Hold ‘em” poker players fighting gambling tickets from an April 2006 police raid finally get to argue that their case should be tossed out.

South Carolina’s anti-gambling laws are unconstitutional and unenforceable, they contend, and will ask a municipal court judge Friday to dismiss the case outright.

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The Pascua Yaqui Tribe filed suit Tuesday against Club Royale, a new poker room at 2665 N. Campbell Ave., seeking the club’s closure and alleging that it engages in illegal gambling.

The suit also names Harold S. Lee, founder of the Tombstone-based International Card and Game Players Association, with which Club Royale and a couple of non-tribal poker rooms in the Phoenix area are affiliated.

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