September 12th, 2008
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS- — During an emergency meeting Thursday morning, the Greenbrier County Commission agreed unanimously to put the issue of table gaming at The Greenbrier Resort up for a county vote.
Unions representing about 1,200 service employees at the resort asked commissioners to take up the issue.
September 12th, 2008
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Former President of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a grassroots advocacy group of over 1M members, has recently joined Aristotle International as its Senior Vice President of Business Development for its world class Integrity(TM) product.
September 12th, 2008
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House Committee on Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) today introduced the Payments System Protection Act of 2008, which would direct the Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve System, in consultation with the Attorney General, to create a formal process to define what types of online gambling are unlawful to make it possible for the U.S. financial services industry to comply with the current ban on Internet gambling, as required by the Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, or UIGEA.
September 10th, 2008
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The debate over internet gambling has raged since the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was ushered through Congress in the fall of 2006.
September 10th, 2008
September 9th, 2008
Eunice Yoon reports on efforts to promote poker in China.
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September 9th, 2008
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The Pauma Band of Mission Indians launched a virtual casino on its Web site last month; it offers video slot machines, table games and card games.
September 8th, 2008
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The raid of Larry Wittman’s suspected illegal poker room last week had been anticipated for some time by local poker players facing criminal charges from two earlier raids.
September 8th, 2008
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iMEGA announced this week it has a new big gun helping the organization prepare its challenge of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
September 6th, 2008
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A Pueblo poker room that has been on law enforcement’s radar for four years finally was raided last week by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, according to court records made public on Thursday.
