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I am planning a trip to Las Vegas after November of this year for some high-stakes poker, as I do about once a month. My question is: Why would it be bad if I didn’t have to leave Colorado? If I could, I would choose stay in Colorado hotels, spend my money in Colorado restaurants and tip Colorado workers. But there are some who do not consider the creation of new jobs, offering more reasons for tourists to visit our state and keeping Colorado money at home a good thing.

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The bill by California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys) which would lead to the legalization of intrastate online poker in California has cleared a significant legislative hurdle and is on its way to the Senate Appropriations Committee in August, its final stop before coming before the full State Senate for a vote. If the bill is passed, and signed by the governor, California would become the first state to legalize intrastate online poker for its residents.

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Deputy United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador John Veroneau is expected to arrive in Antigua and Barbuda today to begin high-level talks with Minister of Finance and the Economy, Dr. Errol Cort, on the longstanding trade battle between the two countries over internet gambling.

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TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada and the United States should legalize and regulate online gambling to contain its potentially harmful effects because players tend to bet more frequently and aggressively than they do in casinos, a study released on Tuesday says.

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Across the country increasing numbers of women are taking up the ultimate man’s game.

Ever since Lana Wood draped herself over the green baize table in Diamonds Are Forever, women have suffered a particular image problem when it comes to gambling.

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According to Gordon Price, expert gambling analyst from CasinoGamblingWeb.com, Republican members of the United States congress, “overly influenced by the ignorance of the religious moralists of their party,” are opening up a corrupt industry to the American market.

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As the players play down to the main event final table at the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, I asked top pros what politicians can learn from the game.

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When trade emissaries from the European Union arrive in Washington later this month to talk to officials in Congress, the Justice Department, and other executive branch agencies, they’ll have some difficult questions to ask. In particular, they’ll ask about some gambling laws that rank among some the worst written sections of the United States Code. If things go poorly a trade conflict with vast implications for the United States banking sector could ensue.

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While the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) has devastated internet poker, separate, quiet battles are being fought, and won, to make poker legal in bars under state laws.

The fight over the rights of bars to run Texas Hold’em tournaments does have some significant differences with the better known Prohibition on alcohol. Legally, Prohibition was a federal issue. It involved an actual amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a rare and difficult feat to accomplish, and a federal statute, limiting adult Americans’ right to drink alcoholic beverages.

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It was just after 10 p.m. on a Tuesday night in Statesville when Brian Curtin took a quick peak at his hole cards. Then he quickly folded his hand.

“Queen-six, offsuit,” he said when asked why he dumped them so hastily.

Curtin was among about two dozen people playing Texas Hold ’Em in an event called World Tavern Poker, which is held Tuesday nights at D’Laney’s Sports Bar and Grill.

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