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“Right now we’re forcing (the issue),” Dooly’s vice-president Pierre Lariviere said from headquarters in Moncton, NB. “We’re trying to push government to make a regulation, to say listen guys you can have a game of Texas Hold ‘em and here’s the limit and no game should be bigger than this and that’s how you should do it.”

It’s risky business because the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has said poker games where money changes hands are illegal.

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Put on your poker face and let the chips fall where they may.

There’s a new casino room opening in Bay City, and it’s all for a good cause.

Owners of the Big House Sports Bar, 510 E. Midland St., were busy this past weekend transforming their establishment into a Las Vegas-style gaming room – complete with 12 poker tables, two blackjack tables, a roulette table and a brand-new name.

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Regardless, this is the first time that Polaris has bested human opponents of that caliber. The AI team behind Polaris made it tougher to beat by having the program change it’s play at certain points in the match. This helped plug a hole in one of the weaknesses previous opponents had exploited. They also had the program analyze how it could have played the hand differently to get a different outcome. This helped it learn from mistakes and constantly adjust to the conditions of the game.

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The 2008 World Series of Poker is officially the largest and richest in the event’s 39-year history. Tournament officials just released final figures for the 55-event, 47-day poker extravaganza held annually each summer in Las Vegas. Both total player entries (58,720) and payouts ($180,676,248) reached all-time highs, as did the number of countries and territories represented by the participants (118 different nationalities).

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LAS VEGAS – The movement to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act(UIGEA) and create a regulated online gambling industry suffered a setback last month when a bill that would have prevented UIGEA regulations from being implemented until the definition of illegal Internet gambling was clarified, failed to pass a House Financial Services Committee vote.

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American flags bobbed in the sea of sunglasses and green felt at the World Series of Poker’s main event Friday. Independence Day brought fans and players sporting their country’s colors, and a few mused on whether poker is a quintessentially American game.

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Stetson-wearing Las Vegas pros who like his belief in the freedom to gamble are putting their chips on Mr Obama, who is himself a skilled player of Texas Hold’Em and Seven Card Stud.

Doyle Brunson, America’s greatest living player and formerly a life-long Republican, has come out for Obama.

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The State Doesn’t Even Have a Law Against ‘Gambling’ on the Books

Old and archaic can be used to describe most state laws pertaining to the game of poker in the United States, and Massachusetts is no different. Massachusetts is the second state to go under CardPlayer.com’s home-poker legal examination, and Patrick Fleming — New Hampshire attorney, poker rights advocate, state director of the Poker Players Alliance, and the frontman and lead organizer for the PPA’s litigation network — put it this way when opening the conversation about Massachusetts:

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EDMONTON – A computer created by a group of U of A programmers changed the face of poker on Sunday night, when it defeated some of the best players in the world.

In the second man-versus-machine competition held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend, Polaris II narrowly defeated seven players from the online poker training site stoxpoker.com.

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