2010 August 01 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

The a 1,000 + a 100 buy-in European Masters of Poker Bulgaria main event final table plays out today at the Crystal Crown Casino in Sunny Beach.

Poker company Party Gaming has announced they will be merging with Bwin. The new company will be worth $3.7 billion.

Deval Patrick and House Speaker Robert DeLeo refused to cut a deal early this morning to end their high-stakes poker game over bringing casino gambling to the Bay State.

A Cuyahoga County jury found Stanley Smith guilty of robbing the players at a high-stakes poker game in October .

I just started a new Youtube series where I will go into great detail about the more interesting hands I played for the week and release videos daily.

A massive police effort recently led to the bust of an underground poker room. The raid was conducted by the FBI and more than one hundred police officers.

The Chinese Ministry of Culture announced Saturday that the country’s first regulation specifically governing the marketing of Internet gaming and gambling will take effect Sunday, claiming that the laws are necessary to protect the nation’s children from ‘unwholesome content and Internet addiction’. BNO News reports that the legislation was issued by the Ministry on June […]

The controversial and long-running legislative argument about what land gambling expansion should take place in the state of Massachusetts moved a step closer to resolution on Saturday when the Massachusetts Legislature gave initial approval to a casino bill that would create the most sweeping expansion of gambling in the state in four decades. Gov. Deval […]

The successful passage out of committee this week of Congressman Barney Frank’s proposal to legalise online gambling in the United States triggered a storm of mainstream media coverage that has undoubtedly focused attention on the pros and cons of internet gambling. One of the more interesting op-ed articles to flow from the blizzard of news […]