Poker

PokerTrillion.com, a former member of Boss Media's International Poker Network which launched litigation against the Malta assets of the Swedish company earlier this year has been successful in its latest round of litigation with the poker network.

The Poker Players Alliance was active this week in urging US players to promote the rights of citizens to play poker online, using the Republican Platform Committee's official Internet message board. The purpose of the website is to obtain public comment and suggestions on what should be included in the party's campaign platform for the coming presidential elections.

Speculation that the business impact of recent cheating scandals at Tokwiro subsidiary Absolute Poker may have been considerable resurfaced this week as players reported receiving emails from the company offering to reopen their accounts.

The latest poker software technology from Wagerlogic, which makes it possible for players to set up their own private online tournaments, is being promoted vigorously by Littlewoods Poker.

The founder and chief architect of the high profile Polaris poker robot research team at the University of Alberta in Canada, Dr. Darse Billings, put the use of poker robots into perspective this week in responding to Internet blog comments that such developments had the potential to destroy the online poker industry.

The managing director for online gambling operations at UK gambling group Ladbrokes, John O'Reilly, revealed this week that the company is to change its poker strategy from being a standalone Internet poker room powered by Microgaming, to being a full member of the Microgaming Poker Network, joining over 40 other tier one poker operations and enhancing player liquidity.

Latest information on Assemblyman Lloyd Levine's proposal to liberalise poker in California is that his bill AB 2026 has undergone another revision, taking it back to a study of the prospects for the game within California.

World Poker Tour Enterprises has released its numbers for the second quarter 2008, ended June 29, with plenty of developments but weak results and a reducing headcount throughout the company.

The chairman of the one million member Poker Players Alliance, Former Senator Alphonse D'Amato says that the Alliance cannot support Texas Representative Pete Session's Bill HR6663 because it confuses a clear judicial understanding of the status quo of online poker.