U.S. House to Hold Online Poker Hearing
Submitted on Tue, 2010-05-18 00:00 The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee will meet on May 19, 2010 at 9:30 am in the Longworth House Office Building. The focus of the hearing is to consider the fate of online poker in the U.S. in connection with “The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act” (UIGEA) that is scheduled to go into effect on June 1, 2010. Invited Testimony The U.S. House committee press release has said that the point is to “hear witnesses, oral testimony at this hearing will be from invited witnesses only.” The release also notes, “However, any individual or organization not scheduled for an oral appearance may submit a written statement for consideration by the Committee and for inclusion in the printed record of the hearing.” What is the UIGEA? This law prohibits anyone from accepting payments from someone if they know those payments are connected to illegal Internet gambling. However numerous Representative and Senators have been involved in excluding poker, which is considered to be a game of skill, from the law. Importance of this Meeting The meeting could be the start of the a movement in the U.S. House and Senate that would legalize online poker. There are numerous bills on tap that are designed to protect online poker in the U.S.
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Victor Chandler Poker Offers Facebook Promo
Victor Chandler Poker has launched an exciting online poker and Facebook promotion. The Facebook Free Play Poker League online poker promotion will last for a full month. Beginning on 29th August and ending on 28th September 2011, and taking place every Monday and every Wednesday, this exciting Victor Chandler Facebook promotion will be running, and each event will come with a prize pool of 50. The events that take place every Monday and Wednesday come with no entry fee. However, these events are only open to those who use Facebook, and have clicked on the Like button on the Victor Chandler Facebook fan page. This exclusive Facebook online poker promotion comes with a special and unique password for each player. The unique password is specially chosen for each event that will take place. Those who wish to take part in one of the Monday or Wednesday online poker Victor Chandler Facebook promotions, simply need to make sure that they have found the Victor Chandler Poker fan page on Facebook. As explained before, players need to Like this fan page on Facebook. On any given day of this online poker promotion, players who wish to enter need to have already have Liked the fan page by 17:00 CET. Once the player has Liked the page, they will be sent a password through a Facebook update. Victor Chandler Poker will not only pay out the 50 Euro prize pool each time, but will also give the players who are the top finishers for each of the events some leaderboard points. Those player that finish within the top 40 leaderboard finishers will share a prize of 1,000. The top 200 leaderboard finishers each receive a seat in a 500 freeroll that will take place on October 3rd. For those who finish in the money in the freeroll, and have also earned at least 25 VIP points, they will receive free wagers on Victor Chandler Sports that equal the amount that they won on the freeroll. Related Posts Microgaming Poker Network Improves 6th Anniversary of Titan Poker Party Poker Changes Rake Merge Poker Network Ready for US Players French Court Rules Texas HoldEm a Game of Skill Share on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace…
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Merge Poker Network Ready for US Players
As a result of the Black Friday events that took place in the United States, Merge Poker stopped accepting players from the United States. This move was most certainly as a result of Black Friday, however, it was not was one of the US online poker sites that were directly affected by a forced closure of business. For the past two months, since Black Friday, US players have not been able to play online poker on the Merge Poker Network. The online poker network is now ready to accept their US players again, and to have new players signing up with the online poker network. The reason for the half in services is that after the shut down and closure of Full Tilt Poker, online poker players in the United States w ere desperately looking for an online poker room to play in that would accept players from the US. Many of these players turned to online poker sites operated by the Merge Poker Network. Fairly soon after this took place, the online poker network could not cope with the overwhelming amount of traffic that had begun to use the Merge Poker Network. Merge has since worked on its servers, making sure that they could handle more traffic. Although the fix still needs some work, the network will soon be able to cope with the large amount of business that has been generated as a result of Full Tilt Poker and other online poker sites being seized. The Merge Gaming Network has found that it has an increase of web traffic by around 75 percent. The traffic simply proved to be too much for the network to handle, but now players located in the United States can join in the poker fun again. As a result of Black Friday, the Merge Poker Network is likely to become the biggest, or at least one of the biggest, online poker networks in the US. Related Posts Microgaming Poker Network Improves Victor Chandler Poker Offers Facebook Promo 6th Anniversary of Titan Poker Party Poker Changes Rake French Court Rules Texas HoldEm a Game of Skill Share on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace…
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