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August 7, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- The latest news on Assemblyman Lloyd Levine's proposal to liberalize poker in California: His bill, AB 2026, has undergone another revision, taking it back to a study of the prospects for the game within California. AB2026, the California Gambling Control/Intrastate Legalization Act, was originally intended to study whether California should…

August 7, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which has closely followed the major BetOnSports online gambling case since the arrest of CEO David Carruthers back in 2006, reports on surprise federal court developments in the city this week. Three Florida residents have apparently pleaded guilty to promotion-related charges and have agreed to…

August 7, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- 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 more than…

August 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- If it's anything like previous seasons, thousands of players will this week be clicking over to the giant Full Tilt online poker site to take their chances in the ninth season of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series. The 25-event FTOPS IX schedule will commence this evening (August 6th) with…

August 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- ClubWPT, the ingenious UIGEA workaround for America's estimated 60 million poker fans, is to be featured in a Fox Sports Net television series following an agreement with World Poker Tour Enterprises. ClubWPT was launched at the beginning of 2008 as a membership-by-subscription organisation operating under US sweepstakes rules, and offers…

August 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- The chairman of the million-member Poker Players Alliance, former New York 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. HR6663 is designed primarily to determine what is legal and…

August 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- Cellectivity subsidiary Bet2Go.com, a mobile betting operation, has signed up as an official betting partner with the Bolton Wanderers, an English Premier League club.  The agreement is to initially run for two football seasons. The mobile betting nature of Bet2Go's offering will enable punters to enjoy some in-game wagering from…

August 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- The Ho Chi Minh City department of Information and Communications has asked its controlling structure, the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications, to examine eight online games which have been generating massive interest in Internet cafes and other outlets among students and citizens alike.   The games in question have…

August 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- Last week's surprise announcement that U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab had postponed key meetings with European Union officials on a Remote Gambling Association (RGA) complaint accusing the US of discriminatory and protectionist practices in violation of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules (see previous news report) has still not been…

August 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- London's Leicester Square will again be the centre of UK poker action next week as a reprise of last year's popular "Poker in the Park" festival is presented each evening between August 15 and 16. The event will undoubtedly heighten the profile of the game in preparation for the…