Online poker players face legal issues
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With the nightclub Tao swathed in red and black, music pulsated and go-go dancers gyrated on raised platforms along the wall. Everything from the "reserved" signs to the billiard table felt to the models' Chinese-style dresses bore the same label: "bodog.com." The only thing missing was the online gambling site's flamboyant founder, 45-year-old Canadian Calvin Ayre, who was nowhere to be found.
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Poker camps have become hot commodities, offering amateur players a chance to improve their games with advice from the pros.
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Although pitiless when they play a game of Texas Hold 'Em, Doyle Brunson, T. J. Cloutier and Gus Hansen are friends, as friendly as professional card players get.
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Major League Baseball's union is fighting to keep secret up to 23 players named as customers by an admitted steroids dealer, according to recent court filings.
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By Matt Richtel and Thomas Crampton  Al Baker contributed reporting. *  Broadening the U.S. attack on Internet gambling, law enforcement agents in New York have arrested the chairman of Sportingbet, which offers online sports betting and is traded on the London Stock Exchange.
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Online Gambling : Affiliate Party&#8217;s Over Last weekend the US Congress passed a bill which will outlaw Internet gambling in the United States. The new law will ensure that gamblers who try to enter online gambling sites from American IP addresses will be blocked and that the online gambling companies can no longer accept bets placed [...]
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Horseplayers have been caught in the crossfire of a battle over the economics of wagering on the Internet, a problemÃÂ manifestedÃÂ during the Kentucky Derby.
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High Wire Act The US Department of Justice has admitted that the 1961 Wire Act which it uses to prosecute executives of online gambling companies is "dated". The Department insists, though, that the law is sufficient for the prosecution of gambling executives.â¦
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The operator of a gambling news site on the Internet has asked a federal judge to declare that advertisements in U.S. media for foreign online casinos and sports betting outlets are protected by free-speech rights...
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Partygaming sees online poker revenues pick up as it recovers from the US crackdown on internet gaming.
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Online gaming firms faced their  biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress unexpectedly  passed legislation to ban online gaming there, threatening jobs  and hitting stocks by as much as 70 percent.
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The NHL players' association is taking its case public.
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Attorneys representing Major League Baseball argued Thursday that online fantasy baseball companies cannot operate without paying license fees to MLB to compensate players for the use of their names.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association wants to prevent the names of current and former major league players from being made public in a case involving performance-enhancing drugs.
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A comeback for Internet gambling may be in the works.
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Player named Potripper received invaluable intel from part-owner Absolute Poker is being audited by an Indian gaming commission in Canada following reports of an internal data leak that appears to confirm that an insider with the online poker site used real-time access to a recent tournament to engage in cheating.â¦
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War-on-terror's poker face Shares in online gambling companies like Partygaming are in freefall this morning after the US Congress unexpectedly passed anti-online gambling laws late on Friday.â¦