BY TOM SOMACH

The founder of Internet poker room Bet On Poker and several other Internet gambling sites has been arrested in the Dominican Republic, after being on the run for almost a year. (more…)

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Police in North Carolina raided an illegal poker club and charged 41 people with criminal offenses, state media reported. (more…)

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Poker lobbyist Al D’Amato will be paid a whopping $5 million bonus if he  succeeds in getting online poker exempted from legislation that cracks down on online gambling, PokerHelper.com has learned exclusively. (more…)

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Just days after its main marketing man announced he was quitting the  company, online poker room Poker Stars has suffered another huge loss–its poker room manager, Lee Jones. (more…)

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NETeller, the Internet money-transferring service which earlier this  year banned U.S. citizens from using it to send and receive funds from Internet gambling sites, has extended the ban to include Canada and Turkey. (more…)

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What’s being billed as the largest poker tournament in the history of  British Columbia is scheduled to be held at a casino in Richmond, B.C., Canada, in May. (more…)

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Planet Poker (www.planetpoker.com), one of the pioneers of the Internet  poker industry, has announced it is getting out of the play-for-real-money business, effective at the end of this month. (more…)

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Many people were surprised when a charity poker tournament for deaf  players only was held in the Chicago area last month, as few knew such events occurred. (more…)

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The Indianapolis Police Department raided an illegal poker club last  week and among those charged with committing a crime was a trooper with the Indiana State Police, according to media reports in Indiana. (more…)

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NETeller, the Internet money-transfer service that earlier this year seized $55 million of its U.S. customers’ funds, has announced for the first time definitive plans to return the money. (more…)

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The organizers of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) are preparing for an increase in the number of participants in this year’s event, even though many observers expect a decrease. (more…)

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Internet poker rooms and other online gambling sites looking for new ways to let customers fund betting accounts might want to look to…the United Arab Emirates? (more…)

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A celebrity poker tournament with a possible top prize of $60 million will be held in Monte Carlo, Monaco in May to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the nearby Cannes Film Festival in France. (more…)

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Seven top professional poker players are suing the World Poker Tour (WPT) over the WPT’s policy of requiring tour participants to relinquish all rights to their images. (more…)

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One of the best known figures in the world of online poker is packing it in, PokerHelper.com can report exclusively. (more…)

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Having trouble sending money to your favorite online poker room so you can play? (more…)

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An article in Monday’s San Francisco Chronicle reports that online gamblers in the U.S. are learning how to get around anti-online gambling legislation that was passed last year by the U.S. government. (more…)

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In what looks like a desperate effort to regain some of the income it lost when it stopped servicing U.S. online poker players, the company that owns Party Poker is taking online sports wagers. (more…)

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When the State of Pennsyvlania opened its first casinos late last year, there wasn’t much to crow about. (more…)

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Hundreds of celebrities from the worlds of film, television, sports and poker competed in the just-ended World Poker Tour (WPT) 5th Annual Invitational Celebrity Poker Tournament, and to no one’s surprise, a real poker player won it. (more…)

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William Hill PLC, parent company of Internet poker room William Hill Poker (www.willhill.com) and other gambling entities, announced that overall company profits were up in 2006, despite having to abandon the U.S. poker market. (more…)

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The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), online poker’s top lobbying group, announced today what PokerHelper.com readers knew a month ago: Former New York senator Al D’Amato is the new face of online poker. (more…)

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Most poker websites offer two ways to play the game: for fun, where you don’t risk anything, but can’t win anything, either; and for real money, where you can win cash, but also risk losing it, too. (more…)

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PartyGaming PLC, the parent company of Internet poker room Party Poker (www.partypoker.com), has announced that its annual net profits for 2006 are down a whopping 56% from what they were in 2005. (more…)

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The chance to be the next Chris Moneymaker or Greg “Fossilman” Raymer is officially up for grabs as pre-registration has begun for the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP). (more…)