The great ones can’t stay away. And Doyle Brunson, one of the best poker players of all time, showed an old professional-sports rule of thumb also applies to card games: Retirements never stick, not with legends. Doyle vowed he was done playing in the World Series of Poker in May. He had softened the stance by June, stating he “hadn’t ruled it out.” With one day left before July, the 79-year-old smashed the idea all together. Brunson was one of 111 entrants through two levels of play Sunday in the $50,000 buy-in Poker Player’s Championship. “I give him a lot…

From Poker Fuse Ultimate Gaming has entered into an agreement to supply real-money online gaming to Trump Taj Mahal Associates LLC. in New Jersey, it was announced on Monday. “Today we are excited to be entering into an agreement with Trump Taj Mahal Associates to bring online gaming to New Jersey,” said Tom Breitling, Chairman of Ultimate Gaming, in a press release sent to pokerfuse. “This represents a huge step forward in our desire to offer Americans across the nation the opportunity to enjoy safe and regulated online games.” Ultimate Gaming launched the first regulated online poker room in the…

From Online-Casinos.com It was back in 2006 when the US government made banks and money processing firms responsible for prohibiting any transaction that had anything to do with online poker and internet wagering on US soil. It was the money processors and banks that the Department of Justice first went after to enforce the UIGEA enacted in 2006. U.S. players have had many problems making gambling web site deposits with banks and credit card companies considering them illegal. Neteller was one of the firms that kept offering their financial services to American clients and became a popular source for financial…

From Poker News Sheldon Adelson made himself abundantly clear. There is no longer reason to hope the Las Vegas Sands chairman and CEO has or ever will come around on online poker. In an op-ed piece on forbes.com followed by an interview with Bloomberg Television, Adelson (pictured) went much further than to voice his old moral concerns. He called Internet poker fool’s gold economically, a plague and cancer waiting to happen morally, and in an insult to poker players everywhere, not even a game of skill. “It’s a complete slap in the face to every poker player,” said John Pappas,”…

From Business Insider Editor’s note: Nicholas Kisberg is CEO of CardsChat.com, an online poker forum.    Dear Mr. Adelson, We in the online poker community would like to really thank you for your recent statements in which you refer to Internet gambling as “…a toxin that all good people should resist.” Why? Because you wrote that article using scare-mongering tactics, and backed up your arguments with ridiculous claims, allowing even the most naïve reader to plainly see your ulterior motives. And we appreciate that. We really do. It saves us a lot of trouble and makes writing this letter easier….

For the past few months, Poker Players Alliance Executive Director John Pappas has been running up the frequent flyer mileage over online gaming. With federal internet poker legalization prospects seemingly at a standstill, Pappas focused efforts of the 1.2 million-member lobbying organization on various individual state legislative activities. Debate over Internet gaming and online poker surfaced this year in California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Pappas is spending part of the weekend at the World Series of Poker in the organization’s booth inside the Rio’s Convention Center. He plans to discuss the various online gaming legalization efforts with the tournament’s attendees. “We…