Casino City Times – Gaming leaders are looking at leveraging the release of a feature film that depicts the seedier side of illegal Internet poker to raise awareness of the need for proper regulation of online wagering. American Gaming Association (AGA) President Geoff Freeman, in an e-mail to the organization’s board of directors last week, said the October 4 release of “Runner Runner” presents the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group an opportunity to state its case for Congress to pass regulations governing Internet gaming in the U.S. The movie, which stars Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, centers on illegal offshore Internet…

Two factors produced the biggest smiles for investors in Las Vegas casino publicly traded companies as they pored over their earnings reports this quarter. Their companies either had a connection to Macau or are delivering — or are on the verge of delivering — real-money online poker. As the quarterly earnings season winds down, it is clear that the biggest winners this time were the companies that had a presence in Macau, and the bigger the presence, the bigger the score. Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts International had good quarters, and, not surprisingly, all three are in…

PRNewswire – The Bicycle Casino proudly welcomes the return of Mike Sexton, Vince Van Patten, Kimberly Lansing, Tony Dunst and the Royal Flush Girls to prestigious Legends of Poker championship commencing on Thursday, August 29, 2013. Since its debut in 2002, the World Poker Tour® Legends of Poker has been one of poker’s premier events, consistently drawing huge fields filled with some of the game’s best-known players, including past event winners Doyle Brunson, Dan Harrington, Andy Frankenberger, Will Failla, and defending champion Josh Hale. This year, the Bicycle Casino is proud to be host to the first two televised events…

Fox News – Two men have pleaded guilty to operating high-stakes illegal New York City poker games with pots regularly reaching tens of thousands of dollars. Prosecutors say Kirill Rapoport pleaded guilty Friday to conducting an illegal poker game. They say William Barbalat pleaded guilty Wednesday to traveling in interstate commerce in aid of operating an illegal poker game. A defense attorney says Barbalat accepts responsibility but has no ties to organized crime. Rapoport’s attorney hasn’t responded to a message seeking comment. The men were among 34 people accused in April of being part of a scheme by two Russian-American…

Gambling Online Magazine – British politician Stuart Wheeler has become embroiled in a row over comments made regarding the competitive capabilities of women. Wheeler who represents the UK Independence Party and acts as treasurer for the right-wing fringe party commented that in pursuits such as “chess, bridge and poker – women come absolutely nowhere”. The comments were made an article Wheeler recently wrote in the Daily Telegraph debating the subject of female quotas in top company boardrooms. “Business is very, very competitive and you should take the performance of women in another competitive area, which is sport where [men] have…

Poker News Daily – A week ago, we reported that the Garden City Group (GCG), the organization that was chosen by the U.S Department of Justice (DoJ) to handle the disbursement of Full Tilt Poker funds, expected to be able to give players a firm date on when the claims process would commence by the end of last week. The claims administrator remained true to its word, announcing Friday that things will get started in about a month. On the official Full Tilt Poker claims website (fulltiltpokerclaims.com), GCG indicated that the start date for the U.S. player claims process will be…

From Online-Casinos.com – Canada and the United States of America are different in so many ways but are also share many common elements. They have different government styles with the Canadian parliamentary system modeled after the British and the American political system which has a President and a House of Representatives in Washington. Canada has one tenth of the population at 31 million but a little more land than the States. The US has many differing laws in various states similar to Canada which has different laws in their various provinces. The laws pertaining to online gambling and online poker…

Poker Update – The acceptance, regulation and legitimisation of poker has been occurring throughout some Asian nations in recent years, while debate on the game has hotted up in others. Generally, however, there has been a trend towards poker being rightfully viewed as more than just ‘gambling’. This has been seen by the growing number of large scale poker event being held in countries like the Philippines, Macau and South Korea, as well as recent political statements in Japan and Taiwan for poker and gaming in general. But could you really ever imagine the possibility of a WPT Tokyo or…