Poker News – Poker Players Alliance executive director John Pappas is satisfied with how the final New Jersey Internet Gambling regulations turned out from a player’s perspective. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) released a draft of the regulations last week, also announcing a start date of Nov. 26 for Internet gambling within the state. The final regulations become effective Oct. 21. “I think there are more encouraging signs out of the final draft regulations than need for concern,” Pappas told PokerNews. “I think players are certainly enthusiastic about them getting off the ground and sticking to the…

Card Player – Poker player Antanas Guoga, a.k.a. Tony G, announced Monday on Facebook that he will be running for a seat in the European Parliament next year via the country of Lithuania. In his more than decade-long poker career, Guoga has racked up $3,648,645 in lifetime tournament earnings. His largest score was in the 2005 European Poker Championship for about $450,000. In addition to his poker play, the 39-year-old has been an active businessman in Lithuania. Guoga is the owner of PokerNews and was once involved with PartyPoker. “I have packed up the bike and I am going to…

Poker Fuse – Full Tilt Poker announced the creation of “Full Tilt Poker Pro Battle“, a new television show which gives online qualifiers from the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltics the opportunity to go heads up against FTP Professional Gus Hansen. Qualifiers will battle against professional poker players including Team PokerStars Pros Alexander Kravchenko, Ivan Demidov, Maksin Lykon and Eugene Katchalov for a total prize pool of $150,000. Full Tilt will be awarding 12 prize packages worth over $3,000 to bring players on set in Kiev, where the show will be shot. The overall winner of the season…

Poker News – The World Poker Tour announced on Thursday that it will be returning to Mainland China to host a National Series tournament for a second straight year. Starting on Nov. 5, 2013, at the MGM Grand Sanya Resort, the WPT® National China Tournament will carry a guaranteed prize pool of ¥8,800,000 (approximately US$1,432,000) and has already received commitments from top pros like David Chiu, Liz Lieu, Xuan Liu, Maria Ho, and Johnny Chan. The WPT® National China Tournament, which carries a $1,500 buy-in, will play down to a final table on Nov. 9. The final six players will…

San Francisco Examiner – Over the past five years, the U.S. Justice Department has busted more than a dozen Internet poker sites that allowed Americans to play online for real money. Websites were shut down, operators were arrested and millions of dollars were seized, even though all the websites were run from outside the U.S. and most of the operators were foreigners. The message from the feds to the world is clear: If you run a website that allows U.S. citizens to play poker for cash, you’re breaking U.S. law and we’re coming after you.However, there seems to be an…

Card Player – Like Nevada, the New Jersey online poker system will not allow players to transfer funds to one another via the online poker software — at least for now. New Jersey plans to kick off its first games on Nov. 26 at 9 a.m. local time. The state legalized web poker earlier this year. PokerStars, which looks to be involved with New Jersey online gambling thanks to a partnership, recently asked regulators to reconsider the issue. However, the state didn’t budge. According to a regulations document released by the Division of Gaming Enforcement: “Rational Group [PokerStars and Full…