The Warpe Factor

PPA Press Release – Washington, DC (October 2, 2009) – The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide (nearly 10,000 in South Carolina), today lauded the ruling of a South Carolina court that confirmed that poker is a game of skill, and thus should not [continue]

SAN FRANCISCO — The European Union recently took a shot at the United States in little-noticed trade war over internet gambling, charging that the United States unfairly interferes with internet gambling in ways that run contrary to World Trade Organization rules.
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Press Release: MINNEAPOLIS, MN (June 4, 2009) –The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide (and more than 15,000 in Minnesota), declared victory as news broke that the Minnesota Department of Public Safety was dropping enforcement action against Internet Service Providers that provide access to [continue]

Cigital, Inc. will release a report through a media conference call on Friday outlining a study of 103 million hands of Texas Hold ‘Em, which includes compelling statistics showing the outcomes of the games are largely determined by the players’ decisions rather than chance.  The results of this  study are of great importance [continue]

Washington, DC (February 19, 2009) –The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide (nearly 10,000 in South Carolina), today expressed cautious optimism with a ruling in the Mount Pleasant, S.C. poker case and applauded the Court’s findings that poker is a game of skill, not [continue]

BLUFF Magazine announced details, on Monday, of the 2009 BLUFF Online Poker Challenge.  Sponsored by Lock Poker, the competition will bring together some of the best online poker players and each will be given an opportunity to build a bankroll playing multi-table tournaments and sit-n-gos exclusively on Lock Poker.  Each player starts with $200 and [continue]

Organizers have released the schedule for the 40th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), which will start on Wednesday, May 27 with the first of 57 gold bracelet events, followed the next day with a special $40,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament to commemorate the WSOP’s 40th anniversary.  The famed Amazon Room at the Rio [continue]

Hard on the heels of a similar ruling in Pennsylvania comes another court decision in Colorado that the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) says further builds the case that poker is a game of skill, not chance. In Colorado v. Kevin Raley, a jury found the organizer of a poker league not guilty of illegal gambling [continue]

Louisville, KY (January 20, 2009) – The Kentucky Court of Appeals today issued a ruling prohibiting the Franklin Circuit Court from enforcing its seizure order against the 141 domain names in the domain seizure case.  The Court found that Internet domain names do not constitute a gambling device under Kentucky law and that the Franklin [continue]

For an online poker site still trying to regain its credibility in the wake of cheating scandals and a starring role in a 60 Minutes expose, UltimateBet.com took a big step backwards over the weekend with hand number 1162170993.  It appears that the one and only Phil Hellmuth mucked his hand but still won a [continue]