Beim mittlerweile vierten USD 1.500-No-Limit-Hold’em-Event waren die 187 Spieler für Tag zwei bereits im Geld und diesmal waren auch noch ein paar bekanntere Namen vertreten, wie beispielsweise Team-PokerStars-Pro Luca Pagano, Freddy Deeb, Aaron Kanter, Danny Wong, Isaac Haxton oder Dag Martin Mikkelsen. Ganz nach vorn reichte es für die meisten von ihnen allerdings nicht. Luca Pagano schied auf Platz 149 aus, Mikkelsen wurde 138.

Atlantic City – Gov. Jon S. Corzine made two stops in the resort today, first addressing conventions of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO and then the New Jersey Association of Counties. The governor at the AFL-CIO union convention at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa received support of his endorsement of a bill that would keep gaming halls and horse tracks open in the event of a shutdown caused by state budget problems.

The Isle of Man Treasury Department has proposed to bring forward a Bill to update and simplify the law dealing with the excise duty aspects of gambling law. The Bill will replace the existing Betting Act 1970. The Bill would enable a single Act to deal with both online gambling and on and off-course betting and pool betting. It is not intended to deal with the regulatory aspects of the social law governing gambling (including licensing, under-age and problem gambling) or with any anti-money laundering aspects.

With Engineer Manuel San Román, Mincetur presented two bills with the aim to improve the legislation referred to the games of chance in Peru. One of them is the Real Time Unified Control System (SUCTR) and the other one, the Rules for the Regulation of the Slots Record and the Acquisition of Licensed Casinos. SUCTR is a gambling administration system, which monitors each slot machine, using a communication protocol defined through a transmission media which does not allow to be harmed.

Amsterdam (Reuters) – The upper house of the Dutch parliament defeated a bill that would have allowed monopoly casino operator Holland Casino to open a gambling web site on a trial basis. The bill was defeated in a narrow 35-37 vote on Tuesday, the Senate’s web site said. The lower house of the Dutch parliament had approved the bill in 2006.

Boston – Gov. Deval Patrick’s attempt to introduce casino gambling went down in defeat, 108-46, thursday evening in the House. The vote came after hours of debate in the House and a marathon 13 hours of testimony on Tuesday. The Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies decided not to recommend the bill in a close vote – 10-8 – on Wednesday. House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, D-Boston, who has been strongly against the proposal, reportedly strong-armed the vote.

Atlantic City, New Jersey – The city’s 11 casinos would be able to temporarily police themselves if state government ever shuts down again under a bill being pushed by a state senator who is a former Atlantic City mayor. As tempting as that might sound for casinos to cut corners – or worse – while state inspectors are not on the job, the law would enable the governor to shut down a casino for serious wrongdoing.

Senate committee hearing scheduled for tomorrow, who has long opposed the expansion of gambling in Maryland, called on lawmakers today to approve legislation that would ban video gambling machines by next year. Arguing that the machines are similar to slots and should have been confiscated years ago, Peter Franchot, the leader of the opposition to the slots referendum…

The House of Representatives analizes the Bill 2429/07, from representative Luiz Carlos Hauly (PSDB-PR), which bans bets via data transmission, specially in Internet. The text excludes the prohibition of bets performed in federal and regional lotteries authorized by law. The project also bans banks and administrators of credit cards to transfer money for the payment of online bets. In case of an infringement…

Congressman George Miller, Chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee has become the latest congressman to sign up to Republican Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act, a bill that was introduced last year to create an exemption to the current ban on online gambling for properly licensed operators. Congressman Miller is a member of the Democratic Leadership and chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee…

Die Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) nimmt immer mehr Fahrt auf. Nachdem in diesem Monat schon GPSTS-Gründer Professor Charles Nesson auf einer Podiumsdiskussion in London zu Gast war, finden auch an amerikanischen Hochschule weitere Vorträge im Rahmen der GPSTS statt. Gestern hatte die Harvard Law School den Journalisten Vin Narayana eingeladen, um über den Massachusetts Casino Gambling Bill zu diskutieren. Vin Narayana arbeitet als Kolumnist für USAToday.com, CNN und Capital News Service.

Deputy of Dominican Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Dominicano – PRD), Radhamés González, informed that a project will be presented with the aim to modify law 29-06, on sportsbooks and games of chance. He explained that the initiative intends to eliminate slots from places which can be easily reached by kids. “We understand that sportsbooks are the places which have facilitated children and teenagers to have contact with this sort of games”.