Harrah’s has revealed that it will carry out a new tradition for WSOP bracelet winners this year. Players win a World Series of Poker bracelet event by playing Texas Holdem will receive a special invitation to the Amazon Room at the Rio at exactly 2.20 pm the day following their win. They will receive a [...]

Barney Frank and Peter King announced legislation for online gambling that includes Online Texas Holdem. Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Peter King (R-N.Y.) introduced legislation Wednesday that, if approved, would produce regulatory structure for online gambling in the United States. “Internet gambling in the United States should be monitored by a severe federal certifying and [...]

Internet gambling firms had battled hard to get the VAT took off, but now they state the new level of tax on gross profits will hurt as much or more.  British online gambling operators were stunned this week by government plans to substitute an increase in gross profits tax to replace the controversial value-added tax. [...]

The online gambling argument may be a hotly challenged one in the US government. The state of California, though, is taking a proactive approach to leading the country into the future of legalized Internet gambling which includes Online Texas Holdem and more. The California Online Poker Law Enforcement Compliance and Consumer Protection Act has been [...]