Internet Texas Holdem

Over the past fifteen years, there have been many major events in the poker world that have shifted the game in one direction or another. For example, the gritty poker drama “Rounders”, starring Matt Damon and Ed Norton, became an extremely popular cult film amongst poker fans and was the first movie to truly bring the game to the big screen.

The biggest boom that poker has seen thus far came in 2003 when an unknown accountant from Tennessee became the World Series of Poker Main Event champion. Chris Moneymaker served as a catalyst for the online poker boom, and it seemed like everyone was making a Party Poker download at the time. Moneymaker also became a representative of PokerStars by becoming a sponsored pro. Douglas Tirola’s upcoming documentary “All In: The Poker Movie” looks to cover these moments and more.

The documentary will take a look at poker’s history, covering the moments that have come to define the game. Much of the documentary will focus events based around Moneymaker’s epic victory in 2003 that lead to an unbelievable increase in hopeful poker players, especially in the online arena. Tirola’s documentary will take a look at poker’s…

Just yesterday we posted an article with updates regarding Washington D.C. and online casino gambling. It appears that we posted our article a bit late. We reported that council members were in the middle of trying to pass a bill to negate the bill that allows legal online poker in Washington D.C. It turns out that the bill had already been appealed on February 1st earlier this month.

As explained yesterday, Washington D.C. had passed a bill that allowed legal online casino gambling within their jurisdiction. Because it was part of a budget bill, however, a few council members disagreed with the way the bill was made law. They also had a problem with Intralot, the Greek company that was contracted to run the gambling site. It wasn’t made clear how the company was awarded their contract in the first place, and they disliked this.

On the first of this month, the Finance Committee of the city council met up and repealed the online gambling bill by a count of 3-2. This means that games such as Internet slots will have to wait before they are legal in Washington D.C.

Washington D.C. is stalled, but other jurisdictions are…

It was a big deal in Washington D.C. when a bid for online poker rooms within the district was launched in early 2011. Washington D.C. was to be the first jurisdiction within the United States to offer legal online poker within its district limits. This plan has been drastically delayed, however, as council members found fault with the way the bill was introduced.

The bill to allow poker was initially passed by being written into a budget bill which would allow poker and casinos for USA players on the internet in the district. The 30-day objection period ended with no problems, with Congress having nothing to say about the bill. The bill then became a law. However, when council members discovered how the bill was sent into action, quite a few of them were unhappy.

Councilman Tommy Wells found so much of a problem with the law that he introduced a bill to repeal the online gambling bill. Two of his fellow council members support repealing the gambling bill. However, he has not garnered the support of the other ten council members. Wells and his supporting council members have also raised concern with Intralot, the Greek…