Big News for a Big Game

April 29, 2009

The poker world is a buzz this week with the various goings on in the world of poker. The biggest news is probably the fact that Bodog has settled their deal with First Technologies and will now be able to run their site from Bodog.com again. Not only is Calvin Ayre happy to hear this, but so are many of the online poker sites’ followers. Morris Mohawk says that they are thrilled with the terms of the settlement and are just glad to get the Bodog name back. What is really great about it is that the timing could not have been better; the Bodog Poker Open III is slated to being on May 3rd.

However, there was equally exciting news in Las Vegas as well with the announcement that Yevgeniy Timoshenko won the World Poker Tour Championship. It was expected that he would do well in the event based on his past performances, but it was not expected that he would beat out all of the other players to win. Other big winners this week included Hollywood Dave Stann who took the preliminary event at the WSOPC Caesars Las Vegas.

Stann took out Eskimo Clark and Steven McKoy – both of which came as a surprise to many poker players. This was his third major win and his first WSOPC ring. He took home more than $26,000 for this win. The WSOPC Caesars Las Vegas Championship is currently running.

Then there is the fact that instead of legalizing online poker, people are still talking about the fact that it should be legalized. The latest idea is that if the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act or UIGEA is not going to be overturned, then they should simply work around it. Since intrastate online poker playing and gambling is not illegal, they can simply have each state allow it if they want to and ignore the UIGEA all together. Whether or not this will fly with the US government is another story, but several states are already looking into it.