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According to VentureBeat, PurePlay, a poker and proto-gambling site that today announced $15 million in funding from various venture capital firms and other investment sources.

PurePlay is an online gambling site where everyone, including US residents can play for, and win, money in online poker games. There is only one other popular online poker website that is legal for US residents, DuplicatePoker, which slightly alters the rules to make it a more a game of skill, which is than permitted by US law.

PurePlay was planned out and started well in advance of the UIGEA laws, says CEO Jason Kellerman. [Read more →]

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US. Senator Jon Kyl, (R-Ariz), says he is growing impatient with the slow progress in coming up with regulations on Internet gambling in the United States.

Kyl, who has been pushing for a ban on Internet gambling, says slow progress on the part of the government and the Federal Reserve is part of the problem, along with a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would block enforcement of any regulations.

“The people who are violating the law need to know that they’re not going to be able to get away with it and I think that the failure to get these regulations promulgated on time has perhaps given some hope and it’s given life even to an idea over in the House of Representatives to put a moratorium on the regulations,” Kyl told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. [Read more →]

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A few months ago we pontificated about what better, faster more connected mobile phones will mean for mobile gaming and mobile gambling, with three major roadblocks, which included need for better mobile phone handsets and the innovative devices, more investment by casinos into mobile gambling and lack of software for casinos who do want to provide mobile gaming. When the 3G iPhone is released this summer AT&T is ready to shave as much as $200 off the cost of the phone, according to Fortune, which says it has a source familiar with the matter. [Read more →]

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In years past many online casinos and poker rooms held poker tournaments and send the winner to the World Series of Poker as the prize. After UIGEA was enacted, the online casino operators were forced to leave the US market, they took the ability for an average online poker player to win a trip to the WSOP with them.

One of the remaining online poker rooms legal for US residents is DuplicatePoker.com, which legally accepts US players and is able to accept payment via Visa or MasterCard. This year Duplicate Poker is giving away $14,000 WSOP Main Event VIP Package. On May 10th, DuplicatePoker.com will host it’s first-ever WSOP Main Event qualifier. Players will have a shot to win a complete $14,000 WSOP Main Event VIP Package It’s the richest, most customized offering around. The player who qualifies will •

• Travel to Las Vegas in style
• Be chauffeured around The Strip in a limo

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In a recent article, The New York Times looked at the affect of the indoor smoking ban on bingo games across the US.

Charlie Lindstrom, who runs the bingo nights at an American Legion post in Fergus Falls, Minn., said… on a good night, bingo at the post used to attract 50 to 75 players. Nowadays it is more like 30 or 40…

Mr. Lindstrom is not alone. Managers of charity bingo games in California, New Jersey, New York and Washington State also say their states’ smoking bans have forced cutbacks in their budgets.

Clearly, people who enjoy bingo, also enjoy having a smoke and now that they are unable to do so in bingo halls, what’s left for them? Unfortunately, for the US citizens, bingo is considered a game of chance and is therefore prohibited under the UIGEA. Fortunately for the non-US parts of the world, because bingo is game that can be played online there are a number of online bingo halls where bingo players can play from the comfort of their houses and smoke if they’d like. [Read more →]

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