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Posted: Feb. 28, 2007
Online Casino News
The Coolest Thing Ever!
We're not sure if it merits the title
given to it of 'The Coolest Thing Ever'
but Bluff Magazine's latest player aid
certainly offers a useful way for poker
buffs to track, interact, and satisfy
their poker urges online. The Coolest
etc has its origins in The Poker DB
which as far back as 2004 has tracked
hundreds of thousands of tournament
results and been the catalyst for
ranking almost 2 million players based
on tournament performance, total
winnings in the player's lifetime,
biggest cashes and “streak” stats.
Bluff Magazine also claims there is
not a more accurate way to track play or
for players to compare their performance
with the rest of the poker community
online. "It is hands-down the largest
player-accessible poker database
anywhere on the planet," said a Bluff
spokesman launching the facility on the
newly designed Bluff Magazine.com
website.
With a name like 'The Coolest Thing
Ever', this tool has to be more than
useful, it has to make poker more fun to
play; and that’s what the new community
tools are for. The new Buddy List allows
players to track friends online, see
where they are playing, and view their
up to date results in a personally
customizable interface. New Buddy Alerts
notify users when their friends are
active - live on PC, by email or on
mobile phone via text message.
The real-time Custom Tournament
Directory means that players can elude
the hassle of loading poker software to
find the tournament structure, game, buy
in, prize range, site preference and
starting time of their choice. The
player now simply enters his or her
requirements and the Directory does it
all from there!
Bluff's Chief Technical Officer, Jeff
Markley says, “'The Coolest Thing Ever'
has been a massive technical challenge.
Migrating and manipulating millions of
records, and adding never-before used
technologies has been a labour of love,
but its something that, as a poker
player, I know will be appreciated by
the poker community.
All I can tell everybody is to try it
– once they do they will never stop
using it."
Posted: Feb. 28, 2007
Online Casino News
Antigua Makes a move against the U.S.
The Caribbean island nation of
Antigua has won its latest long-shot
effort to force the U.S. to open its
market to offshore gambling, according
to a confidential report issued by the
World Trade Organization.
A United States Trade Representative
official said in a report that concludes
the U.S. "has not taken the necessary
steps" to resolve the long-running
dispute between the U.S. and Antigua.
This could be because of the focus on
blocking payment providers.
The USTR officially stressed that the
report is only an interim conclusion by
the WTO and that the U.S. will have an
opportunity to respond before the final
report is issued in March. Even then,
the USTR will have opportunities to
appeal any decision unfavourable to the
U.S. The WTO allows countries to keep
services, including gambling, off their
list of free trade obligations to other
WTO members as long the country bans
those services at home.
Antigua contends the U.S. is not
consistent in its application of laws
banning Internet gambling since it
permits interstate online horse racing
gambling. The WTO agreed with Antigua in
a report issued in 2005. In that report,
the WTO acknowledged the U.S. would have
to turn to Congress to repair the
discrepancy in its laws. Last year,
Congress attached the Unlawful Internet
Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 to a
port authority bill and President Bush
signed it into law.
The new law prohibits U.S. banks,
financial institutions and other
third-party money exchange operations
from processing payments to over 2,300
offshore gambling sites located outside
of U.S. jurisdiction. The law, however,
specifically exempts state-sanctioned
online gambling on horse racing and
lotteries. "We just need to clarify
one narrow issue involving remote
gambling on horse racing," Gretchen
Hamel, a spokesperson for the USTR,
said.
Antigua, the smallest member of the
WTO, said the apparent inconsistency
serves as a basis for Americans to
legally gamble through online, offshore
gambling casinos based in Antigua.
Because Antigua has many hurricanes
hurting their economy, they are trying
everything to keep it flowing smoothly.
The dispute between Antigua and the U.S.
began back in 2000 when Congress changed
the language in the Interstate
Horseracing Act to accommodate national
betting through simulcasts at tracks
throughout the country. As part of the
change, Congress expanded the definition
of an interstate off-track bet to
include pari-mutuel wagers transmitted
between states by way of telephone or
other electronic media such as the
Internet.
Posted: Feb. 28, 2007
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