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Poker Bill Passes Out of Committee — Now What?

On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed Rep.

Greg Raymer on Fox Business at 10:30am ET

With the markup of HR 2267 scheduled during today’s session of the House Financial Services Committee, scheduled for 10am ET, Greg Raymer will discuss regulating and licensing Internet poker on the Fox Business network at 10:30am. Video should appear at www.foxbusiness.com shortly after the interview. Related Posts Tea Party Conservatives Support Efforts to Quash UIGEA RE: Markup of HR 2267 Tuesday (0) Markup of HR 2267 Tuesday Vote appears too close to call (7) Re: Andy Bloch returns to Rio to defend Internet freedom It’s about more than just poker, but poker important part of it (7) HR 2267 Hearing Recap Congress Considers Poker Position in Online Gambling Regs (0)

Online Poker — David ‘gaucho2121′ Paredes Chops Up Full Tilt Win

You can check out the final results for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UB, Bodog and Cake below: PokerStars — Sunday Million Buy-In: $200+$15 Prize Pool: $1,663,800 Entrants: …

PTP Hit and Run: Weekend of July 24th-25th

A November Niner picks up an award, durrrr Challenge scuttlebutt, and poker players continue to press for regulation online in the U.S. It’s all in the weekend edition of the PTP Hit and Run.

PokerStars’ Vanessa Selbst to make EPT debut in Tallinn

by Mad Harper NAPT champion Vanessa Selbst, the latest star to join the elite Team PokerStars Pro, will be competing in her first European Poker Tour event in Tallinn next month. Selbst, 26, made it to Day 5 of this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event, finishing 476th for $27,519. She also won a WSOP bracelet in 2008, taking down the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament. Currently studying law at Yale, Selbst has several big USA titles to her name and won the inaugural PokerStars North American Poker Tour Main Event at Mohegan Sun in April this year for $750,000. Vanessa Selbst Selbst will be joined at the first EPT of Season 7 by a host of stars such as Team PokerStars Pro Katja Thater, EPT Barcelona and 2010 WSOP bracelet winner Carter Phillips, EPT Berlin and EPT Players’ Choice Award winner Kevin MacPhee, EPT Player of the Year Max Lykov and Friend of PokerStars Pierre ‘Serial PokerStars Qualifier’ Neuville

$500 Freeroll on Bodog Today!

The next freeroll in the $500 Bodog Series begins today. There will be $500 added to the prizepool in these tournaments and distributed as per Bodog’s payout structure. This series of freerolls is open to all players regardless of whether or not…

This Week In Poker: Episode 5

Fifth Episode of This Week In Poker Now Up and Archived Guests this past Tuesday included David “The Maven” Chicotsky , Lauren Kling , a woman, 2008 WCP’s Hottest Girl in Poker Lacey Jones , and host of ESPN’s Inside Deal and reporter for OK! Magazine, Laura Lane . If you missed it, watch it above or go to the official This Week In Poker page here . The ep was longer than it’d take Greg Raymer to call it quits at an all-you-can eat buffet, so here’s a breakdown of where the guests joined the show. 2:55 – Double Rainbow TM 7:04 – Victory Poker pro The Maven joins us to talk about his epic Day In The Life video, his training center with Bodog Ari, teaching Playboy Playmates how to play poker and what he thinks it will take for poker to get some real mainstream sponsors.

A Hand from the WSOP with Andrew Brokos

Andrew “Foucault” Brokos is an online cash-game pro who has an incredible track record at the World Series of Poker Main Event. Of the past five years, he cashed four times. He finished 279th in 2006 for $39,000, 361th in 2007 for $35,000…

This Week in Poker — July 10 – 16

Check out CardPlayer.com every Friday for a weekly wrap-up of the news from the live poker tournament trail. Card Player Player of the Year Update The Card Player Player of …

WSOP From the Rail: Main Event Day 2b

While day 2a on Friday was a good day for pros at the main event of the World Series, day 2b was not as kind to big names trying to make it deep in Vegas. The biggest name to go down on the second of two day 2s?