After a somewhat goal free 1st round of games their have been a few surprises, the top two for me being North Korea keeping an impressive score vs Brazil and Switzerland beating one of the Favourites, Spain 1-0 last night.
888sports.com are offering a very good bonus, simply make your first bet of £20 and if it doesn’t win you get it refunded. I put the bet on for Switzerland to score first against spain at 4.5 to 1 so won my bet and the withdrawl has already been proccessed for a nice £70 profit.
Unfortunately that is my only win (so far) during the world cup thanks to Englands
Just thought I would post a quick guide to poker/gambling in the USA for those either from the states and wondering on the legal status.
Legality of Online Poker
On October 13, 2006 President Bush officially signed into law the Safe Port Act, a bill aimed at enhancing security at U.S. Ports. Attached to the Safe Port Act was a provision known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). According to the UIGEA, “unlawful internet gambling” means to place, receive, or otherwise knowingly transmit a bet or wager by means of the internet where such bet is unlawful under any law in the State in which the bet is initiated, received, or otherwise made. Thus, the UIGEA prohibits online gambling sites from performing transactions with American financial institutions. As a result of the bill, several large publicly traded poker gaming sites such as PartyPoker.com, PacificPoker.comand and bwin closed down their US facing operations. Some operations have not closed and it is still possible for some American players to play online for real money and even sign up for new accounts. The UIGEA has had a devastating effect on the stock value of these companies.
If you actually spend a little time looking through some of the arguments currently being put up against legalizing online poker a strong feature of those arguments can be summarized as ‘protecting the moral fiber of the citizens The government thinks its citizens will all go stir crazy as soon as online poker can be legally played throughout the country. We’d all immediately start spending rent and food money gambling in online poker competitions, neglecting our children, failing to turn up for work. There are people who have addictive personalities and may well play online poker games to their personal and financial detriment.
A nation must have adequate federal laws to ensure that online poker websites have very stringent controls to prevent under-age players accessing any online poker games and, that money laundering cannot take place. There are many other controls that could also reasonably be insisted on, for example: ensuring that online poker players a have to deposit money for their betting chips in advance of a game, …
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The Paddy Power Irish Open gets under way on the 2nd April this year. You can watch it live exclusively here from 2pm GMT.
With an estimated prizepool of $2,500,000 million up for grabs and a field featuring top pro’s such as Dan Harrington, Marty Smyth & Andy Black as well as sporting heroes such as Tony Cascarino, Ken Doherty & Teddy Sheringham we’re in for an exciting weekend
Bookmark this page and come back on the 2nd! when live streaming with ful commentary starts.
Want to keep up to date with your favourite pro poker layers latest plays? Many of the big names like to keep their fans updated on what they are doing and how they are playing on twitter.
Listed below is the most popular names and ther associated accounts.
Phil Ivey http://twitter.com/phil_ivey
Doyle Brunson – http://twitter.com/TEXDOLLY
Phil Hellmuth – http://twitter.com/phil_hellmuth
Daniel Negreanu http://twitter.com/RealKidPoker
Barry Greenstein http://twitter.com/barrygreenstein
Vanessa Rousso http://twitter.com/VanessaRousso
Mike Matusow http://twitter.com/TheMouthMatusow
Andy Bloch http://twitter.com/andy_bloch
Paul Wasicka http://twitter.com/Kwickfish
Jeff Madsen http://twitter.com/JeffMadsenobv
Mike Matusow http://twitter.com/TheMouthMatusow
Howard Lederer http://twitter.com/howardhlederer
feel free to twitter this link to your friends 