he Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas will host Vince Neil’s Second Annual Off The Strip Poker Tournament inside The Joint on Sunday, November 5, 2006. Celebrities, Poker Pros and Las Vegas’ hottest dancers will join Neil for a wildly entertaining evening. Last year’s tournament raised more than $170,000 to benefit the T.J. Martell Foundation…

Canada’s Ontario province, of which Toronto is the largest city, announced the introduction of a bill intent on stopping all forms of advertising for online gaming and online gambling companies. The proposed bill is a modification of Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act of 2002, and is spearheaded by Ontario Government Services Minister Gerry Phillips.

Manila, The Philippines - PanAsia Poker Tour will debut its Pan-Asian Tour in Manila, The Philippines. The PanAsia Poker Tour is ready to bring to the world’s best players a Tour dedicated to Pan-Asia. The PAPT will feature world wide competition fighting for cash, prizes and the right to be called tournament champion.

PartyGaming’s online poker site, Party Poker, saw its share price drop another 13 percent on Tuesday, prompting analysts to suggest that its withdrawal from the US market in the wake of new US gambling law, may have accounted for a 90 percent drop in revenue.

Following its exit from the US market the company also made the decision to remove a ticker from the site which advertised the number of virtual tables in use and the number of players online.

Foxwoods Resort Casino will once again be the epicenter of the poker world as the prestigious World Poker Finals (WPF) and hugely popular World Poker Tour (WPT) return to New England this fall.
This prominent three-week event attracts the game’s biggest stars, throngs of amateurs, thousands of fans, national television cameras and an expected total [...]

US President George Bush on Friday has signed the Port Security Bill, which includes the controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, into law. promting online gambling companies to suspend its US operations as announced earlier.

Neteller has announced that it will stay with US market even if President George Bush signs the Anti-Online Gambling Act that prohibits financial institutions from accepting transactions involving online gambling companies. “We are staying in the U.S. I don’t think we have a problem,” said Neteller Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing Bruce Elliot.

The US House of Representatives and Senate has approved the Anti-Online Gambling Bill banning all forms of Internet gaming and sent it to President George W. Bush to sign into law.

The bill also officially makes it illegal for banks and credit card companies to make payments to online gambling sites. In a Congressional back room deal, opponents of Internet gambling have added language to port security legislation that would prohibit online wagering.