Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The Internet Gambling Regulation
The Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007 "would establish a regulatory and enforcement framework to license companies to accept bets and wagers online from individuals in the U.S."[7] The act would address underage and compulsive gambling, while providing safeguards for Americans. Legalizing these transactions would enable the government to tax and monitor fund transfers. This would allow transactions to be checked "against a number of anti-fraud, money laundering and terrorism databases".[7] In August 2007, the organization announced Michael Bolcerek had stepped down as President. John Pappas filled the role vacated by Bolcerek. Shortly after the 2009 WSOP began, the Southern District of New York Action Against
Online Poker Players
Online Poker Players seized $34 million from over 27,000 accounts of poker players affiliated with Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet and PokerStars.[18] Jeff Ifrah, the attorney for one of the disbursement companies affected, said that the government “ has never seized an account that belongs to players who are engaged in what [Ifrah] would contend is a lawful act of playing peer-to-peer poker online.”[19] The timing of the seizure may have been intentionally timed to affect the access to people's accounts during the World Series of Poker.[20][21] In July 2009, the PPA held National Poker Week, an effort to rally support for H.R. 2267,