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Hopes that the Obama administration in the United States would bring a more enlightened vision to the online gambling scene, and a delay in the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Regulations, are fading as the industry considers the content and implications of the US government’s Final Rule.

In November last year, some sixteen months after the UIGEA was passed by Congress and in something of a rush as the Bush administration was coming to an end, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board published the regulations supporting the UIGEA in the form of a Final Rule for compliance by US financial institutions.

Notice HP-1266 advised that the UIGEA prohibits gambling businesses from knowingly accepting payments in connection with unlawful Internet gambling, including payments made through credit cards, electronic funds transfers, and checks.

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To build his team of elite poker players, Doyle Brunson isn’t straying far from home to source the talent. The world’s biggest poker legend will be playing at $5/10 and $10/20 cash game tables every Monday through Friday at DoylesRoom.com along with Chris Moorman, Mike Caro and other pros in order to meet new poker players and hopefully find the next member for his elite team of young poker pros. Stated Doyle Brunson, "There’s been big interest from folks out there interested in becoming part of The Brunson 10. While I play frequently in tournaments and cash games at my poker room, I thought having a specific block of time would be a real good way for me to get the best players to the tables and get to know them on a personal level while we play some cards. (Read the full post about ‘Doyle Brunson Looks for Next Member of Elite Poker Team’…)

A 22-year-old computer graduate from the University of Dundee, Kris Zutis, has developed a computer system for detecting card counters and pinpointing dealer errors. The system uses complex algorithms to analyse information captured by cameras set up in casinos, and started as a final year project in Zutis’s Applied Computing degree, in which he worked closely with staff from Dundee’s Gala Casino.

The system is already attracting worldwide attention, and was featured in the latest edition of the prestigious New Scientist magazine.

Zutis has been invited to showcase his system at the International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), in Belgium this week, and has prepared a paper entitled ‘Who’s Counting?: Real-Time Blackjack Monitoring for Card Counting Detection’.

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The French National Assembly debate taking place this week on the coming liberalisation of the hitherto monopolised gambling market has continued to grab the mainstream press headlines.

Moves to open the market under strictly regulated conditions to privately owned websites offering gambling action on poker, soccer and horse racing were introduced to the Assembly on Wednesday.

Reuters reported that an estimated 3 million French residents illegally use gambling websites based abroad, and quoted French Budget Minister Eric Woerth as saying: “We have chosen a middle way which I think is just and efficient, a controlled opening up of the market.

“I want to put an end to these parallel universes.

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World Series of Poker record bracelet holder Phil Hellmuth is not exactly happy with the tournament these days or the folks who run it, Harrah’s. Hellmuth spoke to French media about how Harrah’s new online poker website could damage the WSOP.  The site will not be available to US customers at the onset.  Harrah’s announced a partnership agreement with the strong European brand, 888.com earlier last month.  Pokerati had this to say about the concerns raised by Hellmuth.  "Beyond his repeated request for more food and cheaper rooms (previously Hellmuth was seeking "free"), he actually raises some good points, which seem to tie in with his November Nine coaching client’s WSOP beefs. &qu (Read the full post about ‘Phil Hellmuth vs. Harrah’s and the World Series of Poker’…)

If you have been following Gambling911.com over the last 24 hours, you would know that the online poker room Pitbull Poker had shut its doors with what appears to be zero intention of paying either customers or players. Over the summer, many in the online poker community suspected Pitbull of engaging in "cheating" schemes, accusations the ownership flatly denied. But a review of who was behind Pitbull seemed to suggest something wasn’t quite right with the organization. In 2000, Federico Schiavio, a high level IT employee of Binions, registered the domain wsop.com and began developing custom poker software to launch a poker site on this domain
 March 23, 2004 Harrahs takes legal action against Mr. S (Read the full post about ‘Pitbull Poker Owners Arrested’…)

Poker icon and, more importantly, friend of Gambling911.com, Doyle Brunson had dropped out of the top 10 at the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe by late afternoon, though he was far from out.  Brunson was still among the top 30 chip leaders.  He had lost a good 3700 at the time this article was going to press.  We’ve pulled out all the stops to bestow good luck upon Doyle, including Fido the Cheerleading pooch.  If he doesn’t get back into the thick of things, we may have to resort to bringing out Cake Girl.  Regular readers of Gambling911.com know who we’re referring to. Daniel Negreanu, who performed well at last year’s WSOPE event, had climbed the chip leader chart to the 19th position. A n (Read the full post about ‘Lucky Dog: Doyle Brunson Down But Not Out’…)

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