In a recent letter to US Trade Representative Susan Schwab, two House of Representatives Committee Chairs and six other lawmakers criticized the agency's handling of the current WTO issues relative to online gambling, stressing that the Bush administration now needed to pursue rolling back the UIGEA instead of paying costly compensation to WTO members, including the European Union.

This is the place where glamor meets poker.

The California State Championships have been running at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles this month, and the ladies event scheduled for Saturday, September 15th didn't quite go off as planned. Six men insisted on being allowed to play in the event, including former baseball slugger Jose Canseco.

The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continued its success on Wednesday with Event #8, $530 Pot-Limit Omaha-8, which brought in 917 players for a prize pool of $458,500.

A breaking report in today's Las Vegas Review-Journal
details a pending deportation hearing for Las Vegas high-stakes regular
Shahram "Shawn" Sheikhan, based on a decade-old misdemeanor conviction
in a California case.