http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast Podcast Poker and Casino Online Promotions and Tournaments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:07:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Good news from across the Atlantic, the French government is yielding to pressure from the European gaming community. The federal entity has become a paladin for free trade and the legalization of cross border gaming. According to a statement by the European Commission (EC), France used ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/06/11/french-to-legalize-online-gaming-in-2009/ By: Andrés Vargas  A lot of bull has been argued about the subject of whether or not poker is a game of chance. However there was something extremely peculiar about these arguments. No one had ever developed a single piece based on scientific research to answer the damn ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/06/11/is-poker-a-game-of-chance/ By: Andres Vargas For those who know little more than nothing about soccer, FIFA is the organism governing all soccer organizations around the globe, and now it seems like poker will finally have its own world wide ruling institution: the World Poker Association. For years the World Poker Organization ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/05/29/pokers-fifa/ Valdemar Kwaysser entered the final table clad in 594k worth of chips. He sat along with the last 8 survivors, including online pros Ashton Griffin, Alec Torelli and Steven Silverman, who led the chip count with 831k. Luck smiled on Kwaysser who was armed to the teeth with bullets as he ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/05/27/hungarian-takes-the-cup-in-the-lapt-costa-rica/ This is the stuff dreams are made of! Imagine getting a 2009 WOSP seat just for pulling an ice cold beer out of the fridge. Milwaukee’s Best Light and Poker Legend Phil Hellmuth have made it happen. Milwaukee’s Best is now launching 3 limited edition can designs, ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/05/27/drink-you-way-to-a-wsop-seat/ Is there anything manlier than poker? I guess we can think of a few activities… can’t we? Now the most important event of this testosterone driven game: the WSOP is being sponsored by Gamma Labs. The company manufactures Gamma-O a product which not only increases strength and energy, ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/05/16/testosterone-booster-sponsors-the-wsop/ The hottest, most explosive poker show on the tube is now likely to get cancelled. Even tough high stakes was the number one show on GSN. The suits on the game network decided to take another direction and stop producing their finest product. Good call guys! High stakes ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/05/16/high-stakes-poker-rip/ The Netherlands implemented their own version of the UIGEA. Unlike the U.S., online-gambling is legal in most European countries. However, legal gambling takes place only in strongly protected state owned monopolies. The Dutch law pretends to stop players from gambling online on foreign private sites, by keeping ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/05/15/update-european-online-gambling-regulations/ Julien Nuijten, an unknown 19 year old from Holland, took the tournament’s $222,940 first prize back to Amsterdam. Nuijten is a former World Champion in an entirely different card game, “Magic: The Gathering”. The $2,500 No Limit Hold'em tournament sat 314 participants on the tables at the Intercontinental ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/05/07/dutch-wins-the-latin-american-poker-tour-in-brazil/ It’s been confirmed, after months of rumors Harrah’s Entertainment announced the delay of the main event’s final table for the World Series of Poker until November 9-10. ESPN will broadcast the event on the 11th in a two hour special. As expected, the early stages of the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em World ... http://www.actionpoker.com/podcast/index.php/2008/05/02/wsop%e2%80%99s-final-table-delayed-until-november/