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		<title>Online Poker Rooms Traffic Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many online poker rooms  are struggling to maintain their traffic because of increased competition and uncertain regulation in the U.S. and other countries. PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have been very aggressive in marketing to U.S. players since the UIGEA, and as a result have become the dominant players. Others like Party Poker and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky Launches Attack Against Online Poker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online poker operators newest threat is now Kentucky. The state is trying to gain control of popular online poker and online casino domains including those of FullTilt Poker and PokerStars. If successful they would block access to all Kentuckians and perhaps all players from the United States.
So, just how big of a threat is online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Online Poker In Italy Huge Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Italians are flocking to legal, licensed online poker sites in their country. It is estimated by Gioco Digitale (Italian online poker operator) that over 500,000 Italians will be playing at the legal online poker site within the next year. A poll also showed that over 70% of the players in the new licensed poker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austrian Poker Spygate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of the top online gambling and poker operators based in Austria, bwin and Casinos Austria, have been all over the local media for corporate espionage. Online poker operators are in cut-throat competition to grow and increase their liquidity in an industry were being small can mean death to a company. It is no surprise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Party Changing Stance On Internet Gambling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republican party has been strongly against internet gambling for almost a decade, and it looked like that would continue this year when they introduced their party platform for the 2008 election year. But, in a surprising twist it appears that their opposition to internet gambling will not be included in this year&#8217;s party platform.
Could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chan Poker Shutting Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chan Poker, the online poker site of Johnny Chan, announced that they will be ceasing operations beginning August 21st, 2008. They urge any players with cash balances in their account to request a withdrawal immediately. More information on the site closure can be found on Chanpoker.com.
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		<title>Boss Media vs Poker Trillion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poker Trillion and Boss Media continue to battle each other in the courts and the press. Poker Trillion issued a press release stating they had won a legal judgment requiring Boss Media to shut down its servers in September, and indicated that player funds might be at risk.
Boss Media responded with their own press release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Player Wins Two FTOPS In Same Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday night Yuvee04 won two consecutive Full Tilt Online Poker Series tournaments. This was the first time any player has accomplished the feat. He beat 655 entants in the $535 buy-in H.O.R.S.E tournament, and 2,472 players in the $216 turbo No-Limit Holdem tournament.
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		<title>Poker Declared A Sport In Russia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears the Russian are way ahead of the U.S. when it come to understanding poker. Poker has been officially declared a sport in Russia, and is booming in popularity. While the government in the U.S. attempts to drive poker underground, or at least to Las Vegas and gambling halls, the Russians have embraced poker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BetFair $100,000 Promo Won On First Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BetFair Poker had a great idea for a long-term poker promotion, however it did not turn out to be very long-term; it was won on the first day.
The poker promotion awarded $100,000 to the first player that won the $20k guaranteed and the $5k or $6k guaranteed in the same day. Betfair Poker regular redmist1 [...]]]></description>
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