• Panel Wrestles With Internet Regulatory Issues

While Internet wagering on horseracing across state lines has been legalized in 17 states, the United States Congress still hasn't determined whether other forms of casino-style gaming should be prohibited. Until it does, gambling in cyberspace remains a complex public policy issue. That's the consensus of a panel of legal and legislative experts assembled Saturday for the second day of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States meeting in Las Vegas. Congress has unsuccessfully addressed federal legislation greatly restricting or prohibiting Internet gaming on four separate occasions, according to Frank Catania, a former New Jersey state legislator and gaming regulator now representing the Interactive Gaming Council, an international not-for-profit trade association. In its most recent attempt, Catania told about 100 attendees, including 25 legislators from gaming states, that an effort to prohibit the processing of financial instruments for the purpose of an Internet wager reached an impasse last summer over whether state-licensed entities would be exempted from the legislation. "The United States policy with regard to online gaming continues to restrict the world's most respected casino gaming companies from being competitive in the industry," Catania said, while adding that states should have the right to determine for themselves the legality. "With the new technologies that have and will be developed and greater acceptance by the public, legislators working together with ... state gaming regulators and industry leaders could address these public policy issues and, in my opinion, resolve them." [...]

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• Yukon Gold Casino Launched

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• A Beginner's Course In Texas Hold'em – Part 1

This is the first in a series of articles aimed squarely at beginning hold'em players. My goal is to introduce new players to this exciting game and give them enough background to make them feel comfortable playing casino poker. Texas hold'em is among the most popular game played in casino poker rooms. Although playing expertly requires a great deal of skill, hold'em is easily learned and deceptively simple. It is a subtle and complex game, typically played with nine or ten players to a table, and is a faster, more action-filled game than stud. Texas hold'em is also the fastest growing poker game in the world, and is the game used to determine the world champion at the World Series of Poker. In the next few issues, we'll present a short course in Texas hold'em, designed for beginning players. You won't be an expert when at this series' conclusion, but you'll have enough information to allow you to hold your own in most lower-limit games. [...]

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• Woodbine Goes Online

Canada-based Woodbine Entertainment Group this week launched an Internet service that enables gamblers to wager on races at its tracks as well as additional tracks in North America, Australia and Hong Kong. The company hopes online betting will bring in $15 million in wagers this year. The new site, HBIBET.com, is the product of a partnership between Woodbine and Canadian e-business firm Whitecap Canada Inc, whose HorsePlayer Interactive system, powers the site. Users can place bets seconds before post time as well as create a "bet queue" through which future bets can be lined up and placed at the time of the client's choosing. Andrew Macdonald, Woodbine's director of business development, is confident the Internet service won't just boost wagering among existing customers. It should also bring in a new clientele, he said. "In B.C. there has been phone betting available since the mid 1990s, and that accounts for about $25 million in wagering activity every year at Hastings Park (a Woodbine property in Vancouver)," Macdonald explained. [...]

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