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The 2014 World Series of Poker starts on Tuesday, 27th May and celebrates it’s 10 year anniversary at the Rio Casino.

Major events in the 2014 WSOP series include: $10 million guaranteed first place prize for Main Event and Million dollar buy-in event Big One for One Drop.

The biggest live poker tournament series offers sixty-five bracelet events scheduled at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino from 27 May until 14 July, 2014.

2014 World Series of Poker starts on 27th May

Luis Suarez 888 Poker Ambassador, the professional football player is a newly added representative for the 888poker brand.

The Uruguay football legend was recently named 2014 Player of the Year and is currently preparing for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil.

Suarez enjoys playing poker and is eager to be part of upcoming promotions when he gets a break from his busy football schedule.

The list of 888poker Ambassadors now includes: Luis Suarez, Shane Warne, Georges St-Pierre, JC Tran, Sofia Lovgren and Xuan Liu.

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Two new 888Poker Ambassadors have been added to Team 888 Poker, Xuan Liu and Sofia Lövgren. The two female poker pros combined have more than $1.5 million in live tournament earnings in their careers.

Team 888poker consists of poker pros and former sports stars with Shane Warne as the captain of the team which now includes: JC Tran, Jesse Sylvia, Jake Balsiger, Russell Thomas, Georges St-Pierre, Jackie Glazier and Jessica Dawley.

Sam Holden has just left the team and announced his semi-retirement from poker and is taking time out to get a degree in philosophy.

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The New York Online Poker Bill was introduced last week by Senator John Bonacic and plans to regulate online poker in New York.

The bill is exclusively for online poker cash games and tournaments with 15% tax on players revenue. The New York Online Poker Bill will include a bad actor clause preventing poker sites that operated in the US after 31st December 2006 from qualifying for a license.

This is bad news for PokerStars and may affect their chances of getting into the Big Apple intrastate poker list of regulated poker rooms. Unregulated poker sites are will soon be liable for taxes and penalties

The population of New York is similar to New Jersey which is proving to be a success with several poker sites: PartyPoker, 888Poker, WSOP and Ultimate Poker.

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Lindsey Graham introduced a new bill to congress the Restoration of America’s Wire Act which will prohibits all forms of Internet gambling and includes online poker.

The bill was introduced to congress on Wednesday and was backed by nine state representatives. If passed the bill will make any forms of betting online, illegal under federal law.

Backed by Sheldon Adelson, billionaire Las Vegas Sands Casino CEO, in his War on Online Poker and online gambling.

Political analysts have predicted that the bill will most probably not even be up for voting in 2014.

The Democratic Governors Association claims that if the law were to be passed it would also affect the lottery which would lose $20 billion in states revenue.
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