Mitt Romney, Republican Presidential frontrunner does not support legalized online poker in the United States, the reasons given for his stance on online poker legislation in the USA is “because of the social costs and people’s addictive gambling habits.”

Mitt Romney, is a Mormon, in keeping with his religious line is expected to follow the Church of Latter Day Saints which bans gambling, alcohol and even coffee leaving us poker players with little chance of ever seeing online poker legalized in the USA with him in charge of the White House.

Newt Gingrich, while not making his stance on the legislation of online poker known as of yet has strong ties to Casino boss and online gaming opponent Sheldon Adelson who has contributed over $10 million to date to Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s campaign.

Rick Santorum is another not in favor with online poker, he was quoted as saying: “I’m someone who takes the opinion that gaming is not something that is beneficial, particularly having that access on the internet. Just like we’ve seen from a lot of other things that are ‘vices,’ they tend to grow exponentially as a result of that. It’s one thing to come to Las Vegas and do gaming and participate in the shows and entertainment and that kind of thing. It’s another thing to be able to sit in your home and have access to that. I just think it would be dangerous for our country.”

Santorum went on to say: “There are certain things that do cost people a lot of money, cost them their lives, [and] cost them their fortunes that we shouldn’t have available. That’s why we regulate gaming. You have a big commission [in Nevada] that regulates gambling, for a reason. We don’t have it everywhere.  I for one don’t think it’s a good thing. A lot of people don’t responsibly gamble and lose a lot and end up in not such great economic straits as a result of that.”

Ron Paul supports online poker legislation and has been a co-sponsor of several pro-online poker bills, including Congressman Joe Barton’s HR 2366, which sets up a framework to legalize and regulate internet poker in the United States. Paul is one of 27 co-sponsors of the bipartisan bill, which was introduced last June but has not found its way out of committee.

Ron Paul advocates freedom and the right for people to spend their hard earned money as they please.

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Most online poker players are already aware that Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT), the French investment group is currently working on taking over Full Tilt Poker and in the process making sure that all players’ bankrolls worldwide are repaid. GBT has been in discussions with the US DOJ and have reached a signed agreement with them which includes the purchase of the Full Tilt Poker for $80 million provided that certain conditions are fulfilled.

GBT has subsequently been investigating the financial inner workings of Full Tilt and have uncovered that several former pros owe large sums of money to the company totaling $16.5 Million. Considering the purchase price of $80 Million, the $16.5 Million in outstanding professional player debts to Full Tilt Poker is significant and could potentially put the deal in serious jeopardy.

To date GBT has been quiet about the deal for the most part, preferring to hold closed meetings keeping issues encountered private, however in this case Groupe Bernard Tapie have made the issue public regarding several pro’s outstanding debts in order to apply pressure to those owing money to the company and possibly to educate the public that those implicated are not all as guilt free as they claim to be regarding players getting their money back from FullTilt.

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The 2012 World Series of Poker will see some new changes including new events, an increase of tables and a change in date of the final table due to the U.S. Presidential Election.

One of the new events is the WSOP Big One which features a million dollar buy-in, and is a charity event benefiting One Drop, there will be no tournament fee for the event and 11,1% of each buy-in will be donated. The event is limited to 48 players and with 22 players registered so far, the event will have the biggest prize pool in the history of poker.

This year the Rio Casino will add an additional 92 tables making a total of 470 tables which will also reduce the amount of starting days of the 2012 WSOP Main Event from 7-9 July 2012.

The November Nine will not be happening in 2012 due to the Presidential Election taking place in the first week of November, the WSOP final table will return to the Penn & Teller Theater on 28-30 October.

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Carbon Poker 25k Bankroll Booster Freeroll is scheduled to take place on 26th February, players must qualify for their entry by finishing in the top 10 places in the daily freeroll qualifiers.

Qualifiers are running now, sign-up for a free CarbonPoker account and start playing these free to enter no deposit required.

Carbon Poker bonus code – 600PK

Double your deposited amount up to $600, Carbon Poker minimum deposit is $10 and USA poker players are welcome.

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PokerStars Zoom Poker is expected for release as a beta version in March 2012, the new action packed game is PokerStars version of the popular Rush Poker on Full Tilt Poker.

A PokerStars player requested a version Rush Poker for PokerStars and a PokerStars Rep responded “PokerStars is developing a fast moving ring games product. We expect it to be available for public beta testing in a few months.”

Not much more information is available about PokerStars Zoom Poker, except that the image on the left now appears in a folder named Blitz (PokerStars/gx/blitz) after a recent PokerStars update.

Sign-up for a free PokerStars account and get a 100% first deposit bonus up to a maximum of $600, minimum deposit is only $10.

PokerStars bonus code – STARS600

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