The Italian poker rooms with licenses to operate in Italy have now been allowed to offer cash games to their players. For the last two years online poker has been legalized in Italy, however players have been limited to playing only online poker tournaments.
Cash games were previously banned because they were strangely enough labeled as luck based gambling games but tournaments were seen as a skilled game.
While most of the Italians are playing at PokerStars, PartyPoker is offering players a chance to win a share of €50,000 in the Party Poker cash quest promotion exclusive to Italian Poker players. Read More …
The Poker Players Alliance is not taking this issue of infringing on Americans right to play online poker lightly, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of poker players and enthusiasts from around the United States who have joined together to speak with one voice to promote the game and to protect poker players rights.
The PPA have released an email requesting that all poker players who feel that their right to play poker online has been violated should stand together and fight back as the action taken by the DOJ should be viewed as nothing less than a declaration of war against poker and the people who play the game, players need to inform U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about their disappointment with his decision to shut down trusted Internet poker sites in the USA plus remind Congress and President Obama that now is the time to pass sensible legislation that licenses and regulates Internet poker in America.
The PPA have set up a webpage with detailed instructions on what action you as a poker player can take to voice your concerns. This issue will not simply resolve itself, now is the time to take action !
The top two online poker rooms have started new partnership deals which should help in the struggle to license and regulate online poker in the United States. Last week PokerStars formed a partnership with Wynn Resorts who effectively offered a safe gambling environment to US players for the last 40 years.
Full Tilt Poker plan to release information today on their recent partnership with Fertitta Interactive, owned by the brothers Lorenzo & Frank Fertitta who own UFC – Ultimate Fighting Championship & Station Casino Inc, a franchise of land based casinos in Las Vegas.
So, you have tried out poker at a home game and probably won some cash or at the very least have a grasp of the rules of the game, you enjoy and have seen how the pros do it on TV but playing your weekly home game doesn’t fill the gap anymore and you are looking to expand your horizons.
Well then, this Ultimate newbie guide to playing poker online is dedicated to you in the hopes that you will choose the venue that best suits your needs.
When it comes to poker online for a novice the concept itself seems overwhelming particularly for unsavvy occasional internet users, this guide hopes to steer you in the right direction.
The plethora of poker rooms, different protocols and software variations available on the internet seems daunting for a newbie player to say the least we have compiled a listing of what you should be looking for when choosing your new internet poker venue.
Choosing an Internet Poker Room
One of the first choices you will be confronting in your quest is that of finding a suitable internet poker room that meets and hopefully exceeds your expectations while avoiding the many rouge sites that unfortunately do exist.
If you are an American you have an additional choice to factor in, i.e. many rooms no longer offer their online poker games to USA citizens since Bush passed into law the UEGIA, so your options have been narrowed down, yet there are still some excellent choices for you to choose from, simply use our right hand navigation menu under “Poker Bonuses”, poker sites that still allow USA players real money play have a small American flag adjacent the room’s these are the internet poker rooms that continue to allow poker players from America including two of the most popular internet poker rooms in PokerStars and FullTIltPoker.
The Italian poker rooms with licenses to operate in Italy have now been allowed to offer cash games to their players. For the last two years online poker has been legalized in Italy, however players have been limited to playing only online poker tournaments.
The land of the free, American poker players have once again been the target of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) with the 
