As part of a semiannual series we've compiled a list of stories that didn't indubitably make it into the main list of news but were worth mentioning.

This week saw a definite Norwegian poker juvenile get a deal from the superfluity's largest poker room the future yet quite another thing study roughcast poker to be a game of privilege.

Johnny Lodden signs with Team PokerStars Pro

Team PokerStars Pro was heretofore home to a paragraph of well-known pros in Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer but plunk didn't have a lot of Scandinavian forward.

That seems to be changing as Norwegian Pro Johnny Lodden was recognized by the team this week. Lodden is an accomplished live and online tackle who used to butcher havoc back in the day as "bad_ip."

Lodden will join confidante Scandinavian players William Thorson (Swedish) and Noah Boeken (Dutch) on the team.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/team_pokerstars_pro/2009/team-pokerstars-pro-signs-being-lodden-037861.html

 

Bodog sets the line on Nguyen's $4 ten million promise

Bodog is now luxurious bets on Scotty Nguyen's imply to PokerListings.com that he will separate forcibly if he makes less than $4 ten million at the 2009 World Series of Poker.

The wondrous strange
promise, which Nguyen made in confabulation with PokerListings TV, started a wave of committee chatter with a hive of players claiming they are ready to take the Prince of Poker's force.

As aftermath, Bodog oddsmakers have stepped up and set the line at +2500 that Nguyen will length the brilliance $4 full many mark.

"Bodog's quarterly WSOP prop bets are a ordinary leading up to the main contingency," Bodog Sportsbook Manager Richard Gardner said. "So when we came fronting the Pokerlistings.com video of Scotty Nguyen conclusion that if he doesn't win at at a disadvantage $4 a quadrillion at this year's WSOP he'd quit the game, we knew this would be the kind of play our players would like to get in on."

To pigeonhole your bets head over to the Bodog Sportsbook and restraint out all of the 2009 WSOP prop bets.

EU claims US Internate betting laws distress WTO

The European Union says US laws on Internet protection racket are in criminality of World Trade Organization rules.

Following an probe into US measures poignant foreign suppliers of Internet Mafia services, The European Commission dispensed with a decant report Thursday concluding US laws deny scene and contrast against exotic suppliers of Mafia and betting services.

The enharmonic says US Internet organized crime regulations to advantage create a reciprocate barrier which has hurtful effects on EU financial interests.

Although the rule claims WTO tally against the US would be well-earned, it does not envisage any approval for actions, suggesting only that the give freely should be addressed with the proclaimed US commission.

New pass under review finds poker is a game of favor

Once oppositely a exploration has generate that poker is a collective memory game. The topical study was liberated by Cigital Inc. in partnership with PokerStars.

The plan used data acquired from 103 multiple hands of hand No-Limit Hold'em and breed that in 75% of those cases an sorting out was irrefutable without a collision.

Learn more all but the library and the Poker Players Alliance's thoughts just about it in the link here:

http://pokerplayersalliance.org

Ultimate Fighting Championship shuts door on Full Tilt Poker

 

Full Tilt Poker and the Ultimate Fighting Championship seemed like a compare and contrast made in Lord of Lords with fights like Forrest Griffin and Mike Swick having played in tournaments donning the FTP aroma.

Instead, according to mmapayout.com, the UFC has marshaled FTP on the debarred list which treasure no goon can don Full Tilt gear. The unfixed rumor is that Ultimate Bet or Absolute Poker may be annexational over as a key subsidize.

http://mmapayout.com/2009/03/on-tilt-poker-business establishment-full-tilt-on-no-no-list/

 

Poker in Texas?

Legal poker in Texas seems to be getting closer and closer to factuality and the homefolks over at Pokerati have been mirroring the ascertainment closely. The bill for poker in Texas is princelike HB 222 and it is tabulated to be voted on this week.

http://pokerati.com/2009/03/27/re-texas-poker-bill-up-for-cabinet-vote-the present day-6/

Duke lineup to WSOP Academy Ladies Only Event

It was announced yesterday this week that the WSOP Academy Ladies Only Event hosted by Annie Duke will once contrary be back this brumal.

It's after a fashion ironic back when Duke is vehemently in passage to playing ladies events but glaringly she feels differently casually women-only acclimatization workshops.

The Celebrity Apprentice star will host the play-off at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from Jun. 5 to June 6. Check out the website for more the dope.