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   X Bodog Poker        
   X Full Tilt Poker        
   X PokerNetwork        
   X PokerStars        
   X Prima Network        
   X UltimateBet / Absolute        
   X World Online Network        

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PokerPulse Letters:

Our comments and outreach related online gaming industry issues.

To: ministre@msp.gouv.qc.ca, August 2008 -- ...The federal justice minister has advised me to seek your counsel regarding the extent of your discretion to apply (or not) federal gambling prohibitions in Kahnawake. (See enclosed e-mail of Aug. 13/08). According to the minister, "The general scheme of the gambling provisions of the Criminal Code is to prohibit all forms of gambling, except those specifically permitted by the Code. While Parliament enacts the gambling provisions found in the Code, the prosecution of these offences is the responsibility of the provincial attorneys general." ...

From Ministerial Correspondence Unit (for Honourable Rob Nicholson), August 2008 -- ...The general scheme of the gambling provisions of the Criminal Code is to prohibit all forms of gambling, except those specifically permitted by the Code.

While Parliament enacts the gambling provisions found in the Code, the prosecution of these offences is the responsibility of the provincial attorneys general. If you have not already done so, you may wish to write to Mr. Jacques P. Dupuis, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Quebec, who is responsible for the administration of justice in Quebec. His office is located at Louis-Philippe-Pigeon Building, 1200 route d’Église, Floor 9, Québec, Quebec G1V 4M1

To Canadian Minister Nicholson and MP Cullen, April 2008 -- PokerPulse trackers were delighted to read a recent account in the corporate media of 'discussions' you're having in Ottawa regarding the possibility of regulating an online gambling industry here in Canada - one that might be open even to taxpaying Canadians with no history of weapons, armed stand-offs or cross-border smuggling. We were wondering, will Quebec Mohawks and one or two or the eastern racetracks continue to set unwritten Canadian gambling rules, or might 'interested others' like us be included among the 'stakeholders' in those discussions?

To WSJ EU Ediition, April 2008 -- We've been tracking for some time now developments in the slow-burn trade dispute between Antigua and the U.S. over America's remote gambling ban, which many in the industry now refer to and not affectionately as Prohibition 2.0. Many of us are still catching our breath after the wildly disappointing result obtained in the arbitrator's report at Christmas when panelists slashed Antigua's claim of $3.4 billion - a figure arrived at by a legion of actuaries - to a paltry $21 million using a bizarre, utterly unprecedented legal approach we call the Four-Flusher Fantasy. (more...)

To Variety, March 2008 -- It's a good day when an international trade law story such as yours makes it to Variety... What I hope most fervently is for the sinfully lucrative American film industry to be sufficiently outraged by the harm the U.S. position has caused Antigua and indeed the world that industry leaders will grow some guts and start lobbying the U.S. Trade Representative aggressively to stop restricting trade in gambling. (more...)

Kahnawake Gaming Op Ed Piece -- In the wake of residential school settlements that have literally taken out organized religion in Canada, there may be understandably little sympathy for First Nations claiming a special and exclusive right to such a lucrative business. But if they do the homework to show their business is both eco-friendly and an important traditional feature of a unique culture, Mohawks may be able to persuade the feds to open up Internet gambling in Canada once and for all. (more...)

CBC Early Edition source claims online gambling is an industry operated solely by organized criminals! -- Read the PokerPulse letter to CBC management here. (more...)

Free David Carruthers -- our say on the dubious U.S. prosecutions of foreign nationals and seizures of foreign assets. (more...)

View more letters here.

 

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One Green Gamble PokerPulse WON't accept. Help us stop B.C. 'BILLIES from turning Kootenai Brown's Waterton-Glacier area - a pristine World Heritage Site since 1995 - into an open-pit coal mine! Unbelievably, Frostbacks in British Columbia, who have access to some of the world's last remaining undisturbed wilderness, can't wait to destroy it. Federal politicians have tried unsuccessfully for years to turn it into parkland but Premier Gordon Campbell now with help from Conservative Stephen Harper wants to keep the area open for business and at least one mining firm is poised to start digging.View an excerpt of the story and add your voice to the protest before the 'BILLIES get their crazy, wrong-headed way. Click here to join our Gamble Green Campaign to benefit the David Suzuki Foundation battling climate change.
 
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This Week's Top Story:
 
Another Reason Why PokerPulse Has Had UltimateBet / Absolute in the X Category For Years!!. Quote for a Washingtonpost.com story:

In reporting his two-part series about online poker, Inside Bet, Post writer Gilbert M. Gaul learned that the two big cheating scandals occurred at Web sites owned by the same person -- Joseph Tokwiro Norton, former grand chief of the Kahnawake Mohawk tribe located on a reservation near Montreal.

 
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PokerPulse Links: (back to top)

  

About PokerPulse - Who we are, what we track.

Advanced ESL - Tips for the advanced English as 2nd language (ESL) learner, including a description of methods Voltaire used to learn English while exiled from his native France.

NEW!! Tips for quick improvements in English verb tense usage at our Gambler's ESL Guide -- Errors and Expectations page.

Advice to Gamblers - You can't accumulate unless you speculate is the frequent refrain of P.G. Wodehouse sportsmen toting up their winnings over a few quick ones at the celebrated Drones Club, while Papa Hemingway instructs students in his surefire system to buck the roulette wheel to quit when you are decently ahead. Mark Twain during an uncharacteristically passive visit to the casinos in the south of France notes that while a permanent and intense interest is acquirable in baccarat or any other game, you don't get it by standing around and looking on. Ready to play? Still in doubt? Check your strategy against Bob le famous Flambeur's 10 rules of successful gambling. More on these and other notably Impossible Odds.

America's OUCH! Case - The High Cost of Protectionism.

BingoPots - A look at online bingo.

goldMinerPulse - Tracking gold and silver mining companies that follow the Canadian NI 43-101 (Standards of Disclosuer for Mineral Projects).

How to use the Roll & Shuffle as an ESL Study Guide! - Follow the gambling links worldwide to find annotated examples of the best in English language literature, including novels, short stories, poetry, magazines, movies, music and the absolute best voices on recorded books.

LegalAtPokerPulse - A law blog featuring the best links and guides to Internet gambling key challenges plus a You Asked Us forum where experts answer questions from gamblers and would-be online operators worldwide.

Links page - Snapshot of the overall internet gambling industry from the 2004 and 2005 time frames (PokerPulse is now closed to new link trades).

Listen between tournaments - A few of our favorite books on CD Audio available at Amazon.com.

mjonline.ca - Tracking the evolution of Mahjong, the four-player game of Chinese orign.

myBeautifulBC.com - a PokerPulse blog about Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (the home of the 2010 winter olympics). The most recent blog: Who hates PE classes and the outdated, whistle-wielding militia still barking orders in B.C.'s public school gyms? (March 2008)

newsAtPokerPulse.com - Home page for the PokerPulse news on the evolution of the online gaming industry.

ngPulse - Tracking the North American Natural Gas market.

Online Poker Rooms - Historical snapshot of all the online poker rooms, including the skins of the poker networks. Our snapshot dates back to August 2005. Future updates are pending.

Pachinko - tracking the evolution of the popular Japanese game into an online game.

Quick Clicks -- tracking the evolution of the online gaming market by watching many of the publicly traded online gaming companies. More about Quick Clicks here.

The Roll & Shuffle - the discriminating player's guide to gambling. A web gallery featuring history's most resplendent roués and sundry other examples of the key role gambling continues to play in cultures throughout the world.

2.5mm FM outjack antenna - options to improve the local FM reception from your Sirius satellite radio (or any other set with an FM output).

 
About Rank (back to top)

The poker room and poker network rankings are based our observations of the real money hands and tournaments played in recent weeks. A #1 indicates the most active room/network. A room without a #1, #2 or #3 means PokerPulse does not estimate activity for that room/network.

The letters in the ranking have the following meaning:

PP in the rank column indicates the room/network is operated by and owned by a publicly traded company.

P in the rank column indicates the room/network is either operated by or owned by a publicly traded company.

Pp in the rank column indicates the room/network operator is a publicly traded company and some of the rooms on the network are owned by publicly traded companies.

x indicates that neither the room/network owner or operate is a publicly traded company.

_ indicates a to be determined status for public / private ownership.

Click here for more information on using rankings to chose an online poker room.

 
About Action Forecasts (back to top)

PokerPulse Action Forecasts are estimates of the real money poker activity levels you can expect to find in the next hour, in 2 hours and in 4 hours from the current time.

Our estimates cover each hour of the week. The forecasts are changed at the start of each hour. Refresh this page to view the latest forecasts.   

The Action forecast color codes for the action forecasts are setup as follows:
  GREEN: High or Peak real money poker activity. The busy hours for a room or network will show up in GREEN.
  YELLOW: Average real money poker activity.
  RED: Low or Quiet real money poker activity. The hours with the least amount of traffic will show as RED.
  No color code means a forecast is NOT available.
 

 

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