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Ahmad Khawaja ran two payment processing companies, Allied Wallet and Allied Systems. A little more than a year ago, the United States federal prosecutors seized a large amount of funds from a bank account at the Goldwater Bank in Scottsdale Arizona. A little over $13.3 million was seized from accounts that were held by the payment processing company at the Goldwater Bank. According to the civil forfeiture complaint that...

A poker player from New Mexico has the strangest deal with the authorities that has yet been seen, especially with the US federal authorities giving all who wish to play poker a fairly difficult time. Samuel McMaster, Jr. is a former stockbroker that has broken the law. He has been charged with a number of felony charges of securities fraud, and has admitted that he committed 26 of these charges. Earlier...

Some online poker players may wish to play only online, and yet others dream of taking part in some of the major poker tournaments that are played around the world. To play in these live poker tournaments is very exciting, and the winnings can be huge, however, the entry fees can be very high, and the travel costs to get to the tournaments can also be prohibitive for many...

The World Championship of Online Poker 2010 will be taking place on the Pokerstars online poker site from 5th September 2010. This popular online poker event attracts top online poker players, and those that play will be in line for huge amounts of fun, and great poker playing, as well as millions in prizes. The event has $50 million in guaranteed prizes, which will be paid out to winners and...

PartyPoker is a leading online poker room owned by the PartyGaming group and licensed in the jurisdiction of Gibraltar. It has announced three special promotions for the month of August. Not only will these promotions provide plenty of excitement to players at PartyPoker but will also offer $350,000 in cash prizes. The first promotion begins on August 1 and runs throughout the month. Players who have earned at least one player...

The Main Event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the most prestigious and most popular of the almost 60 events held. This year more than 7,300 players participated in the Main Event. After twelve playing days all but nine were eliminated. The WSOP Main Event will now take a break. The final table of these nine players will reassemble in November and resume play. Therefore they have been...

Although there was much excitement in the online poker world when France opened up their country to foreign online poker operations, things have not gone quite as hoped, and poker players are now staging protests. The French government has imposed a rather large tax on their online poker market, and many of the online poker sites have decided to pass this additional cost on to their players, because they claim they...

The exact date when the case regarding poker as a game of skill or a game of luck, which is set to take place in South Carolina, has not yet been decided. However, it will be heard later this year in the South Carolina Supreme Court. The saga regarding the legality of poker in South Carolina began about four years ago, when a poker game that was taking place in...

The World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions was started in 2004, and continued until 2006, after which, Harrah’s put it on hold indefinitely. This year, the WSOP 2010, it is back and as exciting as ever. The Tournament of Champions is an invitational freeroll poker event, and it has been reintroduced this year. The winner of this event does not win one of the much coveted WSOP bracelets,...

Phil Hellmuth, a well known poker player and winner of 11 WSOP (World Series of Poker) bracelets, did not make his 12th WSOP bracelet, as he had predicted on his blog. Hellmuth is known in poker circles as “The Poker Brat” because he has a habit of having outbursts at the poker table, and is also known for his trash talk that other players have to put up with at poker...