FBI Shuts Down Site That Provided A Loop Hole For US Poker Players [ed. disregard, this was a hoax]

PokerBandits.ca, which had been publicizing a system for bypassing the Internet Gambling Ban, has been shut down by the US FBI in conjunction with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada office.

Not that say, going to Google, searching for the site and pulling up Google’s cache of the page will give you the ‘banned’ information or anything…

The bigger picture suggests that enforcement of the Internet Gambling Ban is seeing much more action than originally predicted by the pundits. I’ve heard a few conspiracy theories on the matter that the intended goal is to wipe the Internet gambling slate completely clean, seeing the act repealed, and giving US-based companies the chance to step in on equal footing. While I’m not one to buy into it, it the aggressiveness being shown in enforcement seems a bit out of place when there are far more important issues in the world that should be addressed

Update:
Turns out this was a hoax. Thanks for playing.

Poker-Playing Millionaires – spreading like the bird flu

This really isn’t helping to dispell the fad status of Poker like we hoped.

WickedChopsPoker, citing Card Player, reports that 34 players won north of a million dollars in 2005. To put that into a bit of perspective, their were 78 tournament golfers who eclipsed that number in 2005 (and in the last year before the pre-Tiger era, their were only 9).