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Poker clubs threaten Jowell with legal action (ATE On-line)Log in to remember this page. Email this Culture secretary Tessa Jowell is facing fresh opposition to her gambling laws after the UK's poker clubs announced that they forming a trade body and were considering taking legal action against the government.

Internet gambling a major risk for Parkinson's patients: doctors (The Nation)PARIS - Online gambling presents a special peril for people with Parkinson's, a disease that boosts compulsive risk-taking, doctors warn in this week's British Medical Journal (BMJ).

The Stars of Poker Put on their Best Face at the WSOP (Online Casino Reports)The WSOP, or World Series of Poker, will kick off this year on June 1st. If you dont know what the WSOP is, then you havent been watching all of the major sports channels too closely. ESPN, for one, is one of the main television networks broadcasting the various rounds of this major poker event.

Poker Night at the White House (Metromix.com)A humorous examination of Warren G. Harding's presidency highlights oil scandals, affairs, illegitimate children, cabinet suicides, psychics and gambling during his tenure. Penned by Neo-Futurists' ensemble member Sean Benjamin ("The Santa Abductions," "Drinking & Writing").

An underground tradition: PALS gather for bingo (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)Everything old is new again. So goes a Peter Allen song. It's a mantra of fashion (fedora pants), cinema (Rocky Balboa) and TV (poker games). Not so for bingo, the familiar gambling Lite game, which still has far to go before it reaches fad status. The game is associated with stuffy church basements or lounges filled with cigarette smoke. It practically reeks of blue dye. But, once a month on ...

Poker clubs bet on legal action (Casino City Times)LONDON, England -- As reported by The Observer: "Tessa Jowell faces fresh embarrassment from her controversial Gambling Act as the UK's poker clubs join forces to challenge the new legislation.