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 Perica Bukara je ušao je u završnicu ovogodišnjeg prestižnog takmičenja European poker tour u Texas holdemu. Prva dva dana turnira Bukara je bio na vodećoj poziciji, ali je poslednjeg dana turnira, išao "all in" sa milion i po čipova i sve izgubio, piše Alo.

 

U stilu Džejmsa Bonda, sa naočarima za sunce koje skrivaju pokeraški pogled, naš predstavnik je na startu takmičenja oduvao protivnike, ostavivši u prašini i branioca titule, Španca Santjaga Terazasa. Nervoza je ipak učinila svoje, pa je Bukara juče u luksuznom "Svishotelu" u estonskoj prestonici Talin uleteo „all in“ sa preostalih milion i po čipova i sa devetkom i šesticom izgubio od protivnika koji se ni sam nije proslavio kartama (imao je devetku i sedmicu).

 

Izgubio je i priliku da osvoji 400.000 evra, ali nam ostaje nada da će Bukara na nekom od narednih takmičenja uvesti Srbiju u društvo najboljih svetskih pokeraških nacija. O Peričinoj veštini u kartanju možda najbolje govori činjenica da je u dosadašnjem toku takmičenja nadigrao Moskovljanina Ivana Demidova, jedinog pokeraša na svetu kome je 2008. godine pošlo za rukom da doÄ‘e do finala dva najveća takmičenja u pokeru - svetskog (World series of poker) i evropskog (World Series of poker Europe).

 

"Treći dan se završio, a ja sam mrtav umoran. Posle sinoćnog 'plejerpartija', danas je bio mnogo težak dan za igranje. Na sreću, odmah sam dobro startovao i povećao svoj čipstek, tako da sam slobodno mogao da igram i protiv igrača kao što je Ivan Demidov. Kako počelo tako i završilo, što bi se kod nas reklo. Na kraju dana sam bio igrač sa najviše žetona - 1.326.000. Veliki pozdrav svima koji navijaju za mene", preneo je Bukara utiske na svom Facebook profilu posle trećeg dana takmičenja.

 

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Congress Rethinks Its Ban on Internet Gambling

By SEWELL CHAN

Published: July 28, 2010

 

WASHINGTON — With pressure mounting on the federal government to find new revenues, Congress is considering legalizing, and taxing, an activity it banned just four years ago: Internet gambling.

On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee approved a bill that would effectively legalize online poker and other nonsports betting, overturning a 2006 federal ban that critics say merely drove Web-based casinos offshore.

The bill would direct the Treasury Department to license and regulate Internet gambling operations, while a companion measure, pending before another committee, would allow the Internal Revenue Service to tax such businesses. Winnings by individuals would also be taxed, as regular gambling winnings are now. The taxes could yield as much as $42 billion for the government over 10 years, supporters said.

The two measures — which are backed by banks and credit unions but have divided casinos and American Indian tribes — are far from becoming law. A bill to legalize online poker sponsored by Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, has not yet had a hearing. The Congressional timetable has little spare room before the midterm elections, and the Obama administration has not taken a position.

But the vote suggests a willingness by Congress to look for unconventional ways of plugging holes in the budget and comes as struggling states have also been looking to extract revenue from the gambling industry, which took a hit as consumers cut back on travel and entertainment during the recession but continues to reap billions of dollars in annual profits. The committee vote Wednesday was 41 to 22, with seven Republicans joining most Democrats on the panel in favor of the measure.

Last year, Colorado expanded casino hours, raised maximum-bet limits and permitted roulette and craps, while Missouri eliminated a $500 loss limit at riverboat casinos. Delaware and Pennsylvania have weighed proposals to allow the conversion of slots parlors into full-service casinos, making further inroads into the eroding Atlantic City gambling industry.

Opponents, who only four years ago, when Congress was controlled by the Republicans, secured a law that banned the use of credit and debit cards to pay online casinos, said they were aghast. “People sometimes resort to drastic things when they are strapped for cash,” said Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia, who called the new proposals “unfathomable.”

Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who leads the Financial Services Committee, has been the legislation’s champion.

“Some adults will spend their money foolishly, but it is not the purpose of the federal government to prevent them legally from doing it,” Mr. Frank said.

The committee’s top Republican, Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama, noting the passage of far-reaching changes in financial regulation this month, said that “after all the talk last year about shutting down casinos on Wall Street,” he was incredulous that members would vote to “open casinos in every home and every bedroom and every dorm room, and on every iPhone, every BlackBerry, every laptop.”

Mr. Bachus said lobbyists had spent “tens of millions” to overturn the 2006 law. “They’ve had quite a bit of success in turning votes,” he said.

Supporters of legalization said fiscal considerations played a role in their thinking. “I was looking for the money,” Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, said in an interview. He sponsored the companion measure to allow taxation of Internet gambling; he wants to dedicate the money to education.

Representative Brad Sherman, Democrat of California, said in an interview that the money was an attractive source of financing for other programs. “We will not pass an Internet gaming bill,” Mr. Sherman predicted. “We will pass a bill to do something very important, funded by Internet gaming.”

He added, “Forty-two billion dollars over 10 years has an effect.”

The legal status of online gambling has long been murky. The Justice Department asserts that the Wire Act of 1961 prohibits it, but prosecutors have largely left individual gamblers alone.

To crack down on the activity, a 2006 law — inserted at the last minute into an unrelated bill in one of Congress’s last actions before Democrats took control — banned financial institutions from transmitting payments to and from gambling operators.

In the same year, the authorities arrested David Carruthers, a British online-gambling executive, as he changed flights at a Texas airport. He was sentenced to 33 months in prison for racketeering. Last year, the authorities ordered four banks to freeze the accounts of online payment processors that owed money to some 27,000 people who had used offshore poker sites.

But the enforcement actions have barely put a dent in the industry, experts say. Gamblers have used online payment processors, phone-based deposits and prepaid credit cards to circumvent the ban. By some estimates, American online gambling exceeds $6 billion a year.

“Today, any American with a broadband connection and a checking account can engage in any form of Internet gambling from any state,” Annie Duke, a professional poker player, testified in May on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance, which hired a former Republican senator from New York, Alfonse M. D’Amato, to lobby for the bill.

Michael Brodsky, executive chairman of YouBet.com, an online site for parimutuel horse racing, said, “As with Prohibition, illegal online gambling is thriving as an underground economy.”

Banks and credit unions said the 2006 law was poorly drafted — so much so that the Obama administration delayed, to June 1 of this year, the deadline for banks to comply with the law, to address concerns about its enforceability.

In 1999, the National Gambling Impact Study Commission urged the prohibition of Internet gambling. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has said he would not support efforts to legalize online gambling, a view shared by most state attorneys general.

“Because Internet gambling is essentially borderless activity, from a money-laundering and terrorism-financing perspective, it creates a regulatory and enforcement quagmire,” said James F. Dowling, a former special agent with the Internal Revenue Service.

And Mr. Bachus released a November letter from the F.B.I. in which Shawn Henry, the assistant director of the cyber division, said it would be difficult for companies to verify the age and location of their customers.

The bill contains measures intended to protect minors and combat compulsive addiction. It would allow states and Indian tribes to “opt out,” so players from those states and reservations would not be able to make online bets. But those governments would have a potentially lucrative incentive to allow the activity since they could then collect taxes from Internet casinos.

Before voting, the committee approved amendments to delegate enforcement duties to states and tribes, continue a ban on betting on sporting events, ban marketing aimed at children, and prohibit companies that violated the 2006 ban from obtaining licenses

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Nova generacija «Online» igrača započela je novu dominaciju profesionalnog pokera visokih kvota!

Phil Hellmuth možda je najpopularniji igrač po pitanju osvojenih titula

(11 osvojenih narukvica WSOPa) , što je ekvivalentno kao i dobiti «Royal Flush» u poker igri. Osvojio je glavnu nagradu 1989 i nalazi se u grupi igrača sa najviše novca osvojeno u Svetskoj Seriji turnira. Ali prošle godine Hellmuth (45 godina) gubi  novac i neuspeva da se kvalifikuje za finalni sto ni u jednom turniru, što je presedan u zadnjih deset godina njegovog pro igranja.  Na pitanje: «Da li su u pitanju karte?» Hellmuth negativno odgovara i okrivljuje novu generaciju igrača matematičkih štrebera, koji su kao online igrači počeli da koriste gomilu odigranih ruku putem interneta. Njegov odgovor kako je uspeo da osvoji 11 narukvica jeste njegova mogućnost da pročita svog protivnika, ali novi igrači koji su fokusirani na matematiku promenili su kompletno način na koji se igra danas poker.

         Vekovna strategija i način igranja počeo se menjati sa igračima kao što su kompjuter naučnik Barry Greenstein i umetnička intelegencija pokera Chris Ferguson, us opštu popularnost Televiziskih prenosa Svetskih turnira, doneli su igri tehniku teorije mogućnosti.

         Zadnjih godina holdem je izrastao u hiperagresivni takmičarski duh, «manijaka» koji su rizikovali sve svoje žetone u bizarnim trenucima igre. Ta nova rasa poker igrača ignorišući svoje karte u rukama počinju da se nadmeću na konto  matrica otkrivene igarjući bezbrojne partije na netu.  Nije uzelo dugo najboljim «Online» poker igračima da nadju način kako da koriste tu istu tehniku u živim igrama, i to ne u bilo kojim igrama već na najvišem nivou gde se održavaju najprestižniji turniri, igrajući je kao bilo koju online igru do sada. Sada se Poker Svet probudio u novoj realnosti igre. 

 

 

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Uhapšenom je odreÄ‘eno policijsko zadržavanje od 48 sati, nakon čega će sa krivičnom prijavom, kojom se tereti za neovlašÄ‡eno organizovanje igara na sreću, biti priveden istražnom sudiji Višeg suda u Kragujevcu. Policija će u nastavku istrage saslušati i osobe koje su se kockale u njegovom stanu.

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Poker!  istorija kaže da je nastala u Francuskoj, reč poker nagadja se da je iz korena Hokus-Pokus, ono što je sigurno da je to jedna od glavnih zabava bila u osvajanju novih teritorija Divljeg Zapada sve do televizije, kada su druge zabave i delatnosti pruzele dominaciju. Poker se zatajio povukao se u društvnu kućnu igru, i nemogavši da izbori svoje mesto u kazinu naspram drugih igri koje je organizator nametao. Danas je poker multi bilion industrija eksploatisana na svim mogućim nivoima, i vraćen na zasluženi tron najigranije kartaške igre. Problem je što Država želi da ima reket i na kućne igre. Na igre gde će svoji prijatelji da imaju prijateljsku poker partiju. Veliki brat bi da zna i koje su vam karte podeljne. Da li je to ustavno? Poker nemože biti zabranjen pa makar to bilo i u zatvoru. Poker je život i život je Poker

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