Poker Players Alliance

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Despite allegations that its top brass had ties to the local poker scene, the district attorney’s office in Pueblo will not be disqualified from prosecuting a handful of defendants accused of participating in illegal card games.

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There’s gambling on launching a company, and then there’s Gene Gioia’s startup.

The Denver entrepreneur is trying to translate his lifelong love of poker into creating a website players can trust because it deals hands based on the automated shuffling of real cards.

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KUSA –A casino-backed group has raised more than $6 million to promote a ballot proposal aimed at allowing Colorado casino towns to operate more like Las Vegas.

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The raid of Larry Wittman’s suspected illegal poker room last week had been anticipated for some time by local poker players facing criminal charges from two earlier raids.

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A Pueblo poker room that has been on law enforcement’s radar for four years finally was raided last week by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, according to court records made public on Thursday.

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Denver — Not long after Congress passed a ban on Internet gambling, PR man John Pappas knew he had to be here at the Democratic National Convention.

Pappas represented online poker players. Their ragtag Poker Players Alliance had been stunned by Congress’ midnight approval of the ban late in 2006.

Internet gamblers had been powerless to block the bill. They were only loosely affiliated. They often knew one another only by their online nicknames.

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But there’s also the political agenda of the organizers, the Poker Players Alliance. Several politicians were on hand, including U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colorado.

The alliance is working to legalize online poker. As part of those efforts, the group wants to repeal legislation Congress passed in 2006 that prohibits U.S. banks and credit-card companies from processing transactions for gambling websites.

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They say Hollywood stars are dominating the show here. Ben Affleck certainly is.

Last night (or rather, early this morning), Affleck won a charity poker tournament sponsored by the poker industry’s lobbying group and made good on a promise he made before coming here.

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