Poker Players Alliance

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A Toronto police detective estimates that one of two gaming houses raided earlier this week earned at least $1.5 million per year for the operator.

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Allegations that a long-running cheating scheme bilked players on a leading Internet poker site have triggered an $85 million claim against a Canadian company whose employees allegedly manipulated the cyberspace card room’s software so that they could see their opponents’ hole cards, msnbc.com has learned.

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You could blame the World Series of Poker or simply society’s gradual acceptance of gambling as a recreational pastime. Whatever the case, the popularity of Internet gambling has surged.

And that has a Canadian gambling researcher worried that if we’re not careful we’ll trigger an avalanche of online addicts.

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Siobhan Grennan learned how to play poker to please a man. She was then just old enough to count the pennies from her paper route, and the man - her brother, three years her senior - was sufficiently bored that he was prepared to spend a few hours with his sis. But the hours added up, and by the time Siobhan was 14, her big bro figured she was ready for the big leagues: playing with his friends.

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A former United States Senator and the Chairman of the Poker Players Alliance, Alfonse D’Amato has extensive experience with and insight into both US politics and online gambling. At the opening keynote of the Next Generation in Gambling Conference in Montreal, he offered some insight into how the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was made into law.

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The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), which oversees numerous online poker sites using Kahnawake-based Internet services in Canada, has released an official statement regarding the unfolding situation on UltimateBet Poker. The statement follows by several months the KGC’s earlier involvement in the resolution of a similar scandal at Absolute Poker.

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The province’s illegal gambling unit hit the jackpot when they raided four alleged gaming houses over the weekend, netting 47 people — including two minors.

Although the simultaneous raids folded four operations, Toronto Police Det. Emilio DiPoce said the Friday night raids just scratch the surface of the GTA’s illegal poker games that generate millions for operators.

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“Right now we’re forcing (the issue),” Dooly’s vice-president Pierre Lariviere said from headquarters in Moncton, NB. “We’re trying to push government to make a regulation, to say listen guys you can have a game of Texas Hold ‘em and here’s the limit and no game should be bigger than this and that’s how you should do it.”

It’s risky business because the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has said poker games where money changes hands are illegal.

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