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Mitch Schock (North Dakota, USA) Wins the Most Recent World Series of Poker Tournament (WSOP)

Event #39 at the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is over.  The winner of the $2,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Mixed Championship is Mitch Schock, who becomes the 1ST WSOP Gold Bracelet owner from the US state of North Dakota (Bismarck).

Schock, a single father to three children, said after his victim: "This is great. There are probably like 500 people following me online back in North Dakota. I think I am the first player from North Dakota to win," said Schock. "There was a kid who is very good who came in second a few years ago, but I think I am the first. So, I am going to go back home with the gold bracelet and everyone is going to be patting me on the back - and buying me free drinks."

A 40-year-old professional poker player Mitch Schock collected $310,225 in prize money, beating Rodney Brown, from Brea, CA.

Other former gold bracelet winners who cashed in this tournament included -- Rami Boukai (9th place this year), Joe Hachem (12th), Scott Clements (14th), David Williams (24th), Tom “Hot Pants” Schneider (26th) and Humberto Brenes (39th).

According to the Washington Post, Councilmember Michael Brown voted on a bill about online gambling while working for a law firm representing clients in that industry. Mr. Brown's idea was to make Washington, DC the first jurisdiction in the country to allow online poker and other Internet games in order to increase the city's tax revenues. At the same time Michael Brown was employed by a law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge that represented an online casino software developer such as GTech, which one of the branches of interest is creating online casino games. It also provides superior legal advice to some companies in the gaming industry, both live and online...

16 Thursday 2011 H2 Gambling Capital, the leading supplier of data and market intelligence regarding the global gaming industry, published its final eGaming Data for 2010 and its forecast for the development of gambling market for 2011 and following years. According to the report, revenues for the online gambling sector equated 22, 57 billion Euro in 2010. The forecast predicts the increase of revenues of 4.4 percent in 2011 and it is estimated at 23, 66 billion Euro, which is the lowest increase in the sector since H2 has started its activity in 1998.

The question whether Internet gambling (online casinos and online poker rooms) is legal or not is widely being discussed among American players. But there are some facts which can be interesting and helpful for the amateurs of playing online games. In the USA there is no federal law that prohibits American citizens gambling online, either domestically or abroad. Consequently, online gambling should be regarded as legal.

Joe Barton, a Republican Congressman based out of Texas, is going to introduce legislation to legalize and regulate online poker in the United States. Being a long-time supporter of online poker, Barton is sure that poker, a uniquely American game, isn't a game of chance - it is a game of skill. Such view on poker allows exempting it from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and making it legal.