The tiny island nation of Antigua and Barbuda have asked the permission of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to authorize $3.4 Billion in commercial sanctions against the United States for its failure to comply with a WTO ruling regarding online poker and gambling. The US did acknowledge the ruling, but still felt it had outs in the form of an appeal, based on a 1994 ruling on a related topic. The US also called the monetary amount of the sanctions sought "patently excessive." An arbitration panel to rule on the matter has been set up by the WTO, but an exact date for a ruling has not been established.

If you’re a beginner poker player, and you’ve read the books and the articles and even googled every poker site you can think of, you’ve probably been told numerous times that keeping notes will improve your poker game. This advice is true of course, otherwise it wouldn’t be in all the books and websites.

The China Leisure Sports Administrative Center has tied the knot with World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPT) to promote “the sport of poker, by helping to create, expand and commercialize China’s first ever national poker competition,” the Associated Press reported today.

Well, something like poker, at least.