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As reported by IGamingBusiness: “In America, professional poker player Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson has criticized the recent decision by PartyPoker.com co-founder Anurag Dikshit to plead guilty to violations of the Wire Act in Federal Court as it applied to online poker rooms and casino.

“…India-born Dikshit created the software platform for the Gibraltar-based online gambling operator in 1997 and remains its largest shareholder with 28 percent. He plead guilty two weeks ago in the Southern District New York to violations of the 1961 Wire Act and agreed to pay $300 million in fines and assist authorities with their ongoing investigations.

“…’One thing for sure, Anurag Dikshit is appropriately named,’ Brunson wrote on his blog at DoylesRoom.com.

“‘Dikshit was one of the owners of PartyPoker.com and became a multi-billionaire when Party went public. It looks like he would feel a sense of obligation to online poker, the industry that made him a rich man. Instead, he folded up like an accordion and plead guilty to breaking some kind of mystery law and is paying a $300 million dollar fine and a possible two-year jail term.

“‘It certainly created some ill will from the other online poker sites. I personally can’t imagine what was going through his mind when he made his decision…’”  Brunson has pretty much been a class act, so for him to say these sort of things is really out-of-character.

Poker even hosting news out of  Atlantic City casino has announced details of a special tournament featuring PokerTek’s automated card tables. Starting on Saturday November 1st, players at Trump Plaza have a month to qualify for the $25,000 freeroll no-limit Texas hold’em event, which begins on December 13th.

Using the automated PokerPro tables developed by PokerTek, each player at the December tournament will begin with $12,500 in virtual chips. “By holding this tournament, Trump Plaza is rewarding their loyal players and providing incentive for newcomers to visit their poker room,” said Randy Kiefer, PokerPro’s account manager for Atlantic City.  I hope this even does not interfere with my free poker rolls.

“The atmosphere is like no other in Atlantic City - once players are introduced to Trump Plaza’s poker room, they are sure to become regulars.”

Players can qualify for the $25,000 freeroll by playing for a minimum of 60 hours in the poker room between November 1st and 30th. The Trump Plaza is one of three Trump Entertainment resorts in Atlantic City and also offers table games such as blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps.

In suprising results, high-stakes women gamblers who use the Internet to wager on games win more often than men, according to a Harvard Medical School study. The Bwin-sponsored Harvard Medical School study of online sportsbettors continues to reveal interesting and useful information on betting demographics and patterns.

The latest results released from the 40 499-person study “favour women as exhibiting more effective sports gambling behaviour than men,” wrote Massachusetts-based author Richard LaBrie and his team of researchers. The results of the study, to be published later this year by Berlin-based Axel Springer, were carried in Bloomberg news service reports Friday.

Women wager higher stakes with more intensity than men. According to the study’s sample, women risked an average Euros 15 ($20.17) per wager and bet 15 percent more often than men in a defined time period. Men, who comprised almost 92 percent of the study’s sample, wagered an average Euros 11 per bet.

The study used data from Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, an Austrian online bookmaker. The conclusions are based on eight months of gambling patterns directly observed from player records in 2005.

The survey’s biggest bettors were 50 percent less likely to lose than smaller players, according to the 16-page report, titled Assessing the Playing Field: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Internet Sports Gambling Behaviour.

People who wagered a median Euro 44 per bet lost 9 percent of the time, while people who wagered Euro 1 per bet lost 18 percent of the time.

“Individuals who made larger wagers lost proportionately less than individuals who made smaller wagers,” the researchers said. “These players place extreme amounts of money at risk but extreme losses did not moderate their play.”

Earlier reports from the study cast doubts on assertions that online sportsbetting is addictive. Personally I have no doubt that online gambling can be very addictive to a small number of players but those same folks would probably just be additcted to another type of gambling if online was not available to them.  All online casinos should help support gamblers annonymous type sites.