Antigua and US Return to Negotiating Table in WTO Dispute - and more links for you

We're speaking about people (Chris Ferguson and Mike Caro), places (London, New York, Illinois and Antigua) and everything else in the middle.


Okay, the links are:

- "Chick Wins Poker Tournament" - [wickedchopspoker.com]
- "Poker's best come out for PokerStars EPT London" - [pokernewsboy.com]
- New York Legislators Add Online Poker to State Budget Proposal - "A New York Senate budget proposal championed by the state's Senate Majority Coalition includes language calling for the introduction of state-authorized online poker in New York" - [pokerfuse.com]

- Who Would Make the Cut to Offer Online Poker in Illinois? - "Proposed legislation designed to bring online poker-along with expanded gambling-to Illinois carries heavy restrictions that could block many current industry leaders" - [pokerfuse.com]

- "The tiny Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda's ongoing World Trade Organization dispute with the United States over online gambling may see the two parties make one more attempt to return to the bargaining table" - [pokerfuse.com]


- "Poll: Should Ferguson and Lederer's Punishment Been More Harsh?" - [wickedchopspoker.com]
- "In a deepening of its existing relationship with Playtech, Ladbrokes has announced that it will "in due course" move its online poker operation off Microgaming (MPN) and onto Playtech's iPoker network" - [pokerfuse.com]


- Mike Caro: Today's word is... VARIOUS - "Mike Caro is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on poker strategy, psychology, and statistics" - [www.pokerplayernewspaper.com]

Mike Matusow Wins NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship - and top links

We're talking about people (Mike Matusow), places (Antigua and Madrid) and everything in between.


Right, let's get started. All the links:

• Mike Matusow Wins NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship - "All that may have changed this weekend, though, as Mike Matusow defeated Phil Hellmuth in the finals of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) and pocketed $750,000" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
  
• "Aspers Casino in London is giving players the chance to celebrate the Chinese New Year in style with a bumper cash giveaway" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
  
  
  
• "However, if you've haven't been within earshot of the poker community this weekend you'll not know about Mike Matusow's victory in this year's NBC Heads-Up Championship title" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
  
  
  
• WTO Issues Final Approval for Antigua to Retaliate in US Online Gambling Dispute - "The World Trade Organization (WTO) granted Antigua final approval on Monday to proceed with the sale of items protected under US copyright law as a means of compensation for what Antigua describes as unfair trade practices that "devastated" its economy" - [pokerfuse.com]
  
• Diaz Dominates Estrellas Madrid - "Numbers may have been down in the French capital for the Euro Finals of Poker but there were no such concerns in Spain's largest city with a bumber field of 632 runners on hand for the Madrid leg of the PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour" - [www.bluffeurope.com]