Online Poker Players Face Legal Issues

August 6th, 2006 in Technology / Internet
Online Poker Players Face Legal Issues (AP)

PokerTek CEO Lou White demonstrates one of his PokerPro tables at the company´s headquarters in Matthews, N.C., Friday, Aug. 4, 2006. The company hopes to hit the jackpot with a fully electronic table that has already won converts in cruise ships and on Indian reservations.(AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

(AP) -- With the nightclub Tao swathed in red and black, music pulsated and go-go dancers gyrated on raised platforms along the wall. Everything from the "reserved" signs to the billiard table felt to the models' Chinese-style dresses bore the same label: "bodog.com." The only thing missing was the online gambling site's flamboyant founder, 45-year-old Canadian Calvin Ayre, who was nowhere to be found.

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