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The “Organized Crime Section Gambling Unit” of the Toronto Police Service conducted a wave of raids aimed at the private poker games taking place in Toronto with the arrest of almost 50 people. The raids took place on 18th July at four suspected gaming houses. Three of them were business locations while and the other was a sports bar and restaurant name “Garden of Eden”.  All four holdings were registered as business outlets and not private residences.

After making it big as an actor in network TV show ‘EastEnders’, Michael Greco has now turned professional gambler. Winning a prestigious leg of a British poker tournament, Greco walked away with more than $100,000. This was witnessed at the third round of popular British tournament the ‘Grosvenor Poker Tour’ held in Cardiff.

In a major motion picture release, Nicolas Cage will star as Amarillo Slim, widely believed to be one of the best poker players who ever lived, on the big screen. Currently characterized as being ‘in production’ by IMDB US, it is unclear as to when poker fans will get this treat. It is however, expected to be sometime in 2009.

From UltimateBet Poker -

UltimateBet is guaranteeing to pay out at least 50 Main Event prize packages on June 21st in our appropriately named 50-Seat Guaranteed Tournament. Each package includes a $10,000 World Series of Poker: Main Event seat and $2,000 for travel and accommodations. For those keeping score, that’s at least $600,000 in Main Event prize packages.

Gambling has always had a certain amount of taboo surrounding the subject, with the word evoking images of seedy backroom, smoky underground poker games and illegal behaviour.

Through more acceptable forms of gambling, and acceptance in general, this view has begun to change, and behaviour that was once frowned upon, whilst maybe not outwardly encouraged, is perfectly acceptable in today’s societies in many countries around the world.