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August

Irregular betting took place at Betfair for a tennis match between Nikolay Davydenko and Martin Vasallo Arguello, where Arguello saw a large volume of action and Davydenko eventually withdrew due to injury.

Betfair subsequently took the match of the board and voided all bets.

The event would open the eyes of professional tennis, which would go out of its way the rest of the year to ensure that it didn’t happen again.

While many Republicans were responsible for the introduction of the UIGEA, a member of that party, Ron Paul, threw his support behind Barney Frank’s IGREA legislation.

Paul was quoted as saying, “I believe strongly that the Internet should not be regulated by the Federal Government and believe even more strongly that people should be free to engage in the activities they wish as long as they are willing to take responsibility for their actions.”

The WPT also teamed up with CryptoLogic to release www.worldpokertour.com, a new online casino.

Doyle Brunson announced that he would be opening an online poker room in the UK and Europe.

The U.S. filed the first in a seemingly infinite amount of extensions as co-defendants in the iMEGA case.

Poker Players Alliance Prez Michael Bolcerek stepped down, John A. Pappas joined as Executive Director and the organization moved its base of operations from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.

Bodog’s site went down and initially reports indicated it was due to hackers but when all the smoke cleared the truth was made known.

A patent infringement case where Las Vegas company 1st Technology LLC obtained a $48.6-million default judgment against a number of Bodog properties.

Bodog would relocate in cyberspace first to newbodog.com and then settling on Bodoglife.com.

The end of August saw the start of the college football season and a monumental upset of epic proportions took place as Michigan lost to former Div I-AAA champ Appalachian St. 34-32. There was no line set.

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