Seven professional poker players filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against the operator of the World Poker Tour, claiming that WPT Enterprises made them waive lucrative rights to use their images and names to promote products and video games before they could enter WPT tournaments. One player who is not part of the suit said the action amounted to a dog biting the hand that fed it. "All of us as poker players were degenerates until the World Poker Tour started the whole ball rolling."
July 21, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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Seven professional poker players filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against the operator of the World Poker Tour over the use of their likeness and their access to play in televised tournaments.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, came as the world’s largest poker tournament, the World Series of Poker, was under way at the Rio casino-hotel in Las Vegas.
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