We will begin this week’s poker news round-up, Stateside, and the possibility that online poker could be sent back to the dark ages.

This week, the Senate, grilled Donald Trump’s top pick for United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, and the Alabama man expressed his shock of the decision by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to allow online gambling to emerge post-2011.

Fortunately, Sessions suggestion that the new DOJ could revisit the 2011 Wire Act interpretation was hidden amongst other more heated topics such as his denial that he likes to dress in white and wear pointed hats with the words ‘KKK’ emblazoned in blood, that ‘waterboarding’ is a good idea and his views on same-sex marriage and abortion.

While all of that nonsense was ongoing there were a few other breaking news stories in the world of American poker. The World Poker Tour (WPT) acquired the assets of the WPTDeepStacks Poker Tour three years after the pair jumped into bed together, Kathy Leibert told Matt Savage that she thought his decision to make Will Kassouf a Shooting Star was ‘ridiculous,’ and Benjamin Gonzva and Andres Korn came out on top of the WPT National Main Events in Cambodia and Thailand.