On September 30th, PokerStars introduced casino games to its PokerStars.es client, and in the process reversed a ten year policy in which it was committed to providing a poker-only online gaming environment for its customers. At the time, the move was seen as an important strategy in maintaining its...
December 31st, 2014 By Shane Larson
The poker history books are full of all sorts of remarkable feats, such as Phil Laak playing 115 consecutive hours of poker in 2010 to claim the poker endurance record, or Germany’s George Danzer making five final tables and winning three bracelets at this year’s WSOP to complete the...
December 30th, 2014 By Charles Washington
Over the past twenty years, fantasy sports have become a cultural phenomenon in the USA with billions of dollars wagered each year by people pretending to be the managers of imaginary teams across such popular sports as football, basketball, and baseball. While sports gambling in the US is illegal...
December 29th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
In 2013, the USA launched its first regulated online poker website in Nevada, and the very same year Delaware then New Jersey did likewise, raising hopes the country would soon have dozens of states lining up to embrace online gambling industries of their own. Unfortunately, that scenario failed to...
December 28th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
During the poker boom years from 2003 until the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was passed in 2006, the number of people playing online poker at least doubled in size every year, and while today the game remains more popular than its pre-boom era, the industry has never...
December 24th, 2014 By Shane Larson
Live streaming video sites seem to have presented the online poker industry with an unexpected opportunity to expand its customer base, after the past few months have seen thousands of poker, as well as non-poker players, flock to Twitch.tv and other social media channels to watch players gambling for...
December 23rd, 2014 By Charles Washington
After sinking to its lowest level of the year so far in October, the First State’s online gambling market staged a dramatic comeback in November rising by 42% to $184,898 compared to the previous month, and 66% higher than the $111,387 generated in November 2013, the first month of...
December 22nd, 2014 By Adam Brown
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