In July 2013, PokerStars was added to Bulgaria’s infamous black list of unapproved online gambling operators but after a series of negotiations with the Bulgarian State Gambling Commission (SGC) the poker room was eventually granted the country’s first regulated online gaming license at the beginning of this year. Commenting...
August 8th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
In February this year, two poker bills were introduced to the California state legislator, namely Assemblyman Reginald Jones’s AB-2291 in the state assembly, and State Senator Joe Correa’s SB-1366 in the senate. It was hoped that both online gambling bills would then be enacted by the end of the...
August 7th, 2014 By Charles Washington
Despite being the biggest of all New Jersey’s online gambling operations, the Borgata lost $1.8 million in the second quarter of 2014, highlighting the challenges faced by the state’s legal internet gambling ventures. It wasn’t all bad news, however, as Boyd Gaming Incorporated CEO Keith Smith said the summer...
August 6th, 2014 By Shane Larson
The anti-online gambling lobby took another swipe at the USA’s nascent iGaming industry after three Senators penned a letter to the Department of Justice (DoJ) and Attorney General Eric Holder requesting that The Federal Wire Act of 1961 be reinstated to its pre-2011 reinterpretation. That’s when the DoJ revised...
August 5th, 2014 By Adam Brown
In the latest update to the Paul Phua sports betting case, three more of the eight defendants originally arrested as part of the alleged FIFA World Cup online betting operation have now been released on bail after the involvement of some of the most famous poker players in the...
August 4th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
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