US poker players breathed a sigh of relief this month, after the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) failed to be added to a must-pass omnibus spending bill, which would have resulted in the blanket banning of online poker across the United States. Nevertheless, RAWA is likely to rear...
December 19th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
After five years of blocking online poker legislation inside Russia, in June the country’s lawmakers signaled a potential U-turn in their policies following an announcement that opening its market of 143 million people to Western online gambling companies was in the country’s best interests. However, all bets are now...
December 18th, 2014 By Shane Larson
A new UK iGaming law designed to level the playing field between UK and overseas operators may be having a detrimental effect on business confidence and making the UK an unattractive market to base online operations, according to Chief Executive of the Gibraltar Betting & Gaming Association (GBGA). CEO...
December 17th, 2014 By Charles Washington
Following on from October‘s online gambling results, which at $9.5 million were the lowest ever on record, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has now released its gambling figures for November revealing a further contraction in the Garden State’s iGaming industry, this time shrinking by 8.42% compared to...
December 16th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
US online poker players may be relieved to know that they are not the only ones to be subjected to Las Vegas Sands (LVS) CEO Sheldon Adelson‘s warped sense of logic and moral hypocrisy, and while the 81 year-old billionaire isn’t trying to protect his casino empire from the...
December 14th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
The online poker world is threatening to have its reputation further tarnished, after news reports have alleged a Danish high-stakes poker pro may have won millions of euros cheating online over a decade. Although the culprit’s name will not be released while the investigation is ongoing, the online poker forums...
December 11th, 2014 By Shane Larson
Assemblyman Mike Gatto (photo) introduced his new Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act (AB 9) earlier this month, but the proposals he suggested in order to create a framework for legalized online poker in California next year have received harsh criticism from the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), with the Interest...
December 9th, 2014 By Charles Washington
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