Despite the Trump Plaza’s imminent closure on September 16th, its online partner Betfair will be allowed to continue running its online poker and casino operations at least until the brick-and-mortar finally surrenders its casino license. That is expected to give the UK-based online gambling company enough time to make ...
September 9th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
Back in April 2011, the Department of Justice shut down Full Tilt Poker stateside, leaving thousands of American players with millions of dollars frozen in their online poker accounts. By June, 2013, PokerStars agreed to purchase Full Tilt and refund the money as part of a deal struck with...
September 8th, 2014 By Charles Washington
Mexico’s enacted its Federal Law of Games and Raffles in 1947, and aside from a slight modification in 2004, the draconian law has remained unaltered ever since. A recent criticism of the legislation has been that it has little relevance to online gambling, but now it seems the USA’s...
September 5th, 2014 By Shane Larson
The Bahamas may become the next nation to offer legalized online gambling, after it was announced a bill first proposed in May 2013 could finally make its way to the Bahamian House of Assembly as early as next week. However, a number of hurdles have to first be overcome,...
September 4th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
Following the states of Nevada and Delaware signing a landmark agreement this year to share their online poker player pools, 888 has now been named as the operator which will provide the platform for the new poker network. At the same time the news was announced, 888 also revealed...
September 2nd, 2014 By Stephen Smith
Following its disappointing H1 interim results, bwin.party shares are now lower by a third this year with the company’s market capitalization value having fallen to around £741.18 million. As a result, bwin.party Chief Executive Norbert Teufelberger and company Chairman Philip Yea have now outlined a wide ranging restructuring of...
September 1st, 2014 By Charles Washington
The 45th World Series of Poker gave Nevada’s iPoker industry a much needed boost in both May (+17%) and June (+20%), but with the tournament series drawing to a close on July 14th the state’s online poker revenues fell back 7.62% to $985,000 last month compared to the $1,037,000...
August 29th, 2014 By Shane Larson
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