Atlantic City casino Resorts has announced a partnership deal with SNG Interactive to develop a platform which will allow it to offer real-money online gambling in New Jersey. The companies are now targeting January 2015 as the date to launch their online gaming products on ResortsCasino.com, and commenting on...
June 24th, 2014 By Charles Washington
Following last month’s announcement that Bovada would no longer be accepting new players from the US state of New Jersey, the US-facing online poker room has now added the other two regulated states of Nevada and Delaware to its exclusion list. In total, the biggest online poker site in...
June 23rd, 2014 By Charles Washington
Lock Poker represents all that is currently wrong with unregulated online poker, with the beleaguered poker room now considered a running joke in the industry. US friendly poker sites already have a severely tarnished image as far as industry representatives are concerned, but while they mostly still continue to...
June 20th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
A few weeks ago Pennsylvania State Sen. Edwin Erickson announced his intention to introduce online poker-only Senate Bill 1386 to the state legislature. Erickson has now made good on his promise, but interestingly, the text of the bill has been altered slightly from the original draft to allow for...
June 19th, 2014 By Shane Larson
Now the poker industry has begun digesting the news of Amaya Gaming’s surprise acquisition of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker for $4.9 billion, analysts have started trying to assess what the seismic business deal will mean for the future of online poker. Initially, optimists assumed the purchase would lead...
June 18th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
In 2011, Portugal received a €78 billion IMF-EU bailout package in order to help stabilize its battered public finances. As part of the deal the Troika demanded the implementation of a number of tax revenue-raising measures, including the liberalization of its online gaming market, estimated to be worth €250...
June 17th, 2014 By Charles Washington
This week the gaming industry learned that Amaya Gaming has agreed to purchase the Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, for a staggering $4.9 billion. Not only is the deal expected to give the Canadian maker of gambling equipment and systems a huge financial boost...
June 16th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
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