The whole world is currently awaiting the kick-off to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, scheduled to get underway on June 12th. Each year viewership of the spectacular tournament reaches new heights and this year is expected to boast 310 million people tuning in to watch this summer’s...
June 4th, 2014 By Charles Washington
Pennsylvania State Sen. Edwin Erickson (photo) has announced he intends to introduce a new internet gambling bill, State Bill 1386, within the next few weeks and just like Nevada the bill is designed to allow poker-only within state boundaries. The Senator’s move comes after a feasibility study commissioned by...
June 3rd, 2014 By Stephen Smith
The Delaware Lottery has announced that its online gambling revenues were up by 6% to $240,496 for the month of April, compared to the $206,833 the state generated in March. In spite of the positive result it was online casino products which helped lift the state’s igaming revenues higher,...
June 2nd, 2014 By Shane Larson
Last week, we reported that the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) had sent out instructions to US affiliates requesting that they stop promoting unlicensed internet poker rooms and “immediately remove any online gaming links that are not authorized under federal law or under the law of any...
May 30th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
The Nevada Gaming Control Board has released its gambling results for April, revealing a 1% decline in revenues to $852 million, compared to the $854.3 million taken in April 2013. From than figure, online poker suffered a huge 14.5% fall in revenues to $792,000 in April, down from the...
May 29th, 2014 By Charles Washington
On 15th April 2011, the US Department of Justice raided and shut down PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker’s American operations in an attempt to crack down on major, unregulated offshore gambling companies operating illegally Stateside. In the process, 75 bank accounts in 14 countries, as well as...
May 27th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
More than one year after the US state of Nevada launched Ultimate Poker, the country’s first ever legal online gambling website, the industry has continued to expand but so far has failed to match up to pre-regulation revenue forecasts. According to experts the reason for the slow start is...
May 26th, 2014 By Shane Larson
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