Just a few years ago, it was a common sight to see a plethora of US poker pros sporting internet poker site logos at tournaments as part of their sponsorship deals. Since Black Friday, however, many of those same players haven’t even been able to access online poker sites...
September 30th, 2014 By Shane Larson
The Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB) has just released its latest gaming results for August revealing a dramatic 22.5% decrease in online poker revenues to $742,000, compared to July’s tally of $985,000. Overall, Nevada casinos generated $920.2 million last month, a 3.7% decline compared to August 2013, and ending...
September 29th, 2014 By Adam Brown
Many big name sponsored pros are Americans and cannot even access the sites they represent, whereas the ones that can operate in one of the USA’s three regulated iPoker states which segregate their relatively small markets from the rest of the world. In recent times a number of online...
September 26th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
According to a recent report by Morgan Stanley, US online gambling could be a $5.2 billion industry by 2020 providing at least 20 more states join the three already regulated markets of Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey. Nevertheless, the finance group’s prediction is lower than its previous estimate, and...
September 25th, 2014 By Charles Washington
Tired of online gambling companies avoiding UK taxes by locating their operations in offshore jurisdictions such as Gibraltar, Malta or Antigua, the UK government is set to introduce its new ‘Gambling, License and Advertising Bill‘ on October 1st. The new legislation requires iGaming businesses to obtain a special UK...
September 23rd, 2014 By Shane Larson
New Jersey’s land-based casinos have been falling like tenpins in recent months with just seven of the state’s original twelve casinos expected to remain open by the end of 2014. It would now seem the slump in New Jersey’s casino industry has now resulted in its first online casualty,...
September 22nd, 2014 By Lucy Brown
One year after launching its product in Nevada, online poker site WSOP.com has reversed its previous position and signed a high profile figure from the poker world to become its first ever brand ambassador. The 2012 WSOP Main Event champion, Greg Merson, will now help the company “promote online...
September 19th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
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