After months of being under legislative consideration, Portugal’s new online gaming bill is all set to be enacted by the country’s Office of the Inspection of Games, and could become law as early as the end of this month. Up until now the lengthy delay has proved frustrating to...
February 27th, 2015 By Stephen Smith
Back in February 2014, an interstate online poker compact was signed between Nevada and Delaware allowing the two states to share their player liquidity. At the time, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval expressed optimism the compact could launch by the summer, but one year later and there are still no...
February 26th, 2015 By Shane Larson
Once considered a rising star of the online poker world, Lock Poker’s reputation has since been reduced to tatters following years of players being unable to withdraw funds from the site. In fact, once it was revealed Lock Poker owes its beleaguered customers somewhere between $1 million and $15...
February 25th, 2015 By Charles Washington
Up until recently, poker professional and businessman Bryan Micon had been the chairman of the bitcoin-only poker website called Seals with Clubs (SWC), but after being offline for one week Micon surprised customers by announcing the site would now cease all operations. As a notice posted on SWC, explains:...
February 24th, 2015 By Lucy Brown
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) may have more than one million members in the USA, but the organization set up to protect the rights and liberties of poker players has lacked high profile representatives from the community since it was founded in 2005. One exception was the 2004 WSOP...
February 23rd, 2015 By Stephen Smith
The chances of PokerStars returning to the US online poker market received a huge boost last week, after longtime opponent Caesars Entertainment said it was no longer pursuing a bad actor clause against the poker room, and had instead decided to throw its support behind the Amaya Gaming owned...
February 20th, 2015 By Shane Larson
Just one week after Ognyan Dimov won the European Poker Tour Main Event in Deauville, France, for €543,700 ($616,376), PokerStars and the EPT have now announced the city in northwestern France would no longer be a feature of the tour. Commenting on the decision, PokerStars Senior Manager of Public...
February 19th, 2015 By Charles Washington
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