More than a decade has passed since billionaire businessman Andy Beal lost his now famous high stakes poker battle against the country’s best poker pros, known as the Corporation. Between 2001 and 2004, the self-taught number theorist lost $16 million to the group which included both Doyle Brunson and...
January 27th, 2015 By Shane Larson
A new anti-money laundering bill (SB40) has been filed on behalf of the Nevada State Gaming Control Board (NGCB) designed to make it illegal for a person to place a bet on behalf of an unlicensed third party. Whilst not specifically an anti-gambling or anti-poker bill, the piece of...
January 26th, 2015 By Charles Washington
New Jersey online poker players had their hopes raised sky high this week, after receiving a mobile pop-up message stating that new software could now be downloaded allowing them to play real-money games legally, and all approved by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE). As part of...
January 23rd, 2015 By Lucy Brown
Whilst November saw Delaware reverse four months of declines with a 42% improvement in online gambling revenues to $184,898 compared to the previous month, December’s results have returned to negative territory once more with revenues down by 8.2% to $169,606. Furthermore, online poker accounted for just $28,589 of that...
January 22nd, 2015 By Stephen Smith
A recent agreement by WSOP.com and 888Poker’s All American Poker Network (AAPN) to share liquidity in New Jersey’s online poker market has lead to a dramatic increase in their player numbers, with both sites now overtaking Party Borgata as the state’s most popular poker sites. According to the latest...
January 20th, 2015 By Shane Larson
The biggest and most innovative online poker room on the planet, PokerStars, has just launched a novel new way to further promote its product amongst players by launching a “Pay-by-Poker” restaurant in the East of London. The limited three-day venture is a collaboration with Jones and Sons restaurant, and will...
January 19th, 2015 By Charles Washington
The State of Washington has the strictest attitude towards online poker in the whole of the US, and since 2006 the game has been classed as a Class C felony with those players caught gambling online facing the prospect of spending up to five years behind bars and being...
January 16th, 2015 By Adam Brown
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