The State of Pennsylvania’s Casino Industry
When we think of gambling in the U.S, generally speaking there are two locations which immediately spring to mind: Las Vegas, and Atlantic City. Back in 1988, however, just Nevada and New Jersey allowed casinos but nowadays 43 of the 50 U.S. states offer this type of gambling, the second biggest of which is Pennsylvania, […]
Full Tilt Loses 15% Of Traffic One Week After Dramatic Changes
At the end of July, Full Tilt announced a series of sweeping changes designed to make its cash games more attractive to recreational players. One week later, and the impact on the online poker room’s traffic has already proved dramatic, but unfortunately not in a positive way, as numbers have dropped off by a huge […]
Alabamians Support Legalized Casino and Lottery Gambling
Gambling is a term used to describe betting on games of chance in order to win money or some other material benefit. Just like investing, gambling involves risk and the final outcome depends upon the player’s luck and skills, to some extent. Casinos are the facilities where the aforementioned games are organized, but only if […]
PokerStars California iPoker Campaign Proving A Great Success
At the beginning of July, PokerStars launched its ‘Let California Play!’ campaign, an innovative summer-long tour of the Golden State by some of the site’s most popular pros. The tour’s aim was to create grassroots support for a future regulated online poker industry, and so far it is proving a great success, with hundreds of […]
The Casino Always Wins, Despite Voluntary Self-exclusion Agreement
The Ritz Club located in Piccadilly, London has won a high-profile £2 million ($3.1 million) lawsuit against Safa Abdulla Al-Geabury, after the Swiss billionaire refused to pay the debts he accrued at the casino’s roulette tables last year. At the heart of the 52 year old’s defense was the life-time voluntary self-exclusion agreement (VSE) he […]
Israeli Online Casino Owners Arrested For Multi-million Dollar Fraud
At the end of July, four men were arrested in Israel and Florida accused of orchestrating a “pump-and-dump” scheme involving penny stocks and Bitcoins which is believed to have netted them millions of dollars. The fraudulent investments were offered to people across three continents, including Israel, Cyprus, and Russia, with the money laundered and channeled […]
Full Tilt Introduces Drastic Changes To Stem 44% Traffic Drop
At the beginning of 2015, Full Tilt was the second biggest poker room worldwide, with an average of 1,800 cash game players over a seven-day period, but a little over half way through the year and the site has now slipped down to 8th place on PokerScout‘s ‘Online Poker Traffic Report’, currently averaging just 1,000 […]
