New Jersey Online Casino Cyber Attacker Demands Bitcoin Ransom
Last week, New Jersey’s regulated online gambling market suffered a series of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) that resulted in four of its sites going offline for more than half an hour. However, it would seem the main aim of the cyber-attack was to scare the sites into parting with ransom money or else […]
PokerStars California Tour To Create Support For iPoker Legislation
Progress in California’s drive towards legalized online poker may be unlikely this year as the state’s disparate group of gaming interests continue to lack the necessary will and compromise to make the dream a reality. In the meantime, PokerStars has maintained its proactive approach on the issue and is preparing to create further awareness and […]
Poker Sites Exit Portugal Following Regulatory Developments
On June 29th, Portugal implemented the first phase of its regulated online gambling expansion plan by introducing a new legalized iGaming framework designed to welcome foreign operators to the country, whilst breaking the state lottery´s monopoly over its gambling market. The plan involves allowing foreign operators to apply for Portuguese licenses in September in return […]
Italy’s Ring-Fenced Poker Market Not Working
When Italy regulated its online poker market in 2010, the country decided to separate its player pool from other European countries, presumably to reap all the potential rewards of the industry for itself. However, that decision has proven to be a costly one as there are no longer the number of players online to make […]
The Future Of Online Gambling In Canada
Over the past few years, numerous websites have sprung up offering online gambling opportunities, and even though the first online casino appeared 20 years ago, the trend has caught on quite nicely with the online gambling market becoming increasingly more popular. In fact, more than 85 countries are now OK with online gambling, with these […]
Delaware iPoker Revenues Drop 19% in May Despite Nevada Compact
At the end of March, Delaware and Nevada enacted their interstate online poker compact which it was hoped would boost Delaware’s iPoker market and ultimately encourage other states to introduce legislation of their own. After an initial surge in traffic, however, April’s revenues eventually tumbled by 35% to $48,500 compared to the same month last […]
Poker Far From Being A Solved Game
In 1997, supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the second of their celebrated chess matches, and in so doing inspired other scientists to develop more and more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) programs to beat their human opponents. It wasn’t long before computer scientists subsequently tried devising programs to solve incomplete information games such […]
