GamblingCompliance iGaming Predictions For 2015
GamblingCompliance (GC) is a company specializing in providing analytical information about the online gambling industry, and in its latest report entitled “US Internet Gambling In Focus: 2014 and 2015” the company has provided an insight into which direction the US iGaming industry was likely headed in 2015. While the report paints an optimistic picture of […]
Anti-PokerStars Tribal Collation Attack California Poker Bill
Last week, an anti-PokerStars tribal coalition headed by the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians attacked California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s (D-Los Angeles) online poker bill, branding it as “fatally flawed”. The tribal collation subsequently sent a letter to the Assemblyman criticizing bill AB 167 for including the horse racing industry in any future regulated online poker […]
RAWA Hearing Now Rescheduled For March 26th
The congressional subcommittee to debate the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) was originally scheduled to take place on March 5th in Washington DC, until a snowstorm postponed the hearing. However, the hearing has now been rescheduled for Thursday, March 26th, when the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security will […]
New Jersey iGaming Revenues Up 1% In February 2015
The last two months have seen New Jersey’s online gambling revenues return double digit growth of 63.6% in December, and 22.3% in January. February’s results, however, were significantly less spectacular with iGaming revenues rising by just 1% to $10.4 million, compared to the $10.3 million generated in the same month last year. Nevertheless, the figure […]
PokerStars Accused Of €300m Fraud And Tax Avoidance In Italy
Canadian company Amaya Gaming owns the world’s largest online poker operator, PokerStars, which has branches across the globe, including the group’s Italian subsidiary called Halfords Media Italy. On Wednesday, the branch subsequently came under attack by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (GDF), after the finance police accused PokerStars.it of fraud and tax evasion amounting to more […]
Pala Interactive Abandons Plan For New Jersey Poker Site
Last November, Pala Interactive partnered with the Borgata to launch New Jersey’s first tribal operated online gambling site called PalaCasino.com. The federally recognized Californian tribe said it also hoped to launch an online poker product in the first quarter of 2015, but now that plan has been put on hold indefinitely, mostly because of PokerStars’ […]
PokerStars Site Down For Two Hours After Server Crash
On Tuesday, March 3 at 4.40am (ET), PokerStars experienced technical difficulties after its servers crashed, and the site remained frozen for the next two hours before the action eventually resumed at 6.40am (ET). In the meantime, the outage interrupted PokerStars’ games on all its network domains across the globe, and players who found themselves stuck […]
