US poker players breathed a sigh of relief this month, after the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) failed to be added to a must-pass omnibus spending bill, which would have resulted in the blanket banning of online poker across the United States. Nevertheless, RAWA is likely to rear its ugly head again in 2015, […]
After five years of blocking online poker legislation inside Russia, in June the country’s lawmakers signaled a potential U-turn in their policies following an announcement that opening its market of 143 million people to Western online gambling companies was in the country’s best interests. However, all bets are now off after the State Duma passed […]
A new UK iGaming law designed to level the playing field between UK and overseas operators may be having a detrimental effect on business confidence and making the UK an unattractive market to base online operations, according to Chief Executive of the Gibraltar Betting & Gaming Association (GBGA). CEO Peter Howitt made his comments whilst […]
Following on from October‘s online gambling results, which at $9.5 million were the lowest ever on record, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has now released its gambling figures for November revealing a further contraction in the Garden State’s iGaming industry, this time shrinking by 8.42% compared to last month with just $8.7 million […]
US online poker players may be relieved to know that they are not the only ones to be subjected to Las Vegas Sands (LVS) CEO Sheldon Adelson‘s warped sense of logic and moral hypocrisy, and while the 81 year-old billionaire isn’t trying to protect his casino empire from the perceived threat of online gambling, he […]
The online poker world is threatening to have its reputation further tarnished, after news reports have alleged a Danish high-stakes poker pro may have won millions of euros cheating online over a decade. Although the culprit’s name will not be released while the investigation is ongoing, the online poker forums have not been so reticent with […]
Assemblyman Mike Gatto (photo) introduced his new Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act (AB 9) earlier this month, but the proposals he suggested in order to create a framework for legalized online poker in California next year have received harsh criticism from the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), with the Interest group’s Executive Director John Pappas labeling […]