Online Gambling Operators Start Exiting International Grey Markets
At the start of October, the Amaya Gaming owned sites of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker had both withdrawn their products from more than 30 countries across the world on a day labeled as “Black Tuesday”. The move is believed part of a wider policy by Amaya Gaming to withdraw from “grey markets” jurisdictions in […]
Phil Ivey Loses High Stakes Lawsuit Against Crockfords
Phil Ivey has lost his high profile court case against Crockfords in London, after a High Court judge ruled the edge-sorting technique employed by Ivey to win £7.7 million ($12.4m) from the casino was “cheating for the purpose of civil law.” As judge John Edward Mitting, concluded: “He gave himself an advantage which the game […]
PokerStars Dominates Italy’s Declining Poker Industry
While the Italian government has seen its profits from online poker decline since liberalization, the country’s biggest online poker operator, PokerStars, continues to dominate the industry and in August generated €34.7 million in revenues, up from the €30.7 million collected in July. PokerStars now accounts for almost 70% of Italy’s total iPoker market, compared to […]
Belgium Takes Fight Against iGaming To Whole New Level
Since Belgium’s new coalition government came to power, the Belgian Gaming Commission (BGC) has aggressively been going after unauthorized online gambling operators and subsequently forced any gambling operator wishing to offer its product inside the country to partner up with Belgium brick-and-mortar casinos. At the heart of the Belgian Gaming Commission’s apparent concern is the […]
PokerStars Adds Casino Games To Its Spain-only Site
PokerStars, the world’s most popular poker site, has just reversed more than ten years of policy and introduced casino games to its previously poker-only online offering. For now the move is restricted to its PokerStars.es platform, where the company received a license to offer blackjack and roulette back in July, but the development is likely […]
Black Tuesday As PokerStars Withdraws From Grey Markets And Cuts Affiliates
In 2011 the Department of Justice shut down PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker’s operations in the US on a day that became known as “Black Friday,” and three years later many players from around the world are now experiencing what numerous American players went through in their own version dubbed “Black Tuesday”. This time around, […]
Delaware Online Poker Soars 24% In August
Delaware may be the smallest of the USA’s three regulated online poker markets, but while Nevada reported a 22% fall in revenues last month, and New Jersey a slight 5% uptick, Delaware built on the 22.6% gains it made in July by returning a 24% increase in online poker revenues for August. Including all gambling […]
