PokerStars Gains Partners In Its Drive Towards Californian Market
PokerStars has moved a step closer to its goal of reentering the US market, after announcing its has formed a partnership with a group of powerful gambling interests, including California’s Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the Commerce Club, the Hawaiian Gardens Casino and the Bicycle Casino. The coalition has agreed to work together to provide […]
What Is Sheldon Adelson’s Real Concern About Online Poker?
With an estimated fortune of $40 billion built on the back of his Las Vegas Sands casino business, many an analyst has observed the irony of gambling kingpin Sheldon Adelson preaching the sins of online poker to the rest of the American people. In fact, so pious has Adelson become that in spite of advocating […]
Russia Wages War Against Online Poker Sites
Back in November 2012, the Russian supreme court made ISP’s responsible for blocking gambling sites inside the world’s biggest country. However, no serious efforts were made to enforce the ruling until last month when Maxim Ksenzov, deputy head of Russia’s federal telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor, reported that a “request came straight from the prosecutor(s) office” requesting […]
Massachusetts Online Gambling On Hold Until 2015
Recently, Massachusetts emerged as a frontrunner to legalize online gambling in 2014, with some of the state’s chief advocates speaking out in favour of igaming expansion including State Senator Bruce Tarr, and State Treasurer and Gubernatorial candidate Steve Grossman. However, that is now unlikely to happen until next year, after iGamingPlayer reported James McHugh, a […]
Unlicensed Foreign Operators Threaten Sweden’s Igaming Industry
According to the latest report published by Sweden’s gaming regulator Lotteriinspektionen, 64% of all the country’s TV gambling ad expenditure last year, equivalent to SEK 1bn ($152m), was spent by foreign, unregulated operators. The figure is even more astonishing considering those very same non-Swedish companies were not even licensed to offer online gambling within the […]
French Online Poker Market Continues To Slide In Q1 2014
On April 14th, France’s independent online gambling regulator (ARJEL) published its report on the state of the country’s online gambling market for the 1st quarter of 2014. According to the latest figures, France’s online poker industry shrunk by 10% to €65 million during the first three months of this year, compared to the €72 million […]
NJ Online Poker Just A Third Of State’s Igaming Revenues In March
When New Jersey introduced online gambling it was hoping the additional revenues generated would help counteract the continuing decline in its land-based casino industry. Five months on and the state Division of Gaming Enforcement has released its latest figures for March which, despite being up 15.2% compared to the previous month, fell significantly short of […]
