Legal
December 10th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunThe Restoration of America’s Wire Act, nicknamed RAWA, has been a threat for a number of months. But now, online poker players across the US are celebrating after Sheldon Adelson’s latest attempt to kill the virtual...
Legal
December 8th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunNew Jersey Assemblyman Ralph Caputo’s bill would impose much stricter regulatory requirements on Internet gaming companies, and it has already passed through the State Assembly’s Tourism, Gaming and Arts Committee,...
Legal
December 5th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunThe Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has criticized the new Mike Gatto-generated California online poker bill, branding it as a “misguided” piece of legislation that is too exclusive and will prevent a regulated market from...
Poker
December 4th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunBetfair Poker has finally decided to bag up its chips for good in New Jersey. The site shut down on December 1, becoming the second operation, after Ultimate Gaming, to withdraw from the market, citing poor performance. The real...
Players
December 1st, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunAn Australian poker player wrongly accused on Facebook of stealing from his roommate during a trip to the WSOP has won AU$340,000 in damages from four of his fellow players. Nicholas Polias sued his former friends after they...
Players
November 30th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunJason Somerville has long been a popular poker player, if not quite on the level of the biggest and most successful superstars of the game. But if the World Series of Poker bracelet winner only had a cult following before, his...
Financial
November 28th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunBreakout Gaming, the first ever gaming platform to be powered by its very own decentralized crypto-currency, the Breakout Coin (BRO), has reported a disappointing initial “crowdsale.” The crowdsale, which is essentially a...
Poker
November 26th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunReal Gaming has been by far the weakest of the three regulated online poker sites in po, attracting virtually no traffic while WSOP.com and Ultimate Poker dominated the market. But with the shutdown of Ultimate Gaming, that may...
Legal
November 25th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunRear Admiral Timothy Giardina has been linked to the counterfeit poker chips he use in a casino last year, with new evidence suggesting that he may have actually created the chips himself. According to a Naval Criminal...
Legal
November 19th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunThe UK Gambling Commission’s (UKGC) efforts to make all regulated sites in the UK as player-friendly as possible took another step forward recently after it published new guidelines on fund segregation. Published on the...
