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Nevada and Delaware Online Poker Player Pool Sharing Officially Launches

Online poker players in Nevada and Delaware are officially able to play against each other through what is being called a Multi-State Poker Network (MSPN), the first such agreement in the United States. The official launch of the...

PokerStars Granted Dismissal Of Illinois Loss Recovery Case

PokerStars may not have much of a presence in the United States anymore, but they’re still finding ways to win in the USA. Judge David R. Herndon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois granted...

Optimal Payments Purchases Skrill And Introduces Bitcoin Deposits

Optimal Payments Plc, the parent company of Neteller, has announced that it will be purchasing one of its financial peers, Skrill. The takeover, which is said to be worth £800 million, will bring together two of the poker...

Horse Racing Industry Says Experience Counts In California Online Poker

Online poker in California could come from any number of potential operators. There are the card rooms, which operate countless live poker games throughout the state. There are Indian tribal groups, which have a monopoly on...

Amaya Receives UK Licenses For PokerStars and Full Tilt 

Amaya is now officially approved to operate online poker and gaming networks in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland after both PokerStars and Full Tilt received licenses from the United Kingdom’s Gambling...

Bwin.party Pennsylvania Partner Mystery Deepens 

The announcement that bwin.party has struck a deal with a land-based licensee in Pennsylvania in preparation for the state’s possible regulation on online poker has caused some industry observers to turn into sleuths....

Full Tilt Black Friday Victims To Receive $2.8 Million

Full Tilt Poker announced this week a new round of restitution payments have been approved for some 3,500 petitioners who claim they lost money as a result of poker’s Black Friday in 2011. The Garden City Group (GCG), the...

Sunday Million 9th Anniversary Tops $10 Million

PokerStars’ Sunday Million, the most popular weekly online poker tournament in the world, celebrated its 9th anniversary with a bang over the weekend by creating a prize pool of $10,086,400. The original $9 million...

MGM Ditches Cash At Poker Tables

MGM Resorts has announced that it will no longer allow players to sit with cash at its poker tables. The casino giant will go chips-only from April 1 across all its major properties, including those that are known for hosting...

New Jersey Revenue Report: Poker Performing “OK” But Could Do Better

New Jersey’s latest round of revenue reports were released on Thursday night and while casino games continued to thrive, the state’s online poker economy appeared to stall. Although the figures were far from...