Legal

Aviation Club de France Raided by Cops, Owner Arrested

The Aviation Club de France (ACF) in Paris has been raided by police, and its owner Marcel Francisci arrested along with 11 others, the French press has reported. Officers of the Races and Games Division of the National Judicial...

NY Mortician Joseph Fumando Guilty of Illegal Poker Ops

Staten Island mortician Joseph Fumando was convicted last week of running illegal Texas Hold’em games on Staten Island. The conviction came in Brooklyn Federal Court. The verdict came down after just 20 minutes of...

PokerStars Meetings Point to Imminent New Jersey Return

Amaya wants PokerStars back in New Jersey, and has since the moment they purchased the Rational Group earlier this summer. There were even signs from state regulators that they were open to having the world’s largest and...

Mansion Poker Quitting UK in Tax Hike Huff

Mansion Poker, along with its accompanying casino and sports book, will leave the regulated UK market on September 15th, the first operator to reject the country’s new gambling legislation and introduction of a...

Idaho Coeur d’Alene Casino Stops Poker Per Federal Judge

The Idaho Coeur d’Alene casino poker room has been something of a long shot draw since it was opened earlier this year. The tribe has said that poker is permitted at their casino under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act,...

Pokercent License Suspended After UK Player Complaints

Pokercent, a recently launched independent poker room that caters to the European market, has had its license suspended by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) due to concerns about its operations. There have been complaints about...

Mexican Online Poker Regulations Coming Next Week

Mexican online poker laws are certainly due for an upgrade. That’s because there really aren’t any laws to speak of at the moment; the existing laws governing gambling in the nation were written in 1947, and were...

Michigan Charity Poker Ongoing, But Controversial

Michigan charity poker should probably be the form of gambling that produces the least amount of backlash of all the state’s regulated gambling. After all, poker is often the exception to laws on casino games, and if...

NCSL Continues to Voice Opposition to Anti-Gambling Laws

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is formally opposed to the federal legislation of online poker in the US if it adversely impacts on the state-by-state model that’s currently evolving. During a recent...

Revised California Poker Bill to Modify “Bad Actor” Language

Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, whose California online poker draft bill was shelved this year due to a lack of time to prepare for a vote, has said that the submission of a new bill at the beginning of the 2015/16 legislative...