Legal

New UK Gambling Act Comes into Force October 2014

Despite its mounting unpopularity and even a legal challenge that it contravenes European Union law, the new UK Gambling Act will come into force on October 2014, it was announced recently. Operators who are currently offering...

Borgata Winter Open Poker Player Lawsuit Dismissed

A New Jersey judge has dismissed a private lawsuit brought against the Borgata by six of the players at the controversial Borgata Winter Poker Open, held earlier in the year. The $500 + 60 NLH Big Stack event, which had a...

Pennsylvania Regulators Get Adelson Complaint Re: Donation

Keystone Progress, a left-leaning “political action” group in Pennsylvania, has filed a complaint against Las Vegas Sands (LVS) Chairman Sheldon Adelson with the state’s Gaming Control Board, asserting that his...

Idaho Tribe’s Poker Battle Heading to Arbitration

Idaho isn’t usually a battleground over gambling issues, and it isn’t known as a hotbed of poker talent, either. But for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, a fight over whether their rights outweigh the state’s ban...

PokerStars Inches Towards Licensing in New Jersey, Quebec

The ink hasn’t even dried on the announcement that PokerStars and the Rational Group will be bought by Amaya Gaming Group, and it will still be months before the deal is finalized. But PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are...

Singapore Could Adopt French Online Poker Model

Singapore’s online poker landscape could have a distinctly French feel to it when legislation is finalized, thanks to a recent meeting between its Second Minister for Home Affairs and ARJEL. Despite criticism of...

Gibraltar BGA Challenges 2014 UK Gambling Act

The Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association (GBGA) has written to the UK government, claiming that imminent changes to the country’s gambling laws not only threaten UK consumers, but are illegal under European law. The...

888 Poker CEO Wants PokerStars Back in US Markets

In the fight over online poker in the United States, one of the major battlegrounds has been deciding just who gets to participate in this very lucrative market. In most cases, some sort of “bad actor” clause has been...

“Bad Actor” California Poker Bills Unconstitutional, Says Prof

Laurence H. Tribe, a renowned Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, and Barack Obama’s mentor when he was a Law undergraduate there, has branded “bad actor” clauses in two California poker bills flaky and...

Bovada No Longer Accepting Players from Nevada, Delaware

Regulated online gambling is something that most poker players in the United States welcome, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a few downsides to it, at least in the short-term. While having the state license...