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Delaware Online Poker Sees Small Gains in July

Delaware’s online poker system certainly isn’t the most glamorous Internet gambling marketplace in the world. Even in the United States, it’s clearly the smallest of the three states that have legalized Internet...

PokerStars Allows Users to Donate FPP to Charity

PokerStars (and other poker sites) have had great success in getting their players to donate to charities in times of need, particularly after some of the worst natural disasters in recent memory. And in general, poker players...

Nevada Online Poker Revenues Dip in July

Nevada’s online poker sites had a record-breaking month in June. It was the first time they had ever surpassed the $1 million mark in revenues, and was fueled mostly by the presence of tens of thousands of poker players in...

bwin.party Restructures for Brand New Image

Bwin.party will be undertaking a series of major changes in the coming months: that’s the message emanating from the company’s HQ following another set of disappointing financial results. After publishing a...

888 to Expand as CEO Mattingley Steps Down

888 Holdings PLC made two big announcements this week ahead of the company’s push for dominance in the American market. The first snippet of news was confirmation that Brian Mattingley will be stepping down as...

PokerTracker and Holdem Manager to Merge

PokerTracker and Holdem Manager, the two market-leading poker tracking software providers, have announced that they are joining forces. While the two companies will merge to form one business, their respective products will, for...

New Jersey Assemblyman Caputo Attacks PokerStars

New Jersey Assemblyman Ralph R Caputo (D-Essex) has launched a stinging attack on PokerStars, labeling it a “disgraced” company with a “history of bad behavior.” Writing in a guest opinion piece for...

Bitcoin Online Poker Transactions Refused by Coinbase

Bitcoin seems ideal for online poker in many ways: it’s a virtual currency that usually comes with a high degree of anonymity, while also giving American players a way around financial institutions that can’t legally...

PokerStars Confiscating Funds of Americans Playing for Real Money

When PokerStars was forced out of the American market by the US Department of Justice after Black Friday, many poker players in the United States looked for ways around this restriction. PokerStars itself was willing to keep...

Ulimate Poker Culls Sponsored Pros

It’s night of the long knives at down at Ultimate Poker; the site culled over half of its Team U of sponsored pros this week, representing a change in marketing strategy, perhaps, for America’s first ever legal online...