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Maryland Poker Home Games Looking More Legal After Bill Passes State House, But No High Rollers, Please

Hosting Maryland poker home games isn’t very likely to lead to your arrest, but technically, the activity is indeed illegal. According to current law, playing a casual game among friends in your house is a criminal act that...

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Win Big on Super Tuesday

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have each moved one step closer to a heads-up no-holds barred 2016 general election clash of the titans to assume the Oval Office and become the 45th president of the United States. Whether...

PokerStars New Jersey Set to Go Online in March

PokerStars New Jersey will finally go live after months of uncertainty, but only if it successfully meets the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement’s (DGE) testing procedure. Following months of speculation, hope, and...

Partypoker Enters “Brand Resurrection” Mode Ahead of PokerStars Return to United States

Partypoker is admitting publicly that it isn’t the online poker network it once was, but company executives have a plan to reverse their global standing and return the brand to the heights it achieved during the...

Full Tilt to Merge With PokerStars, Is the End Pending for Once Hardy Brand?

The iconic Full Tilt poker network will migrate to the PokerStars platform this spring and will share player pools in order to combine the Amaya properties into one worldwide poker product. Rational Group CEO Rafi Ashkenazi...

Dan Bilzerian Shocks His Own Instagram Followers With Latest Social Media Post

Dan Bilzerian is the self-labeled “King of Instagram” and regularly posts outlandish images featuring scantily clad women, guns, stacks of money, private jets, and more scantily clad women. But on Tuesday, the...

Washington State Online Poker Bill Gets Another Chance

Washington State online poker is once again up for debate, thanks to the resubmission of an old iGaming measure. HB1114 was submitted for consideration in January 2015, but despite many assuming it would be heard, the bill was...

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Predicts Online Gambling Will Be Legal by July

Pennsylvania lawmaker John Payne believes the odds for online gambling coming to the state are in his favor. State Rep. Payne (R-District 106) recently announced he will retire at the end of his seventh two-year term in November...

Poker Business Scandals in 2015: Crime, Controversy, and Crooks

Poker business scandals go hand-in-hand with America’s favorite casino card game, the allure of striking it rich often too tempting for the immoral to resist. Similar to any other industry where great stacks of money are...

State of Poker: States That Played for Keeps in 2015

Poker in America is complicated and complex, and considering it’s both a state and federal topic, that’s no big surprise. “Politician” is defined as “someone who is active in government,” and...