US State News

Ultimate Poker Online to Partner with El Cortez in Las Vegas

When it comes to online gambling in Nevada, it’s going to be hard for any one casino or brand to overtake Caesars’ World Series of Poker (WSOP.com) site. So to go up against such a giant in the poker world, one...

California Tribe Bypasses State Law to Launch Online Poker

Real money online poker is coming to California any time now. We’ve been hearing that story for years, but a combination of competing interests, disinterest from legislators and divisions on what exactly should be legal...

Nevada Approves First Online Poker Network by 888

The Nevada Gaming Control Board this week gave provisional approval to a player pool-sharing network that could be the blueprint for interstate online poker liquidity-sharing between Nevada and Delaware. The system, created by...

Nevada Online Poker Sites Post Gains in May

Online poker may never be a big part of the Nevada gaming industry, and it certainly won’t be making or breaking casinos in the near future. But it’s still something that Internet poker players and the casinos...

Delaware Online Poker on a Downswing

Delaware’s online poker decline showed no signs of stopping in May, despite an increase in player spending across the state. A recent report released by the Delaware Lottery showed that during May 2014, the combined...

“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...

Pennsylvania Senate Introduces Online Poker Bill

Pennsylvania has long been rumored to be one of the next states that could take up some form of online gambling. For a while now, the word has been that they were studying what was happening in New Jersey and other states before...