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In a ground-breaking agreement, Nevada and Delaware, the first two states to legalize and regulate intrastate online gambling, joined forces Tuesday to allow players from either state to play on internet poker rooms based in the other. Interstate gambling compacts are nothing new; many states around the country have combined to grow jackpots in lotteries… Read more »
It’s so close. Christmas in February nears. Well, if you consider receiving money that a former friend has owed you for three years a Christmas gift, then it’s certainly Christmas. On Monday, the Garden City Group (GCG), which is serving as the Claims Administrator for the frozen U.S. Full Tilt Poker funds, announced that payments… Read more »
If you were looking for a quick World Poker Tour (WPT) event, you are in luck. The 2014 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event started on Saturday and is already down to its final ten players. Jason James is the chip leader going into Monday’s Day 3 with 2,606,000 chips, a significant advantage over his… Read more »
After more than a month without a decision on the event, a class action lawsuit has been filed by poker players from Event #1 of the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open against the casino alleging fraud, negligence and improper supervision of the tournament. According to Jennifer Bogdan of the Press of Atlantic City, Egg Harbor,… Read more »
In an interview with Laura Myers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the junior Senator of the state of Nevada, Republican Dean Heller, states that he expects a bill that will outlaw online gaming – except for poker – to make an appearance in the Senate next month. Furthermore, Heller says that his fellow Senator from… Read more »
As several top international tournaments – and major High Roller events – have been concluded over the first six weeks of 2014, Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald has emerged as the early leader in the top Player of the Year races in poker. The early part of 2014 has seen major tournaments such as the PokerStars Caribbean… Read more »
A year and a half ago, the South Point casino was the talk of the poker world when it was granted the first online poker license in the United States. It was exciting; South Point was developing its own software and planned to be the first to market. Now, quietly, South Point Poker is finally… Read more »
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, has become the first poker operator to receive a license from Bulgaria’s State Commission on Gambling. The Commission posted an updated list of approved operators on its website yesterday. In a press release published on the website of the Rational Group, PokerStars’ parent company, PokerStars officials said, “The… Read more »
Daniel Negreanu would likely be the first to admit that nobody is going to look at him and mistake him for an Olympian. That does not mean, though, that he has given up on the Olympic dream. On the message forum of his website, FullContactPoker.com, Negreanu presented his idea for how to make poker an… Read more »
While people around the world expressed their love for one another on Valentine’s Day, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal sent a hate letter to online poker players in the United States. The Republican governor penned a guest column for the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report last week, coming out strongly against internet gambling and vowing to… Read more »
After using the lure of a windfall from online gaming revenue taxation to gain its passage, the state of New Jersey is quickly realizing that there won’t be bounteous amounts of money flowing into the state’s coffers, at least for its first year. Noted New Jersey gaming writer John Brennan of NorthJersey.com took a look… Read more »
In the battle regarding online poker and casino gaming, the targets of legislation have traditionally been the companies and organizations that provide the outlet. The UIGEA of 2006 targeted the banks and the Wire Act of 1961 targeted the operators (the state of Washington was one of the few exceptions in making playing online poker… Read more »
The 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event wrapped up Tuesday as the six players at the final table competed to see who would take the crown of the year’s first WPT event in Florida. Fittingly, it was Floridian James Calderaro who ended up on top, beating Shannon Shorr heads up… Read more »
The 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event’s penultimate day is in the books as the six-handed final table has been determined. 33 players entered Monday’s Day 3, all at least comforted by the fact that they had cash, but it was only six who made it to Day 4. It… Read more »
The survivors from the two starting flights of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event combined for Day 2 on Sunday looking to be rewarded for their hard work with a pay day. Day 2 began with 167 players and just 54 were going to make the money, so Sunday… Read more »
The 2014 Aussie Millions is beginning to come to its conclusion as, on Sunday, the Main Event champion was determined and, back on Saturday night, the $100,000 Challenge came to a conclusion. Aussie Millions Main Event A strong group of contenders came to the final table on Sunday afternoon at the Crown Casino in Melbourne,… Read more »
After a Day 1A that was thought to be pretty large, Day 1B of the World Poker Tour’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Coconut Creek Casino in Florida blew the doors off the building. Through another ten levels of play on Day 1B, a new overall leader was crowned in the form of Jaime… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has pulled into Florida’s Seminole Coconut Creek Casino for their latest Main Event. With a $1 million guaranteed prize pool on the line (plus unlimited re-entry and multiple Day Ones), even Day 1A was expected to draw a crowd and it didn’t disappoint. As the cards hit the air on Friday,… Read more »
The 2014 Aussie Millions has once again proven to be one of the elite tournaments in the international poker world. On Friday, a strong final table for the $10,000 Main Event was determined as some of the deepest pocketed pros stepped up for Day 1 play in the $100,000 Challenge. Aussie Millions Main Event 36… Read more »
Just days after online poker got a new enemy, allies of the game have a new weapon to fight back. MGM International and what politico.com calls “other Washington powerhouses” launched the Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection (CCOP) Wednesday, a group stands in opposition to a ban on internet gambling. Though Nevada, New Jersey, and… Read more »
Well, that was a quick turnaround. After complaints about how affiliates were being handled in regards to the reimbursement process for former U.S. Full Tilt Poker players, the Full Tilt Claims Administrator has made adjustments that will benefit the players. Last year, the Garden City Group (GCG), the company that is handling all the claims… Read more »
As they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. According to Jon Ralston on his website RalstonReports.com, Steve Wynn is now opposed to the legalization and regulation of online gambling. This would be news in and of itself, but adding to the interest is that he was swayed to his new point of… Read more »
On Friday, the Garden City Group (GCG), the company authorized by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to be the Claims Administrator for the long-frozen Full Tilt Poker funds, posted a couple important updates on the remissions process on its website. The first concerned former U.S. customers of Full… Read more »
After leading the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France for the last two days, it wouldn’t have been out of the question for Greece’s Sotirios Koutoupas to succumb to the pressure and come up a bit short. There was no stopping the Greek powerhouse, however, as he stormed his way to the latest EPT… Read more »
It was a quick Day 5 in Deauville, France as the European Poker Tour determined its final table on Friday. Heading into tomorrow’s action, Sotirios Koutoupas holds the lead for a second consecutive day while Eugene Katchalov looks to make poker history. Sixteen men stepped to the felt on Friday afternoon in Deauville and, almost… Read more »
