May 21, 2011
The Erik Seidel 2011 heater continued Friday afternoon at the Bellagio in Las Vegas when the veteran poker pro took down the $100,000 buy-in WPT Super High Roller event after a tough heads up tangle with Erick Lindgren. The two went head-to-head after Daniel Negreanu was knocked out in third place, one of several big […]
May 21, 2011
Black Friday has not deterred the Poker Players Alliance from launching another rally and press conference fly-in on Tuesday next week. The legalise poker advocacy group is to fly 30 of its regional directors into Washington DC, where a midday rally will be held in front of the Capitol buildings to promote the US licensing […]
May 21, 2011
One of the online poker operators impacted by the Black Friday indictments, Full Tilt Poker.com, made a further announcement to its players late Friday, advising on the conversion to cash of loyalty and other awards, but indicating that little progress has been made in surmounting obstacles to the refund of monies to US players. The […]
May 20, 2011
A bill positioning the gambling state of Nevada to benefit from any federal legalisation of internet poker has passed through the Assembly, albeit in a somewhat stripped down form. The bill calls for the state to develop a licensing process for online poker businesses by January 2012, and has passed barely a month after Black […]
May 19, 2011
Californian Senator Lou Correa, the author of California bill SB40, has added impetus to his online poker legalisation proposal by amending it to urgency status in order to ensure that the state can ?act quickly to secure potential online poker revenues before the opportunity is lost?. The changed status means that SB40 will remain active […]
May 19, 2011
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout’s latest assessments show that the Black Friday indictments have continued to have a devastating effect on the major internet poker firms associated with the US federal action. According to the monitor, online poker traffic dropped 4 percent last week, with Merge Gaming Network garnering another 1 percent of the […]
May 17, 2011
The French regulatory body, ARJEL, has granted approval to PokerStars to operate its “Home Games” feature on its Pokerstars.fr domain on condition that participants are registered and approved by the operator. The French online poker room notified its players in March 2011, after launching the feature in February 2011, that ARJEL had temporarily suspended the […]
May 16, 2011
Ali Tekintamgac and his admittance to play at the WPT Championship at Bellagio has created a buzz amongst the poker fraternity. Tekintamgac was disqualified from the Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) Main Event towards the end of 2010 (see previous reports) amid accusations from tour organisers, based on video footage, that he had cheated by using […]
May 14, 2011
A new white paper entitled ?Online Gambling Five Years After UIGEA? released by the American Gaming Association (AGA) calls for effective regulation of online poker in the U.S. The paper authored by David O. Stewart, counsel at Ropes & Gray LLP in Washington, D.C. provides an in-depth look at the global and U.S. online gambling […]
May 14, 2011
Online poker company PokerStars said in a press release today (Friday) that it has returned more than $100 Million to online poker players in the United States since its indictment by US authorities The commencement of payments, almost a month after what was dubbed as ?Black Friday?, follows the company’s agreement with the U.S. Department […]