May 1, 2011
Poker News released statistics from its Big Game collaboration with Party Poker this week, demonstrating the power of live videostreaming over the internet. The poker competition was streamed live from the Dusk Till Dawn poker club in Nottingham a few weeks ago in an entertaining initiative that covered all 48 hours of the action in […]
April 30, 2011
The respected US business ratings service Moody’s Investors entered the online poker legalisation discussion this week, commenting rather pessimistically on the recent Department of Justice actions against three major online poker sites In summary, the service advised that: * The DoJ intervention may have disadvantaged current federal attempts to legalise online gambling, but in the […]
April 30, 2011
In the wake of Black Friday, PokerStars has commenced paying out its US players as it cooperates with the US Department of Justice, but it appears that Full Tilt Poker is still trying to organise the process. This week a Full Tilt spokesman using the handle FTPDoug used the popular twoplustwo forum to communicate with […]
April 29, 2011
Who would have thunk it? The possibility that online gambling?s arch-enemy in the US political system, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, may be considering the legalisation of online poker! That’s what his latest website update suggests; in a lengthy overview of his latest strategies and opinions at http://kyl.senate.gov/legis_center/crime.cfm, the Senator appears to be suggesting the […]
April 29, 2011
CNN reports that online poker supporter and Harvard law professor Charles Neeson turned the bad news of Black Friday into a learning opportunity this week, asking his students: “The government seized online poker sites under a 2006 law that bans all financial institutions – banks, credit card companies, and online payment companies – from dealing […]
April 29, 2011
Despite the fact that it has been transformed from an online poker legalisation bill to one calling for a report on the consequences and advantages of such a bill, it’s still heartening to know that state Sen. Jeff Danielson’s Iowa proposal is making progress. The measure now calls for a report from the Iowa Racing […]
April 29, 2011
The Poker Players Alliance has revealed that it is talking to political staffers connected with the House Judiciary Committee, along with members of Congress, in preparation for a Department of Justice oversight hearing next Tuesday. It is understood that Attorney General Eric Holder is likely to testify, making the hearing an even better opportunity to […]
April 28, 2011
Ira Rubin, one of 11 people recently indicted for banking and allegedly illegal online gambling offences in the United States, made an initial appearance in a US court this week after being arrested in Guatemala. Rubin told U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrea M. Simonton in Miami that he had not been able to make telephone calls […]
April 28, 2011
The federal indictments against online poker activity in the United States claimed another victim this week when the US government’s National Credit Union Administration imposed a conservatorship on Vensure FCU, a $4.7 million credit union allegedly linked with the online poker sites. U.S. Judge Rosemary Collyer refused to grant Vensure a temporary restraining order in […]
April 28, 2011
Two weeks on from the unsealing of shock US federal indictments against 11 defendants associated with major online poker firms the reverberations are still being felt by the global industry. In the latest statistics presented by the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout, it appears that player numbers globally have declined by a worrying 22 percent […]