May 1, 2016
California’s senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, reportedly voiced her opposition to the latest online poker legalisation attempt in California – Assembly Bill 2863 – prior to its consideration by the Assembly’s Governmental Organization Committee last week (see previous report). In a letter to the Speaker of the Assembly, Anthony Rendon, and the president of the Senate, […]
April 30, 2016
Pokerstars New Jersey has wasted no time in deploying its global “onlive” experience to the local market in partnership with its land-based teammate Resorts Casino Hotel and Twitch ace Jason Somerville. The duo has announced the first Run It Up Resorts Rumble on May 14, an event that combines in-person social poker action with online […]
April 30, 2016
With its 47th edition due to kick off at the end of May this year, the World Series of Poker has announced a number of administrative improvements designed to make players’ lives easier. Perhaps the biggest of these is the introduction of eQueue Payouts, which will hopefully obviate the long payment lines and frustrating hours […]
April 28, 2016
California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s bill AB2863 proposing the intrastate legalisation of online poker survived Wednesday’s two hour hearing by the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee and advanced on a vote of 18 vs. 0. Its continued progress marked only the second time in a decade-long series of attempts to get a legalisation bill through a California […]
April 25, 2016
It’s been a great – and profitable – weekend for Leuuwarden, Holland professional poker player Farid Yachou, who took down the inaugural Monster World Poker Tour Tournament of Champions Sunday, claiming a brand new Corvette Stingray and the main prize money of $381,600. He also took home a Hublot King Power Unico Titanium watch, an […]
April 24, 2016
New developments impacting legal questions around games of skill like online poker has prompted the Delhi High Court to accede to requests to withdraw a case against Adda52, an online poker operator owned by Gaussian Networks. Justice Indermeet Kaur said that recent developments, including the withdrawal of the rummy for stakes case; favourable decisions for […]
April 23, 2016
With the ink barely dry on its federal court authority to start an international online poker operation from servers on its tribal lands (see previous reports) the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma is moving fast to get the show on the road. On Friday the tribe announced a timetable for the launch of PokerTribe which includes […]
April 23, 2016
Nine organisations representing the California horse racing industry have signalled their support for Assemblyman Adam Gray’s Assembly Bill 2863, which seeks to legalise intrastate online poker in California. The state horse racing industry is apparently prepared to stay out of the intrastate online poker market if it is paid a subsidy of up to $60 […]
April 22, 2016
Poker professional Chino Rheem has claimed his third World Poker Tour title, and a handsome reward of $705,885 after besting a tough field in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock championship. There are only three other players who can boast triple championship title wins in WPT events – Anthony Zinno, Carlos Mortensen and Gus Hansen. Rheem […]
April 22, 2016
Assemblyman Adam Gray’s California Assembly bill AB2863 – due for consideration at a hearing next Wednesday (see previous reports) – became the centre of attention this week when a late amendment again raised the spectre of the notoriously anti-competitive “bad actor” clause. Tribal opponents of the entry into the local market of Pokerstars have repeatedly […]