January 23, 2015
In a routine move applicable to new legislative proposals in Washington State, the state Office of Financial Management has published its fiscal notes on HB 1114, a measure seeking to legalise intrastate online poker introduced earlier this month by Rep. Sherry Appleton (see previous report). If successful, Appleton’s proposal would reverse an aggressive anti-online poker […]
January 23, 2015
California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a veteran state politician who has been in the forefront of previous (failed) online poker legalisation drives, has introduced a new bill to the Californian House. Titled AB 167, the bill takes a more moderate approach to that adopted by Assemblyman Mike Gatto in a similar initiative (AB 9) that is […]
January 22, 2015
No-one appears to know for sure what happened mid-week when a player circulated a graphic he had accessed on his mobile suggesting that Amaya Gaming’s Full Tilt subsidiary had been cleared for online gambling in New Jersey by the state regulator. The player claimed that when he accessed Full Tilt.net from his mobile he was […]
January 22, 2015
Lawmakers in Nebraska are to debate the nature of poker and whether it can be classified as a game of skill following the introduction of a bill to the state legislature by Senator Tyson Larson. Classification of poker as a game in which skill predominates over luck is a key element in deciding whether the […]
January 22, 2015
The World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw wrapped up this week with the final ring event held at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Okla. The 12-day festival culminated in the $1,675 Main event which drew a field of 1 363 entries and delivered an impressive prize pool of $2,044,500. Jose Montes, based in New York, […]
January 22, 2015
The publication Entertainment Weekly reports that a new film based on poker and entitled Mississippi Grind and starring Ryan Reynolds will be released later this year. Reynolds plays a peripatetic poker player who heads for a high stakes tournament in New Orleans with a rather dissolute partner, played by Ben Mendelsohn. Script writer Ryan Fleck […]
January 20, 2015
In what is likely to be an unprecedented case, Global Poker Index, the owners of The Hendon Mob database, is reportedly about to litigate against the Polish government for its actions in using a bot to scour the database for information in contravention of site T&Cs. The action will be launched against Poland’s Ministry of […]
January 20, 2015
A large entry field of 1,211 for the opening A$1,150 buy-in first event ensured a good start in this year’s Aussie Millions Poker Championship, generating a winner’s prize of $215,000 for local player Vic Spadavecchia, along with a winner’s gold ring and a Rolex watch. Four starting days were required to get the competition rolling, […]
January 20, 2015
The continued decline southwards of the Italian online poker market must be cause for concern among operators following the latest stats from Agimeg, which show that this ring-fenced market with consequently reduced player liquidity potential is still battling. The December numbers from Agimeg show that despite a hoped for boost over the festive season Italy’s […]
January 20, 2015
Two more PokerStars.eu players became millionaires over the weekend as the $1 million Spin & Go top prize multiplier struck not once, but twice more. On Saturday, ‘Tornádo111’ from the Czech Republic bested ‘RusGreen’ and ‘newann’ to win the $1 million prize, and the two runners-up each received $100,000. On Sunday, ‘anushan_2323’ from Canada saw […]