May 7, 2013
Following a week of excitement and mainstream media headlines, the first legalised online poker site to launch in the United States – Ultimate Poker – appears to be settling down and building good business. The site, owned the Fertitta brothers of Station Casinos fame under their online gambling brand Ultimate Gaming, was given a 30-day […]
May 4, 2013
Season Six of the Latin American Poker Tour came to an end with the Brazil tournament this week, played at the Tivoli Hotel in Sao Paulo and resulting in a win and $255,400 in prize money for local player Victor Sbrissa – his biggest take-home yet in online and live competitions. The $4,000 buy-in attracted […]
May 3, 2013
The furore around Lock Poker’s ban on some player-to-player fund transfers (see previous report) has prompted the Revolution Network skin to explain the reasons behind the decision. The operator claims that a minority of players have been abusing the service, creating false accounts and trying to buy up other players’ account balances for as low […]
May 3, 2013
Whilst Ultimate Gaming has jumped right in to online poker operational activity in Nevada this week (see previous reports), land gambling giant MGM Resorts International is taking a more cautious line. On Thursday the group’s chief financial officer, Dan D’Arrigo, told the Reuters news agency that his company was still undecided on whether to launch […]
May 3, 2013
A well-informed industry editor, Victor Rocha, has revealed that an entirely new online poker legalisation bill is currently being drafted by tribal interests in California and could be presented to the state Legislature within the next two months. The bill, Rocha said in an interview with Quad Jacks, is not connected or associated in any […]
May 2, 2013
The action group Poker Players Alliance has appealed to online poker players to show their support for legalisation in the United States by voting in a Wall Street Journal poll just up at: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/04/30/vote-online-gambling/ The respected business and financial publication launched the poll, asking the key question: “Should Washington Allow Online Gambling” in the wake […]
May 2, 2013
The controversial gambling expansion bill in Illinois, from which an online poker legalisation amendment was stripped last week (see previous report) has successfully passed through the state Senate on a vote of 32 – 20. The bill, which allows slot machines at racetracks in Illinois and five new land casinos in the state, now goes […]
May 2, 2013
Our readers may recall the case of Marcus Bebb-Jones (49), a British poker champ accused of murdering his wife Sabrina (then aged 31) in 1997 whilst in the United States. Her skull was found in a Colorado national park in 2004, and investigations led to the arrest of the poker pro at his home in […]
May 2, 2013
As one door closes, another opens in online poker; already this week we have seen online poker initiatives in Illinois and Massachusetts fail, and the Rational Group’s attempt to buy the Atlantic Club fall apart…but another door is about to open, according to the Washington DC newspaper Politico. The influential newspaper reports that it has […]
May 2, 2013
The news that 18 Massachusetts politicians had attempted to legalise online poker by adding an amendment to the state budget bill last week sparked hope that the US state could become the fourth to legalise some form of internet gambling, but those hopes have now been dashed. After initial reports that the amendment had been […]