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 27, 2011
Achieving wide coverage that included major newspapers, CNN Money, Fortune magazine and Associated Press articles this week was an op-ed article written by Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman, supporting the idea of legalised online poker in the USA through the federal rather than individual state route. The piece was prompted by the recent enforcement actions […]
April 26, 2011
Two weeks back, Irish online poker player Niall Smyth invested Euro 20 on a bet in the Grand National horse race in England, winning Euro 200 on Paddy Power and immediately transferring the cash to his online poker account with the same company. That enabled him to enter for qualifiers for the 2011 Paddy Power […]
April 26, 2011
221 international players, many of them respected names on the global live tournament circuit, gathered at the prestigious Salle des Palmiers in Monaco over the weekend to compete in the inaugural Everest Poker One main event. The field generated a prize pool worth Euro 1 071 850, with the main prize of Euro 300 000 […]
April 26, 2011
A bill seeking to legalise online poker in Nevada is facing a crucial procedural deadline in the Assembly this week – the first house passage limit, meaning if a bill started in the Assembly, it has to pass a vote there in the full body by the deadline or it dies. 8NewsNow reports that bill […]
April 24, 2011
Hard on the heels of the US Attorney’s indictments aimed at acing out Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, UBPoker and Absolute Poker in the US online poker market, a relatively unknown online poker site made a move clearly attempting to exploit the vacuum created by the shutdown of the indicted sites. The Savannah, Georgia-based online poker […]
April 24, 2011
Attention over the weekend centred on the enigma of the ‘Karaka Declaration’, a still sealed document mentioned in the US Attorney’s application to a district court judge for the forfeiture of banking accounts linked to online poker companies named in the Black Friday indictments. Rosemary Karaka is a special agent with the FBI who has […]
April 23, 2011
In an op-ed article in the Washington Post this week, former US Senator Alphonse D’Amato, the chairman of the Poker Players Alliance, makes the point that talking about the legalisation of online poker in the United States is misrepresenting the issue…online poker is already legal. In a reaction to the latest federal attack on internet […]
April 23, 2011
World Team Poker has announced from Los Angeles that its championship event, scheduled for May 24 through 26 at the South Point Hotel Casino and Spa will be rescheduled for later this summer. ?The recent developments in online poker have had a rippling effect throughout the poker industry,? said Michael A. Christian, CEO of World […]
April 23, 2011
Next month will see the start of the latest Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker, which starts on May 8…but with some important changes in the wake of Black Friday. Key to these changes are the times – all 38 events have been brought forward by three hours, which should better suit European players. Pokerstars […]