The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is known for its unfriendliness to the online gambling industry. Only a handful of the innumerable online casinos are actually safe, secure, and reliable. Online players in the US, therefore, need to be very cautious about registering at an online casino, making a deposit, and playing for real money.
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Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 22, 2012

The recent re-interpretation of the 1961 Wire Act on the part of the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has opened the floodgate of opportunities for individual states to license and run online poker sites even before the online poker industry is legalized at the federal level.
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Over six US [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 21, 2012

According to a report published in G-poker, an online poker resource for Canadian players, the government of France has directed its Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to prevent all online poker players in France from gaining access to online gaming sites that have not been issued a gaming license by ARJEL, a French online gaming regulatory [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 21, 2012

When the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced in December that it has changed its interpretation of the Wire Act, the online poker gaming world became more optimistic than ever regarding the regulation and legalization of the US online poker industry at the federal level.
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A federal house sub [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 20, 2012

According to a report by Canadian Poker, which can be accessed at their site, the government of Portugal has directed Bwin.party, the giant online gaming company, which runs Bwin Poker, to stop advertising its online gaming services and sponsoring in Portugal.
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This directive follows on the heels of a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 20, 2012

The Yatahay Poker Network, with effect from Jan 12, 2012, has changed its name to The Winning Poker Network, which it feels suits its products and services better and illustrates its devotion to the US online poker gaming community.
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Speaking on the change of name, a Winning Poker Network [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 19, 2012

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2012 Main Event, an action-packed event that lasted seven days, has finally come to an end with US poker player John Dibella emerging as the champion and scooping up a breathtakingly large prize of $1,775,000.
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Although Ruben Visser had the fourth largest stack of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 19, 2012

Anthony Marnell III, the president of M. Resort, has stated that he opposed the legalization and regulation of the US online poker industry. In an interview he had recently given Nevada Newsmakers, Marnell made remarks strikingly similar to those made by Sheldon Adelson, the chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corporation.
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Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 15, 2012

Now that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has modified the Wire Act of 1961, making online betting on non sports activities legal and ruling that poker is legal since it is not a game of chance, the online gaming industry is intensifying its pressure on the Congress that it must legalize the online poker [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 14, 2012

Shuffle Master Incorporated had already hired a team of designers to create a multiplayer gambling platform and prepared for the launch of their interactive division long before the US Department of Justice (DoJ) permitted states to regulate online poker gaming.
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Castle, who had left Zynga in October to join [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Renee | January 14, 2012