Respected French newspaper, Le Monde, recently published an article on its online platform calling for sweeping reforms to the country’s online poker market in order to save the industry from ultimate annihilation. In its May 13th piece entitled “Le poker en ligne bientôt au tapis?” (Is Online Poker Going...
May 29th, 2015 By Shane Larson
Each year, thousands of gamblers from around the world descend upon Las Vegas to take part in the most anticipated tournament series in poker, the World Series of Poker (WSOP). This annual poker marathon was first launched in 1970, and over the intervening decades has grown in size and...
May 27th, 2015 By Adam Brown
Since the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement (UIGEA) was re-interpreted in 2011 to permit regulated state-by-state internet gambling, opponents have fiercely been attacking the move and crusading to have iGaming consigned to the scrap heap once more. Chief amongst its critics is Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson, who has...
May 26th, 2015 By Charles Washington
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) was held in England from 2007-2010, and France between 2010-2013, while 2015 will see Germany play host to the iconic tournament poker festival. The location for the WSOPE will be the country’s capital city, Berlin, and more specifically its most famous casino...
May 25th, 2015 By Stephen Smith
Gambling is big business in France, and last year the country generated €44 billion in revenues, with online gaming generating €725 million of that tally. However, it seems that not all is as it should be with up to a third of all French minors having apparently gambled online...
May 22nd, 2015 By Shane Larson
On June 28th, Portugal is set to end the Santa Casa da Misericordia’s (SCML) state run monopoly over the country’s online gambling industry and finally open its market up to international operators. The new iGaming reform bill had been under legal consideration since June 2014, but has finally been...
May 21st, 2015 By Adam Brown
On May 13th, Full Tilt was given permission to rejoin Denmark’s online gambling market after it was granted a license to offer its product by the country’s Gambling Authority. As a result, Danish players will soon be able to access the site via its FullTilt.dk platform, and commenting on...
May 19th, 2015 By Charles Washington
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