Back in September, Senator Ray Lesniak tweeted that PokerStars’ grand entrance into the New Jersey online gambling market was “only a few weeks away”, but seven weeks later and there is still no sign the poker room’s long-awaited launch is anywhere near to becoming a reality. As a result,...
November 4th, 2014 By Shane Larson
Following a study which revealed a high percentage of problem gamblers inside South Africa, the country’s government is now considering introducing a ban on a wide range of gambling and betting activities, including Internet gaming. Currently, the proposal is being debated by the National Gambling Policy Council (NGPC), which...
November 3rd, 2014 By Charles Washington
Between March and October this year, Nevada reported 5 months of online poker growth, but by August that run came to a end after revenues fell by 22.5% to $742,000. Now the Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB) has just released its latest iPoker results for September, and once again...
October 31st, 2014 By Lucy Brown
After eight months in the “soft-launch” phase of testing, South Point Casino’s online poker site RealGaming.com has officially entered Nevada’s online poker market, where it will now compete against WSOP.com and Ultimate Poker for a slice of the state’s regulated iPoker revenues. RealGaming.com originally launched back in February, but...
October 29th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
PokerStars is used to monopolizing the individual regulated markets it joins, which is why the poker headlines have been dominated recently by the surprise news the site’s French offering, PokerStars.fr, has been overtaken by Winamax as the country’s most popular online poker site. According to online cash game tracking...
October 28th, 2014 By Shane Larson
The Poker Hall of Fame was created by Benny Binion in 1979, and every year since the game’s greatest poker players, as well as those individuals making an outstanding contribution to the industry, are honoured by being inducted into the prestigious pantheon of poker legends. This year, two finalists...
October 27th, 2014 By Charles Washington
In 2010, France legalized online gambling but a restrictive ring-fenced market combined with high rates of taxation meant revenues began contracting just one year later, and by 2013 online poker revenues had fallen by 13% to €258 million compared to 2012. Needless to say, times are tough for professional...
October 24th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
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