Last March, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) together with Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) sponsored the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA), a bill designed to restore an earlier interpretation of the Federal Wire Act (1961) and outlaw all forms of internet gambling. While lawmakers ultimately passed on the bill in...
January 31st, 2015 By Charles Washington
Germany’s online gambling market is one of the most restrictive in the whole of Europe, with the federal government only permitting online sports betting and lotteries, whilst prohibiting all poker and casino sites from operating inside the country of 80 million people. In the past, individual states have attempted...
January 29th, 2015 By Lucy Brown
The world’s largest poker database, The Hendon Mob, has announced its intention to initiate legal proceedings against the Polish Finance Ministry for allegedly using bots to crawl its website and steal data, contrary to the website’s terms and conditions. The Global Poker Index (GPI) acquired The Hendon Mob in...
January 28th, 2015 By Stephen Smith
More than a decade has passed since billionaire businessman Andy Beal lost his now famous high stakes poker battle against the country’s best poker pros, known as the Corporation. Between 2001 and 2004, the self-taught number theorist lost $16 million to the group which included both Doyle Brunson and...
January 27th, 2015 By Shane Larson
A new anti-money laundering bill (SB40) has been filed on behalf of the Nevada State Gaming Control Board (NGCB) designed to make it illegal for a person to place a bet on behalf of an unlicensed third party. Whilst not specifically an anti-gambling or anti-poker bill, the piece of...
January 26th, 2015 By Charles Washington
New Jersey online poker players had their hopes raised sky high this week, after receiving a mobile pop-up message stating that new software could now be downloaded allowing them to play real-money games legally, and all approved by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE). As part of...
January 23rd, 2015 By Lucy Brown
Whilst November saw Delaware reverse four months of declines with a 42% improvement in online gambling revenues to $184,898 compared to the previous month, December’s results have returned to negative territory once more with revenues down by 8.2% to $169,606. Furthermore, online poker accounted for just $28,589 of that...
January 22nd, 2015 By Stephen Smith
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