What Is The Legality Of Fantasy Sports In The US?
While the US Justice Department targeted and shut down the country’s major unregulated iPoker operators in 2011, fantasy sports websites have managed to avoid the strict scrutiny of law enforcement and has since grown to become a multi-billion dollar industry. Nevertheless, while fantasy sports players place real money wagers and receive cash payouts if their […]
Pariah Website Lock Poker Finally Shuts, Owing Millions
Lock Poker has long been a blight on the online poker landscape, and over the past few years has represented all that is wrong with unregulated iPoker. None of the site’s unfortunate customers have been able to withdraw even a cent of their funds in over a year, and it now comes as little surprise […]
Anti-RAWA Petition Highlights Serious Player Apathy
In an effort to counter the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz to Congress in February, the Poker Players Alliance subsequently launched an online petition on the 2nd of April, 2015, entitled “We the People”. Its intention was to collect a minimum of 100,000 signatures within a thirty day period […]
U.S. Online Poker Four Years After Black Friday
April 15th marked the four year anniversary of Black Friday, a day when the Justice Department shut down PokerStars, Full Tilt, and Absolute Poker’s online operations in the United States, in so doing pulling the plug on the country’s unregulated online poker market. While PokerStars and Full Tilt exited the US within 24 hours, Absolute […]
New Jersey iGaming Soars 9.8% To $13.2m In March 2015
New Jersey’s online gambling industry plumbed new depths in November 2014 after revenues dropped to just $8.74 million, but since then the market has been climbing higher and the state’s latest figures for March now represents four months of growth for the Garden State. According to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), online […]
Netherlands Pushes Forward With Online Gambling Regulation
The Netherlands may be one of Europe’s biggest online gambling markets, but the country of 16.8 million people also has no actual legislation governing its iGaming industry. That may all be about to change soon, however, as the country’s new State Secretary for Security and Justice, Klaas Dijkhoff (photo), has said he intends to push […]
PokerStars Struck By Major Connectivity Problems At Weekend
As the biggest poker room on the planet, PokerStars has invested millions of dollars on the latest computing technology, but even the online giant is not immune to the server and connectivity issues which spoiled its players’ fun over the weekend. As a result, thousands of PokerStars customers found themselves unable to play their favorite […]
