PokerStars Accused Of €300m Fraud And Tax Avoidance In Italy
Canadian company Amaya Gaming owns the world’s largest online poker operator, PokerStars, which has branches across the globe, including the group’s Italian subsidiary called Halfords Media Italy. On Wednesday, the branch subsequently came under attack by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (GDF), after the finance police accused PokerStars.it of fraud and tax evasion amounting to more […]
Pala Interactive Abandons Plan For New Jersey Poker Site
Last November, Pala Interactive partnered with the Borgata to launch New Jersey’s first tribal operated online gambling site called PalaCasino.com. The federally recognized Californian tribe said it also hoped to launch an online poker product in the first quarter of 2015, but now that plan has been put on hold indefinitely, mostly because of PokerStars’ […]
PokerStars Site Down For Two Hours After Server Crash
On Tuesday, March 3 at 4.40am (ET), PokerStars experienced technical difficulties after its servers crashed, and the site remained frozen for the next two hours before the action eventually resumed at 6.40am (ET). In the meantime, the outage interrupted PokerStars’ games on all its network domains across the globe, and players who found themselves stuck […]
Zynga To Shut All Real Money Gaming Operations In The UK
In April 2013, Zynga and Bwin.Party established a partnership they hoped would convert some of Zynga’s 32 million registered play-money users into a real money poker and casino playing audience. ZyngaPlusPoker and ZyngaPlusCasino was then born in the UK, which was subsequently viewed as a test ground before launching similar products in the regulated states […]
PPA Launches Petition Against Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA)
The US debate of whether to continue allowing legalized online poker in the country has heated up in recent weeks after Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) reintroduced the Sheldon Adelson inspired Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) to the House last month. The bill aims to return the Wire Act (1961) to its pre-2011 interpretation which […]
PokerStars Spin & Go’s Shown Beatable By Skilled Player
In 2014, PokerStars introduced its new Spin & Go tournaments and since then the format has proved a great success amongst recreational players, a group deemed vital to the healthy development of a poker ecology. However, these games caused an instant backlash from the site’s legion of regular grinders, many of whom opined at seeing […]
Twitch Sets Streaming Sights On Internet Gambling
Streaming technology allow individuals to view whatever they please via an internet connection, with one such service, Twitch, having long been the preferred choice for watching players dominate the opposition at their favorite computer games. Founded in 2011, Amazon then bought the video-game streaming service last August for $970 million, and now the company has […]
