Are Online Gambling Games Good For The Poker Industry?
Although online poker has always been regarded as a useful means of attracting new players to gambling sites and encouraging them to wager their funds on a variety of ‘house games,’ poker purists have often espoused the virtues of keeping the game of skill separate from casino-style games. Up to recently, however, while the majority […]
PPA’s Pappas Says Poker Needs Other Gambling Games To Survive
The ‘Restoration of America´s Wire Act’ (RAWA) is expected to be debated in Congress’ during the forthcoming lame duck session (November 9-26) and if the bill is eventually passed into law all forms of online gambling will subsequently be prohibited, with the exception of internet pari-mutuel horse race betting and fantasy sports betting. Ahead of […]
Pokerstars Partners Versus Affiliates Battle Heats Up
PokerStars, the world’s most popular online poker site, has been undergoing a number of significant changes over the past few months, not least a change of ownership following Amaya Gaming’s acquisition of its parent company the Rational Group on August 1st for $4.9 billion. Other major changes include PokerStars dramatically cutting back on its team […]
Online Gambling Operators Start Exiting International Grey Markets
At the start of October, the Amaya Gaming owned sites of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker had both withdrawn their products from more than 30 countries across the world on a day labeled as “Black Tuesday”. The move is believed part of a wider policy by Amaya Gaming to withdraw from “grey markets” jurisdictions in […]
Phil Ivey Loses High Stakes Lawsuit Against Crockfords
Phil Ivey has lost his high profile court case against Crockfords in London, after a High Court judge ruled the edge-sorting technique employed by Ivey to win £7.7 million ($12.4m) from the casino was “cheating for the purpose of civil law.” As judge John Edward Mitting, concluded: “He gave himself an advantage which the game […]
PokerStars Dominates Italy’s Declining Poker Industry
While the Italian government has seen its profits from online poker decline since liberalization, the country’s biggest online poker operator, PokerStars, continues to dominate the industry and in August generated €34.7 million in revenues, up from the €30.7 million collected in July. PokerStars now accounts for almost 70% of Italy’s total iPoker market, compared to […]
Belgium Takes Fight Against iGaming To Whole New Level
Since Belgium’s new coalition government came to power, the Belgian Gaming Commission (BGC) has aggressively been going after unauthorized online gambling operators and subsequently forced any gambling operator wishing to offer its product inside the country to partner up with Belgium brick-and-mortar casinos. At the heart of the Belgian Gaming Commission’s apparent concern is the […]
