PokerStars Adds Casino Games To Its Spain-only Site
PokerStars, the world’s most popular poker site, has just reversed more than ten years of policy and introduced casino games to its previously poker-only online offering. For now the move is restricted to its PokerStars.es platform, where the company received a license to offer blackjack and roulette back in July, but the development is likely […]
Black Tuesday As PokerStars Withdraws From Grey Markets And Cuts Affiliates
In 2011 the Department of Justice shut down PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker’s operations in the US on a day that became known as “Black Friday,” and three years later many players from around the world are now experiencing what numerous American players went through in their own version dubbed “Black Tuesday”. This time around, […]
Delaware Online Poker Soars 24% In August
Delaware may be the smallest of the USA’s three regulated online poker markets, but while Nevada reported a 22% fall in revenues last month, and New Jersey a slight 5% uptick, Delaware built on the 22.6% gains it made in July by returning a 24% increase in online poker revenues for August. Including all gambling […]
US Poker Pro Sponsorship Continues Its Steady Decline
Just a few years ago, it was a common sight to see a plethora of US poker pros sporting internet poker site logos at tournaments as part of their sponsorship deals. Since Black Friday, however, many of those same players haven’t even been able to access online poker sites and so sponsored links have been […]
Nevada iGaming Revenues Dive 22.5% In August
The Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB) has just released its latest gaming results for August revealing a dramatic 22.5% decrease in online poker revenues to $742,000, compared to July’s tally of $985,000. Overall, Nevada casinos generated $920.2 million last month, a 3.7% decline compared to August 2013, and ending five consecutive months of gains for […]
How Much Value Do Sponsored Big Name Pros Bring To Poker Sites?
Many big name sponsored pros are Americans and cannot even access the sites they represent, whereas the ones that can operate in one of the USA’s three regulated iPoker states which segregate their relatively small markets from the rest of the world. In recent times a number of online poker sites have started reducing the […]
Morgan Stanley Forecasts $5.2bn US iGambling Market By 2020
According to a recent report by Morgan Stanley, US online gambling could be a $5.2 billion industry by 2020 providing at least 20 more states join the three already regulated markets of Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey. Nevertheless, the finance group’s prediction is lower than its previous estimate, and as a Morgan Stanley statement, explains: […]
