Nevada Online Poker Plummets 14.5% In April
The Nevada Gaming Control Board has released its gambling results for April, revealing a 1% decline in revenues to $852 million, compared to the $854.3 million taken in April 2013. From than figure, online poker suffered a huge 14.5% fall in revenues to $792,000 in April, down from the $926,000 the state generated in March. […]
Daniel Tzvetkoff’s Role In Making Black Friday A Reality
On 15th April 2011, the US Department of Justice raided and shut down PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker’s American operations in an attempt to crack down on major, unregulated offshore gambling companies operating illegally Stateside. In the process, 75 bank accounts in 14 countries, as well as five domain names were seized, resulting […]
Illegal Online Gambling Sites Holding Back US Regulated Market
More than one year after the US state of Nevada launched Ultimate Poker, the country’s first ever legal online gambling website, the industry has continued to expand but so far has failed to match up to pre-regulation revenue forecasts. According to experts the reason for the slow start is the preponderance of numerous illegal offshore […]
American Gaming Association Performs About Turn On Internet Gambling
The American Gaming Association (AGA) is a gaming entertainment lobby group whose stated goal is to promote the industry by educating target audiences about the positive role commercial gaming plays in communities across the USA. Until very recently the AGA’s support extended to the country’s iGaming industry, with the organization’s chief executive Geoff Freeman stating […]
NJ Targets Affiliates Promoting Unregulated Online Poker Sites
Almost six months after launching its first online poker site, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has now decided to clamp down on those US affiliates promoting unregulated online poker rooms, and has now sent a letter to six of the main offenders requesting that they “immediately remove any online gaming links that […]
What Does The Future Hold For Ultimate Poker?
Ultimate Poker may have been the pioneer of USA’s online poker market but one year after it first launched in Nevada on April 30, 2013, the site’s performance has so far failed to impress either its dwindling customers, or Ultimate Gaming co-founder Tom Breitling, who is now leveling most of the blame on excessive regulation […]
2014 WSOP To Be Fully Integrated With WSOP.com
Each year the World Series of Poker holds a pre-WSOP conference call in order to direct global media attention to areas of interest ahead of the prestigious tournament series in Las Vegas. This year’s media call subsequently focused on promoting the World Series of Poker’s legal online poker offering, WSOP.com, which currently accounts for two-thirds […]
