Poland Loses €142m In Potential Internet Gambling Taxes Each Year
According to a report released by the consulting firm Roland Berger in February of this year, Poland’s online gambling market is estimated to be worth around PLN 4.9 billion (approx. €1 billion). Unfortunately for the government, however, the country’s four Polish operators with state-issued licenses only account for 9% of this total, with an estimated […]
PPA Demands Answers From Lock Poker
Back in 2012 Lock Poker had already attracted the attention of online poker players around the world with interest in the poker room at an all-time high. By 2013, however, poker players started suspecting something was not quite right with the site and this year many in the poker community are starting suspect Lock Poker’s […]
The Current State Of Online Gambling In New Jersey
New Jersey launched its first online gambling site five months ago in November 2011, with NJ governor Chris Christie predicting $1 billion in annual revenues and $160 million in yearly tax collections for the state. That forecast has proved to be wildly inflated and State Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff has since down-scaled the estimate to just […]
PokerStars Gains Partners In Its Drive Towards Californian Market
PokerStars has moved a step closer to its goal of reentering the US market, after announcing its has formed a partnership with a group of powerful gambling interests, including California’s Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the Commerce Club, the Hawaiian Gardens Casino and the Bicycle Casino. The coalition has agreed to work together to provide […]
What Is Sheldon Adelson’s Real Concern About Online Poker?
With an estimated fortune of $40 billion built on the back of his Las Vegas Sands casino business, many an analyst has observed the irony of gambling kingpin Sheldon Adelson preaching the sins of online poker to the rest of the American people. In fact, so pious has Adelson become that in spite of advocating […]
Russia Wages War Against Online Poker Sites
Back in November 2012, the Russian supreme court made ISP’s responsible for blocking gambling sites inside the world’s biggest country. However, no serious efforts were made to enforce the ruling until last month when Maxim Ksenzov, deputy head of Russia’s federal telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor, reported that a “request came straight from the prosecutor(s) office” requesting […]
Massachusetts Online Gambling On Hold Until 2015
Recently, Massachusetts emerged as a frontrunner to legalize online gambling in 2014, with some of the state’s chief advocates speaking out in favour of igaming expansion including State Senator Bruce Tarr, and State Treasurer and Gubernatorial candidate Steve Grossman. However, that is now unlikely to happen until next year, after iGamingPlayer reported James McHugh, a […]
