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Is The UK Running Illegal Satellite Tournaments?
Dec 23, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Seats at United Kingdom (UK) poker tournaments or satellites cannot be won as prizes to those that are not in the UK Gambling Commission’s list approv...
Denmark Could be in Court over Internet Gambling
Dec 22, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The European Commission has come under fire from the European Gaming and Betting Association over their delay in taking the Denmark government to the court. Denm...
Antigua and Barbuda Granted Settlement from U.S.
Dec 22, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Antigua and Barbuda finally received a settlement ruling for their case against the United States but it was for much less than what they had originally asked fo...
Religious Sectors Unite On The Issue of Gambling
Dec 22, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The gambling issue has yet another opponent, certain religious sectors. Leaders who have been at odds surrounding gay marriages and cannot seem to come up ...
New Support For Bill To Legalize US Online Poker
Dec 21, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida has been working diligently to gain support for his proposed bill that seeks to legalize o...
Banks Become Wary Of Online Gambling Company
Dec 20, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Online gambling operator, PartyGaming, once provided the largest online poker community on the Internet, that is until they...
Turkey Cracking Down On Internet Gamblers
Dec 19, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Turkey, who recently followed in the footsteps of the United States to reinforce illegal, 'unauthorized' online gambling, has issued a stern warning to their ...
US-Facing Online Gambling Relieved by EU-US Deal
Dec 18, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The United States and European Union have been negotiating since the EU filed compensation claims against the US in June of 2007, following a WTO ruling that the...
US Banks Fight US Gambling Regulations
Dec 18, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
After passing the UIGEA last year, the federal government then dropped the enforcement of the regulations of that law in the laps of the US banking industry. T...
iMEGA Submits Objections to Treasury Department
Dec 16, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
This past Wednesday was the last day comments could be submitted to the United States Department of Treasury on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. C...
Massachusetts Preparing For Hearing on Online Gambling
Dec 16, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
This week there will be a hearing in Massachusetts on Governor Deval Patrick legislation to bring three resort casinos to Western Massachusetts, Southeastern M...
World Trade Organization Decision Delayed
Dec 15, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Yesterday the world was supposed to find out what decision the World Trade Organization had made on the Antigua case against the United States. The panel was sup...
EU Seeks Regulation Over Compensation
Dec 13, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
A WTO ruling earlier this year ordered the US to reopen it's online gambling markets, but the nation instead chose to withdraw it's 'remote betting' c...
Antigua PM Discusses Online Gambling Dispute With US Congress
Dec 10, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Baldwin Spencer, led his team during a regional business conference into discussion with members of US Congress that includ...
UIGEA: Internet Gambling Decline Amongst College Students
Dec 7, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The PPA recently announced on its website that internet gambling among college-aged students (from ages 18 to 22) has declined from 5.8 percent in 2006 to 1.5 percent...
New Supporters for IGREA
Dec 7, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Over the past few months, Representative Barney Frank has been steadily receiving support for his Int...
Drew Carey Defends Poker
Dec 6, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) has seen many disparagers in the recent months. Fr...
Golden Palace Casino Fined for Illegal Gambling
Dec 2, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
More than a year ago the offices of the online casino well known for the purchase of several strange eBay products, including Paris Hiltons tooth floss, Golden...
Golden Palace Fined by Quebec
Dec 1, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
A $2 million fine must be paid by GoldenPalace after pleading guilty to illegal gaming charges. The charges were filed against Cyber World Group who is responsibl...
The Danish Have Freddy Blak To Fight For Online Gambling
Nov 28, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
While the United
States has Rep. Barney Frank fighting to regulate and license online gambling
including online poker by fighting to change the Unlawful Internet Ga...
Legal Issue Ongoing with Bodog Domain
Nov 27, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
A key motion in the Washington state court was filed on November 13 by Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A., claiming that 1st Technology, seized several of their domain n...
Bulgaria Proposals Submitted to Regulate Online Gambling
Nov 27, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The Bulgarian Ministry of Finance submitted proposals last week, which would help with the regulation and taxing of online gambling, IGaming Business reports. They as...
Where does Online Gambling Stand
Nov 27, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
One of the hot topics in this months Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas, was the state of online gaming legislation in the United States.
The Safe Po...
EU Trade Commissioner Gets Applauds from Online Gaming Operators
Nov 26, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Efforts made by Peter Mandelson, the European Union Trade Commissioner, in addressing the United States unpopular online gambling trade practices, got approval from t...
Nevada Legislature Unsettled About Online Gaming Laws
Nov 25, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Numerous discussions as well as several meetings have taken place in Washington, regarding where the state of Nevada stands, in regards to online gaming. Other online...
Billions in Online Casino Tax Neglected by America
Nov 21, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Online gaming could generate up to $42 billion over the next decade for Federal coffers, in America, Representative Jim McDermott testified.
This to...
Conveys and Frank Teaming up in Letter to Trade Rep
Nov 20, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The Judiciary Committee chairman along with Representative Barney Frank, House Financial Services Committee chairman, joined together in efforts to send a letter to t...
United States VS. WTO Over Internet Gambling
Nov 20, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
As early as next month, if arbitrations were to fail, Antigua and others, including the European Union, could possibly begin exacting sanctions over the U.S. and thei...
Legislation to Legalize Online Poker a Possibility
Nov 19, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
In a session of G2E, Chairman of the Poker Players' Alliance pressure group, and former Senator, Alfonse D'Amato, spoke at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas...
House Judiciary Hearing Sways One
Nov 17, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
During the hearings
of the House Judiciary Committee seems to have swayed one of the congressmen to
favor legalized online gambling, this is Rep. Earl Blumenauer a ...
Ron Paul Defends Online Gambling
Nov 17, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Republican Texas Congressman and 2008 United States Presidential hopeful, Ron Paul, came to the defense of online gaming and the rights of players betting over the we...
Annie Duke In Spotlight Over U.S. Gambling Ban
Nov 16, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Annie Duke, one of the world's best female poker players, is
currently sitting in the spotlight as she gets much attention as she supports
change in the current...
Online Gambling U.S. Debate
Nov 16, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
There has been a
lot of news recently about the anti-gambling laws in the United States and the
meetings being held in the past weeks.
Thi...
Criticism Continuing towards Deval Bill
Nov 15, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Continuing to make mainstream headlines all across the United States is governor of Massachusetts, Patrick Deval, with his attempts in having online gambling banned, ...
Oklahoma Crowns four more Winners
Nov 15, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The last few days has seen four more winners from the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge, as the $5,000 championship nears.
Taking home the win in Friday...
Testimony on Gambling Bills heard by U.S. House
Nov 15, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The harms of gaase exponentially," McClusky testified. "(And) when you have the law, the states, financial institutions, religious and family organizations,...
U.S. Position for Online Poker Opposed
Nov 14, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The Poker Players' Alliance, through a recent independent survey that was polled, drew attention at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on online gambling. The su...
Ups and Downs after UIGEA
Nov 13, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (UIGEA) has definitely made a huge impact on two well known online poker networks in the...
iMega Responds to Massachusetts Governor
Nov 13, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
After the report in the Boston Globe on Saturday that Governor Deval Patrick has file legislation that would propose a law making gambling online for Massachu...
Patrick Bill is a Target for Internet Gambling
Nov 11, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Although Governor Deval Patrick is planning to license three resort casinos in the state of Massachusetts, he also plans to tighten the hold on Internet gambling by m...
Australian Court to Hear Betfair
Nov 10, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Most online poker players are aware that the online
gaming company Betfair , who has recently begun their
pro...
gaming company Betfair , who has recently begun their
pro...
European Union Asks For Change From U.S.
Nov 8, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The top trade
official stated that the United States must change their online gambling law,
the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act as it discriminating agai...
Two Country’s Two Different Views
Nov 7, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
This week Germany has been in the news with their view of online gambling and it seems Germany and their Administrative Court of Appeals have the opposite thou...
No Ruling For iMega
Oct 31, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
In the iMega legal case against the United States that had been given a thirty day time limit in which the judge would review each sides case has had no rule a...
Delays In WTO Dispute
Oct 30, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The United States has successfully had the decision delayed on claims made against them for implementing legislation that cut profits by the billions for many online ...
Petter Nylander Case Ordered to be Dropped
Oct 29, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
CEO of Unibet Petter Nylander was arrested on Monday of last week on a French warrant by a French judge on charges of money laundering and internet crimes. The arrest...
Dutch Authorities Detain Unibet CEO
Oct 28, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Petter Nylander was detained earlier this week under a French warrant by Dutch authorities.
Unibet says it was because of an alleged breach of French Gambling L...
BArry Greenstein Talks Online Gambling Reform
Oct 28, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
In recent political meetings that discussed the Barney Frank bill and the Wexler bill, Barry Greenstein feels they went very well and support that is needed to get at...
Trip To Capitol Hill Looks To Be a Success For Alliance
Oct 27, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Well, it was what we have all been waiting for. The Poker
Players' Alliance made their three day trip to Washington in hopes to educate
and convince politicians...
Antigua is Joined by European Union in Fight for Gambling
Oct 26, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The European Union have teamed up with Antigua in its case against the United States and they plan to seek compensation for their members' losses. They have charg...
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