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Harrah's Entertainment Files Lawsuit Over WSOP Domain
Sep 3, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Owner of the World Series of Poker has recently filed a lawsuit against a former employee of Binion's Horseshoe. As we know, the operations of the World Series of...
Updates on H.R. 2140
Aug 31, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Fall is on its way and so is more news about the proposed H.R. 2140 or Internet Gambling Study Bill, which was brought to the table by Shelly Berkley a Democrat of Ne...
IMega Gets New Date
Aug 31, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
In the case of iMega v. Gonzales that is to be held in the U.S. District Court in Trenton, New Jersey and was to be held this coming week on the 4th of September...
South African Online Gambling Worries Subdued
Aug 31, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
For now the worries that plagued the South African politicians of online gambling over shadowing land based casino gambling is over. The figures that are now out show...
Sweden Backs Online Gambling
Aug 30, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
In Sweden the government thinks far differently about online gaming than the United States Government who does not want their citizens visiting online gaming sites an...
US Losing Online Gambling Battle Against Antigua
Aug 30, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
In April 2005, the WTO ruled in favor of Antigua who claimed that the US prevents foreign internet gambling firms from doin...
Where Will The Chips Fall
Aug 30, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Recently PartyGaming, who is reportedly the largest online gaming site in the industry, has come out in the public forum stating that after the United States put new ...
Malta and Online Gambling Advertising
Aug 30, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Many online gambling site from the U.K. have moved to Malta and more continue to do so avoiding the U.K. Gambling Act which as of September 1, 2007 will go into effec...
27 More Online Gambling Firms Move to Malta
Aug 29, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The small Mediterranean island of Malta is fast becoming the choice destination for gambling firms to house their online operations. No less than 27 international gam...
Television Advertising For Online Gaming Sites
Aug 29, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
While here in the United States the fight rages on whether online gaming should be legal, illegal or regulated by the government and the amount of
U.S. Banks Still Connected With Online Gambling
Aug 29, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
In 2006 with the UIGEA or Unlawful Internet Gambling Act came into effect banks, credit card and debit card companies were to stop any transfers or accept payments fr...
Gibraltar Defends Their Regulations
Aug 28, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Neil Parish, Conservative Party MP for Gibraltar, spoke in the defense of Gibraltar's licensing regimen for
Alberto Gonzales Resignation Good For Online Gambling
Aug 27, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
He recently promised Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl that he would do everything he could possible do to make certain the that the billion online gambling industry...
Big Money Spent on Gambling Lobbyists
Aug 25, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
By United States Federal Law every company must report all lobbying efforts and the expenses incurred therein. Well United States Poker Players, the poke rooms we'...
William Hill Online Poker Room Relocated
Aug 21, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
After the new amendment to the Gambling Act 2005 in the UK was announced last week, a few online gambling businesses have transferred their operations to Europe.
Extention Granted iMEGA vs UIGEA
Aug 21, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
In the iMEGA vs UIGEA, and subsequently Alberto Gonzalas, Attorney General of the United States of America, the US District Court of NJ has granted an extension on th...
Skill vs. Chance, Pennsylvania Poker Case
Aug 19, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
$11,000 in cash and property connection with texas hold'em tournaments by Pennsylvania defense attorney Lawrence Burns may bring ' skill- vs -chance' ...
Poker Room Raises Questions Over Gambling Laws
Aug 19, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Little Rock poker establishment postponed opening after city said the venue would go against Arkansas gambling laws.The National Poker Challenge has already set up sh...
Louisiana makes arrests regarding BETCHA.COM
Aug 18, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Nicholas Jenkins, owner of Betcha.com, an online site that allows people to place bets for various events, has been arrested. The lawyer has been operating the site f...
Identity Matters
Aug 18, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Online gambling operators with a desire to get the most current and the latest ID verification technology are likely to find all the information they need at a forthc...
Neteller on the Move Again
Aug 17, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
With a sudden US market exit (due to certain .. legal entanglements) and the irritation with the American legal authorities more or less behind them, the Isle of Man ...
15 Percent Remote Gaming Tax For UK Operators
Aug 16, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
When Great Britain revised the Gambling Act of 2005 to allow advertising of gambling companies based in qualifying jurisdictions (the 'white list'), the HMRC ...
Dutch Antilles Determined To Make UK 'White List'
Aug 15, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
When Great Britain's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) released the 'White List', a compilation of all jurisdiction that would be allowed to a...
BetOnSports Founder Kaplan Seeks DOJ Dismissal
Aug 15, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Founder of BetOnSports, Gary Kaplan, was arrested earlier this year in the Dominican Republic and expedited to US soil, where he was intercepted by the FBI and has be...
US DoJ Requesting 2 Week Delay In iMEGA Case
Aug 14, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
A New Jersey federal judge set the hearing date for the iMEGA case for September 4, but it appears the Department of Justice (DoJ) wants more time to comprise a respo...
PartyGaming May Be Turning DoJ's Heads
Aug 14, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
According to a report published in ThisIsMoney.co.uk, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) may be turning their attentions to online gambling operators 88.com and Party...
Online Gambling, HR 2046 Support and Opposition
Aug 14, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Barney Frank has received new opposition to his proposal to regulate online gambling, and ultimately reverse the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
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Gambling Commission Exec Leaves UK For Gibraltar Position
Aug 13, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Key member of the UK Gambling Commission, Director of Operations Phill Brear, will be leaving his post soon for a lead position in Gibraltar. Brear is set to become t...
William Hill Preparing to transfer to Gibraltar
Aug 11, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
William Hill Online casino is preparing for a move from the Dutch Antilles in the Caribbean, to the more online gambling friendly Rock of Gibraltar. The move comes as...
Age Verification VS Online Gambling Ban
Aug 11, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
A group on the pro side of the online gambling debate called, Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative has in a press release outlined opinions brought up at a US...
Another Country Regulating Online Gambling
Aug 11, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
South Africa can be added to the online gambling regulation debate. Proposing a bill that may cause taxation on the poker events and online casinos from the individua...
UK Gambling Act; 'White List' Jurisdictions
Aug 9, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
According to the British Gambling Act, which will cease to allow some forms of public advertising of gambling operators effective September 1, operators in approved j...
DGS and PIC Club Partner To Aid US Players
Aug 9, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Online poker software company Dynamic Gaming Systems (DGS) has announced affiliation with PIC-Club.com, providing payment processing to Internet gamers across the glo...
ChristChurch Online Gambling Operations to Cease.
Aug 9, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The New Zealand Governments Internal Affairs Department is requiring that the Christ church casino close all of their online gambling operations, and any other gambli...
Utah Online Poker Players Receiving Mail
Aug 8, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Letters are being sent to Utah online poker players from state officials warning them that they could be violating state laws.
Utah is among a handful o...
Online Poker for Potholes
Aug 7, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Anthony "Tuff Fish" Sandstrom a regular You Tube user from California received the go ahead from the California Secretary of State to circulate a petition t...
UK Gambling Promotion Restrictions Agreed Upon
Aug 6, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Betting companies will not create children's shirts with sponsorship and logo info and obey an advertising curfew.
The British gambling industry ap...
The British gambling industry ap...
NETELLER Chief Executive Officer says
Aug 5, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
US players get their money and an apology, after the long wait. The Isle of Man based e-wallet Neteller is the in progress of trying to mend the damage to trust that ...
EcoCard Withdraws From the US
Aug 5, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
EcoCard is the most recent e-wallet to withdraw from the U.S., advising its customers that as of Aug. 24 the company will no longer process online-gambling transactio...
Online Gambling, France Faces Legal Challenges
Aug 4, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The latest blow dealt by its own Cour de Cassation, France's top court. In a ruling handed down last month, the court overturned a decision that had previously pr...
Police Impersonators Steal Gambling Machines
Aug 4, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Two men, posturing as police officers, have stolen a number of electronic poker machines from convenience stores across North Texas. They walked into stores, told cas...
California Petition Scantioned local Secratary
Aug 4, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The San Diego Secretary of State's Office announced that it had chosen to give Anthony ‘Tuff Fish' Sandstrom the approval to circulate a petition, Shoul...
Greg Raymer for Vice President
Aug 2, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
When some one in the poker world hears the name Greg ‘Fossilman' Raymer, he is recalled as the 2004 World Series of Poker. His history of entertaining sungl...
Biggest Draw in UK - Online Poker
Aug 1, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The Gambling Commission in the United Kingdom has become aware that online poker is the second most popular method of online gambling in the UK. Online admission on t...
Relieved US players begun receiving long-held funds
Aug 1, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Numerous American online gamblers have had their Neteller accounts frozen since January will have been relieved to at last see their money, as the Isle of Man-based f...
Lee Rousso to Challenge WA State Gambling Ban
Aug 1, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Lee Rousso, the American lawyer and poker player who is challenging Washington state laws against online gambling will have his day in court on September 21.
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William Hill Trading Slow, But Players & Profits Up
Aug 1, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
Popular online gambling operator and telephone sportsbook William Hill revealed recent trading reports that surmised a decrease in trading activity. However, the poke...
Neteller Begins Releasing US Funds Today
Jul 30, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
It's official - in a press release for Monday 30 July, the Isle of Man-based NETeller has established from today US players have access to their accounts to withd...
England's Oxford University Examines Online Gambling
Jul 30, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII), the first multi-disciplinary internet institute to be based from a major university, will be conducting a survey of online g...
Legal Online Poker on The Horizon
Jul 29, 2007
Category: Poker Law / Affairs
On the horizon is a legal way for United States Poker and Gambling player to play online. A new opportunity may be coming for the US poker player. In hopes to reopen ...
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