Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Federal prosecutors may have cracked opened the door for individual U.S. states to operate Internet poker websites without Congress passing online poker legislation.At least a half-dozen states -- including Nevada -- and the District of Columbia have enacted laws or are contemplating regulatory changes that would allow some form of ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Ah, the holidays. If you're a poker player, the Justice Department has given you a pretty nifty gift in the way of this little-noticed legal memorandum made public Friday.In a nutshell, the department's Office of Legal Counsel has determined that the Federal Wire Act, the 1961 law that had been ...
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
A small Utah bank tied to a Las Vegas fraud lawsuit and Aprils Internet poker crackdown failed on Friday.SunFirst Bank in St. George, Utah, was closed by the Utah Department of Financial Institutions, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as receiver.The FDIC said it arranged for Cache Valley Bank, ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
You can thank the federal government's crackdown on Internet poker sites for bringing Chris Moneymaker to Erie.Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champion, is the resident celebrity for Presque Isle Downs & Casino's new poker room. He was in town Saturday to officially open the room by ...
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Saturday, September 17th, 2011
State Rep. Dan Winslow (R-Norfolk) filed an amendment on Friday to the Massachusetts gaming legislation to allow for Internet poker. Under his plan, if approved, the state would be the first in the U.S. to regulate Internet poker and would tap into a significant revenue source, Winslow said. The South Walpole representative ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
July 27 2011 , Matthew Kredell New Jersey State Sen. Raymond Lesniak took offense to the letter from U.S. Senators Harry Reid and Jon Kyl that asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to reiterate the Department of Justice's stance that intrastate online gambling is illegal under federal law.Lesniak, ...
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian ( contact )Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:55 a.m.Last week, Texas Rep. Joe Barton officially unveiled the Internet poker bill gamblers across the country have been waiting for, but its a safe bet that the documents going to go through some serious changes before skeptics and even ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
If anything positive has arisen in the three months since federal prosecutors imploded the Internet poker world, it's that the subject is no longer taboo.A few members of Congress -- Democrats and Republicans -- support legalizing and regulating Internet poker. The Poker Players Alliance, a nonprofit Washington, D.C., advocacy organization, ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Though there remains some uncertainty about the legality of playing online poker throughout the United States, it is legal, and thriving, in Britain and Ireland. By legally permitting poker games to be played online, the opportunity for big wins is evidently there, as well as affording a chance for players ...
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