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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

mlns=" right away look towards regulated online gaming By Howard Stutz At smallest a half-dozen states -- inclusive Nevada -- and the District of Columbia have enacted laws or are considering regulatory changes that would enable a few form of Internet gin rummy inside of their boundaries.States that run lotteries ...

World’s Richest Casino Exec Opposes Online Wagers

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

The opposition comes as other operators, including Caesars EntertainmentCorp. and MGM Resorts International, have backed an industry push to legalizeonline poker and let established casinos offer it in the United States. Poker,which involves elements of skill and luck, has been illegal online for realmoney since a 2006 law forbade operators ...

Stronger Domestic Market Assists In MGM Resorts And Boyd Gaming’s Turnaround

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

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Online Poker Sites Accused Of ‘global Ponzi Scheme’

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

The stakes were raised Tuesday in a Manhattan court's complaint against poker websites, and now those businesses are being accused of something that could get them royally flushed.A U.S. attorney amended the complaint, charging that Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker were running a Ponzi scheme and owed $390 ...

Hundreds Of Dublin Jobs At Risk As Full Tilt Poker Loses Licence

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

ONE OF THE WORLD'S most popular poker websites – which employs over 500 people through various subsidiary companies in Ireland – has had its gambling licence withdrawn.Full Tilt Poker, which was licenced by gambling authorities in Alderney, had its licence withdrawn yesterday after it concluded that the site had misled ...

Full Tilt Poker Website Was Nothing But A Ponzi Scheme Says Federal Investigators

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Because online poker websites were never really "legal" in the United States they went largely unchecked for years, allowing popular website Full Tilt Poker to generate a massive ponzi scheme to the tune of $390 million says federal investigators.According to the Justice Department the site cheated players out of ...

Stakes Are High For On-Line Poker Bill

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Poker can be played in person or on-line. Currently, making money through poker websites in the US is illegal, but Senate Bill 40 would make it legal in California .The bill is authored by California Senator Lou Correa who said legalizing on-line poker would be a massive money-maker for cash-strapped ...

Online Poker Company Ready To Relaunch Licensed US Online Poker Site

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

This is undoubtedly amazing news for Americans who have been scrambling for weeks now to find a quality online poker site that is trusted, licensed and backed by a reputable gaming platform. Since coming into the market several years ago on the Merge Network, Carbon Poker was already one of ...

Online Gambling Advocates Bet On Legal Future In U.S.

Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

WASHINGTON - That's despite a Department of Justice crackdown April 15 on the three largest online poker sites used by Americans for allegedly violating the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. All are offshore providers.Since 2006, it has been illegal to process payments for winnings through U.S. banks.Earlier, law enforcement ...

Online Poker Perspective: Player Fund…

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

One of the primary concerns on and after Black Friday (April 15, 2011) was the ability or lack thereof to withdraw funds from the online poker websites that were forced to abruptly leave the United States and abandon American players. Whether players had hundreds of thousands of dollars or a ...