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News & Updates 26/4/11

Poker Room Indictments - After The Dust Has Settled It’s been slightly more than a week now since some of the biggest providers of online poker in the world were targeted as part of an investigation into fraud relating to … Continue reading

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News & Updates 19/4/11

Online Poker Rooms Shut Down in U.S. You could have missed the snippet of news which emerged late on Friday if you weren’t paying attention. Various agencies reported that a number of American citizens and foreign national connected with some … Continue reading

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News Updates 7/4/11

Station Casinos and Full Tilt Poker the Latest to Announce Link-up Following the recent announcements by Caesar’s Entertainment/888 Holdings and Wynn Resorts/PokerStars, the latest deal to be announced, or at least to be mooted is that between Station Casinos and … Continue reading

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News & Updates 29/3/11

Caesar’s Entertainment/888 Holdings Agree Formal Partnership It seems that every piece of news regarding online poker in the United States seems to point more and more toward an eventual relaxation of the 2006 UIGEA, even if it begins at a … Continue reading

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News & Update 21/3/11

Sahara Hotel Closing In not totally surprising news, the Sahara Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas is to close it doors on May 16th. It will be a sad day for those who remember the heyday of this pioneer of … Continue reading

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News & Updates 4/3/11

New Jersey Gambling Bill Probably Dead New Jersey Governor James ‘Chris’ Christie has made one of the most bizarre decision you’ll ever see in the great state of New Jersey. 4th March was crunch day as far as the bill … Continue reading

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News & Updates 25/2/11

Alleged Conman Redistributes Wealth An alleged conman,who managed to swindle an astonishing $275 million from unsuspecting internet users has redistributed his ill gotten gains in an unusual way. Jeremy Johnson, a Utah resident was actually ordered by the Federal Trade … Continue reading

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News & Updates 21/2/11

UIGEA Clinging On…. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was brought in in 2006 to stop online gambling under the guise of protesting U.S. citizens from the horrors of having a small bet every now and then but really it … Continue reading

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