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News & Updates 27/5/11

May 26 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Maryland Puts A Stop To The Fun The state of Maryland has been flexing its muscles in the past week as no fewer than ten domain names have been seized by the state attorney there.  These include bookmaker.com, 2betsdi.com. funtimebingo.com, goldenarchcasino.com, doylesroom.com, beted.com, betehorse.com, betgrandesports.com, truepoker.com and betmaker.com. Following the naming of April 15th as Black Friday it seems appropriate to call... Read more

News & Updates 23/5/11

May 22 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Nevada Passes Stripped Down Online Gaming Bill For a long time it looked as though Nevada would be the first state to go it alone on online gaming legalisation.  As we all know it eventually got cold feet, deciding that the best option was to wait and see what was happening at a federal level.  Then Black Friday came along and... Read more

News & Updates 13/5/11

May 12 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , ,

WPT Sticks With Bellagio In 2002, The Bellagio staged the first World Poker Tour event, in fact it was the first WPT event anywhere in the world and the decision to hold the championship event at the famous casino resort has been vindicated in the last nine years. Adam Pliska, WPT President has now announced that The Bellagio and the WPT will... Read more

News & Updates 6/5/11

May 5 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , ,

Network Traffic Reports Since Black Friday As various repercussions from the indictments of Black Friday continue to make themselves clear, the network traffic reports from assorted scrutineers give some clue as to how traffic to each of the sites involved had changed. The chart below shows how the biggest losers have been those sites connected to the Cereus Network – that is... Read more

News & Updates 2/5/11

May 2 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , ,

“Black Friday” Arrests Continue Black Friday, as the 15th of April has become known has claimed another victim.  The arrests that followed the indictments of various online poker providers led to the shutting down of those domains in the United States, the seizure of the URLs (now returned) and accusations of protectionism from all concerned. The latest arrest has been Ira Rubin,... Read more

News & Updates 26/4/11

April 25 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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 the methods used to accept deposits from customers. The good news for poker fans is that these legal actions don’t seem to... Read more

News & Updates 19/4/11

April 18 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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 of the world’s biggest online poker providers had been arrested or were being sought after.  PokerStars, Ultimate Bet and Full Tilt... Read more

News Updates 7/4/11

April 6 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , ,

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 Full Tilt Poker. Station Casinos is owned by the Fertitti brothers, serial entrepreneurs and also current majority owners of the Ultimate Fighting... Read more

News & Updates 29/3/11

March 28 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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 state level rather than a federal level. In recent months we have seen a failed attempt by New Jersey to enact an... Read more

News & Update 21/3/11

March 20 | Posted by admin | News Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Sahara Hotel Closing In not totally surprising news, the Sahara Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas is to close it doors on

In Better Days....
May 16th.  It will be a sad day for those who remember the heyday of this pioneer of Las Vegas entertainment but it can no longer compete with the new, giant resorts at the... Read more

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