It took just one month for the first lawsuit to be filed after the latest Wire Act opinion was made public. The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel revealed the full opinion on January 15, 2019. And one month to the day, the first lawsuit is on the books.
The crew at PokerStars has been busy in the new year. The year started on the highest of notes with the historic PokerStars Players NLHE Championship – PSPC – that endeared players to the site for its efforts to bring hundreds of players into the massive event. The tournament, along
A new year is often a chance to start fresh, to makes changes for the better, to improve from the past year. New Jersey’s internet gaming business made those resolutions for 2019, but it wasn’t evident if the online poker segment would hold up its end of the deal. Online
The World Series of Poker information train has been on the tracks since before Christmas of 2018, steadily stopping about once per week to drop bits of information about the upcoming 50th Anniversary World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Whether the press releases contain dates and details for tournaments
It’s been less than a year since the sports betting world opened up to every state in America. The US Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in May 2018, courtesy of a years-long court battle initiated by the state of New Jersey pushing for the
The last few years of legislative activity in West Virginia have produced a handful of bills pertaining to gambling and online wagering, but none were brought to committees for serious discussion. It looks like 2019 could be a very different story. With two weeks of the start of 2019, West
Less than one week after two members of Team PokerStars – Jaime Staples and Jeff Gross – left the roster, PokerStars announced a new addition to the team. The new Team PokerStars Pro is none other than Ramon Colillas, the winner of the inaugural PSPC in the Bahamas. It is
The start of the new year has brought some changes for PartyPoker in an effort to attract more players of all stripes and levels of play. The beginning of February saw the launches of two new ways to accomplish that goal. For pros and grinders, PartyPoker added a new top-tier
After a very successful PCA in the Bahamas to kick off 2019, PokerStars is preparing for its next big live poker tournament festival. It’s a familiar one to many in poker, as it used to be the grand finale of each season’s European Poker Tour. While the EPT is not
In previous lists of states most likely to consider legalizing online poker, Kentucky was omitted. Not only was it a state that feared any competition for its horse racing industry, Kentucky was at the center of a years-long battle with online gaming companies. Then-Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear had been so
The World Series of Poker offices have been busy over the past few months setting up the entirety of WSOP offerings for 2019. And they’ve been releasing their decisions in neat packages since just before Christmas 2018, each announcement revealing more about the 50th Anniversary World Series of Poker in
The state of New York and its journey with online poker has been a confusing and disappointing one thus far, and the path it takes in 2019 seems it will remain so. In just a few weeks of a new year, a new online poker supporter emerged in the New
