By Sandra Gaweda · Published September 14, 2026 · 8 min read Sweepstakes Poker Is Running Out of Room If you play sweepstakes poker, your options are shrinking fast. As of fall 2026, sweepstakes casinos face bans or longstanding legal restrictions in more than a dozen US states. Sweepstakes poker
By the Sandra Gaweda · Published September 2, 2026 · 5 min read The LuckyLand Slots shutdown is set for September 14, 2026. Parent company Virtual Gaming Worlds (VGW) is permanently closing the sweepstakes casino. It is the first VGW sweepstakes brand to be shut down outright, with the closure
By Sandra Gaweda · September 1, 2026 · 7 min read New York iGaming Legalization Faces Another Long Wait If you're a New York poker player waiting for legal online games, the wait just got longer. Assemblymember Carrie Woerner (D-Round Lake), who chairs the Assembly committee on racing and gaming,
By Sandra Gaweda. Published August 28, 2026. Estimated read time: 5 minutes. A wave of US sweepstakes and social casino closures hit in August 2026 as state regulators tightened their grip on the dual-currency model. A growing number of US sweepstakes and social casinos shut down in August 2026 as
The mushrooming sportsbetting brand FanDuel is emerging as a potential partner to PokerStars as online poker grows in both popularity and accessibility in the United States. Flutter Entertainment, which owns both companies, is planning a possible merger between FanDuel Poker and the biggest name in poker for the past 25
The withdrawal of FanDuel and Draft Kings from the sportsbook licencees list in Nevada this week shocked many. With two of the United States’ largest sportsbook vendors pulling out of the gambling capital of the world, how will this impact poker, Nevada’s cherished curate’s egg? We’ve looked at the announcement
“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce." ~ Karl Marx The Brink of Catastrophe On Thursday April 14th 2011, the online poker world was on the brink of catastrophe. Online poker operators who had knowingly and wilfully flouted legislation by transacting with US customers were teetering
A bipartisan proposal to legalize online casino gaming in Maine was back before state legislators this week, with supporters projecting tens of millions of dollars in new tax revenue. At the heart of the debate is a provision granting exclusive licensing rights to the Wabanaki Nations. House Bill 1164, reintroduced
History of Online Poker There was a time when online poker rooms operated in a single, open market. But as online play grew in popularity and profitability, government regulation became inevitable. In the U.S., the crackdown on iGaming came swiftly, and it wasn’t until 2012 that Delaware became the first
Exciting news has reached us at Legal US Poker Sites as a new Connecticut Senate Bill, SB 1464, has been proposed in the Constitution State. If passed, the new bill would allow the provision of online poker as part of a multi-jurisdictional compact for the game, with the possibility for
Most online poker legislation appears at the beginning of the calendar year. State lawmakers introduce bills in January or February, and they try to gain committee approval and then floor votes. That is an oversimplification of the process, but the timeline typically starts early in the year. Ohio likes to
The first half of 2024 was a mixed bag for state-licensed and regulated online poker in the United States market. The H1 numbers showed some growth in the poker sector only due to shared liquidity and the recent relaunch of the Caesars/WSOP poker site connecting its New Jersey, Nevada, and
