online poker Archive

The Australian government is all-but guaranteed to pass an amendment that would formally prohibit online casinos and poker sites from accepting Aussies. The push for gambling reform has been heavy since the new government came into office, and it looked as if nothing could stop them. Except maybe a strain of multi-million dollar lawsuits....

In Australia, online gambling laws have been on the books for the last 15 years. But those laws don’t make it illegal to play online poker and casino games over the internet. They are just strict enough to keep offshore operators in line, threatening (arguably unenforceable) criminal pursuit if they don’t supply a genuine...

Any good internet card player will tell you, to make money, you need a good online poker strategy. The same could be said of Europe’s ring-fenced markets in France, Italy and Spain, where operators would love to see more of a profit – or any profit at all, in some cases – but they...

On January 1, 2016, the PokerStars VIP Club was abruptly altered in such a way that high-stakes online poker players – the pro and semi-pro variety – got a lot less bang for their buck. The company’s transition to accommodating recreational players was not taken well by the higher status tiers, and chances are...

2016 was supposed to be the year – the year an online poker bill had a real chance of making it’s way through the Assembly, past the Senate, and into the home’s of Californians as a legally, state regulated activity. While probabilities certainly seemed higher than in past years, thanks to new developments last...

PokerStars finds itself in hot water yet again this week as a professional poker player has filed a lawsuit against the online poker operator’s parent, Amaya Services Ltd, for fraud, copyright infringement and other accusations stemming from the company’s alleged theft of the International Poker Rules. Marcel Luske, aka the ‘Flying Dutchman‘, is widely...

There’s no better feeling than to make the bubble of the World Series of Poker Main Event Championship… unless you’ve made it into the final 27 – the final three tables – which is where we are now with the 2016 WSOP No Limit Holdem Championship. I’m proud to have just spoken with one...

There was certainly much to be discussed at Tuesday’s scheduled Amaya Shareholder Meeting, and while the bulk of that discussion has been kept confidential, it was at least divulged that there is more than one bidder looking to take over Amaya Gaming and all of its subsidiaries, including online poker giant, PokerStars. For months now,...

House politicians in Pennsylvania made it abundantly clear yesterday that they have no desire to see gambling expanded throughout the state via the installment of slot machines at bars, taverns or volunteer fire houses. With that particular amendment dejected, the House immediately approved the combination of the daily fantasy sports bill with an amendment to...

Since late 2013, the Borgata Casino Resort has been striving to build a stellar reputation for its New Jersey online poker operation – one to matches its longstanding supremacy as the ‘Live poker king of Atlantic City‘. It was a relatively easy task for more than two years, right up until PokerStars NJ launched in...