online poker Archive

Imagine walking into the store to purchase your favorite brand of coffee – as you always do – and finding the price has marginally increased. What do you do? You have only two choices. You can purchase the coffee at the increased price, willing to pay a bit more for your preferred brand, or...

PokerStars and its throng of high-stakes grinders haven’t been on the best of terms lately. A series of strikes were recently invoked by grinders who aren’t pleased with new changes to the VIP program, and now it seems the operator may be overstepping its bounds in an attempt to weed out bots. A lot...

2013 was a tremendous year for online poker in the US. Three states regulated the activity and launched internet poker rooms. As this fledgling industry prepares to enter its fourth year of operation, we’ll take a look at what 2015 did, and didn’t do, for US online poker. The markets in question are, of...

For years, advocates of online poker have argued that the game should be perfectly legal due to it’s being a ‘game of skill’. The majority of lawmakers in the US have failed to agree, maintaining its legal categorization as “gambling”. Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) has been declared a game of skill (although that may...

Last Wednesday, another hearing was held in New York to discuss the regulation of online poker. Hosted by Senator John Bonacic, Chairman of the Senate Racing, Wagering and Gaming Committee, testimony was heard from both sides of the argument, rehashing the usual pros and cons of internet gambling regulation. Sen. Bonacic [R-Middletown], the state’s...