As reported by the The Street, the founders of three of the largest online poker sites operating in the United States were indicted by federal authorities Friday with charges including: bank fraud, money laundering and charges for illegal gambling activities. The United States Attorney’s Office of Southern New York also filed a multi-billion dollar civil [...]
Apr 15 2011 | Posted in
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In January 2011 Rep. Joseph Abruzzo, D-Wellington, filed HB 77, which proposed intrastate online poker for Florida, with horse and dog tracks offering portals to online poker rooms. The state of Florida was to receive 10 percent of the revenues. But the companion bill, sponsored by Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami, died in [...]
Apr 14 2011 | Posted in
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In a New York federal court, more than 13 million dollars was forfeited by Ahmad Khawaja who is the owner of two payment processors, Allied Wallet and Allied Systems which both have ties to Pokerstars and was seized by federal authorities in June of last year. Based on information obtained through court documents, Pokerstars and [...]
Mar 23 2011 | Posted in
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Just when the pro-gambling part of the world were looking forward to the new legislation that was going to legalize intrastate poker in the US, a move considered by many the beginning of a new era in online gambling for the country, – the DOJ shut down the websites, frozen accounts and issued arrest warrants [...]
Mar 17 2011 | Posted in
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Poker home games have always been a popular choice among friends who want to have fun and spend some time together playing poker. Due to the popularity of poker home games there are now a number of websites who offer people the chance to create their own private poker clubs. One such website is PokerStars. [...]
Jan 24 2011 | Posted in
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Members of the online gaming industry were anxiously awaiting Senator Harry Reid in Nevada was going to prevail over the tea-party backed Sharron Angle in the November elections. Harry Reid has been a big supporter of legalizing the online poker and with his reelection, the legalization of online poker took a giant leap forward. As [...]
Dec 21 2010 | Posted in
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As of late, Cereus Network seems to have an affinity for serious problems. In the past, they have had issues with network security and bugs and now the Keno game on Absolute Poker has a not-so-random random number generator. The browser-based Keno client, Traditional Keno, has had its extremely flawed RNG exposed through some investigative [...]
Nov 15 2010 | Posted in
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The bad news keeps rolling in for online poker players in the United States. The bad news this time is for players from Washington State. It was only about two months ago that the Washington Supreme Court knocked down a challenge to the law that makes playing online poker a class C felony. Now, an [...]
Nov 5 2010 | Posted in
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Over the past few years, the topic of bots and botting in the online poker industry has been brought up time and time again by players from all over the world. With the technology available to create computer programs operating on complex algorithms, the ability the create poker bots has existed but some have doubted [...]
Oct 7 2010 | Posted in
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It has truly been a roller coaster ride for Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi. Mizrachi had been toiling in relative obscurity before he exploded onto the world stage in 2005 with a record breaking World Series of Poker. Since that time, things have gone from good to better to big problems and back to success in [...]
Jul 27 2010 | Posted in
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