The Friday before Christmas was an historic day for internet gambling - hot on the heels of Nevada regulators approving internet poker regulations (see previous reports), the US Department of Justice radically changed its long-held and damaging opinion that online gambling in general falls under the provisions of the dated Wire Act 1961.
That stubbornly held opinion formed the basis for a number of dubious but effective DoJ intimidatory threats and actions over the past decade.
Full Story: U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CHANGES STANCE ON INTERNET GAMBLING
Thursday's meeting in Las Vegas of the Nevada Gaming Control Board (see previous report) produced a positive outcome for intrastate online poker in the gambling state when Board members voted unanimously to adopt the regulations drawn up by the Nevada Gaming Commission.
The new regulations, drawn up on the orders of the Nevada Legislature earlier this year, are the first comprehensive regulatory standards for online poker in the U.S and could form the basis for legal test cases as …
Full Story: NEVADA GAMING CONTROL BOARD SIGNS OFF ON INTERNET POKER REGS
The Cereus Poker network and its parent group Blanca Gaming have been severely impacted by the Black Friday enforcement actions of federal authorities in the United States (see previous reports) but may be about to pay owed players….the snag is, it may only be a small proportion of what is actually owed.
Insider revelations were carried on the respected PocktFives online poker information site as the week closed, claiming that Cereus mainstays UBPoker and Absolute Poker could be about to pay …
Full Story: CEREUS POKER PLAYERS MIGHT BE PAID…BUT NOT MUCH
Switch Poker.com announced the launch of its real money poker app for Android mobile devices this week, an offering that includes a capability to view multiple tables on-screen, making multi-tabling easier and faster.
The app allows users to 'swipe' between tables in order to easily and quickly move from table to table when multi-tabling on small devices.
Full Story: SWITCH POKER LAUNCHES ANDROID APP
Working through the Ongame internet poker network, the Nordic-focused online poker operator Bet24 has widened its offering by going mobile.
The company's poker manager, Lars Kollind, said that mobile poker has a great future and that his company intended to be part of it.
Full Story: BET24 NOW MOBILE THROUGH ONGAME PLATFORM
The Spanish online gambling information site Opergame.com reports that the Icelandic sports betting software developer Parspro has signed an agreement to provide its ppTOTO fully automated sportsbook solution to Spanish gaming operator CIRSA. The platform includes a live betting client and a mobile offering for both pre-match and in-running events.
Parspro joins quality software companies like Microgaming and Betware as CIRSA gambling software suppliers.
Full Story: PARSPRO TO SUPPLY SPORTS BETTING PLATFORM TO CIRSA
One of the pioneer online poker brands, Poker Room, could be about to stage a comeback after an absence of three years, if a tweet from a Bwin search engine optimisation specialist this week is to be believed.
Bwin’s SEO manager Josef RantamÀki, tweeted, presumably in a tease marketing move: “Wow! www.pokerroom.com will be relaunched and once again offer real money poker games."
Full Story: IS POKER ROOM BRAND ABOUT TO STAGE A COMEBACK?
More detail has emerged on the burglary at World Series of Poker champion Jonathan Duhamel's Montreal home earlier this week (see previous report) in which the Quebec poker ace was tied up, threatened with death and beaten by the robbers.
Duhamel has revealed that among the burglars' spoils was his 2010 WSOP main event winner's bracelet, several Euro 500 bank notes and a black Rolex Submariner watch.
Full Story: LATEST ON POKER CHAMP’S BURGLARY ORDEAL
The director of the Washington DC Lottery, Buddy Roogow, says that most of the city residents who spoke at the lottery's nine consultative briefings around the city recently voiced support for the introduction of carefully regulated online gambling.
Roogow makes the claim in his report on the information initiative, designed to sample the reactions of residents following the passage earlier this year of a city law empowering the lottery to operate limited online gambling activity …
Full Story: WASHINGTON DC LOTTERY REPORT ON INTERNET GAMBLING READY
The acquisition by US land gambling giant Caesars Entertainment of 51 percent of Israeli internet social games developer Playtika in May this year (see previous reports) has been followed by the news that the American corporate has snapped up the remaining 49 percent of the company, lifting its internet gaming technical capability.
The Israeli business press reported on the move to secure the rest of the remarkable eighteen-month-old company this week, commenting that it is valued at around …
Full Story: CAESARS ACQUIRES THE REMAINING 49 PERCENT OF ISRAELI GAMES DEVELOPER