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Black Friday Indicted Pleads Guilty
Bradley Franzen, one of the 11 people charged last month in the case that shut down U.S. operations for Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, pleaded guilty Monday in Manhattan federal court,...
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DoylesRoom and 9 Other Domains Seized
Earlier today it was announced that a federal grand jury returned indictments charging two gambling businesses and three defendants with conducting an illegal gambling business and money laundering....
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Ten More Online Gambling Sites Shut Down
The US government is at it again. If you thought Black Friday on Friday, April 15, 2011 was the end of the Department of Justice’s indictments against online gambling sites operating illegally within...
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How Did Black Friday Happen Anyway? Daniel Tzvetkoff: FBI Rat.
If you’re sitting there scratching your head like we were about how the FBI could have built its case strongly enough to get the DOJ to issue those warrants that forced the shutdown of three of the...
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Maryland Police Department Celebrating Online Poker Seizure
A local police department in Maryland is celebrating after participating in a federal sting operation which shut down major internet gambling operations. The Anne Arundel Police Department received a...
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US Online Gambling Laws Show Progress
We are all familiar with the real estate saying “Location, Location, Location” with legislation the saying is “Timing, Timing, Timing”. Will this be the right timing for the legalization, licensing,...
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Senators Reid and Kyl Send Letter to the US DoJ
Leaders of the Democratic and Republican Parties in the Senate have sent the U.S. Attorney General a letter demanding that the Justice Department do something about Internet gambling. What, exactly,...
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From Land Based to Online Poker
The question is not if, but when: What will happen when the biggest land-based gaming companies start competing for real on the Internet? We already know the answer, from looking at what has happened...
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Politics and Gaming
It is said that politics makes strange bedfellows. That has always been true for opponents of expanded legal gambling. In 1998, Don Siegelman was elected governor of Alabama, one of only two Democrats...
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California’s Unnecessary Delay
On August 22, 2011, California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg sent a letter announcing that the bills to legalize intra-state Internet poker would not be voted on this year. The...
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Wall Street Analysis Bodes Poorly For Legal Online Poker in the U.S.
Last Friday, a Wall Street analyst stated that, based on current events, he saw little likelihood that the U.S. Congress would address the issue of legalizing online poker and other forms of online...
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Delaware Legalizes Online Poker
Last Thursday, July 5, 2012, Delaware became the 1st U.S. state to enact legislation legalizing online poker and other forms on online casino gambling within its states borders. Nevada was actually...
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New York Federal Judge Rules Poker Game of Skill
A New York federal judge ostensibly ending the long raging argument over whether poker is a game of luck or a game of skill. Of course the honest answer is Both, but the question remains of which...
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PPA Offers Suggestions On Latest U.S. Poker Bill
The latest U.S. poker bill that will be considered by Congress at some point presumably in the next session is nicknamed the Reid-Kyl bill, after its coauthors Senators Harry Reid, a Democrat, and Jon...
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Washington Online Poker Bill Dead For Year
Washington poker players were disappointed this week to learn that the latest bill aiming to legalize and regulate online poker has died in committee. The announcement came from the bill’s sponsor,...
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Kansas Online Poker Ban Fails to Pass Senate
The effort to legalize online poker intrastate in Kansas has won another small victory as a recent gambling expansion bill that included a stipulation banning online poker and other online gambling...
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Latest U.S. Legal Online Poker Bill Viewed With Mixed Promise In Congress
The latest salvo in the battle to pass legal online poker in the U.S. Congress comes in the form of a bill called the Internet Poker Freedom Act of 2013 sponsored by Representative Joe Barton of Texas...
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New U.S. Online Poker Push Rumored
Rumors are now circulating in the press that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is getting ready to once again roll out legislation making online poker legal in these United States. This rumor...
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New California Poker Bill Introduced Weeks Before Session’s End
With just three weeks to go before the end of this session of the California state congress, new online poker legislation has just been introduced. The new bill will make online poker legal within the...
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The Face of Online Poker’s New Self-Appointed Enemy: Sheldon Adelson
Sheldon Adelson has evidently appointed himself the new crusader against the legal U.S. online poker revolution. Even as New Jersey gets ready for the “soft” launch of its legal online poker...
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