Posted by Carolyn on Dec 04, 2017 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) released a report detailing the performance of its online gambling industry for the fiscal (April 16 – March 17) which showed that online poker in the UK is struggling to compete with sports betting and online slots. This does not come as aRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Nov 29, 2017 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Pennsylvania made headlines in the online gambling community this October, when it became the fourth state in the country to legalize online gambling. Pennsylvania now joins Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware as being the only four states in America to offer legalized online gambling. Gaming analysts estimate thatRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Nov 28, 2017 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Autorité de régulation des jeux en ligne (ARJEL), the French gaming regulator has called on its Italian counter-part to continue with its hustle and get things in place so that the shared liquidity agreement can proceed as per plan. Spain, Italy, France and Portugal started discussing the possibilityRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Nov 19, 2017 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Partypoker had a goal to restablish its brand and become a major force in the online poker market two years ago and has done exactly that by rolling out a number of changes in recent months that has made the online poker room extremely popular with its players.Read Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Nov 16, 2017 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

The state of Pennsylvania is ranked in 5th place in terms of population based on the 2017 World Population Review with 12.8 million residents and online gaming operators are looking forward to enter the Keystone stake as Pennsylvania only recently lifted the ban on online gambling and joined Nevada, Delaware andRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Nov 15, 2017 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Canadian based Stars Group which is the parent company of PokerStars released its third quarter results for the year which proved to be very strong. The company had an increase of $329.4 million in revenues which was a 22 percent year on year increase and saw EBITDA goRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Nov 03, 2017 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

An online poker player at partypoker who plays under the handle of DukeOfSuffolk used the popular TwoPlusTwo poker forum to highlight his concerns about high stakes games being manipulated by a group of players who colluded to gain an unfair advantage. The poster states that for the lastRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Nov 01, 2017 Posted in Interviews, Poker Industry News | No Comments »

India’s President, Ram Nath Kovind  will be honoring female poker pro Muskan Sethi sometime in November. She will be receiving this honor at a ceremony along with 99 other women who have been handpicked as special achievers for their accomplishments in various male-dominated fields. Sethi Recognized ForBeing PioneeringRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Oct 28, 2017 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Online gaming lobbyists such as the Pokers Players Alliance (PPA) have campaigned for years to get online gambling approved in Pennsylvania. Their efforts finally paid off last week when Pennsylvania decided to legalize iGaming bill H 271 after legislators were able to reach a mutual agreement after aRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Oct 25, 2017 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The online poker industry was one of the first industries to embrace Bitcoin – the most popular cryptocurrency. Americas Cardroom which is a popular online poker room started accepting Bitcoins in 2015 and has seen a good number of poker players from all over the world use theRead Full Article