Swedish officials are planning on tightening regulations on online gambling for the Scandinavian country as new legislation are being proposed. These new measures will include a new licensing system which will bring up prohibitions against the illegal operations of online gambling and gambling websites. This is being doneRead Full Article

March 28th, 2018 saw the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling against Churchill Down. This is the former owner of Big Fish Casino which is a social gaming operator. This new decision has proven that social casinos are now illegal under theRead Full Article

Vlogger Andrew Neeme and Poker Central stole the spotlight at the recently concluded American Poker Awards (APA).  The 4th annual APA was the biggest awards ceremony till date and the organizers gave out 20 awards to poker players and media personnel for contributing to the success of poker in 2017.Read Full Article

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has confirmed that they will be introducing two new elements to high-roller events at the 2018 WSOP and the news has received the approval from the majority of poker players. The WSOP confirmed in a tweet last week that the 2018 WSOPRead Full Article

Cryptocurrency continues to make huge strides in online poker as CoinPoker.com gets ready to launch the first stage of its ICO sale tomorrow. In November 2017, the cryptocurrency-based online poker room CoinPoker launched the pre-ICO sale of its CHP (CHiP) tokens, a new cryptocurrency that can be usedRead Full Article

Now that 2017 is done and dusted, the Global Poker Index (GPI) will look back at the poker industry and award the top performers in its annual American Poker Awards. The popular award ceremony is returning for its fourth season to Los Angeles and will take place onRead Full Article

PokerStars, the biggest online poker website in the world recently announced that it will be implementing its successful ‘Seat Me’ system in its shared liquidity network in Europe once the French, Spanish, Italian, and Portugese pools converge in the coming months. Seat Me System Protects New Players PokerStarsRead Full Article

UK based 888Holdings, the parent company of 888poker announced quite a few months earlier that they were making plans to enter the Italian gaming market. Since then, there hasn’t been a lot of news from 888poker regarding their Italian venture. The online poker operator confirmed last week thatRead Full Article

Spain, Italy, France, and Portugal all agreed that they would share European poker player liquidity and signed an agreement to that effect in the middle of 2017. There was no specifications given as to when European shared player liquidity would come into effect but market analysts expected itRead Full Article

The World Poker Fund Holdings Inc (WPFH), a gaming development company that deals with event-based social gaming brands and platforms announces on December 27 that it will be launching its own Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Many companies in 2017 have proceeded with creating their own digital currency andRead Full Article