The oncoming legalization of online poker charges ahead this week with more lawmakers “seeing the light� or at least the potential revenue dollars that online gambling could add to state coffers.
Read More . . .Congressmen John Campbell and Barney Frank have pledged support for a potential rival online poker bill from Texas Republican Joe Barton.
Read More . . .On most issues, Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, and Nevada’s Democratic Sen. Harry Reid are thorns in each other’s sides.
Read More . . .We have been too optimistic in estimating how long it would take to sort through the issues we have faced since Black Friday.
Read More . . .Politicians are trying to legalize online poker. Prosecutors are trying to shut it down. Neither is succeeding.
Read More . . .Governor Terry Branstad signed a gambling bill today that could lead to the legalization of intrastate online poker in Iowa – eventually.
Read More . . .The United States Department of Justice has unfrozen one Irish account belonging to Full Tilt Poker (FTP) and its co-founder Raymond Bitar.
Read More . . .The BetED sportsbook has become the first US-facing gambling business forced to close its doors as a result of US prosecutors’ ongoing clampdown of offshore gambling sites.
Read More . . .Joe Barton is planning to soon introduce online poker legislation, in an effort to pass such a bill this legislative session.
Read More . . .Federal prosecutors in Baltimore have seized the Internet domain names of 10 gaming web sites, including the online home of DoylesRoom.
Read More . . .Two Internet gambling businesses and their international owners were indicted by a Maryland federal grand jury as part of a lengthy, undercover investigation, details of which were released Monday after 11 associated bank accounts were seized in five countries and 10 Web domain names were shut down...
Correa, a California Senator, has amended his California bill SB40 in an extra effort to have the state “quickly secure potential online poker revenues.
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