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Casinos Propose Online Poker Deal with California

 

A new proposal by a casino group to tempt lawmakers in California into licensing intrastate online poker offers the state hundreds of millions in annual revenue. A consortium of casinos and gambling operators is making a new proposal to sweeten the pot for California if the state will license them to run intrastate online poker...

Florida Resident Held for Processing Internet Poker Payments

 

A German citizen is being held without bail in Florida for funneling payments to Internet poker players, with amounts reaching many millions of dollars. A German citizen living in Naples, Florida, is being held without bond by federal authorities who say he violated money-laundering laws in processing payments to Internet poker players. Michael Olaf Schuett is...

Jay-Z Caught Up in Federal Inquiry into Aqueduct Casino Award

 

The investigation by federal authorities into New York Governor David Paterson’s ruling on the Aqueduct casino operational license threatens to pull entertainment star Jay-Z into the mess. The decision by New York Governor David Paterson to grant operational control of the Aqueduct casino project to Aqueduct Entertainment Group has reportedly drawn a federal investigation. Now...

Online Poker Rooms

 

The most popular game, some would say, sport, in the world is online poker. Estimates from 2006 are that more than 50 million poker players worldwide signed on to the Internet to play at least one hand of real money online poker. The numbers in 2007 hardly declined, even though the United States passed a...

Tribal Casino Operators Give Up on Intrastate Online Poker

 

A movement to join tribal casinos and land-based poker rooms in support of California’s intrastate online poker bill has fallen apart as some tribes say caution is needed regarding legal status of existing gaming compacts. California has been a leader in the push to sidestep ridiculous federal legislation and legalize intrastate online poker, only to find...

Lawsuit Accuses Online Poker Room Full Tilt of Basing in US

 

Full Tilt, one of the most popular Internet poker operators, is being sued in California for supposedly using software bots disguised as players to win hands on the site, and for accusing legitimate players of operating as bots themselves. An online poker player has filed a lawsuit against operator Full Tilt, in which the company is...

California to Hold Online Gambling Hearings in February

 

A state senate committee in California will begin hearings in February to examine the options available for intrastate online poker. A California state senator says his committee will hold hearings in February to consider intrastate online poker. Roderick Wright, the chairman of the Governmental Organization Committee, which handles gambling legislation, said the revived subject of...

Vegas1Casino.Com Sets Online Poker Record

 

  Breaking a record set this past summer Vegas1Casino.Com, the online Casino & poker operator, held the largest poker tournament ever on December 28th. Authenticated by the Guinness Book of World Records, the event hosted 149,196 players. http://www.vegas1casino.com Vegas1Casino.Com had set the previous record with an online poker tournament in July, featuring over 65,000 players. This marks the third time...

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