New Jersey Senator Ray Lesniak has been the state’s strongest proponent of regulated online gambling, and poker in particular. While he praised current Governor Chris Christie’s decision to authorize the activity, he’s often berated his lack of efforts to push…
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Tim Vance hopes to “Live the Dream” again by Bringing PokerStars Back to the USA
Tim Vance is a well-known poker player with an EPT title and $1.5mm in live tournament winnings under his belt. In years past, he made a living by winning online poker satellites at PokerStars that landed him in major competitions…
CA Tracks Respond to Pechanga; PokerStars launches ‘Let California Play’ Pro Tour
The online poker saga in California continues this week. To regulate, or not to regulate? To allow bad actors / tainted assets / race tracks to participate? These are the questions, and although everyone seems to have an answer, very…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: California, law, Let California Play, poker tournaments, PokerStars
Galfond and Tollerene agree High Stakes at Full Tilt getting Tougher
It’s summertime in Sin City, and that means the majority of today’s elite poker pros are in Las Vegas to compete in the World Series of Poker. What better time to wrangle up some big names in the online poker…
California Tribes say PokerStars involvement worthy tradeoff for Racetrack exclusion
For years now, passage of an online poker bill in California has been stalled by disagreements among tribes, card rooms, racetracks and legislators on how the market should be regulated. In particular, the tribes, of which there are more than…
Online Poker Players advised to change passwords after Twitch Hack
Originally designed as an online video gaming streaming service, Twitch became all the rage in the online poker community when popular players started live streaming their virtual poker tables. Now, a recent report of a Twitch hack has got the…
6 California Tribes sign letter opposing Jones-Sawyer internet poker bill AB 167
Online poker fans in California have been asking themselves for years now if an internet poker bill will ever make it to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown. In this legislative period alone, four such measures have been introduced since…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: AB 167, California, online poker, online poker bill, PokerStars, Tribal gaming
Review of the Top 3 Mobile Poker Apps in the UK online poker market
Ten years ago, mobile poker apps were in their nascent stages, lacking so many features that very few online poker players bothered to use them. The same cannot be said of today’s enhanced technological world, where the majority of us…
PokerStars loses Team Pro Joe Cada, severs affiliate ties in cutbacks
For the last decade, PokerStars has been considered the number one online poker room in the world in just about any category one can name. Software, support, promotions, tournaments, game variety, micro-limit to high stakes action; this site has it…