PartyPoker is banning the use seating scripts and anonymizing player hand histories in a effort to make their products more appealing to mainstream players. The company is just the latest online poker operator to embrace these changes in their ecosystem, most likely, won't be the last. The new policies are set to go into effect…
Financial regulators probing into irregularities at Amaya Gaming have uncovered what they say is evidence of a complex kickback scheme dating back more than half a decade. If found to be true, the new information could prove to be very bad news for former Amaya Gaming CEO David Baazov. Baazov has been charged with multiple…
California's slow march towards regulated online poker continued this week with a proposed 5-year ban on bad actors, such as PokerStars, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The amendment was added to AB 2863 earlier this week by the bill's sponsor, Assemblyman Adam Gray (D-Merced). Representative Gray's proposal would prevent any operator…
Dutch poker star Marcel Luske is suing online poker giant, PokerStars in a dispute over who actually owns the rules to poker. The suit, which was filed in Nevada, alleges "fraud and/or misrepresentation" by the poker giant in their use of Luske's publication, International Poker Rules. Luske, who is one of poker's biggest stars, has long…
The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma is delaying the launch of its PokerTribe.com site for at least two and a half months. News of the delay came on the same day the site was set to become the first regulated poker site in the US to be run by tribal gaming interests. According to a release…
Amaya Gaming is pulled a page out of the modern business playbook this week when it eliminated dozens of jobs from its London office. The company says the mass layoff was merely an effort to increase efficiency, and profits, by eliminating redundancies. Workers at Amaya Gaming's London office got the bad news on Friday, according…
New Jersey's growing online poker market could be in a for a major shot in the arm if a proposal to share liquidity with the UK market comes to pass. It's an audacious plan that faces some significant regulatory hurdles before becoming a reality. On its face, the plan is pretty simple. Players from New…
PokerStars is shutting down its real money online poker operation in Israel. The said the closure was the result of a, "commercial assessment," but didn't offer much more in the way of details. Israeli players were notified of the decision last week in an e-mail which read, in part: Our management team regularly reviews our…
Disgraced and controversial poker player Chris Ferguson surprised the poker world by making an appearance at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas this weekend. Ferguson, who played a major role in the events leading to the 2011 collapse of the US-facing online poker industry (a.k.a. Black Friday). Besides being the target of…
Pennsylvania lawmakers have killed a bill that would have legalized Keystone State online poker in a vote of 107 to 81, but that might not be the end of the story. In a chaotic turn of events, those same lawmakers turned around and immediately voted to reconsider the bill at a later date. The confusion…
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