After one of the longest, most expensive and bitterly fought national elections in US history, the dust is settling on a political landscape that could be quite friendly to the gaming industry. If you're still sorting the results, celebrating, or nursing a broken heart, here's what you need to know about the outcome of the…
The day many in the online poker world thought would never come has finally arrived, the Full Tilt Poker (FTP) is finally a reality. FTP's resurrection is welcome news for players whose accounts were frozen on Black Friday. According to a press release on the company's site, somewhere around $184 million in player account cash…
[caption id="attachment_29204" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="New Full Tilt Is Back In Action"][/caption] After the long wait, Full Tilt Poker is officially back online and players from everywhere will be able to access their accounts and use play money. The newly redesigned web site is up with the traditional black and red branding elements players know so…
[caption id="attachment_29142" align="alignright" width="205" caption="FTP affiliates get nothing, not even this sweet FTP hoodie."][/caption] Six days ahead of its relaunch, Full Tilt Poker seems dead set on alienating its former affiliate partners. In the latest twist on this story, PokerStrategy.com is claiming that FTP won't be tracking the nearly half million players they've sent to…
Merge Gaming is canceling the practice of player to player (P2P) chip transfers effective November 1. Though no official reason was given, a report on 4flush.com said the move was made to combat a thriving market in, for-profit, chip sales and transfers; and possibly by the launch of Carbon Sports Brokering chip transfers from US players…
Boyd Gaming, Golden Nugget and Feritta Interactive LLC are the latest gaming companies to receive interactive gaming licenses from the Nevada Gaming Commission.Though all three companies are going after the Nevada market, they're all taking different approaches. Ferritta is already in the internet poker space with their popular Ultimate Poker game on Facebook, which was…
Nevada lawmakers Harry Reid and John Kyl have removed language penalizing poker players who deposit in unlicensed sites from the latest draft of their online poker bill. The unpopular provision, which stated: To deter U.S. players from patronizing illegal sites, the bill makes explicit that any property involved in or traceable to a gambling transaction…
[caption id="attachment_28602" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Jeremy Enke, pre-UIGEA"][/caption] In my last article of this series, I spoke about "The Good Old Days of Online Poker." To those fortunate enough to be in the industry during this period, they would agree that these were indeed VERY good old days. How could you not like it when $300+…
Pafpartners is joining the Microgaming Poker Network, joining a rapidly growing list of big names making the big move. In an interview with EGR, company officials were quick to point that Micrograming is an addition to their other poker network options, not a replacement for them: The contract with Microgaming is not a replacement for…
Full Tilt Poker will not be honoring payments to affiliates or tracking players to them when the site goes back online in November. The long awaited decision on affiliate money came in an e-mail from the Rational Group (the parent company of new FTP owner PokerStars). So why did affiliates get left out of the…
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