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Australia May Be Set to Legalize Online Poker
Oct 28, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, Online Poker
It is mostly seen that online poker scandals are focused in the US. However, down in the Southern Hemisphere, Australian players have been fighting with a law since 2001 where the Interactive Gambling Act made it illegal for companies to offer real ...
Full Tilt Poker Sued Over Bot Use
Oct 7, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Full Tilt Poker, FullTiltPoker.com, Legal
Full title poker has been handled over a third law suit, with legal action pending on previous two from former pro Clonie Gowen and former employee Jason “JDN” Newitt. This time the site has been sued by a customer rather than a person with inside ...
Menendez to Introduce Online Poker Skill Game Bill in Senate Today
Aug 7, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, online gambling, Online Poker, UIGEA
It seems like the poker players’ waiting period has finally come to an end with the Sen. will introduction of a bill today in the Senate by the Sen. Robert Mendez (D-NJ), in order to regulate and tax Online Poker and other "games of skill," ...
Senate Online Casino Bill to Mirror Barney Frank Measures
Jul 22, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Barney Frank, Legal, online gambling, Online Poker, poker player alliance, Poker Player's Alliance, PPA, UIGEA
The recent Online Casino scandal has created quite a jiff in the gambling world. Rceently it has been discovered that Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey is preparing a bill to bring online casino regulation to the Senate. Acoording to PPA head ...
US Online Poker Players Are Cautious
Jul 20, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: BetFair.com, Legal, UIGEA, Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
The recent action taken by the US attorney officials to ban Internet poker gambling casinos as well as the regulations of the US Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act seems to be sidelined or either not taken notice of by poker players. However ...
PPA Poker Petition Over 300,000 Signatures
Jul 19, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, PocketFives.com, poker player alliance, Poker Player's Alliance, pokerplayersalliance.com, PPA, UIGEA
The Poker Players Alliance petition for the legalization and regulation of online poker has reached 300,000 signatures and its aiming for half-million before the petition is handed to President Barack Obama. The PPA is now just a few days away from ...
Company seeks return of seized poker winnings
Jul 16, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Barney Frank, Legal, poker player alliance, Poker Player's Alliance, pokerplayersalliance.com, PPA
Recently the federal government seized $14 million form a payment processing company which deals with accounts of online poker players. Now the company wants the money back along with a judge to help them through. Therefore Account Services Corp. of ...
Barney Frank says Online Gambling a Right
Jul 8, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Barney Frank, Legal, UIGEA
Be it online poker or any other form of gambling, it is surely going through a hard time. Not very long ago Online Poker had been criticized for being unlawful, by the government and this had created havoc in the world of online gambling and poker ...
Online Poker Advocates Claim Seizure of Accounts
Jul 7, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, PartyGaming, poker player alliance, Poker Player's Alliance, PPA, UIGEA
In the midst of the internet gambling scandal the government has frozen more than $30 million in payouts affecting thousands of players. The Poker Players Alliance released a statement on Tuesday claiming that the U.S. attorney for the Southern ...
Barney Frank Legal Online Poker Bill Delayed
Jul 4, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, Party Poker, partypoker.com, UIGEA
In the world of online poker and gambling, much to everyone’s dismay the long awaited anti-UIGEA bill by Barney Frank’ has been delayed. Internet poker players in the U.S. and online gambling companies around the world are still recovering from ...
Online Poker No Game To Justice Department
Jul 3, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, poker player alliance, Poker Player's Alliance, PPA, UIGEA
When you think of online poker, the first thing that comes to your mind is tons of money. However everything seems good from far and you see reality only when you actually jump into things. Here is a similar case which may seem shocking to certain ...
No Budget Cuts for Online Poker in California
Jun 30, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, Online Poker, UIGEA
After the US state rejected an $11bn tranche of cuts designed to ease its projected $25bn budget crisis, online poker in California has come another step closer. The legalization of intrastate poker in California as a source of tax revenue, which ...
PPA Online Poker Petition pushed by PokerStars
Jun 25, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, poker player alliance, Poker Player's Alliance, Poker Stars, Poker Stars.com, pokerplayersalliance.com, Pokerstars.com, PPA, UIGEA
PokerStars has an innovative way to support National Poker Week (July 19-26), a drive by the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) encouraging supporters to send messages to the President and Congress backing Barney Frank's initiatives to regulate online ...
PPA to fight the Online Poker case in the Congress
Jun 24, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Annie Duke, Dennis Phillips, Howard Lederer, Legal, Online Poker, UIGEA
The PPA is attempting to take the next step in its ongoing mission to lobby for the legalization of online poker by announcing its newest promotion. PPA National Poker Week will take place July 19-25, and the grassroots organization is stepping up ...
Online Poker Legislation to be promoted by National Poker Week
Jun 21, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, online poker players, UIGEA, us poker players, World Series of Poker, World Series of Poker Main Event, WSOP, WSOP 2009
Overheard and confirmed. Political geeks are in luck. Not only is it rumored - and close to being 100% confirmed - that Rep. Barney Frank will be visiting the 2009 WSOP on July 5 to do a little “shuffle up and deal” business, but other political ...
Online Poker Specialists boosted by US action
Jun 13, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Full Tilt Poker, FullTiltPoker.com, iPoker, ipoker network, Legal, Party Poker, PartyGaming, partypoker.com, Playtech, playtech software, Poker Stars, Pokerstars.com, UIGEA
The latest action by the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York against US online gambling cash processors could have a beneficial side-effect on Euro-centered online poker operations such as Party Poker and Playtech iPoker Network ...
Florida can be the first state to legalize Poker
May 26, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, Online Poker, UIGEA
Florida lawmakers may have done a good turn for online poker players recently when a measure was placed into an unrelated regulatory bill that could see online poker becoming legal in the sunshine state. The move could make Florida the first to ...
NFL strives to depredate the online poker bill
May 22, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, Online Poker, UIGEA
There is a fresh entrant in the current online gambling assault by the name of Capitol Hill; and as compared to lobbying mainstays like the Christian Coalition, who are the staunch supporters of 2006’s UIGEA bill, NFL can prove to be a more ...
Online Poker ranked as top priority for Obama
May 14, 2009 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, Online Poker, UIGEA
It became a public expectation that if Obama got elected into the highest office in the United States, he would be in favor of the pro-poker legislation, given that he had a predilection for the adventitious poker game. A project was instituted by ...
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VISA and Master Card Blocking Online Poker Site Payments
Feb 24, 2010 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal, UIGEA
Playing poker was not difficult to play before but now it seems that it will become a little difficult to play around. Since the arrivals of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act U.S. players have found it increasingly difficult to play ...
Online Poker Illegal in the United States
Dec 4, 2008 by Diana Sterling » TAGS: Legal
Last Sunday CBS Network's 60 Minutes claimed that online poker was illegal in the United States. But is it really illegal? It's not a crime to play poker in at least half the states. A few states, like Washington, explicitly outlaw online poker ...
