NEW JERSEY ONLINE POKER REVENUE RISES, FLYING PIGS EXPECTED
New Jersey’s online gambling market had another rock-solid month in June and even poker posted a rare year-on-year improvement. Figures released Friday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) show the state’s online gambling licensees generated combined revenue…
POKERSTARS WITHDRAW FROM SWITZERLAND AHEAD OF LIKELY CASINO DAVOS PARTNERSHIP
PokerStars announce their withdrawal from the Swiss online gambling market to avoid upsetting lawmakers but plan to return with potential Casino Davos partnership. PokerStars’ Swiss team is currently vaulting, cartwheeling and split leaping like an Olympic gymnast after failing to bed a…
CITIZENSHIP IN A POKER REPUBLIC, A SALUTE TO THE MEN & WOMEN IN THE ARENA
Inspired by Chapter 1 of Brené Brown’s ‘Daring Greatly’, Lee Davy shares his personal experience of interviewing poker players and offers a salute to the people willing to climb into the arena. In 1910, the former president of the United…
ASSETS WORTH MORE THAN $4M SEIZED FROM OREGON POKER PRO IN PIRATE MOVIE CASE
There was a time when you had to pay to watch Internet porn – the sheer incredulity of it. These days, we expect to switch on the laptop and gain access to 140,000 housewives from Hull, not just Hilda splattered…
POKERSTARS FINED OVER ILLEGAL SPORTS GAMBLING
PokerStars may be best known for its online poker, but the company has been trying to diversify itself to grab bits and pieces of virtually any gambling market possible. After the US Supreme Court defeated the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection…
GREEK GAMING REGULATIONS SENT TO EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EU’s European Commission will look into new Greek gaming regulations, introduced to reform sports betting and table games. Greece.- Greek gaming regulations may soon be changed as the government seeks to update them. The local government has submitted a number…
PARTYPOKER GOES LIVE IN CZECH REPUBLIC
GVC Holdings-owned PartyPoker has launched online operations in the Czech Republic, via a partnership with local casino operator King’s Resort. PartyPoker becomes the second international operator to secure an online gambling licence in the country, after The Stars Group. Czech…
RAMÓN COLILLAS JOINS POKERSTARS STABLE AFTER $5.1M WIN
Ramón Colillas has been named as a brand ambassador of PokerStars, after scooping $5.1m as its Players No Limit Hold’em Championship last month. Extending a journey from fitness trainer to multi-millionaire, Colillas triumphed over in excess of 1,000 competitors at the richest…
POKERSTARS LIVE RETURNS TO MADRID; DATES ANNOUNCED FOR MANILA & KOREA EVENTS
A round-up of PokerStars Live news including a return to Madrid for the European Poker Tour and 2019 Asia-Pacific Poker Tour stops in Korea and Manila. PokerStars’ busy beavers have been constructing new live tournament experiences for customers new and…
PHILIPPINE GGR SEEN AT $4.1B IN 2019.
The Philippine Gaming and Amusement Corp. (PAGCOR) expects gross gambling revenue in the country to gain 8.5 percent to PHP217 billion ($4.1 billion) in 2019, Reuters reports. The country saw a 13 percent gain in GGR in 2018 to about…