Casino action came to Cleveland, Ohio with the opening of the Horseshoe Casino on Monday. The new casino opened its doors at 9.30 pm. with lines of people jostling to earn their first glimpse of the property. $350 million was spent on the first phase of the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, while phase II will begin [...]

At a meeting of Nevada’s Gaming Policy Committee yesterday, the chairman of the Gaming Control Board, Mark Liparelli, said that the state is expected to start issuing its first online poker licenses within a month or two, and that poker on the internet could became a reality within 10 months, which is as long as [...]

A new bill which will allow casinos in Atlantic City to offer online gambling has been approved by New Jersey’s State Assembly. Thursday’s vote and approval came one month after New Jersey’s Senate Committee gave the green light to a similar bill. The latest State Assembly approved bill will allow casinos in Atlantic City to [...]

The American Gaming Association posted stats this week showing that the number of Americans who visit casinos is on the rise. One out of every adult Americans visited a casino in the past year, according to the AGA, however not all of them were there to gamble. Around a quarter of those who entered these [...]

Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment has signed a deal with the Native American tribe which operates the Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Sacramento, California to provide them with online poker software if and when regulation takes place in the Golden State. The deal with the United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC), a federally recognized Native American tribe, brings [...]

Update: There has been a May 10th, 1:14am update that’s quite interesting. I’ve posted the link on our twitter page (USAcompatible). It has come to our attention that representatives of Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars are in the USA today to come to settlements about the ‘purchase’ and agreements between both companies and the [...]

The hiring of a new interim executive director for the Massachussetts Gambling Commission has managed to raise a few eyebrows, with many branding the choice as “controversial”. The Commission said that it had chosen Carl Stanley McGee because he was an expert on the rights of federally recognized Indian tribes, a useful field when stepping [...]

After a couple of weeks of quiet on the Full Tilt Poker/Poker Stars acquisition speculations front, another interesting bit of news has developed. It was revealed yesterday that Lock Poker, the leading online poker room, would be leaving the Merge Poker Network and is in the process of acquiring the Cake Poker Network. Plans are [...]