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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 [...]

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 [...]

The governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, is said to be considering ways to expand gambling in the state, it was confirmed this week. According to a spokeswoman for the governor, O’Mally is looking in the direction of creating a special gambling commission, which will be tasked with examining the option of introducing table games and [...]

SB 1463, an online gambling bill proposed by State Senator Rod Wright, (D-Los Angeles), and Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, (D-Sacramento), reached a new obstacle this week after a prominent group of casino-owning Californian tribes expressed their opposotion to the current wording of the bill. The Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations (TASIN) said [...]

Ironically many online poker sites don’t allow New York, but New York was essentially where the “professional gamblers” would collide to take the Stock brokers money. Due to the State’s laws almost all poker sites have abandoned New York for fear of losing money in transit to the State by seizure of the US government. [...]

Tapie, the French investor who recently backed out of a Full Tilt Poker purchase referred to rumors currently doing the rounds on poker forums that Poker Stars struck a last minute deal with the Department of Justice, where the iconic poker room committed to paying players back immediately, in a deal worth $750 million. “If [...]

Two Hollywood giants, Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, are teaming up to create a new movie about online gambling, it was revealed this week. The movie, Runner Runner, will be directed by Brad Furman and reveals the tail of “an increasingly tense relationship between a business founder and his protégé,” according to the media. Timberlake’s [...]