Archive | March, 2010

Lock Poker, the innovative online poker room that happily accepts players from the United States, said in a statement this week that it will be switching to the Merge Poker Network from next month.

One of the toughest gambling regimes in the United States, the state of New Jersey, is forging the way for the introduction of legal online poker and casino gambling

The Kentucky Supreme Court was unable to rule in favor of online poker and gambling sites in the famous domain grabbing case based on a technicality, it was announced on Thursday.

In a bid to bolster the tourism industry in Maryland and bring in more revenue, a Baltimore senator is on a crusade to introduce poker and other table games to the state.

With so much change going on under our noses in the US poker world, it may be time to sit back and speculate what we can expect on the online poker legislation front by the end of this year.

The Poker Players Alliance has been hard at work in the past months trying to promote the game at state level, all the while waiting impatiently for the House Financial Services Committee to announce a mark up for Barney Frank’s HR 2267 bill.

It wasn’t too long ago that if you really wanted to feel that you were part of a quality poker room at a top casino, you’d have to make your way to Vegas, Atlantic Casino or further afield to Europe or Macau.

The recent changes in the laws governing poker and other games in Philadelphia have not only led to direct employment opportunities for thousands of the state’s residents, but they have also started to attract the attention of the hotel industry.