Archive | July, 2010

Hailing the move a “transformational opportunity”, and after many long months of negotiations, speculation and rumors, Party Gaming finally took the plunge and revealed concrete plans to merge with Bwin Interactive Entertainment.

Frank’s work is far from over. While HR 2267’s passage thus far is seen as a highly satisfactory, it still has a long way to go until it actually turns into law.

According to an article that appeared in the New York Times yesterday, European governments are turning to the legalization of online gambling in droves in a bid to fill empty coffers.

The Cake Poker Network issued a statement yesterday admitting that its security standards were not as high as was claimed and that it was urgently working on the changing the current status.

At the Netroots Nation 2010 seminar this week, poker professional Andy Bloch called on the government to legalize online poker and said that federal intervention on internet gambling went against America’s freedom of choice.

The Philadelphia Enquirer ran an editorial this weekend which essentially called for states to move away from the thinking that legalizing gambling would fix all their economic woes. Calling gambling a “losing economic bet”, the piece claims that state authorities try to “dress up” gambling.

An escaped prisoner from Australia took his love for poker a bit too far by taunting the police while on the run. Justin Grant was being escorted to a nearby hospital from a Townville Prison after suffering a hand injury and decided to use the opportunity to make a run for it.

Governor Bev Perdue of North Carolina was true to her word and finalized a bill this week that will essentially shut down sweepstakes cafés in the state for good. Until now, these cafés were operating only through a legal loophole, but Perdue was determined to see the back of them.