Party Poker, the online poker arm of bwin.party digital entertainment, has announced changed to its top VIP tier, the Palladium Elite.  The changes, which essentially come into effect on April 1st, 2013, will remove bonuses that offer over 30% rakeback. “We believe the change will allow us to manage our poker room more effectively and [...]

The stance of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) to back the advancement of online poker legislation on a federal level has officially been shifted.  The group said that it would support player friendly online poker bills introduced by individual states, although made sure to emphasize the fact that it was not abandoning its federal support [...]

The American Gaming Association (AGA) has announced that its Chief Executive Officer for the past 17 years, Frank Fahrenkopf, will be leaving his position from the middle of this year. The powerful group, which lobbies for the interests of casinos across the United States, has a policy of supporting the passage of legislation that will [...]

The leading UK betting exchange, casino and poker group, Betfair, has announced that it plans to launch an online poker room on Playtech’s iPoker Network.  The site, to be called the New Betfair Poker room will run alongside the existing OnGame poker skin for six months, before moving exclusively to the iPoker Network. “Our intention [...]

A three day meeting of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States wrapped up in Nevada this week, which attracted over 100 lawmakers from 21 states and Canadian province.  The closing session saw the reiteration of the policy adopted by the council last year, which states, according to the Las Vegas Sun  that it [...]

Last year was an exceptionally good year for the state of Pennsylvania, proving beyond a doubt to all critics who questioned the feasibility of introducing casino gambling, that the government made a very wise decision. Numbers coming out of the Keystone State show that Pennsylvania is now only second in place behind Nevada in terms [...]

A new bill has been submitted in the state of Texas that will regulate the game of poker in bricks and mortar casinos and poker rooms, but will ban all forms of online poker and gambling activity. The Texas Poker Gaming Act of 2013, or HB292,  introduced by State Senator Eddie Rodriguez, was filed in mid [...]

Online poker pro, Gus “Great Dane” Hansen, managed to irk a large majority of his followers on Twitter by commenting about the poker community’s anger towards the former Full Tilt Poker director, Howard Lederer.   Hansen, who became the first ambassador for the relaunched Full Tilt Poker, decided to defend Lederer on Twitter as the disgraced [...]