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Online Gambling Regulations Bill Approved
The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would license and regulate online gambling in the United States, in a 41-22-1 vote. The Security and Accountability For Every Port...
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Full Tilt Poker has Suspended Real Money Play in the US
Full Tilt Poker just released a statement regarding Friday’s indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice announcing that it is suspending real money play for USA players until the situation is...
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Online Poker the Day After
Yesterday was quite the day for the online poker world with the US Department of Justice seizing the domains of the world’s largest online poker sites. There’s been many reactions and speculation as to...
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Black Friday: A Step Too Far?
Can a government be charged with war crimes, if the war is only one of intimidation? The U.S. federal Department of Justice isn’t blowing up buses. No one has died. But while Palestinian terrorists...
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Absolute Poker and UB Not Backing Down
The owners of Absolute Poker and UB are not following the lead of Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker. All four online poker sites had their bank accounts seizured along with their domains by the United...
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Poker Prohibition Is Not Regulation
When people want something, businesses arise to fill the demand. How much more so when the activity, online poker, is not even clearly illegal? If the commercial goods or services are not legal, then...
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A Law Professor Looks at Online Poker’s Black Friday
In a previous blog, I wrote that the timing was suspicious. Why did the federal Department of Justice (“DoJ”) make its big show on Friday, April 15, 2011, when the grand jury had been meeting for more...
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Absolute Poker has reached an agreement with the US DOJ
St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda (May 10, 2011) — Absolute Poker, including the UB (formerly Ultimate Bet) brand, hereafter “Absolute Poker”, issued the following statement today in relation to civil...
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Ten More Online Gambling Sites Shut Down
The US government is at it again. If you thought Black Friday on Friday, April 15, 2011 was the end of the Department of Justice’s indictments against online gambling sites operating illegally within...
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How Did Black Friday Happen Anyway? Daniel Tzvetkoff: FBI Rat.
If you’re sitting there scratching your head like we were about how the FBI could have built its case strongly enough to get the DOJ to issue those warrants that forced the shutdown of three of the...
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Senators Reid and Kyl Send Letter to the US DoJ
Leaders of the Democratic and Republican Parties in the Senate have sent the U.S. Attorney General a letter demanding that the Justice Department do something about Internet gambling. What, exactly,...
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Politics and Gaming
It is said that politics makes strange bedfellows. That has always been true for opponents of expanded legal gambling. In 1998, Don Siegelman was elected governor of Alabama, one of only two Democrats...
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Merge Poker Network Traffic Down 25% on DOJ News Story
Two weeks ago we wrote about a story, that appeared on Subject: Poker (S:P), regarding a possible seizure by the US Department of Justice, Maryland Office on a merge network online poker processor....
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Poker Stars Comes Under Legal Fire Too
Full Tilt Poker isn’t the only online poker site facing trouble post-Black Friday 2011. PokerStars is also coming under fire, and from more sides than one. Unlike Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars has at...
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New California Poker Bill Introduced Weeks Before Session’s End
With just three weeks to go before the end of this session of the California state congress, new online poker legislation has just been introduced. The new bill will make online poker legal within the...
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