Players
June 24th, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsThis year’s World Series of Poker has mostly belonged to established names. Going into the $10,000 Seven Card Stud High-Low Eight-or-Better Championship, there had already been 13 winners who already owned at least one WSOP...
Legal
June 20th, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsRegulated online gambling is something that most poker players in the United States welcome, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a few downsides to it, at least in the short-term. While having the state license...
Legal
June 19th, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsPennsylvania has long been rumored to be one of the next states that could take up some form of online gambling. For a while now, the word has been that they were studying what was happening in New Jersey and other states before...
Legal
June 17th, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsThe fate of online poker in Portugal should be decided in the coming weeks, unless the game’s opposition throw up any significant political hurdles. Following mounting pressure from the forces responsible for the...
Legal
June 3rd, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsDespite once facing the threat of 76 years in jail for fraud, money-laundering and the illegal possession of over $1 billion, Daniel Tzvetkoff, the Australian former businessman and playboy whose testimony brought down three of...
Legal
June 2nd, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsA millionaire banker is suing swanky London casino Les Ambassadeurs over claims that the high-stakes games he played there were corrupt. Iraj Parvizi, 48, believes he was the subject of an elaborate sting at the casino in the...
Legal
May 28th, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsTexas might be famous for producing some of the world’s best poker players that ever lived – not to mention where the most famous form of the game was born – but ironically, poker and gambling  in Texas...
Legal
May 25th, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsWhile there are plenty of political issues in which battles take place largely along partisan lines, gambling has rarely been one of them. Some regions are heavily pro-gaming, while others are likely never to consider it....
Poker
May 16th, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsWe’re avid followers of Ben Affleck’s gambling adventures here at Pokersites.com, the latest of which has seen him banned from the blackjack tables of the Hard Rock Casino, Las Vegas, for apparently less-than-expert card...
Legal
May 6th, 2014 | by
Jason ReynoldsOnline poker hasn’t exactly broken the bank in New Jersey thus far. Of course, it hasn’t been a failure — it brings in millions of dollars of revenue to casinos each month, with some of that money coming back to the...
