Poker

Poker Players Alliance Slams New Mike Gatto California Online Poker Bill

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has criticized the new Mike Gatto-generated California online poker bill, branding it as a “misguided” piece of legislation that is too exclusive and will prevent a regulated market from...

PokerStars Reportedly Pushing for Bitcoin iGaming

PokerStars could be on the verge of offering Bitcoin services to its customers if recent reports are correct. Although unconfirmed by PokerStars, some industry insiders, including Online Poker Report’s Chris Grove, have...

Betfair Online Poker New Jersey Ceases Operations

Betfair Poker has finally decided to bag up its chips for good in New Jersey. The site shut down on December 1, becoming the second operation, after Ultimate Gaming, to withdraw from the market, citing poor performance. The real...

California Assemblyman Mike Gatto Pushing Online Poker Bill for 2015

If Assemblyman Mike Gatto has any say in the matter, California online poker will be a hot topic again in 2015, as a bill to regulate the industry in the state has already been introduced to the State Assembly. Gatto (D-Glendale)...

Yahoo Online Poker Shuts Down, Citing Security Concerns

Yahoo online poker has announced it will be shutting down its play money games effective at the end of the month, citing the fact that changing technologies have left it in a state that Yahoo no longer wants to support. Yahoo...

Albert Riera Sacked by Italian Soccer Club Over Poker Tournament

Albert Riera, a winger for Italian soccer club Udinese, has reportedly had his contract with the club terminated because of his decision to attend a poker tournament in Slovenia rather than attend the team’s match against...

Poker Player Receives $340,000 over Facebook Defamation

An Australian poker player wrongly accused on Facebook of stealing from his roommate during a trip to the WSOP has won AU$340,000 in damages from four of his fellow players. Nicholas Polias sued his former friends after they...

Alex Dreyfus Addresses PokerStars

The CEO of the Global Poker Index (GPI), Alex Dreyfus, might be in the middle of trying to “sportify” poker, but he recently found time to pen a letter to Santa Claus or, as he calls the man in red,...

Jason Somerville Builds Big Audiences on Twitch

Jason Somerville has long been a popular poker player, if not quite on the level of the biggest and most successful superstars of the game. But if the World Series of Poker bracelet winner only had a cult following before, his...

Iipay Nation Defiant in the Face of Lawsuit

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel has blasted the federal lawsuit filed last week by the State of California that challenges the tribe’s right to offer real-money online gaming. The go-it-alone tribal operator, which went live...