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Viktor Blom To Stream 10-Hour Session On Twitch

Viktor Blom (better known to many as “Isildur1”) has a reputation as one of poker’s greatest gamblers, a man who is willing to take on anyone at any stakes and doesn’t shy away at the prospect of losing a million dollars...

Mississippi Unlikely To See Online Poker Anytime Soon

Mississippi online poker was never something that supporters had really hoped to push through the state legislature this year, so it wasn’t much of a surprise when a bill to regulate the game died quickly earlier this year....

New York Online Poker Bill Omits Bad Actor Language 

New York online poker, previously thought to be a longshot for passage in 2015, just received a much-needed boost by way of a new bill. Authored by State Senator John Bonacic (R-District 42), bill S05302 would allow certain...

Amaya And GVC Look To Trump 888 Holdings With Bwin.party Acquisition Bid

Bwin.party’s future today became the subject of a high-powered bidding war between two giants of online gaming. In one corner is 888 Holdings, which announced on Monday morning that it had submitted a proposal to acquire...

GVC Holdings Making Bid for Bwin.party

GVC Holdings announced Friday that it had made a proposal to take over bwin.party Digital Entertainment, making them the latest company to declare their interest in buying the worldwide Internet gaming company. Bwin.party has...

Sen. Harry Reid Reconfirms his Willingness to Outlaw Online Poker

Senator Harry Reid, the man who was once fought for online poker in the US, is now in favor of repealing current legislation and bringing an end to all iGaming activities across the country. Although his comments, as reported by...

Penn National Says Online Gambling “Vital” to Land-Based Casinos

Penn National operates 26 gambling facilities in 16 states and another in Canada, so it might come as a surprise that the company is one of online gambling’s biggest advocates. Delivering testimony to Pennsylvania’s...

World Series of Poker 2015 Hopes to Cater to Mainstream Poker Audience

The World Series of Poker 2015 is out to outdo itself this year. Obviously, WSOP is always the biggest poker event of the year, but this year, organizers are hoping to bring more players than ever into the fold. According to WSOP...

Betclic Players Targeted by Belgian Gaming Commission

Online gambling operator Betclic is being accused by the Belgian Public Prosecution Office of running an illegal iPoker and gambling network, with the country’s gaming commission also seizing player account balances and...

Full Tilt Says Next Round of Payments Coming in August 

Full Tilt says it has reimbursed more than 80 percent of all petitions filed stemming from the network’s sudden closure on April 15, 2011, also known as poker’s Black Friday, and by the end of August another 2,000...