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Anonymous Poker Tables Give Bigger Edges to Strong Players, Study Finds

Anonymous poker tables have been used by online poker sites as a way to partially protect recreational players from professionals and other sharks that might be using tracking software or heads-up displays (HUDs) that display...

Winning Poker Network $1 Million Guaranteed Disrupted by Hackers

The Winning Poker Network’s (WPN) bold attempt to stage the biggest online poker tournament available to US players since the departure of PokerStars and Full Tilt lay in ruins on Sunday night and may have been derailed by a...

DDOS Attack on Online Gaming Site Knocks Sweden Offline

Online poker players were out of luck as a massive DDOS attack on an unnamed Internet gaming site knocked most of Sweden offline this week. The attack, the scale of which has seldom been seen before, crippled Sweden’s largest...

Amaya Montreal Headquarters Raided by Securities Regulators

Amaya Gaming Group confirmed this week that its Montreal headquarters were raided by Quebec financial regulators seeking information related to its $4.9 billion acquisition of Rational Group in June of 2014. The PokerStars and...

PrivateTable.com Perched to Launch by California IIpay Nation Tribe

Online poker site PrivateTable.com, brought to you by the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, appears to be pressing ahead with its launch, despite facing an imminent legal challenge from the State of California, which wants to pull...

Andorra Online Poker Nears Approval

Andorra, the small nation sandwiched between the borders of Spain and France, is close to approving online poker and other gaming options. The Legislative Committee has produced the final version of a bill that would update...

Ralph Caputo New Jersey Bill Would Require Strict Licensing for Online Gambling

New Jersey Assemblyman Ralph Caputo’s bill would impose much stricter regulatory requirements on Internet gaming companies, and it has already passed through the State Assembly’s Tourism, Gaming and Arts Committee,...

PokerStars Recruits Players to Help Fight Seating Scripts

PokerStars is hosting a meeting at their Toronto offices in the hopes of finding an equitable solution to the problem of seating scripts, programs that help players automatically sit at cash game tables where they feel they have...

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...