online poker

According to Pokerscout, global online poker traffic unexpectedly increased with 9.8% during the first week of 2012.

Manhattan Attorney Preet Bharara charged the owners of Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker with bribery, fraud, illegal gambling and money laundering worth billions of dollars.

Famous online poker room Doyles Room is giving out prizes totaling $65,000 during the next three months to every of its top 350 players

PokerStars officially revealed the real identity of the young Swedish poker legend Isildur1 on the 8th of January at the Caribbean Adventure on Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

UK Gets the most nominees in this years' edition of the European Poker Awards

The new Governor of California might favor a legislation allowing online poker in the state

Poker Pro Maria Ho signs on as a new member of Team UB, joining Phil Helmuth and Annie Duke.

Gibraltar is now the home of many of the world's biggest and most popular online gambling companies.

Marco Rubio wins Senate seat in Florida; strong opponent to pro-gambling legislation.

PartyPoker loses market share to Full Tilt and PokerStars; but overall revenues of Partygaming on the rise.

Microgaming has been added to the Kentucky lawsuit that includes Partygaming and Full Tilt Poker

Online Gambling in the UK is growing faster than membership on social networking sites.

Apps for mobile devices are the biggest growth trend in the online gambling industry.

A change in leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives could spell doom for pr-online gaming legislation.

Mobile wireless technology has grown to the point where mobile gaming in the U.S. is close at hand.

Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel have been announced as the 2010 Poker Hall of Fame Inductees

South Carolina home poker games, up until now considered illegal, may have a supporter in state government. Ironically, that supporter is attempting to overturn a Court decision that claimed poker is a skill and not a game of chance. On Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Sonny Jones asserted that home poker games played for cash are legal under state law. Jones' statement goes against the state's previous stance on the issue.

Both College-aged males and high school females are doing more online gambling, according to a new survey

On October 22nd to the 25th, the annual Irish Winter Festival will be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. The biggest festival of its kind in Ireland, it's headlined by the Irish Masters main event, a Texas Hold'em tournament, and typically takes place over the three days of the October bank holiday weekend. It was first held in 2001 and has grown into one of the most popular poker events in Europe.

Mixed Martial Arts legend Randy "The Natural" Couture will host the third annual "Operation All In" charity poker tournament and auction fundraiser benefiting the Xtreme Couture G.I. Foundation at the Golden Nugget Las Vegas, Saturday, Oct. 30 starting at 2 p.m. in The Grand events center.

Big news that is bound to shake up the American online gaming community, as well as land-based U.S. casinos: the Atlantis Internet Group Corp has signed a licensing agreement with Cake Gaming NV that will allow gamblers in tribal casinos in over 30 states to legally gamble online at Indian online poker sites. Atlantis Internet Group Corp. says they are set to roll out a private online gambling network on Indian lands immediately.

The people have spoken! After a two-month process on WSOP.com, the public has made clear who they think should be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2010. It will now be up to the current Hall of Famers and a panel of media members to determine who actually does join this exclusive club.

When the U.S. Congress passed anti-internet gambling legislation in 2006, it slowed the interest of Las Vegas casino operators to enter that burgeoning marketplace. However, in the wake of new legislation coming up for a vote in the near future that will regulate and tax online gaming in the United States, it is likely we'll soon be seeing those operators entering the fray as soon as the final bill is signed, the T's are crossed and the I's are dotted.

In the wake of last week's U.S. added amendment to HR 2267, a bill that would legalize online gaming in the United States, online poker powerhouse PokerStars has surprisingly voiced their support for the amendment, which, if included, would bar companies who are currently believed to be in violation of U.S. law from obtaining a license.

The six-member committee, which was formed in September 2009 by the Ministry of Justice, issued a report that states that online poker should be legalized in The Netherlands under a non-exclusive licensing system. However, other online gambling products like casino, bingo and sports betting should remain to be illegal in the public domain.