By Sandra Gaweda · Published September 2, 2026 · 6 min read The BetRivers Poker network just posted its strongest results since launching online poker in the United States, just over a year after expanding to four states. Data from Poker Industry PRO, reported by Pokerfuse on August 31, 2026,
By the Sandra Gaweda · Published September 2, 2026 · 5 min read The LuckyLand Slots shutdown is set for September 14, 2026. Parent company Virtual Gaming Worlds (VGW) is permanently closing the sweepstakes casino. It is the first VGW sweepstakes brand to be shut down outright, with the closure
By Sandra Gaweda · September 1, 2026 · 7 min read New York iGaming Legalization Faces Another Long Wait If you're a New York poker player waiting for legal online games, the wait just got longer. Assemblymember Carrie Woerner (D-Round Lake), who chairs the Assembly committee on racing and gaming,
By Sandra Gaweda. Published August 28, 2026. Estimated read time: 5 minutes. A wave of US sweepstakes and social casino closures hit in August 2026 as state regulators tightened their grip on the dual-currency model. A growing number of US sweepstakes and social casinos shut down in August 2026 as
By Sandra Gaweda. Published August 25, 2026. Approximately a 6 minute read. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed two lawsuits on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, alleging that sweepstakes-style gambling platforms operate as illegal, unlicensed online casinos disguised as free-to-play games. The complaints, filed in Hillsborough County Circuit Court, name VGW
Xuan Liu officially signed with Ignition Casino as brand ambassador in April 2026, and the poker community noticed. Not because ambassador deals are unusual, but because this one includes a written accountability clause and an independent testing process paid for by Liu. For players who have followed Ignition’s recent issues
The mushrooming sportsbetting brand FanDuel is emerging as a potential partner to PokerStars as online poker grows in both popularity and accessibility in the United States. Flutter Entertainment, which owns both companies, is planning a possible merger between FanDuel Poker and the biggest name in poker for the past 25
The great U.S. state of Maine has become the ninth state to legalize online poker, with the game expected to return for players in the most rural area of the United States. Standing at around 1.4 million citizens in terms of population, the state is a key area of poker’s
The withdrawal of FanDuel and Draft Kings from the sportsbook licencees list in Nevada this week shocked many. With two of the United States’ largest sportsbook vendors pulling out of the gambling capital of the world, how will this impact poker, Nevada’s cherished curate’s egg? We’ve looked at the announcement
Pennsylvania joins MSIGA for shared online poker, officially expanding its poker player pool across state lines and marking a major milestone for regulated poker in the U.S. Governor Josh Shapiro signed the agreement on April 17, 2025, making Pennsylvania the sixth state to enter the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA)
“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce." ~ Karl Marx The Brink of Catastrophe On Thursday April 14th 2011, the online poker world was on the brink of catastrophe. Online poker operators who had knowingly and wilfully flouted legislation by transacting with US customers were teetering
History of Online Poker There was a time when online poker rooms operated in a single, open market. But as online play grew in popularity and profitability, government regulation became inevitable. In the U.S., the crackdown on iGaming came swiftly, and it wasn’t until 2012 that Delaware became the first
