The configuration of the United States online poker market is confusing. Moreover, it is tough for online poker operators to navigate. Thus, one dozen years after the first individual state legalized online poker, the base numbers are discouraging: The US market is what it is. And it’s tough to consistently
The majority of individual state legislative sessions finished for this year already. While there were some pro-igaming and online poker bills up for consideration in several states, not one passed. There is an outside chance that budget allocations and emergency sessions could include some form of igaming legislation, but it
Pennsylvania may have legalized online poker in 2017, years before Michigan, but it has yet to join the multi-state liquidity agreement. One lawmaker in Pennsylvania wants to change that. Long Road to Liquidity When Pennsylvania legalized online poker and casino games in late 2017, it was the fourth state in
The final numbers are in for the states in America that offer licensed and regulated online poker. The revenue reports show the good and the bad, all of which turns out to be a fairly standard story for this still-burgeoning industry in the US. Overall, the good is that the
In September, Georgia police officers raided a poker room. In October, representatives of Entain Foundation met with lawmakers to work toward a comprehensive yet reasonable gambling proposal to introduce into the state legislature in 2024. These two events are not directly related. Entain Foundation does not support or have any
A funny thing happened while the World Series of Poker was running its course in Las Vegas. While the poker community was playing, watching, or following the WSOP and all of the tournament series this summer, lawmakers in the little state of Rhode Island legalized online poker. In fact, the
In the poker world, California is known for two things. One is the plethora of cardrooms for poker players throughout the state. The other is the many years of infighting over online poker in California before and after Black Friday, infighting that ultimately prompted lawmakers to be so frustrated as
This is the year that Texas lawmakers decided to throw almost every kind of gambling bill at the wall to see what sticks. There are bills about commercial casinos, tribal gaming, sports betting, and poker rooms. Most of them have companion bills so both houses in the state legislature have
Most people are aware of Black Friday. Full Tilt Poker fell apart and stranded all of its customers, as did UltimateBet and Absolute Poker. PokerStars, however, was the company that took care of everything and everyone. When the US government seized those four major poker sites on April 15, 2011
In poker, Texas is known as home of Texas Hold’em where Hold’em is not exactly legal. Further, it’s much more complicated than the irony. Texas is one of the fastest growing markets for live poker in America. It is where the idea of a poker club – a membership club
There is a lot of talk about poker rooms, mostly in Texas. Some may be tied up in court or recovering from a police raid, but most of them operate continuously without trouble. And Chris Moneymaker opened one in Kentucky last year. The common thread among these types of poker
California has unique gambling laws. The only full-fledged casinos in the state are a part of a tribal compact for Native American tribes to open gambling establishments on their lands. The rest of the cardrooms in the state are just that – cardrooms only. For many years, though, no new
