There are few scandals that grab hold of the poker community as a whole, that rock its foundations and shatter what many people knew and believed. The UltimateBet scandal was one of the big ones, complete with superuser accounts. The Full Tilt meltdown after Black Friday was another, as was
Poker operators have been clamoring for a new and improved United States online poker market for years. After the disaster of 2011, better known as Black Friday, everyone from operators to players repeatedly appealed to states to legalize online poker. A few did it. Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey have
Remember the Wire Act case? It was kind of a big deal before the coronavirus pandemic flipped everyone’s worlds upside down. The case of the New Hampshire Lottery Commission and NeoPollard Interactive versus United States Attorney General William Barr and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) just inched forward a
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted many inequities and troubles in today’s world. And as dire situations often do, it inspired many in the poker world to find ways to do something to help. The charity poker events online took shape barely weeks into the stay-at-home orders in the United States
The World Series of Poker had few choices. When the coronavirus pandemic shut down live tournament options around the world, the company had to cancel numerous tournaments on the WSOP Circuit US-based and international tours. A solution for the US-based tour was fairly simple: Take it online. They announced and
The World Poker Tour made some tough decisions in the past few months. The coronavirus pandemic forced WPT executives to cancel or postpone all of the remainder of its Season XVIII events from mid-March onward. For a poker tour that specializes in live tournaments, the shutdowns everywhere from Asia to
Poker tournament operators have been forced into making some tough decisions this year. The World Poker Tour cancelled scores of events around the world. The World Series of Poker postponed its massive 2020 WSOP summer series, as well as a long list of WSOP Circuit events. Live poker has essentially
The middle of May signaled a milestone. Almost every non-essential business across the United States had been shut down since mid-March. As that milestone approached, businesses began to consider options regarding reopening. Governors of each state set differing timelines for reopening. Almost all of them, however, put casinos and card
A familiar pattern emerges with every move from Mike Postle. It seems he intends to hide from the lawsuits against him, perhaps in the hopes they will all disappear. His latest attempt to evade service, this time in the civil case initiated by Marle Cordeiro last month, only delayed the
The history of online poker in Pennsylvania – as regulated by the state – is quite short. Though lawmakers legalized this type of online poker in 2017 and numerous casinos opted for online poker licenses from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, only one site is operational as of May 2020.
The US District Court civil case against Mike Postle regarding poker cheating allegations became more real yesterday in a hearing before Judge William B. Shubb. The hearing on the defendants’ motions to dismiss illuminated some of the primary arguments in the case and a bit of an uphill battle with
Land-based casinos in Pennsylvania were shuttered for the entire month of April. The coronavirus pandemic forced their doors shut in mid-March, and nothing changed in April. March was a tough month for nearly every industry, but April was worse. Pennsylvania didn’t pull in a single dollar from land-based casinos. However,
