The Remote Gambling Association (RGA), an association speaking for some of the largest British and European internet gambling operators, today blasted US authorities in light of the $300M settlement reached yesterday with PartyGaming’s largest shareholder Anurag Dikshit.  Dikshit pleaded guilty to charges under the Wire Act stemming from PartyGaming’s operations in the US prior to [...]

The Financial Times is reporting that Anurag Dikshit, co-founder and largest shareholder of PartyGaming, has arrived at a settlement with the US authorities, agreeing to pay $300 million and plead guilty to a charge relating to illegal web betting.  Dikshit will appear in the Southern District Court of New York today to admit to an [...]

**UPDATED Dec 16 03:15 P.M. EST** Is Texas Hold’em a game of skill or chance?  Greenville, SC attorney Jeffrey A. Phillips is going to court to argue that it’s a game of skill, in defense of five Mount Pleasant, SC poker players busted over two years ago at a home tournament.  If his argument holds [...]

In an effort to underscore the need for federal regulation of online poker, especially in light of the recent Washington Post and “60 Minutes” stories on cheating scandals at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker, the Poker Players Alliance has placed full page ads in several Capitol Hill newspapers. The ad, which will run in Roll [...]

Lycos today announced its 9th annual list of top 50 search terms for the year 2008, based on the Lycos 50, a weekly list of the most popular people, places and things Lycos users search for every day. The Lycos 50 Top Search Terms of 2008 list is based on Lycos user searches from Jan. [...]

Sydney native Martin Rowe, 34, became the latest PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Grand Final champion. Rowe won AU$1 million as the top finisher out of a field of 476 entrants, all competing for a total prize pool of over $2.8 million. And, as if that wasn’t enough, he followed-up by coming in second [...]

The dust is still settling after the fiasco that was the PokerStars LAPT Nueveo Vallarta, and apparently some would like to pretend it never happened. To recap, at about 10:30 p.m. CT Friday evening, day 1 of the second event of the LAPT’s second season, play was suspended with 89 of the original 242 entrants [...]

Play at the 2008 PokerStars LAPT Nuevo Vallarta tournament was suddenly stopped by gaming officials late on the first day of the event, leaving 89 players out of a field of 242 entrants wondering if they’d get to play on. The players were hurriedly ushered out of the tournament room, leaving their chips behind on [...]

Event #17 on Full Tilt’s FTOPS X calendar was a NL Hold ‘em 4 x shootout 6-max affair with a $200 + $16 buy-in and a $250,000 guarantee.  1,094 entrants shelled out their entry fee, which wasn’t enough to break the guaranteed prize pool but formed a deep field nevertheless, with the bonus of a [...]