Gaming Law

Over the past week a collection of poker advocates from all walks of life gathered in Washington D.C. to lobby for the legalization and regulation of online gambling. Spearheading the assault was the Poker Player’s Alliance, a million strong advocacy group who has emerged as the major lobbying force for legal poker in the U.S.
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Payment processor Account Services Corporation filed a motion in court on Friday requesting that all of the funds in two bank account be immediately released and returned to the company.  In total, Account Services has more than $13 million in funds “frozen” in two separate bank accounts.  The funds were seized by the government last [continue]

All-around poker-law superhero Barney Frank swooped into the Rio last Sunday to update the World Series of Poker on his attempts to repeal the UIGEA. After addressing the Amazon Room he made his way to a discrete private area where he fielded questions from a select group of media representatives.
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Internet poker players in the U.S. and online gambling companies around the world are recovering from the news that Barney Frank’s anti-UIGEA bill has been delayed. The worsening financial situation in the U.S. has meant that Frank, as head of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, needs to focus his attentions away from online gambling. [continue]

SAN FRANCISCO — The European Union recently took a shot at the United States in little-noticed trade war over internet gambling, charging that the United States unfairly interferes with internet gambling in ways that run contrary to World Trade Organization rules.
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When the US Government decided to try to stop poker players from cashing their checks from some of the largest online poker sites, many people began to wonder what the ramifications would be to those sites.  Well, since the payment “freeze”, traffic at PokerStars is down, but all in all, the news is not really [continue]

Another twist in the long running Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act saga was unveiled recently by the European Union. A new EU report condemns the U.S. and claims that the UIGEA is in breach of WTO statutes. The American government’s decision to make online gambling transactions illegal forced countless European businesses out of the lucrative [continue]

There have been rumors lately that the Department of Justice was looking to crack down on payment processors of some of the major online poker sites.  It has now been confirmed that the DoJ has issued an order that the accounts of several payment processors from four banks to be frozen and the cash seized.
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Press Release: MINNEAPOLIS, MN (June 4, 2009) –The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide (and more than 15,000 in Minnesota), declared victory as news broke that the Minnesota Department of Public Safety was dropping enforcement action against Internet Service Providers that provide access to [continue]

With Barney Frank’s bill to legalize online gambling out in the open, it seems that the battle lines are being drawn in Washington. The Congressman’s richest and most powerful opponents look to be the National Football League. The NFL have consistently trumpeted their distaste for online gambling and look set to throw their considerable weight [continue]