The World Sports Exchance will be closing their poker room at 1pm ET on February 15th, 2012. WSEX originally opened their doors in 1995 as a Sportsbook/Casino based in Antigua. They became quite successful and by 2007 WSEX was one of the top sportsbook sites. There was some legal trouble along the way, when in [...]

The Golden Nugget is joining forces with Chiligaming to launch an online poker site . . . in the United States . . . to be up and running in the next quarter. Golden Nugget chairman Tilman Ferttita says, “We believe that online gaming is inevitable in the United States and that the Golden Nugget [...]

There are a number of officials in Tennessee who believe that legalized online poker would cut into their state lottery revenues, much of which goes towards education programs. Shirley Raines, President of the University of Memphis, is opposed to bill H.R. 2366 that Joe Barton (R-Tex.) has presented to congress. His bill would set up [...]

FairPlayUSA is a fairly new advocate of regulated online gaming. While not as established as the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), it is still helping to raise awareness of the issue and working toward the goal of legal online poker. The group was created in 2011 as a grassroots campaign to help promote a safe, regulated [...]

After months of negotiations, the sale of Cryptologic has been finalized. The buyer is Amaya Gaming Group at a price of $35.8 million, approximately 55% over the closing price of Cryptologic’s shares on December 14th. Cryptologic Limited was an Ireland-based software service provider that has been in business since 1995. They’ve developed casino and poker [...]

Despite the current ban of internet poker within U.S. borders, several of the nation’s online gambling companies are enjoying a period of relative prosperity.

A recent New York court ruling regarding the ancient Chinese tile-based game of Mah Jong may prove to have positive effects on the potential legalization of online poker. During Criminal Court Judge John H. Wilson’s ruling in People v. Feng, he declared that “the court declines to declare Mah Jong to be a per se [...]

Authors of the most popular poker app, Zynga, have recently confirmed that they intend to move forward with plans to enter the real money online poker market. They are currently in talks with a number of different potential partners to make real money games a reality for Zynga Poker. The current Zynga poker app plays [...]

Complaints are still rolling in to the Alderney Gaming Control Commission (AGCC) by disgruntled former FullTilt Poker players. The AGCC issued a statement to remind players that FullTilt Poker is no longer licensed by their organization, and thus are unable to help mediate disputes or recover any funds owed by the poker site. They will [...]

In what appears to be an attempt to avoid more fallout of Black Friday, the Yatahay poker network has rebranded as the Winning Poker network. They are just one network of many to conduct a rebranding of this sort. Bodog recently rebranded to the name Bovada for U.S. players, while the Action Poker Network rebranded [...]