In Las Vegas earlier this month, 6,494 poker players were willing to ante up $10,000 each as they rolled into the Rio Casino & Hotel to play in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker.
Read More . . .The National Football League season kicks off Sept. 10. For casino gamblers in Delaware, sports betting may begin on the same day.
Read More . . .A payment processor that handles the accounts of online poker players wants a judge to order the return of about $14 million that the company says was illegally seized by the federal government.
Read More . . .The state of Delaware intends to allow single-event betting on NFL games beginning with the start of the upcoming season Sept. 10, but court challenges from sports leagues could delay the plan.
Read More . . .The man leading the legal fight against UIGEA, Joe Brennan, has dismissed media reports that his battle against America’s online gambling ban in the courts this week stumbled.
Read More . . .A lawsuit joined by Governor Jon S. Corzine could open the door to legalized sports betting throughout New Jersey and bring a sports book to the Meadowlands Racetrack.
Read More . . .In the high-stakes court battle over the constitutionality of a federal law that bans all Internet gambling transactions that would be illegal in the gambler's state, a trio of federal appeals judges in Philadelphia appeared unlikely on Tuesday to strike the law down.
Read More . . .The Third Circuit Court of Appeals must be a difficult place to bring a case. Either Judges Dolores Korman Sloviter, Judge Thomas L. Ambro and Judge Kent A. Jordan are really that tough, or maybe they were just having a bad day.
Read More . . .Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts told nearly 1,700 players Sunday at the no-limit Texas Hold 'em main event that he viewed Internet gambling as a right that must be protected.
Read More . . .iMEGA heads to Philadelphia to challenge the UIGEA in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
Read More . . .Florida Governor Charlie Grist has signed a bill which will undertake a study into the impact of legalised intrastate online poker on the US state.
Read More . . .Online poker in California has come another step closer after the US state rejected an $11bn tranche of cuts designed to ease its projected $25bn budget crisis.
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