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32Red Casino is nominated for Casino Operator of the »
32Red Online Casino has been announced as a nominee for eGaming Review's Casino Operator of the Year award for 2009. This follows the success earlier in the year for the Gibraltar-based online casino when it was announced as the winner of Casinomeister's Best Casino title for an unprecedented sixth consecutive year. The award-winning gaming [...]
PPA Advocates for Legal Online Poker in Massachusetts »
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide and more than 25,000 in Massachusetts, testifies today before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies calling for licensing and regulation of online poker. The hearing is being [...]
Laak wins Party Poker World Open V »
Phil 'The Unabomber' Laak is the PartyPoker.com World Open V champion, scooping the $250,000 first prize after defeating the strongest final table in the event's history! The Matchroom Sport organised 48 runner tournament ran from Sunday 11 October - Thursday 15 October. For the very first time, the action took place in the prestigious Palm Beach [...]
Titan Poker to Give Away $50,000 »
TitanPoker.com, the most popular online poker room in Europe, will give away $50,000 in cash prizes and tournament entries in its Titan Turbo promotion, which will be staged during the month of October. New poker players, veterans and tournament regulars, all have an equal chance to win their share of the prizes. Titan Turbo kicks off on October [...]
Judge rules poker is a game of skill »
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide (nearly 10,000 in South Carolina), today lauded the ruling of a South Carolina court that confirmed that poker is a game of skill, and thus should not be considered gambling under the law. "Poker is not a crime in [...]
Massachusetts Governor tries to sneak in a ban on »
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is attempting to add a new provision to make online gambling a crime. The bill, if passed, would make online gambling punishable by up to 2 years in prison and $25k in fines. Sadly, the provision is included in a bill to allow the building of three new casinos in Massachusetts designed to bring more taxable [...]
A new proposal for legalized internet gambling »
A U.S. Senator has announced an interesting proposal to help pay the costs of national health care. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has introduced an amendment to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee to use tax revenues generated from legalized online gambling to help support the health care reform package. PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis has shown [...]
Paypal gets ready for the future »
Word has come to us at Thebestcasinoguide.com, that good things may be happening for U.S. online gamblers. U.S. Senator Barney Franks is gaining support for his bill to legalize online gambling in the United States and observers are hoping the bill will be passed by the Senate in the fall session. As a result many companies, including Paypal, [...]
Trump regains control of 3 casinos »
Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka, and Beal Bank successfully repurchased the Atlantic City casino company that once belonged to him. He outfought competitors with a 100 million dollar cash offer on August 3rd, 2009. Mr. Trump and his associates plan to take the company private but the offer is still subject to approval by the bankruptcy [...]
U.S. Appeals Court upholds UIGEA »
The U.S. 3rd. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in a unanimous 3-0 ruling Tuesday, September 1, 2009. The court rejected arguments by iMEGA that the law was too vague and violated privacy rights. iMEGA cited the legal cases, Lawrence v. Texas and Reliable Consultants Inc. v. Earle, as examples [...]
