Poker News | Gambling and the Law
South Carolina Court Finds Players Guilty but Poker a Game of Skill
02-21-2009, Jennifer Newell
The case was nearly three years in the making. Five poker players in South Carolina finally had their day in court on Friday, February 13th, and though the judge noted that he was persuaded that poker was a game of skill, he was compelled to find...
UIGEA Repeal on List of 2009 Priorities for Barney Frank
02-09-2009, Jennifer Newell
Representative Barney Frank, a long-time Democratic member of Congress from Massachusetts, does not back down when he believes in something. And as the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, he has earned the position and the authority...
Colorado Court Rules Poker is Not Gambling
02-05-2009, Jennifer Newell
One can read too much into a state court ruling, despite the desire to see it as precedent. But when two different state courts rule similarly on one particular subject in the same month, the move toward precedent becomes clearer and more hopeful. A...
D’Amato Proposes iPoker Revenue in Tough Economic Times
02-03-2009, Jennifer Newell
Saying that the economy is experiencing tough times might be the grandest of understatements. Most analysts say the United States is in a recession, and the rest of them insist we have moved into a depression. But regardless of the terminology, the...
Tax Dollars at Work, Kentucky Appeals Domain Case to Supreme Court
01-28-2009, Jennifer Newell
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has officially noted that it will not accept the ruling of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in the internet gaming domain seizure case by filing another appeal, this time to the State Supreme Court. The appeals court ruled...
Poker is Skill-Based, Ruled Pennsylvania Court
01-22-2009, Jennifer Newell
It can be classified as a landmark ruling for poker, and it came at the hands of a judge in a Pennsylvania court. In the combined cases of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Diane A. Dent and Walter Watkins, Judge Thomas A. James Jr. found in...
KY Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of PPA & iMEGA
01-21-2009, Jennifer Newell
Poker players have had their eyes on the Kentucky Court of Appeals since arguments were presented in the internet gaming domain seizure case on December 12, 2008 and a ruling was finally handed down on January 20. Coincidentally, on the same day...
Poker Players Tell Obama What Change They Believe In
01-16-2009, Jennifer Newell
When Barack Obama was elected to be the 44th president of the United States in November, it was a clear message that the citizens of America wanted change. That was the slogan of Obama’s campaign and has become the catchphrase of the media...
PartyGaming Founder Pleads Guilty to Illegal Gambling Charges
12-19-2008, Jennifer Newell
In stunning news to the poker industry, enough so that it made mainstream media news like Associated Press and Reuters as well, Anurag Dikshit, one of the founders of PartyGaming, has pled guilty to illegal online gambling charges and agreed to pay...
Appeal Arguments Heard in Kentucky Online Domain Case
12-16-2008, Jennifer Newell
Arguments were presented in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky on December 12th, and the poker community, as well as personal freedom and privacy rights advocacy groups everywhere, anxiously await the decision that could come at any time. The case...
Norway Bans All Internet Gaming, Poker Included
12-15-2008, Jennifer Newell
Instead of following in the footsteps of countries like Italy by legalizing and regulating online poker, or Switzerland by considering the option of doing so, Norway has gone the opposite direction. The Norwegian government is in the final stages...
PPA Steps Up Efforts to Get Capitol Hill Attention
12-10-2008, Jennifer Newell
There is no time like the present. The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is making a move on Congress just before the new President of the United States, his administration, and various new members of the Senate and House of Representatives take office...
Switzerland Considers Online Gaming Ban Repeal
12-04-2008, Jennifer Newell
On the heels of the Italian government sanctioning and licensing online poker, there are indications that Switzerland might be considering a step in the same direction. Pressure from the Swiss Gaming Board hopes to influence the Swiss Federal...
Poker Industry Comments on 60 Minutes Broadcast
12-03-2008, Jennifer Newell
The poker community did not take long to react to the airing of the 60 Minutes episode on CBS on November 30th. As it pertained to the online poker industry, the television show focused on the 2007 Absolute Poker scandal and the 2008 UltimateBet...
Online Poker Scandals, According to 60 Minutes and Washington Post
12-01-2008, Jennifer Newell
Sunday, November 30th, brought the much-anticipated and somewhat feared 60 Minutes episode on CBS about the online poker industry. The 20-minute piece narrated by correspondent Steve Kroft focused on the Absolute Poker and UltimateBet cheating...
Civil Liberties Groups Petition KY Court on Side of Poker Players
11-22-2008, Jennifer Newell
The Kentucky case affecting online gaming domain names is far from over, though it seemed so on October 16th when Judge Thomas Wingate rendered his decision to allow the Commonwealth of Kentucky to seize 141 domains after giving them reasonable...
UIGEA Regulations Finalized, Will Take Effect Jan. 19, 2009
11-14-2008, Jennifer Newell
Representative Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, wrote letters to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Secretary Henry Paulson asking that the Treasury Department not do it. But the Bush administration took...
Appeal Process Begins in Kentucky Online Gaming Case
10-29-2008, Jennifer Newell
It was only a matter of time. Out of the 141 online gaming domains affected by the recent Kentucky ruling and all of the subsequent companies and organizations that had a stake in the case, the appeal process was likely in the works before the...
Kentucky Court Rules Poker a Game of Chance, Domains May Be Seized
10-21-2008, Jennifer Newell
The state of Kentucky made what could be called a landmark ruling in the case of online gaming domain names when a circuit county judge ruled that the Commonwealth of Kentucky could pursue their intent to seize 141 domains. The effort has come from...
KY Court Decision in Domain Seizure Attempts Expected Oct. 15
10-09-2008, Jennifer Newell
Kentucky is America’s home for horse racing, but it has also recently become home to one of the most blatant and overzealous attacks on online gambling in the U.S. After the state’s Governor Steve Beshear made it known on September 18th that he...
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