Friday, Poker News Daily reported that Pennsylvania Judge Thomas James ruled Texas Holdem a game of skill. The ruling concerned Walter Watkins and his girlfriend Diane Dent, who were each charged with 20 counts of illegal gambling for holding $1/$2 live Texas Holdem games in Watkins’s Columbia County residence.
The Poker Players Alliance, a poker-advocacy organization, [...]
New York-based online gaming site DuplicatePoker.com has announced that Americans are playing more poker since the current global financial crisis began. The legal online poker website revealed that its traffic and gameplay has risen 25 percent since rumours of Lehman Brothers’ collapse began circulating just over a week ago. “Website traffic is up 25 percent, [...]
The UK is still leading the way in fair gambling practices. Internet gambling companies in the UK knew that the 2005 Gambling Act restrictions and regulations would be a double edged sword in many cases. Although the UK liberalized the country’s online casino gambling regulations, they also put in place a very strict Gambling Commission [...]