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Category: Poker Law
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Full Tilt PokerEven as Phil Ivey drops his $150 million lawsuit against former sponsor Full Tilt Poker, several lesser known players – or rather, former players – at the site have filed a class action lawsuit against the site. Filed on Thursday, June 30, 2011 in U.S. District Court South District of New York, four plaintiffs S... 
Full Tilt Poker Shuts Down All OperationsFirst it was only Full Tilt Poker’s American operations that got shut down. But now, as of Wednesday, June 29, 2011, regulators in the British Channel Isles shut down Full Tilt Poker’s international operations as well. Already FTP owes American players around $150 in player funds seized when the site’s ass... 
DOJ Closes Down 10 More Online Poker, Casino & Sports Betting SitesAnother 10 online gambling websites have been closed by the US government for violating laws against allowing United States residents to play there, and unlike on April 15, 2011, or Black Friday, on Monday, May 23, 2011, or Blue Monday, it wasn’t just online poker websites affected by online casino and sportsbetting s... 
Poker Players Alliance Goes (Back) to WashingtonAfter the events of Black Friday, the battle for legal online poker in the U.S. has taken on new heights. The CEOs of land-based gambling establishments like Caesars and Wynn have issued statements supporting U.S. poker players’ right to play online. And former Senator Alfonse D’Amato has called out the attack d... 
Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker Promises U.S. PayoutsAfter the F.B.I. seized the domain names of PokerStars.com and FullTiltPoker.com effectively shutting down operations for U.S. customers at those sites, players with money still sitting in a Full Tilt Poker or Poker Stars real money player account started wondering whether or not they’d ever see that money again. The ... 
F.B.I. Seizes, Shuts Down Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars, OthersThe war against online poker has taken a new turn as the U.S. federal government finally does more than bare its teeth and actually bites down, taking a sizable chunk out of the body of players and operators still playing poker as usual inside U.S. borders. To be blunt, the FBI just shut down Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars an... 
Legal US Online Poker Gets Strange Supporter In MasterCardThe effort to legalize online poker and other forms of online gambling in the United States has gotten a heap of support from an unexpected source, namely MasterCard, which wants to be able to legally process payments from this lucrative venture. A recent disclosure came out revealing that MasterCard had lobbied the US fede... 
South Carolina State Supreme Court To Hear Poker ArgumentsThe legal U.S. poker war rages on, and one of the biggest battlefronts today is South Carolina, where the poker argument is being taken all the way up to the Supreme Court. The South Carolina Supreme Court is shortly going to listen to arguments about poker being a game of skill or luck. The decision on this pressing questi... 
Rep. Barney Frank Discusses Legal U.S. Online Poker On Late Show With Jay Leno“Barney Goes to Hollywood”. We’ve been following the story of the battle in Congress, headed up by representative Barney Frank of Massachussetts, to leagalize and regulate online gambling, including online poker, in the United States. And this week we’ve followed it all the way to late night TV. The ... 
New Jersey Legal Online Poker Faces New OppositionThe move for legal online poker for residents within the state of New Jersey is facing new opposition as of last week, when it was revealed that the New Jersey Casino Association is fully (and loudly) against it. The New Jersey Casino Association, the representative body for all eleven land-based casinos in Atlantic City, o... |
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