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The battle over poker games run in rural Westmoreland County, PA by attorney Larry Burns has resulted in a petition being filed by Pennsylvania's state attorney general office to seize over $40,000 alleged as proceeds...
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The federal case against people connected with former US-facing sportsbook site BetOnSports moved forward with the acceptance of guilty pleas from three relatively minor defendants on Wednesday. The three Florida defendants...
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In a surprising turnaround, the Republican Platform Committee today stripped language urging a prohibition of Internet gambling from its draft platform. Considering one of the leading opponents of an internet gambling ban...
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With the Republican National Convention just a week away, supporters of online gambling have turned their attention to two troubling sentences of the Republican Party's platform...
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In a surprise political move termed separately as a 'stunt' and a 'blatant protectionist move' by interested observers, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear on Thursday pushed through a court order to seize domain names connected...
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The latest attempt at creating a safe, regulatory framework at the federal level for skill games such as poker has come about in the form of the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act, S. 3616, introduced by Senator Robert...
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In a release issued late on Monday afternoon, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission announced sanctions imposed as a result of the insider cheating scandal at UltimateBet. Named specifically in the announcement was UB official...
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A hearing in Frankfort, Kentucky on Friday involving the court-ordered forfeiture of 141 domain names connected to online gambling resulted in a short-term victory for pro-poker forces when the forfeiture action was ordered...
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The recent introduction of the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act of 2008 by U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is important for its specific mention of online poker as a game needing protecting in the form of definition...
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Using a formula which has been part of the Dutch government's official determination for games of skill when compared to games of chance, Dutch mathematics professor Ben van der Genugten has criticized the Netherlands' official...
