Online Poker News

PartyGaming officials kept the online casino company in readiness to re-enter the US gambling market by purchasing the World Poker Tour brand....

PartyGaming said its third quarter results show its online casino division earning more than its online poker branch for the first time....

Sometime-aspiring poker player Joanna Krupa aims to be the "Dancing with the Stars" champion, with a little help from Playboy....

Full Tilt, one of the most popular Internet poker operators, is being sued in California for supposedly using software bots disguised as players to win hands on the site, and for accusing legitimate players of operating as bots themselves....

An online gambling ad was ordered pulled in the UK by regulators for featuring a 20-year-old poker champion, seen as a ploy to attract underage players....

PokerStars, the largest online poker operator, announced it would sponsor the all-women's High Heels Poker Tour and the tour's academy for female poker players....

A man whose sole source of support is playing online poker saw his winnings confiscated in a decision by the Supreme Court of Denmark, saying laws against professional gambling apply both to land and Internet....

A movement to join tribal casinos and land-based poker rooms in support of California's intrastate online poker bill has fallen apart as some tribes say caution is needed regarding legal status of existing gaming compacts....

The attorney general of Massachusetts prevented an intrastate online poker bill from advancing to the ballot and declared online gambling in all forms illegal in the state, just as she swore running for US Senate wouldn't influence her job....

California lawmakers are intent on moving carefully with the bill to regulate intrastate online poker, even if it means holding the measure over until the next session....

Poker, until recently a blossoming game in Russia, is not outlawed with all casino gambling, leading to a state demand that the Russian poker federation be closed....

California tribes are in a heated debate over whether to support or oppose legislation that seeks to bring legal intrastate online poker to the state....

Tribal casino operators are looking to work with long-time foes in state poker rooms to lobby for intrastate online poker in California....

A groundbreaking innovator in the world of Internet poker and online gambling was found murdered at a home he owned in Sweden....

Electronic poker tables which speed up play and avoid dealer errors were installed by a casino in Reno eager to try a new product with uneven response in earlier testing....

Attorneys for people convicted of illegal gambling at a house poker game demanded the decision be reversed due to a lack of definition of gambling in South Carolina law....

A new bill in the US Senate proposes regulation and licensing of online poker, but not all the news is good for Internet gamblers as high taxation lies ahead with legalization....

The need to generate more state revenue has Italian legislators passing laws allowing online casinos and cash games at online poker rooms....

A motion to disclose the information contained in the sealed warrants granting permission to the US Department of Justice to seize money intended for US online poker players was heard today....

Poker star Annie Duke lobbied Congress during National Poker Week, and says attitudes on the Hill are swinging toward more open-mindedness toward online gambling....

Authorities in Russia abruptly reversed existing policy and declared poker to be as illegal as other forms of casino gambling....

Microgaming changed the currency and added a a new wrinkle to tournaments at the online casino operator's online poker network....

The motion to return seized online poker bank accounts by payment processor Account Services has been buttressed by a "friend of the court" brief by the PPA, saying online poker is not against the law....

Only two years after banning video poker in the midst of shadowy political scandals involving the gaming industry, North Carolina lawmakers are looking at bring back the games....

An amateur golfer who plays online poker professionally had his status revoked by the USGA after publishing a gambling challenge to anyone who could beat him in a poker-golf combination, with $1 million at stake....

Poker advocates thought that they had reached a cease-fire with the Department of Justice regarding the seizure of bank accounts containing funds to be paid online poker winners, but the DoJ apparently disagrees....

Russia is seeing a poker boom as casinos are no longer legal but card rooms remain open....

The political representative for the Poker Voters of America says California's need for money may force legislators to rush the online poker bill into law....

The Poker Players Alliance will hold a press conference Monday during WSOP events to announce dates for National Poker Week....

A message from Poker Players Alliance executive director John Pappas on the group's website tells players the US government attack on their money is legaly unjustified and won't affect future play....

A discussion over the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association on the Two Plus Two online poker forums shows little regard for fellow gambling patrons by poker players....

The Poker Players Alliance accused the US government of seizing bank accounts full of money intended to pay residents who won at online poker sites....

A scientific review of over 100 million hands of poker finds strong evidence the game is ruled by skill, putting poker outside most legal definitions of gambling....

A change in gambling laws has caused casinos around Moscow to disguise themselves as poker rooms....

Once again, prosecutions against gambling became entangled in laws with poorly worded concepts and undefined terms, leaving a South Carolina judge to find poker is skill, not gambling, but players are still guilty of illegal gambling....

A judge in Pennsylvania decided that poker did not meet the state's definition of illegal gambling, as skill was found to be the major part of the game....

The Poker Players Association has taken out ads in Washington newspapers asking that Congress follow through on regulating Internet gambling and removing the existing ban....

Most definitions of gambling include the need for consideration on the part of patrons, yet police are intent on busting poker leagues that don't accept wagers....

A Texas legislator wants to legalize poker to help both the state and gamblers....

Kandu, a new variant of poker, removes the questions of luck, and therefore is not illegal gambling....

The new online poker room Cool Hand Poker seeks to encourage signups by the average player by preventing pros and other sharks from playing simultaneously at multiple tables....

Internet poker operator Titan Poker is giving players a chance to win sponsorships to represent the gambling site at major tournaments....

With the world of Internet casino poker rooms under a constant cloud of suspicion, one man has developed a method of dealing that affords transparency and credibility....

Famed Internet gambling site Titan Poker is giving winners of weekly events a free trip to Melbourne to play in the Poker Cup Australia 2008....

After a five-year absence, poker is being brought back to the Mohegan Sun Casino....

A much-anticipated agreement between Professional poker player Michelle Orpe and Purple Lounge online casinos has been reached....

Yet another research study has found winning poker play to be based on skill rather than luck....

World Tavern Poker held its fifth World Tavern Poker Open in Las Vegas, and players who attended the event had nothing but rave reviews....

Live dealers may soon be a thing of the past for casino poker players as computerized dealers are the new trend in the popular game....

A teenage university student with almost no experience playing cards, won $96,000 in a SkyCity casino poker tournament Saturday....