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PGCB Tells PA Casinos They Have 30 Days To Get A Wire Act Plan In Order
The PA Gaming Control Board issued a public statement about the new opinion on the Wire Act earlier this week. It didn’t tip the organization’s hand much though. The statement did reaffirm PGCB’s stance that the gambling expansion act was in line with both the old and new opinions. Everything...
The DOJ’s New Take On The Wire Act Is Just Another Opinion
Them’s fightin’ words! An arm of the federal government reversed an eight-year-old legal opinion that certain states always figured gave them the go-ahead to launch online gambling. It certainly sounds...
Rio Las Vegas Faces New Wave Of Sale Rumors — What About WSOP?
Rumors about the potential sale of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, aren’t new. But thanks to a few tweets from Vital Vegas, a fresh round of...
Gavin Smith’s PokerRoad Family Reflects On His Passing
For hundreds of poker fans, the name Gavin Smith goes hand in hand with a legacy of hilarious and enlightening “pokertainment”. The late Smith was more than a poker pro,...
Gavin Smith’s Loss Hurts Poker Fans As Much As His Poker Family
It is abundantly clear the people who knew Gavin Smith miss him dearly. When news broke Tuesday that Smith, 50, died in his sleep, seemingly every person in poker had...
Seneca Nation Must Pay Up After Losing Arbitration Battle In New York
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has emerged victorious in a battle over revenue-sharing payments between the state and Seneca Nation of Indians. In a ruling last week, an arbitration panel...
PGCB Says Gambling Expansion Moving Forward Even After New DOJ Opinion
The latest Department of Justice opinion on the Wire Act has people on alert. However, Pennsylvania is standing pat on its plan to move forward with online gambling in 2019....
WSOP Execs Watering Down Poker’s Biggest Prize – The WSOP Bracelet
Last week, the World Series of Poker released details for 13 more 2019 WSOP bracelet events. In doing so, WSOP brass continued to water down what was once poker’s most prestigious prize....
New DOJ Opinion On Gambling Could Be Bad News For PA Online Gaming
We first heard whispers that a new Department of Justice opinion on the Wire Act was coming last month. It arrived on Monday. The new opinion walked back most of...
How The Wire Act Opinion Will Affect US Online Poker
The US Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion on Monday about the applicability of the Wire Act to interstate gambling, including online poker. In the short-term,...
