As you know - Hunter Biden is the son of Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running-mate, Joe Biden. Hunter, is Joe’s second son, a well-known Federal lobbyist who created a lobbying company known as Oldaker, Biden & Belair, LLP. Joe Biden is currently too busy to worry about any specific issues. His focus these days is on traveling […]
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In April -Â former Vancouver resident Calvin Ayre caught industry observers by surprise when he announced he was quitting his online gambling empire -Â Bodog -, purportedly to regain his privacy and further his charitable activities. The surprise was compounded when he claimed he had transferred ownership of Bodog a year earlier to the Morris Mohawk Gaming […]
A press release distributed by the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative late Thursday afternoon noted that the bill called for an *Administrative Law Judge* to be appointed. He or she would be ultimately charged with identifying which activities are legal and which arent under the UIGEA, which was passed in late 2006. The UIGEA […]
China said the number of Internet users in the country reached about 253 million last month, putting it ahead of the United States as the worlds biggest Internet market -Â according to the New York Times. The estimate, based on a national phone survey and released last week by the China Internet Network Information Centre in […]
What is Joe Biden’s stance on Online Poker ???  The answer has proven hard to come by. According to several websites Joe Biden has a favorable stance on the legalization of gambling. No information can be found about Joe Biden’s specific stance on Internet gambling, online poker, or other Internet related issues. There is one site […]
PokerStars -Â the world’s largest online poker room, is pleased to announce another high profile recruitment to its poker team of international celebrity ambassadors. National Hockey League (NHL) icon and former Toronto Maple Leafs’ captain Mats Sundin will play poker both live and online as part of his new brand ambassador role for PokerStars. Playing online […]
The world record of bad beat jackpots was hit 14th august at party poker where a german poker player lost with quad 9’s against a Royal flush and the jackpot was a fact. The new bad beat jackpot record of $1,013,381.63 was in estimates 21K more than the old industry record. The german player “judith75” […]
For the first time in over ten years the Republican Party Platform does not include language stating that online gambling should be restricted in the United States. Earlier in the month it was discovered that the Platform did include such language, but a loud outcry by the Poker Players Alliance, along with the rest of […]
Just one week away from a scheduled meeting with the European Union about current online gaming regulations, the U.S. has postponed the trade talks. The EU requested the meetings because they feel the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) is in violation of a treaty laid out by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The two […]
A bill that would relieve a significant burden on U.S. financial services companies forced to implement a ban on Internet gambling passed a critical hurdle in Congress today. The Payments System Protection Act (H.R. 6870), approved today by the House Committee on Financial Services, would direct the Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve System, […]