November 12, 2018
GreySnowPoker has an Isle of Man licence. Almost as a footnote to the complicated and rather sad machinations of the infamous Fred Khalillian and his Poker Tribe and Poker Tribes disasters (see previous reports) the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma went fully operational with a new online poker site last week, titled GreySnowPoker. The site operates […]
September 22, 2017
The Iowa tribe of Oklahoma, working through its Isle of Man subsidiary Ioway Internet Gaming Enterprise Limited, has secured an online gambling licence from the IOM Gambling Supervision Commission, opening the door for its plans to launch an international online poker enterprise. The licence comes a little less than two years after the tribe first […]
December 14, 2016
The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma is to acquire a controlling 51 percent interest in its Pokertribe.com software partner, Fred Khalilian’s Universal Entertainment Group, for $10 million according to a report in the Oklahoman newspaper, quoting the notorious entrepreneur. Approached by the newspaper, the tribe’s chairman, Billy Walkup, confirmed the $10 million price tag for a […]
May 19, 2016
The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma has wasted no time in exploiting a US District Court’s green light for its online poker plans (see previous reports), launching the free-to-play Pokertribe.com site this week from servers on tribal land and powered by Universal Entertainment Group. The free-play site is just the first phase of a plan to […]
April 23, 2016
With the ink barely dry on its federal court authority to start an international online poker operation from servers on its tribal lands (see previous reports) the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma is moving fast to get the show on the road. On Friday the tribe announced a timetable for the launch of PokerTribe which includes […]
April 20, 2016
The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma’s tenacity in pursuing a business strategy to offer international online poker through servers located on tribal land (see previous reports) could be about to bear fruit. After final arguments presented to U.S. District Judge David L. Russell following an indication from the state government earlier this year that it would […]
April 7, 2016
The Iowa tribe of Oklahoma’s long fight to be allowed to operate an international online poker site from its tribal territory appears to be reaching a successful conclusion. The Journal Record reports that the tribe and arbitrator Charles Chapel met with federal Judge David Russell this week for another discussion on the proposed PokerTribe.com venture, […]
February 26, 2016
Oklahoma’s 800-strong Iowa Tribe has filed a request that a federal judge confirm an arbitrator’s award last November giving it permission to run a gambling website titled Pokertribe for players around the world, saying “undisputed material facts” support its claim. In a dispute with the state last year, it was agreed that an arbitrator would […]