December 24, 2015
Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate hit the headlines again Wednesday, granting the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s request for triple damages on the $290 million award he made against Pokerstars and parent Amaya Gaming in November (see previous reports). That could see the two online gambling companies saddled with a total of $870 million…and that’s not […]
December 17, 2015
A county level case in Kentucky that had its genesis in a failed 2008 attempt to seize the international domains of online gambling companies (see previous reports) is back in the headlines this week with the news that Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate recently awarded a $290 million judgment against defendants Pokerstars and its […]
December 7, 2015
The Poker Players Alliance action group has filed a motion to join a State of Kentucky lawsuit against certain Pokerstars associates which is seeking to claim millions of dollars in player losses between 2006 and 2011 (see previous reports) for state coffers. The PPA says that it is determined that any funds awarded go to […]
September 30, 2015
This month saw the close of another legislative session in California, still without a solution to the legalisation of online poker for the seventh or eighth year running…and racetracks and some tribal groups apparently still miles apart on agreement, casting a shadow over future possibilities. Aside from “bad actor” clauses designed to keep major competitors […]
September 12, 2015
The entrenched positions of interested parties in California has again ensured that the legalisation of online poker has not progressed beyond committee stage as the current legislative session ended this week. The session started with strong hopes and four different political proposals, but ended with just one – the skeletal AB431 authored by Assemblyman Adam […]
September 10, 2015
Wednesday’s hearing on internet poker, chaired by the New York state Senate’s Standing Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering head Sen. John Bonacic, turned out to be a mild affair with generally positive comments…but the presence of only two legislators from the 11-man committee suggested a lack of real interest in the project…and even those […]
September 5, 2015
New York State Senator John Bonacic is preparing for a meeting of his Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee next Wednesday to hear opinions on legalised online poker following the introduction of the Senator’s poker-only proposal S 5302 earlier this year. Titled “Discussing the Future of Online Poker in New York State”, the four-hour session […]
August 18, 2015
ONLINE POKER TO FEATURE IN SEPTEMBER HEARING State Senator Bonacic to put the issue on the September agenda. The chairman of the New York state Senate Racing, Gaming, and Wagering Committee, Sen. John Bonacic, has confirmed that he will schedule a hearing on internet poker in September this year, explaining that he wants to examine […]
July 19, 2015
It appears that assessments earlier this month that California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s online poker legalisation bill was dead may have been premature. The assumptions that the bill, titled “Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015”, had been shelved following its withdrawal from the agenda of a July 8 committee hearing have turned out to be […]
July 11, 2015
It looks as if Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s bill AB 167 seeking to legalise online gambling in California may be joining Mike Gatto’s similarly motivated AB9 measure in limbo. Industry political observers have noted that, like Gatto’s bill, AB167 has been withdrawn from the agenda of next week’s Assembly hearing on the issue. Assemblyman Jones-Sawyer has […]