Author: John Mehaffey

Bally’s Atlantic City to Open WSOP.com Poker Room Bally’s in Atlantic City will open a WSOP.com branded poker room in the Wild West portion of its property.  The 42-table poker room will include free wi-fi, phone chargers at all seats and 20 televisions.  The poker room will be located on the sixth floor.  The number […]

Mississippi Online Gaming Bill Dies A bill that would have allowed online poker and casinos games in Mississippi died in committee this week.  The Mississippi Lawful Internet Gambling Act of 2014 failed to make it out of committee for a third straight year.  Mississippi is a casino destination for players across the South.  Resorts may […]

Bodog and Bovada $3 Million Black Diamond Poker Open Bodog and its U.S.-facing skin Bovada will spread over 200 events for the 2014 Black Diamond Poker Open.  The combined guaranteed prize pool is $3 million.  There will be two separate series.  The Contender Series offers low buy-in events.  It will kick off on February 18 […]

Several Merge Gaming Skins Leave Delaware and New Jersey Merge Gaming skins that use the central cashier system banned players in Delaware and New Jersey this week.  The move appears to be related to payment processing and not to regulations as Nevada players still have access to the sites involved with this move.  Unlike other […]

Full Tilt Remission Payments Processed by March 31 The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) announced on the Two Plus Two poker forum that the U.S. Department of Justice has approved $82 million in repayments to former U.S. Full Tilt Poker players.  There are an estimated 30,000 players that will get paid by March 31, according to […]

New Jersey Releases 2013 Internet Gaming Revenue The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement released 2013 Internet gaming revenue numbers.  The amount won by New Jersey regulated sites in 2013 was $8,368,837.  One interesting take from this was that about 38 percent of the revenue came from poker. Borgata and Caesars were the top two […]

The holidays are always slow for online poker news.  This past season was no different.  The first full week of 2014 brought fresh industry news. Party Poker New Jersey Announces Pro Sports Sponsorships Party Poker in New Jersey struck a deal with the Philadelphia 76’ers and New Jersey Devils to become a sponsor.  This includes […]

LiveAce Ceases Operations Troubled subscription site LiveAce closed without notice on Thursday.  The site placed a notice to players on Friday stating that the company had suspended operations.  The company blamed a lack of subscribers for its demise. Subscribers paid $19.99 per month to receive daily reloads of chips.  These players will receive a refund […]

The highlight of this week was a House subcommittee hearing on online gambling.  The bill up for discussion was the Poker Freedom Act.  The witnesses included American Gaming Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman, Poker Players Alliance Executive Director John Pappas and Las Vegas Sands Senior Vice President Andy Abboud. The committee members appeared to […]

American online poker players outside of Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey have to accept a degree of risk every time they sit down at a table.  Some players in those three states still continue to play at unregulated sites for various reasons. A Bodog support center in the Philippines was raided last week.  This has […]