Leslie Radue

These days one feels pity towards American poker players as finding a decent poker room is becoming more and more of a daunting task, long gone are the days when Americans could safely play at PokerStars or FullTilt Poker both of which are now closed to the USA and sadly FullTilt to the world, at least for the time being.

The choices are very limited for Americans at the moment until legislation eventually gets approved if and when it ever does.

The DOJ is hot on the heels of many of these poker rooms still open to the USA and while many poker-rooms have succeed so far in getting around to paying their players it certainly is risky business.

USA Poker Players can still play at:

Merge – Carbon Poker or Aced Poker

Revolution Gaming – Lock Poker or Cake Poker

Bodog – Under the Bovada Poker label also has a Casino and Sports Betting.

Winning Poker Network – Americas Cardroom

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Zynga Poker believe it or not have more play money players online than even Pokerstars according to a new traffic report for play money rooms published by pokerscout, something that PokerStars the #1 online poker room needs to keep an eye on.

Zynga Poker despite being a play money only site have a large loyal fan base and dominate Facebook and Google + with poker apps for iPhones, iPads and Android based phones and tablets.

PokerStars may face some tough competition from Zynga Poker in years to come should Zynga opt to monetize their poker rooms and offer real money games.

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After a successful PokerStars Micro Millions series held in March, PokerStars Micro Millions II is set to begin from July 12 until 22 July 2012.

The MicroMillions series run by PokerStars offer low stake buy-ins from $0.11 up to $22 but offer large guaranteed prize pools. Micro Millions II will offer 100 guaranteed micro stakes poker tournaments for the full PokerStars Micro Millions II schedule.

To top off the series PokerStars have added additional incentive to redeposit and reload your pokerstars account by offering a free Micro Millions ticket to players who deposit $20 or more.

PokerStars Micro Millions II Bonus Code ‘MICRO’

2012 PokerStars bonus code – STARS600

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PokerStars.es have released their PokerStars Android App for Spain with the iOS version expected to be released shortly. The mobile version of PokerStars has already been launched separately in the UK, Italy and France then made available to the rest of Europe via PokerStars.EU and PokerStars.net

Spain recently introduced their own licensing regulation for online poker, PokerStars have subsequently been granted a licensed to operate in Spain and all Spanish players are required to play on Pokerstars.es

The mobile version of PokerStars was unavailable on the PokerStars.es domain until today, its addition will allow players to install the android PokerStars mobile app and play either Hold em or Pot Limit Omaha with SNGs, tournaments, cash games, PokerStars Zoom with multi-tabling supported.

PokerStars.es is fenced from the rest of the world and Spanish players for now have no option other than to play against their fellow Spaniards due to licensing constraints, it is rumored that sometime next year Spanish players will once again be incorporated into the worldwide PokerStars player pool.

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While it may take a few more months or even years until we see a fully fledged EU gambling law being introduced that all EU members are required to abide by.

The European Union (EU) Parliament Event held on 27 June 2012 in Brussels; saw Michel Barnier Member of the European Commission responsible for Internal Market and Services Online Betting and Gambling in Europe speaking about “How to Regulate Betting and Gambling in Europe – Track record and future perspectives”

Michel Barnier’s speech mentioned that a common European base of principles and measures of protection for players should be in place and enforced by the commission with action to be taken against Member States who violate EU gambling regulation by reopening pending infringements and reopening complaints that have already been closed to those member states that violate the law, the EU Commission is set to propose several European policy initiatives regarding gambling in September.

The speech seems to outline a draft template for future gambling law that will be enforced by the EU commission that member states will be obliged to uphold, which would go a long way in combating any protectionist member states that could be opposed to regulation or protecting their own interests.

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