Poker News

PokerStars NJ license application has been suspended by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement and will not be reconsidered unless drastic changes take place.

The major concern is Isai Scheinberg, the founder of PokerStars still having a federal indictment against him for violating the UIGEA of 2006.

PokerStars, the largest online poker site will be suspended for at least two years while the accused executives are still affiliated with the company.

New Jersey has received the most traffic out of the three regulated American states: Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware.

Party Borgata NJ & WSOP NJ are currently leading the way for the New Jersey poker sites.

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The eGR Operator Awards 2013 took place at The Roundhouse in London on 25th November, the awards ceremony rewards excellence in e-Gaming each year.

888 won Operator of the year 2013, Best Poker Operator 2013 as well as Best Casino Operator 2013.

888Poker has won Best Poker Operator for three consecutive years at the EGR awards and will no doubt be celebrating their achievements in the online gaming industry.

More than 700 online gaming operators were included in the nominations with awards given out for several categories including: poker, casino, sportsbetting, bingo, mobile products and many more.

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New Jersey poker sites have launched their software in a testing phase to be complaint with regulation before the official launch of their operations.

So far only a few land based casinos should be approved for the soft launch these include: Golden Nugget Casino, Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Borgata Casino, Tropicana Casino, Trump Plaza and Trump Taj Mahal.

The Atlantic City casinos will be using popular online casino & poker platforms as the backbone of their operations namely: BwinParty, 888, Betfair, Amaya, GameSys, Ultimate Gaming and Bally Technologies.

The poker sites are accepting player registrations and giving testers a limited amount of free poker cash to players before they launch.

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The Premier League 7 is scheduled for the 20th – 26th November 2013, the prestigious event takes place at the Playground Poker Club, Montreal.

The line-up has been announced with twelve of the top poker pros participating in the televised high stakes poker tournament.

Confirmed players for the event include: Antonio Esfandiari, Dan Shak, Phil Laak, Vanessa Selbst, Scott Seiver, Daniel Cates, Jason Koon, Jeff Gross, Sorel Mizzi, Daniel Colman, Jonathan Duhamel and Brian Rast.

The tournament features a buy-in of  $125,000 and attracts the best high stake players in poker, the event has six heats where players must earn points to qualify for the final table.

The PartyPoker Premier League 7 is the perfect event to create some hype leading up to the 2013 WPT Montreal which starts from 29 November at the same venue.

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USA Poker is now licensed and regulated in three American states: Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey, however there are several banks and online payment solutions that are preventing players from depositing.

Banks and companies that are still blocking legal transactions include: Bank of America, Wells Fargo, American Express, Paypal and Discover Financial Services.

These are just some of the issuing prevent US poker players from playing legal poker online, although legal by state law the federal law seems to supersede everything which will become a problem to state-by-state regulated online poker.

Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sand Corp has also started planning his anti-gambling online ads campaign to try and discredit gambling online.

US Poker players who are hoping for the return of online poker to America should consider boycotting the companies and individuals who are preventing it from happening.

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