The New York Online Poker Bill was introduced last week by Senator John Bonacic and plans to regulate online poker in New York.

The bill is exclusively for online poker cash games and tournaments with 15% tax on players revenue. The New York Online Poker Bill will include a bad actor clause preventing poker sites that operated in the US after 31st December 2006 from qualifying for a license.

This is bad news for PokerStars and may affect their chances of getting into the Big Apple intrastate poker list of regulated poker rooms. Unregulated poker sites are will soon be liable for taxes and penalties

The population of New York is similar to New Jersey which is proving to be a success with several poker sites: PartyPoker, 888Poker, WSOP and Ultimate Poker.

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Lindsey Graham introduced a new bill to congress the Restoration of America’s Wire Act which will prohibits all forms of Internet gambling and includes online poker.

The bill was introduced to congress on Wednesday and was backed by nine state representatives. If passed the bill will make any forms of betting online, illegal under federal law.

Backed by Sheldon Adelson, billionaire Las Vegas Sands Casino CEO, in his War on Online Poker and online gambling.

Political analysts have predicted that the bill will most probably not even be up for voting in 2014.

The Democratic Governors Association claims that if the law were to be passed it would also affect the lottery which would lose $20 billion in states revenue.
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Delaware Poker sites will soon join with Nevada to share player pools, this is expected to increase the amount of games available with more players at the tables.

The new partnership will be a step in the right direction as the current set-up of state-by-state separation was not attracting enough players.

Nevada and Delaware governors Brian Sandoval and Jack Markell signed the deal this week to form a partnership for online poker in the two states.

Both states will still have their separate gambling laws and will only share player pools at regulated and approved online poker sites.

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Titan Poker have added a series of micro stakes poker tournaments known as Titan Micros, the weekly tournaments offer a total of $1,000 in prize pools.

The online poker site caters for all players from micro to high stakes with weekly guaranteed poker tournaments for players of any stake level.

See the Titan Micros tournament schedule for daily events with buy-ins of only $1, satellites are also available where players can buy-in with their poker points to win tournament tokens.

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The War on Online Poker has been dramatically increasing in 2014 with the villain Sheldon Adelson ready to spend whatever it takes to get a federal ban to Stop Internet Gambling.

The billionaire Las Vegas Sands CEO, Adelson has unfounded claims against gambling online including: targets the vulnerable, threatens public interest, promotes underage gambling, funds criminal enterprises and international terrorism.

A new organization, The Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection, has recently launched a campaign to counteract Adelson efforts to discredit online gambling in the USA.

The C4COP embraces regulation as it will protect minors, prevent money launderers and end the black market as it is currently doing.

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