The Poker Players Alliance which now has over 1 Million poker members and has become a very powerful non-profit membership organization. The Poker Players Alliance mission is to establish favorable laws that provide poker players with a secure, safe and regulated place to play.
“Our membership consists of enthusiasts from around the United States who have [...]

The House Committee on Financial Services held hearings today on Online gambling and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
There were representatives from the United States Federal Reserve System, the US Treasury Department, American Bankers Association plus many more who testified today, mostly about the problems of the UIGEA, how it is unenforceable and all [...]

American Internet poker players and online gambling affiliates were dealt another blow this weekend when ePassporte stopped processing transactions with online poker sites.
A letter sent to Pitbull Poker and posted on compatiblepoker.com, the e-wallet indicated that pressure from the Department Of Justice forced them to cut ties with online poker sites.
“We have been advised that [...]

Online Casinos Insincerity
 
The online gambling regulations have yet again struck the online gambling community. Due to much controversy, last weeks congressional hearing was planned to let these concerns out and comment on the U.S. internet gambling industries side. Critics also brought up the UIGEA as bias against other forms of internet gambling since it clamps [...]

32Red Opens Online Bingo Room to Gaming Public
 
With the popularity of online gaming getting its fair share of the gambling industry, everything that can be converted to simulate actual real life betting and gambling are being a new haven for investors. Recently online gaming juggernaut Microgaming powered by 32Red Casino is launching its bid on [...]

The high growth market of China may soon begin to license regulated online gambling, according to a report in the Macau Daily Times newspaper.
Galaxy Entertainment Group is understood to be making moves to capitalise on an eventual legalising of internet gaming in mainland China.
The Macau Daily cited Galaxy’s deputy director Francis Lui as stating: “Galaxy [...]

NEW YORK (Associated Press) – The American Gaming Association, a trade group that represents the casino industry, spent $1.7 million in 2007 to lobby the federal government on Internet gambling legislation.
The trade group, which opposes legislative proposals that would preempt state authority to regulate gambling, spent $800,000 on lobbying in the second half of the [...]

Signs of a crackdown on online gambling in the US emerged last July with the arrest and indictment of David Carruthers, former chief executive of London-listed online gambling company Betonsports, which was also based in Costa Rica. Mr Carruthers, who is British, is awaiting trial in Missouri.
Betonsports and other internet gambling companies had hoped that [...]

Microsoft, Yahoo and Google – the three largest Internet companies agreed on Wednesday to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations that they had accepted ads for illegal internet gambling.
The companies said they stopped taking the ads years ago. The settlement was announced by Catherine L. Hanaway, the United States attorney for [...]

According to a report in the London Financial Times of Tuesday last week, the banking sector has warned the US Treasury that regulations proposed for the online gambling ban will be impossible to comply unless the Bush administration clarifies conflicting views on the online gambling bill.
The Financial Services Roundtable, which represents dozens of banks and [...]