Having a monopoly in a market with years of pent-up consumer demand ought to be a recipe for easy success, and that’s exactly what PokerStars has enjoyed in the first two weeks of real-money online poker play in Michigan. While the Michigan Gaming Control Board has yet to issue any formal revenue updates for online […]
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Sheldon Adelson, America’s #1 Online-Poker Foe, Passes at 87
Adelson was beloved by some and reviled by others, though in the poker world that balance long tipped toward revulsion many years ago.
DOJ’s Wire Act Stall Game Continues
By way of continuing to waste government resources in the names of Sheldon Adelson and crony capitalism, the US Department of Justice has been back in court in recent days in its “Wire Act” appellate case in the US’s Third Circuit. At stake, of course, is the immediate future of interstate online poker in the […]