News on January 21th
London poker club owner Derek Kelly will appeal a jury’s guilty verdict convicting him of organizing illegal Texas Hold’em games. He announced that he will continue his legal battle to prove poker is a game of skill, not luck.
This past Tuesday, a Snaresbrook Crown Court jury found Kelly guilty of contravening England’s Gaming Act 1968 for illegally taking profits of as much as 10 percent from players on two occasions at the Gutshot club he manages [Read More…]
Eurolinx announced today that, effective immediately, it has switched networks from the Tain Network to the Microgaming Poker Network. The poker room says the decision was made primarily because of increased market consolidation and Microgaming’s high quality software. [Read More…]
Long known as a bastion of poker on the East Coast, the Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa opened up action for the 2nd Annual Borgata Winter Poker Open on January 17th. The tournament, which was added last year as a World Poker Tour event, will be running until January 30th and, if initial numbers pan out through the event, could make the tournament the largest one east of the Mississippi. [Read More…]
The confusion commenced when Neteller abruptly cut-off US gamblers from using its third party payment processing facilities following the arrests in the United States by the FBI of two of its founders and ex-directors.
Online players are skeptical of the company’s subsequent claim that it was merely putting in place an exit strategy planned since last November in the backwash of the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. [Read More…]