Author: John Mehaffey

The biggest news this week was the California Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization held a hearing to discuss the potential regulation of California online poker.  The hearing was positive for the online poker movement.  Committee members were clearly educated about the topic and several appeared proponents of passing legislation this year. The hearing started out […]

WSOP Adds New Jersey Deposit Options WSOP added two new deposit options for New Jersey players.  Mazooma and PayNearMe are now available to players.  Mazooma connects to a player’s bank account. PayNearMe is a way for people to send cash to WSOP in parts of New Jersey that are too far away from Atlantic City […]

Beast Rake Removed from Winning Poker Network The Winning Poker Network removed all Beast tables on Saturday.  This also removed the $.10-$.25 rake per hand.  The Beast promotion still continues.  All tables now participate in it without any additional fees.  Winning Poker takes $.02 for every $.06 in rake taken from the table and puts […]

New York Online Poker Bill Introduced New York State Senator John Bonacic introduced S6913 that would regulated online poker in New York.  The bill would not permit casino games.  Operators would pay a 15 percent tax on all rake.  Cash games and tournaments would be allowed.  The bill has a bad actor clause.  If enacted […]

Federal Bill to Ban Online Gambling Introduced A federal bill titled the Restoration of America’s Wire Act seeks to ban most forms of online gambling.  It was introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) this week.  The bill would ban online poker, casino games, and sports betting.  It would protect fantasy sports and horse racing.  State […]

Lock Poker has been in business for over five years. It opened with great promotions and support.  It worked to draw players through its rakeback promotions and house pros.  Its popularity exploded after Black Friday.  That was due to it being on Merge Gaming, the network that quickly shot up to number one in the […]

The online poker industry was active in Las Vegas this week.  The iGaming North America conference was held at Planet Hollywood.  It included a debate between Caesars Interactive CEO Mitch Garber debated Las Vegas Sands Senior Vice President of Government Relations Andy Abboud. Online poker proponents overwhelmingly judged Mitch Garber the winner of this debate.  […]

Lock Poker Skin Launches Using Superwins Brand A new Lock Poker skin launched this week.  It is known as Superwins.eu.  The site shares many cash games and tournaments with Lock Poker.  Superwins and Lock Poker support both claim that the two sites have different owners.  Superwins also states that is has its own cashier. One […]

Most Merge Gaming Skins Leave Nevada Sportsbook.ag, PlayersOnly, SuperBook, Aced and Carbon Poker notified all Nevada players this week telling them that their accounts had been closed.  The company that manages the cashier for these companies decided not to do business in Nevada any longer.  All players were forced to cashout immediately.  This comes just […]

Full Tilt Poker Remission Payments Processed Players that have submitted verifiable bank account information to the Garden City Group began receiving remission payments Friday.  The claims administrator reported more than 27,500 former Full Tilt players received an estimated $76 million is payments.  Some banks will take a few business days to post the electronic funds […]