With legal online poker currently only available in three U.S. states, the majority of Americans continue to frequent unregulated sites. And one of these sites is Lock Poker, or should I say “was,” because the disgraced site has finally shut down. That said, let’s discuss why this is a big deal, how much money they […]
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American online poker players who relocated to Canada and Mexico following Black Friday recently got a nasty surprise from 888poker. The world’s second largest poker room sent out emails to relocated US citizens explaining that their accounts have been closed. The emails also instructed players on how to recover their money and asked that they […]
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Even after Black Friday, a number of offshore online poker sites and networks have continued to operate in the unregulated US gaming market. But slowly, states are starting to legalize and regulate online poker, including Delaware and New Jersey. Most likely in an attempt to avoid clashing over legal matters, Merge Gaming have decided to […]
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Has the much-hyped Bitcoin finally arrived as an online poker currency? Perhaps you could say so because the Winning Poker Network (WPN) recently added Bitcoin as a deposit method. This is huge news for the virtual currency because WPN are the second largest US-facing online poker operation, and they’re easily the biggest poker entity to […]
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