USA Online Poker News

Ultimate Poker Expands Major Tournament Cap

Ultimate Poker Offering Expanded Sunday Tournament Nevada’s first regulated online poker site is already looking to bigger and better things – or at least bigger and better tournaments. Ultimate Poker has announced that their signature Sunday tournament... 

888 Wins Five Year Contract with Delaware Lottery

888 Appointed to Operate iGaming in Delaware In a major coup for one of the world’s most popular and most well-known online gambling companies, 888 Holdings has been selected to become an online gaming provider for the Delaware Lottery, which will oversee... 

PokerStars Files Suit Against Atlantic Club

PokerStars Files Suit Over Atlantic City Casino Deal Online poker website PokerStars has filed suit against the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel, with news breaking this morning that the Isle of Man-based parent company of PokerStars, the Rational Group, also sought,... 

PokerStars Deal for NJ Casino Is a No Go

PokerStars Won't be Buying the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel Last year the parent company online poker website PokerStars, the Rational Group, was reportedly in the process of purchasing a land-based Atlantic City casino called the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel. Now... 

First Regulated Nevada Online Poker Site Launches

Ultimate Poker Launches in Nevada The first regulated online poker website in the United States dealt its inaugural hand today, and with it made a place for itself in the annals of poker history. This morning, Ultimate Poker launched at 9 a.m. Pacific Time, ending... 

Online Gambling May Help NJ Casino Industry

Online Gambling Shouldn't Harm Atlantic City Revenue For those who are opposed to online gambling, it can be fairly easy to construct a laundry list of complaints against its introduction, such as problem gaming, potentially lax regulation, and so forth, but... 

Online Gambling Out of Illinois Bill; May be Spun Off Separately

iGaming Removed from Illinois Casino Measure When a bill expanding land-based casinos in the state of Illinois goes to a full Senate vote there in a few weeks, it is expected to pass rather easily but if it does, it will be without a provision that would have... 

Pennsylvania Rep Proposes Internet Gambling Bill

Online Gambling Proposed in Pennsylvania Legislation introduced this week in the state of Pennsylvania seeks to regulate online poker in addition to traditional table casino games. House Bill 1235, as the new bill is called, was put forward by Pennsylvania State... 

Casino Suggested for Former Chicago Hospital Site

Architecture Firm Proposes Casino for Michael Reese Site The architectural firm behind some of Chicago’s most iconic buildings, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has put forward an idea to redevelop the former Michael Reese Hospital Complex located on the city’s... 

Ray Bitar Pleads Guilty; Awaits Heart Transplant

Former Full Tilt Head Avoids Jail After entering a guilty plea in New York federal court this week via a video feed from California, where he awaits a heart transplant, former Full Tilt poker head honcho Ray Bitar was contrite. Bitar was reported to have expressed...