Online Poker Blog and Poker News

We are now over 10 days after the infamous proceedings of Black Friday in the poker world—and as the US-friendly poker sites still serving the market have seen a huge increase in traffic, the overall online poker landscape has seen a 22% drop.

With Black Friday and all of its developments beginning to die down, the poker world is now looking toward the future –well about a month into the future as the World Series of Poker and its May 31, 2011 start date fast approaches.

Absolute Poker has finally issued a statement regarding last Friday’s USA Department of Justice domain seizures and indictments. Read this blog post to find out if Absolute will be paying out player balances, accepting USA players, and more.

The online poker world –especially in the United States– is breathing a collective sigh of relief today after the news that the PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have come to an agreement with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara.

The regulatory agencies for the three seized online poker sites responded to the US government’s online poker crackdown with statements on their websites Tuesday. See their responses and our analysis by reading this blog post.

While some online poker players from the US are looking at Canada, Costa Rica, Thailand, Holland, and other locales around the world as new homes, others are pondering a switch to live poker –a switch we have seen many players make and few succeed at.

Most people are having a pretty rough go of it in trying to make heads or tails out of the criminal indictment and civil lawsuit that were filed on Friday. In this article I’ll take a look at the crux of the case and what charges the owners are facing.

In a surprising and stunning move by the United States Department of Justice, a federal indictment was unsealed in the southern district court of New York that has charged three of the largest online poker websites in the world with bank fraud and other illegal gambling offenses.

After a number of states have flirted with becoming the “first” state to pass online poker legislation, the District of Columbia surprised us all by quickly moving a measure through their budget bill that makes the nation’s capital the first jurisdiction to offer its residents intrastate online poker!

The NAPT, after a grand total of just four poker tournaments, has crowned its first repeat winner in the form of Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, as she captured the NAPT Mohegan Sun title for the second straight year.