Michigan Lawmakers Pass Online Gambling Bill. Meanwhile federal lawmakers are proposing a nationwide sports betting bill, Nevada gaming regulators have approved an interesting new casino game, and the AGA has chosen a new leader. Michigan Lawmakers Pass Online Gambling Bill It is currently what it called a "lame duck" session both for state and federal…
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Chinese authorities have strengthened their oversight of online gambling activity and content by shutting down multiple mobile poker apps. Shenzhen authorities have arrested a total of 71 people in the past year for gambling activities on Tencent’s WeChat and QQ platforms, in an attempt to clean up the country's illegal gambling problems. This has led…
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In March, Adam Lulat won Grosvenor U.K. Poker Tour Manchester for £68,930 (~$95,000), topping a field of 241 for his biggest career cash by miles after having just $17,000 in cashes before that. While that come-up would have been a fine springboard for Lulat onto bigger things in his poker endeavors or just a big score allowing him to…
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Considering the fact that it is almost impossible to prevent and control the boom in gambling and sports betting, the Law Commission of India (LCI) submitted a report yesterday to the law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wherein they clearly stated that a complete ban on gambling and betting on sports is not working and so it is…
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The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear a petition that seeks to declare poker as a game of skill and asks to drop the gambling charges against players arrested from the Greater Kailash premises on 16th September, 2016. This petition was filed by Karan Mutha, who was arrested for playing the game of poker…
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Justice Valmiki J. Mehta of the Delhi HC reiterated the law stated in the 1967 Supreme Court ruling of State of Andhra Pradesh v. K. Satyanarayana and proved that playing the game of rummy ( card game) with small stakes from a few annas to some rupees does not amount to gambling. Mehta quoted the…
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World’s largest poker site- PokerStars has announced the shutdown of its Australian online gaming operations on September 11, 2017. This drastic move has come after the Australian Senate passed a bill that seeks to ban unlicensed online casino and poker services to customers who are based in Australia. Knowing that this would happen, PokerStars has…
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