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Party Poker, which offers one of the best rakeback deals in the world at 40%, has been out of the American online poker market ever since the United States signed the UIGEA into effect in 2006.  However, this four-year hiatus from the US Internet poker market could be over since Party Gaming CEO Jim Ryan made some encouraging statements recently about a potential return.  Ryan believes that the United States is serious about overturning the UIGEA because the game actually involves lots of poker strategy and skill when compared to other forms of gambling.  He spoke on the matter by …

Luckily, the Gambling Act of 2005 hasn’t hurt the UK gambling industry too badly.  In fact, the law that was designed to keep gambling under control hasn’t been used much as opposed to say the UIGEA in the United States.  But just recently, we’ve seen the act rear its head in a case against a Cheshire pub that may have a whole lot of people wanting to stick to online poker from now on.  The UK Gambling Commission, which was created as a result of the Gambling Act of 2005, recently commissioned three men for running poker games out of …

As we come to the end of 2009 and approach a new decade, we thought it would be nice to look back at some of the big news events in poker over the last ten years. Ah the Noughties… It certainly has been an eventful one. Let’s look at some of the big events in the last decade. First off has to be the rise of the poker room. With the internet changing in leaps and bounds, the quality of poker rooms has improved alongside it. And the emergence of rakeback as a regular return on online poker play has …

A new bill that would advance the legalization and regulation (and taxation) of online gambling in the United States on a national scale has been introduced to U.S. Congress by Senators Judd Gregg and Ron Wyden. The bill, S3108, or the Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act, is, on the surface, an ambitious effort to overhaul a great deal of tax laws and regulations in the United States. Described by the media as a call to dramatically lower taxes on big corporations, which would result in cutting corporation tax from by 11 percent to a flat rate of 24 percent …