Card Player – Lawrence Tribe, a law scholar at Harvard, says that so-called “bad actor” clauses that aim to prevent a site like PokerStars from entering a regulated online poker market in the Unite States “would not survive federal constitutional attack.” Essentially, Tribe has argued, in a press release issued this week to the media, that enacting such a provision would be creating a “trial by legislature.” In 2012, PokerStars settled with the federal government without admitting to any wrongdoing in connection with the Black Friday indictment. The firm paid more than $700 million to the feds. Just last week,…

This week the biggest sporting tournament in the world kicks off and you’d have had to be living the life of a hermit not to know that the 2014 FIFA World Cup is taking place in Brazil. Everyone and everything, it seems, has turned into a World Cup version of itself, and bingo’s no exception. Many of the different bingo sites are offering a choice of World Cup themed games that you can enjoy during the build-up to the matches, or on the days that there aren’t any real World Cup games taking place. Winner Bingo has a blog where…

Poker News – Let me ask you a question – are you happy with your poker results right now? Are you where you deserve to be or are you frustrated by fish getting lucky and busting you after all your hard work? Maybe you’ve had the experience of playing well and going deep. Then you get into a big pot with a bad player… You know the kind of thing I’m talking about. You have AK and the fish has AJ – and then big surprise, a jack on the river. All your hard work undone in an instant –…

Eurasia Net – Just about everyone knows that the FIFA World Cup football tournament gets underway June 12 in Brazil. But in a parallel football universe, a little-known tournament has already been completed, and the champion is a land that stretches across portions of France and Italy. The alternative tournament featured 12 teams representing internationally unrecognized nations, places like Abkhazia and South Ossetia, separatist territories that are formally part of the Republic of Georgia, as well as Nagorno-Karabakh, the focal point of an unsettled conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Teams representing Darfur, a strife-torn region of western Sudan, Kurdistan and…

For some soccer fans, the burning question of World Cup match fixing is almost as important as wondering which national team will be crowned champion. That question looms over the upcoming 2014 event is not can matches be fixed by gamblers, but will they be? FIFA assures us that every precaution has been taken to prevent World Cup match fixing from corrupting the games played in Brazil. The organization has begun an “Integrity Initiative” among players, featuring the catchy mantra “Recognize it, resist it and report it.” To aid in this program, FIFA instituted a hotline for players, team officials…

iGaming Business – Malta-based online operator DongCasino.com has announced the launch of an affiliate programme for its online casino and sportsbook in partnership with Income Access, a provider of technology and affiliate iGaming management solutions. The new programme will be managed using the affiliate software of Income Access. To mark the launch of the programme, DongCasino.com has unveiled a promotion for new affiliates. During the first three months, affiliates will receive a revenue share of 65% for the first month, 50% for the second and 40% for the final month. In addition, affiliates that refer 120 or more depositing players…