After 1,050 days, more agonizing to some than others, more than 27,500 American poker players are finally seeing their Full Tilt Poker money in their bank accounts. The Department of Justice made Black Friday a day of infamy in the poker industry, but on this Friday, we’re one step closer to the end of a dark chapter in the history of the game. The Garden City Group, hired by the Department of Justice to manage remission payments to those who had money on FTP, made $76 million in payments early Friday morning. Players who received their money today were those…

Mass Live – Attorney General Martha Coakley on Thursday came out against a bill allowing online gambling because it would open the door to the use of credit cards to buy Lottery products. The bill was sponsored by Treasurer Steve Grossman. Coakley’s comments opened up a new issue in the 2014 gubernatorial race, in which Coakley and Grossman are the two leading Democratic candidates. Grossman had recently attacked Coakley for her positions on criminal justice issues. Coakley’s statements indicate that she plans to be equally aggressive against Grossman, focusing on his work as treasurer. Coakley did not mention Grossman in…

According to a published report from Gambling Compliance, legislation to put a federal ban on US internet gaming and poker will be introduced by a Senator from the state of South Carolina, powerful Republican Lindsey Graham. The report from Gambling Compliance, passed along to the Poker Players Alliance membership through Vice President of Player Relations Rich Muny, states that this legislation will “soon” be introduced. It would look to rewrite the Wire Act of 1961 to include a ban on gaming over the internet alongside prohibitions that are already in place. If that bill was to pass through the Democratic-controlled…

Bitcoin sportsbook BitBook.biz has been offline for most of the day due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack. BitBook.biz acknowledged the attack on popular Bitcoin discussion forum Bitcointalk.org. SBR users are also discussing the outage in the Players Talk section of the SBR posting Forum. Users are also discussing the downtime at Reddit. BitBook.biz regarding the DDoS attack: “BitBook has been hit with a large DDoS attack that knocked out parts of our hosting provider’s data center. We are working with our hosting provider on restoring our service.” Online sportsbooks are often the target of web based attacks. DDoS…

iGaming Business – Online gaming security solutions provider Dictao has announced that its compliance service will fully support the introduction of a new regulated internet slots market in Spain. The Spanish gambling regulator recently announced that it is to regulate online slots games in the country. Dictao said that once slots games go live in Spain, operators can use its security solutions to offer customers protection whilst gaming online. Applications for general licences will be re-opened, allowing new operators to enter the Spanish market for the first time since the initial opening took place in June 2012. Gabriel Dubois, head…

Calvin Ayre – French online gambling operator Betclic Everest Group has prevailed in its legal challenge of Pari Mutuel Urbain’s (PMU) practice of pooling its land-based and online horseracing wagers. Betclic filed its complaint in 2012 with the French Competition Authority over the PMU.fr site’s ability to leverage PMU’s mammoth retail wagering presence, which has allowed PMU to capture 85% of the country’s horse wagering market. The former betting monopoly has been given until Sept. 30, 2015 to erect a wall between its online and retail liquidity. Betclic is enjoying less favorable legal outcomes in Belgium, where the Public Prosecution…