San Francisco Examiner – Over the past five years, the U.S. Justice Department has busted more than a dozen Internet poker sites that allowed Americans to play online for real money. Websites were shut down, operators were arrested and millions of dollars were seized, even though all the websites were run from outside the U.S. and most of the operators were foreigners. The message from the feds to the world is clear: If you run a website that allows U.S. citizens to play poker for cash, you’re breaking U.S. law and we’re coming after you.However, there seems to be an…

iGaming Business – The National Hockey League (NHL) is to target the mobile gaming market as a way of increasing the growth of the North American ice hockey competition, according to the NHL’s vice-president of mobile marketing and strategy, Chris Golier. The Insidemobileapps.com website said that Golier and the NHL had identified mobile as a key platform on which to target fans. Golier said the NHL has utilised its strategic partnership with online video technology firm NeuLion to create a number of new apps and experiences for both current and potential fans. “This season we’ve launched a few mobile games…

Delaware Online – A public task force created to review the state of Delaware’s casino industry and consider a possible restructuring of gambling tax rates has decided to hold talks  with casino operators behind closed doors. The Lottery and Gaming Study Commission, created by legislation passed earlier this year, will convene an executive session next month with representatives from the state’s three casinos to discuss their proprietary financial  information. Executives from all three casinos made presentations to the commission at a public session Tuesday about the negative effects of growing regional competition and state taxation on their businesses, but only…

Card Player – Like Nevada, the New Jersey online poker system will not allow players to transfer funds to one another via the online poker software — at least for now. New Jersey plans to kick off its first games on Nov. 26 at 9 a.m. local time. The state legalized web poker earlier this year. PokerStars, which looks to be involved with New Jersey online gambling thanks to a partnership, recently asked regulators to reconsider the issue. However, the state didn’t budge. According to a regulations document released by the Division of Gaming Enforcement: “Rational Group [PokerStars and Full…

Mobile Marketing Watch – As our sister site mGamingWatch is reporting, there has been an undeniable growth surge in the online and mobile gambling market, which includes poker, casino games, and sports betting. According to consulting firm H2 Gambling Capital, online gambling generated 25 billion euro or more than 33 billion U.S. dollars in 2012.   This was a 7.2% jump from 2011.  Online casinos accounted for 17% of the margin, while online poker continued its downward trend to 13%. Online gambling represented 8% of the entire gambling market, Poker777 subsequently confirmed. With a penetration rate of over 12%, the European…

Poker Update – The online poker industry saw a rise in player traffic of 5% last week, the largest weekly increase since the “Road to 100 Billion” promotion at PokerStars in June. All but one of the top ten poker rooms and networks on PokerScout’s ranking of global poker sites saw a rise in cash game action for the week. Those 10 top sites retained their positions, except for Winamax grabbing the eighth slot and knocking Bodog into ninth. Reasons for the overall market rise may be cool and damp weather throughout much of Europe, which typically has a tendency…