When are you ready to use a poker strategy? When people think of poker luck often comes to mind. Most people who do not play poker think that it’s either all about the luck of the draw or cheating. This is far from the truth. Well, luck may play a little into it but not much. It comes down to strategy when playing poker. The strategy is what separates the losers from the winners. A good strategy can, and often does, give a poker player the edge in a game. Success in this game isn’t about just drawing a few…

Here’s to hoping that the eighth time is a charm for New York online poker. Lawmakers in the Empire State are once again consider online poker legislation, following a nearly zero progress through 2019. State Senator Joseph Addabbo is once again at the helm of the 2020 push. But New York lawmakers have filed bills to regulate online poker every year since 2014 without success, and the new legislation remains unchanged from 2019. The state Constitution prohibits these sorts of games with a few exceptions, including the regulated commercial casino industry. The enabling law does not, however, include any authorization…

As America inches state by state into regulated online gambling, rumors of a US Network have started to circulate, with PartyPoker at the center. Players at BetMGM and Borgata Poker in New Jersey recently received emails about a chance to win an entry into a PartyPoker US Network $250K Freeroll. The event is slated for January 26. The use of the term US Network appears to be new branding for PartyPoker. While the term US Online Poker Network could mean a variety of things, best guesses say that PartyPoker could be planning to go live in Nevada and then merge…

The Bureau of Gambling Control have proposed new California card rooms rules that have many of the establishments saying they will be forced to close if they are enforced. California has over 70 card rooms, many in urban centers where tribal casinos don’t operate. In addition to poker, these clubs also operate pai gow poker, blackjack and baccarat.  If new rules proposed by the state Bureau of Gambling Control are adopted, card room operators say, playing the games will be so complicated, players will go to tribal casinos that aren’t bound by such rules. The bureau has been holding hearings…

Not long ago we were all waiting for the launch of online poker in the Keystone State. Now, just over a month after launch, PokerStars Pennsylvania is outperforming all the estimates. Tournament traffic has been very high: the turnout for the ongoing PACOOP has been so strong that PokerStars has already upped the guarantees by over 20%. But perhaps the clearest sign of its strong first month is its cash game traffic. Based on data tracked by independent monitor GameIntel, available on the PRO Data platform and available exclusively to PokerFuse under license, cash game traffic hit an average of…

PokerStars will become the first web poker site in the Keystone State, as Pennsylvania online poker kicks off November 4th… although it will only be a test launch. Still, the wait is over and the games are about to begin! At a recent meeting of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board a spokesperson confirmed that they have staff “…prepared to initiate and oversee a test launch this Monday… it would include the testing of a poker game”. This means that Pennsylvania online poker will not yet be available for everyone… just that they are testing the software and preparing to go…