The owner of PartyPoker, GVC Holdings, has confirmed that its Fraud Team closed 277 PartyPoker bots accounts between December 2018 and March 2019, leading to nearly $735,000 in associated funds being returned to players. The bots are computer programs that are created to play against human opponents or other pieces of software, giving some players an unfair advantage. PartyPoker said that its specialist Poker Fraud Team, comprising a collection of former poker professionals who are equipped with the necessary knowledge and expertise to investigate suspicious activities, had been a key driver in the clampdown. Since the start of December, more…

The road on the Wire Act lawsuit began on Thursday, as arguments were heard regarding the Department of Justice opinion on the Wire Act. In what came as a surprise to no one, the DOJ tried unsuccessfully to have the lawsuit dismissed during arguments. Most experts saw this coming after a memo issued earlier in the week by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He tried to put the kibosh on the New Hampshire Lottery lawsuit by stating the new opinion of the Wire Act did not include state lotteries. Judge Paul Barbadoro, who was overseeing Thursday’s arguments, did not agree…

The executive director of the New Hampshire Lottery Commission, Charles McIntyre, said he expects a decision on their Wire Act lawsuit before the end of May, even as arguments in the case begin in about a week. The justice system can sometimes move slowly, but McIntyre predicts a fairly quick resolution. He stated that he expects Judge Paul J. Barbadoro to render his decision before the end of May. “In a statutory issue,” McIntyre said. “There’s a lot of things to look at. We’re talking about a law passed pre-internet. Most laws have been updated to reflect technology, and this…

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The World Poker Tour has signed a new partnership deal with Mexican multimedia conglomerate TV Azteca, a Grupo Salinas company. This comes as part of WPT’s ongoing efforts towards global expansion. The five-year strategic alliance will see WPT’s extensive poker content library distributed in Mexico and across Latin America. TV Azteca sports division is called Azteca Deportes. It produces sports events and regular sports programming aired on the Azteca Uno and Azteca 7 networks in Mexico and on Azteca América in the United States. Under the terms of the agreement, 17 seasons of the WPT will reach tens of millions…

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Poker players and gamblers in waiting for Pennsylvania Internet betting will have to wait a while longer… several months, in fact, for the chance to play. Last week, state officials delivered testimony to that effect during a budget hearing before the House Appropriations Committee. Kevin O’Toole, executive director of the PA Gaming Control Board, told the committee that regulated gambling sites won’t appear until sometime around July 1. Online sports betting figures to be on a similar launch timeline. The updated outlook comes some 16 months after Gov. Tom Wolf signed the PA online gambling bill into law. The first…