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…

Poker seems to become more popular every day! Consequently, so are poker tournaments. And once a player the basics are mastered, the sky’s the limit. The following guide can help those who are interested in poker tournaments, and help to understand the basics of the game, the fundamentals of strategy, and the high-level of competition. What Are Poker Tournaments? Poker tourneys refer to regulated and planned poker competitions between multiple individuals; the size of this group varies depending upon the tournament at-hand. Poker tourneys are held in both physical and online casinos. Each competitor must put up a buy in,…

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…

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A congressman from New Jersey threatens the DOJ with lawsuit over their change in opinion on the Federal Wire Act… and not just any congressman. Less than two weeks after the state Attorney General filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out if anti-online gaming casino mogul Sheldon Adelson helped influence a reversal, the New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney took things a step further. Sweeney (D) wrote a letter to the DOJ criticizing their new interpretation, stating that if the DOJ doesn’t reverse course, New Jersey will take the matter to court. “If the OLC 2019 Wire…

Is online gambling illegal even in states where it’s regulated? I guess we’ll see… as the Department of Justice has issued a replacement for its 2011 opinion which said that the Wire Act only applies to sports betting. The new opinion now makes the Wire Act applicable to any form of gambling that crosses state lines, including online gambling and online lottery. Several states have legalized online gambling in the wake of the 2011 opinion, including New Jersey, Nevada, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Sports betting and online sports gambling have also cropped up in many states in the past year in…