Card Player – Nevada’s three online sites collected a total of $792,000 in revenue during the month of April, according to a state reported released Wednesday morning. That figure amounts to a decline of 14.5 percent compared to March’s $926,000. February’s figure was $824,000. February marked the first time ever that a Silver State gaming revenue report included online poker figures. The state was keeping the numbers under wraps until a third casino firm, South Point, started offering games. Station Casinos, which debuted games in spring 2013, and Caesars Entertainment, which kicked things off in late summer 2013, are the…

LA Times – In legislative proceedings, the most important words in a debate often are the ones left unmentioned. At a hearing held by a California state assembly committee last month about legalizing online poker, the unspoken term was PokerStars. No hearing witnesses wanted to say outright that they were talking about PokerStars. It’s the largest online poker company in the world, which wants in on the riches to be had if California legalizes Internet card play, but it also has faced federal charges of money laundering and fraud. So the April 23 discussion before the Governmental Organization Committee was…

Miami Herald – Florida City could be home to Miami Dade’s next poker room and, with time, slot machines, under a loophole in the law affirmed Tuesday by a state appeals court. The decision by the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee overruled state regulators and said that Magic City Casino’s parent company, West Flagler Associates, is eligible to obtain a summer jai alai permit that could also open the door to expanded gambling. Because of a loophole in state law, West Flagler is required to obtain the jai alai permit and then operate just a single jai alai…

Courier Mail – Daniel Tzvetkoff, the Queensland business whiz who became an informant and key player in the shutting down of America’s multimillion-dollar online poker industry, could avoid more jail time in the US. Tzvetkoff faced a 75-year sentence in a federal jail when he was arrested in Las Vegas in 2010 for illegally processing more than $US1 billion, but the 31-year-old, along with his parents and mother-in-law, have made a passionate plea to a New York judge ahead of his sentencing. Tzvetkoff, who handed over more than 90,000 documents to US prosecutors that helped them go after the heads…

iGaming Business – The Equity Poker Network has announced that its FullFlushPoker.com flagship online poker room has withdrawn the full suite of online real-money gaming options for players in the regulated US states of New Jersey, Delaware and Nevada. Players in the three regulated markets will be notified of the change in policy and have their accounts closed. Players with existing Full Flush Poker accounts in the three states will be able to access their accounts to close out their balance. FullFlushPoker.com said it would work quickly with players to return their funds. The decision became effective on May 22. In…

Poker News – Binion’s Horseshoe was a total ****house. Sure, it was a great place to work when I was there. And I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world. But not everyone saw it that way. By the time the doors were nailed shut and boarded over with plywood in January of 2004, more than 800 former employees were flushed out into the streets looking for work. That might not seem like a big deal. People lose jobs all the time. But the vast majority of former Horseshoe workers had been around for years, like barnacles attached to a…