A pair of Oklahoma tribes have ditched plans to pursue an online poker site. They had sued the federal government over the site, but that also appears to be over. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes had brokered a revenue-sharing deal with Oklahoma for a PokerTribes.com online poker site. The federal government objected not to the online poker activity itself, but to the nature of the deal between the two parties. In other words, the feds felt that the tribe was getting a raw deal with the state. There was supposed to be revenue sharing between each party. According to Tulsa…

Online Poker Report – Six weeks ago, I took my first real look at New Jersey’s six major poker sites. Since then, that number has been effectively reduced to five, as I can’t in good faith review a site that generates less monthly revenue than a lemonade stand does in a blizzard (at least Betfair’s NJ-based online casino is faring somewhat better). The rest of the Garden State’s virtual poker offerings have spent the past month-and-a-half jockeying for position, spending significant sums of money on partnerships, advertising and other marketing schemes in the process. Some networks, like Party Poker NJ,…

Poker Fuse – Chico Network brand, Action Poker, has been traded once again, this time it becomes part of the Equity Poker Network (EPN), the “cooperative” style network which aims to reduce competition between skins to maximize mutual profitability. In October 2011, Play Safe Holding AS sold the Chico Network to Julian International Holdings but kept the Action Poker brand. Since then Chico has been restored to growth and cash out problems have been resolved. Now, Action Poker returns to its former CEO, Clive Archer, the founder of the EPN. According to EPN, the “transition to EPN will be swift…

iGaming Business – Location-as-a-service company Locaid has been selected to provide geolocation services for the new multi-state online poker service between the US states of Delaware and Nevada. The appointment will make Locaid the first company to provide a geolocation service that is compliant with state regulatory requirements under the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement. As reported by iGaming Business, Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Governor Jack Markell of Delaware signed the landmark liquidity sharing agreement last month to lawfully allow online gaming websites in each state to begin sharing player pools, primarily for poker. . WATCH OUR INTERVIEW WITH…

Poker 777 – Since a few years, Las Vegas has been conceding its place of ideal poker destination in Macau in terms of high stakes rounds. This new Eldorado of high stakes poker, located on the other side of the Pacific, seduces professional players with its blinds which may reach US$7,000/14,000. Macau has become the Mecca of high stakes pokers in which a lot of professional players intend to have a stop, at least once in their career. Tom « durrrr » Dwan, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius and John Juanda are among the great names of poker who have already…

Poker News – California Assemblyman Isadore Hall told Tribal leaders and gaming interests at Thursday’s iGaming Legislative Symposium in Sacramento that he believes there is still a chance for Internet poker legislation to pass in the Golden State during 2014. He also indicated that the Assembly would be holding an informational hearing on the issue in the next few weeks. Hall, who was the keynote speaker to open the event, serves as chair of the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee, which includes gambling-related concerns. Two poker-only bills were introduced in the California legislature last week at the deadline to submit new…