Poker to be Big Part of New Jersey Internet Gambling

NJ105.com – Ever since New Jersey legalized Internet gambling in February, poker was expected to be a big part of it. Now an Internet gambling company that runs a nationally known play-in-person poker tournament is bringing its championship to Atlantic City, creating one of the many hoped-for marriages between online gambling firms and brick-and-mortar casinos. The World Poker Tour’s season-ending championship will be held at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in April. The tour’s parent company, bwin.party, is the firm the Borgata is partnering with to offer Internet gambling once it starts, perhaps as soon as late November. Adam…

Full Tilt Claims Administrator Sends Emails to Players

Poker News – On Monday and Tuesday, the Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG), the company tasked with redistributing seized Full Tilt Poker funds, sent email notices to “all potentially eligible petitioners GCG identified utilizing data supplied by Full Tilt Poker.” The GCG will attempt to re-send any emails that “bounced back,” and if customers expect to receive an email but haven’t yet, then they are asked to, “please allow 2-3 additional days, as GCG attempts to resend emails, and then you may file a new Petition for Remission.” Those that received an email are asked to log on to the…

Caesars Launches WSOP.com Site

Caesars Interactive will soon enter the online gambling ring with its World Series of Poker site at WSOP.com. It’s the second fully-legal, pay-to-play online poker platform in Nevada. The site goes live at 9:19 a.m. today, a play off its release date. The buzz leading up to the launch is undeniable: more than 12,000 players already have signed up. This is all coming together a mere four months after Station Casinos rolled out their Ultimate Poker, which was the first real money, regulated site in the state. After four years of development, Caesars‘ all-star team of programmers and online specialists…

‘Invisible Ink’ Helped Poker Cheat at Mohegan Sun

Card Player – The old invisible ink cheat. According to reporting from The Day, a New Jersey gambler was busted early Sunday for allegedly cheating at the Mohegan Sun. His method according to the police: marking the cards with a ink-like substance that could only be seen with special contact lenses. Fifty-nine-year-old Bruce Koloshi, who hails from Summit, New Jersey, also allegedly used the tactic in a game of stud at a casino in Louisiana in August. Koloshi has been caught cheating before in Las Vegas, Reno and in the state of Iowa. The Day reported that after his most…

WSOP.com to be “Mac-friendly”

Vegas Inc – Caesars Entertainment’s online poker website, using the World Series of Poker brand, will launch Thursday morning, company officials said today. Caesars Interactive will capitalize on the brand with online tournaments feeding into the company’s annual competition at the Rio that runs from late May to mid-July. The site, WSOP.com, will launch with a variety of poker games, including stud and Omaha hi-lo as well as Texas hold ‘em. And unlike its lone competitor — Station Casinos’ Ultimate Poker — it will offer Mac-friendly computer compatibility. Only residents or visitors to Nevada will be eligible to play, but…

Tax Implications Of Full Tilt Poker Payments

Card Player – On September 16, the Garden City Group is set to start the claims process for American players who have money stuck on Full Tilt Poker. Some players have even begun to receive emails detailing the payout process. As the date rapidly approaches, players are starting to wonder what impact claiming that money will have on their own personal taxes. Russell Fox, an Enrolled Agent at Clayton Financial and Tax in Las Vegas, is an expert in the field of taxes for gamblers. He has many clients who gamble professionally and has been practicing in the field for…

WSOP.com launches real-money poker this week

Las Vegas Review-Journal – A long-anticipated pay-to-play poker website based on the World Series of Poker will launch Thursday morning for customers located in the Nevada. Officials from Caesars Interactive Entertainment, a subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment Corp., said Monday they received final approval from Nevada gaming regulators to begin accepting wagers on WSOP.com. Gibraltar-based 888 Holdings is providing the technology platform for the website. WSOP.com will join Ultimate Poker, which is majority-owned by Station Casinos, as the only two regulated, real money gaming websites currently operating in the U.S. Several other poker websites are also expected to launch in Nevada…

Caesars to Announce Launch of WSOP Online Poker Site

Yesterday we told you that the WSOP Online Poker would soon launch, and that Ultimate Poker will soon be ending its reign as Nevada’s only regulated online poker site currently in operation. On Monday, Caesars Interactive Entertainment is set to hold a conference call in which they will reveal the date on which they will launch their World Series of Poker branded real-money online poker web site in Nevada. In the six months since Ultimate Poker first opened its doors to Nevadans, there has been much speculation about which site would be the next to go live – and when….