iGaming Business – The Rational Group, PokerStars’ holding company, has selected gaming company Leander Games to provide a casino gaming platform and game content for the Full Tilt Poker brand. The companies have already begun the technical integration to leverage Leander’s LaGa gaming platform to launch games and a selection of games from Leander’s partners. Full Tilt Poker now plans to leverage the LaGa platform in order to launch third-party content from a range of boutique game developers. The website, which boasts more than 21 million registered players, is currently in the test phase of rolling out blackjack and roulette…

Gambling911 – In a shocking new development, the website CalvinAyre.com is reporting that the US Department of Justice will begin to take on a new approach in dealing with those online gambling operators who once took bets from US citizens.  The feds are reportedly now accepting corporate pleas and fines to resolve all outstanding charges. The CalvinAyre.com website focuses on the world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars, upon breaking this news, however, the new policy could ultimately apply to Bodog.  That company’s founder, Calvin Ayre, runs the eponymous news site reporting on this matter. From CalvinAyre.com: Sources have told CalvinAyre.com…

A New York man has been sentenced to five months in federal prison for running high stakes poker games involving the rich and famous. Edwin Ting was also ordered Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to forfeit $2 million. US Attorney Preet Bharara says that from 2010 through 2013, Ting ran poker games for the Russian mob and took a percentage of pots that reached hundreds of thousands of dollars. Players in the underground network included professional athletes, Hollywood luminaries and business executives, authorities said. Playing poker isn’t a crime, but it’s illegal to profit by promoting it. Ting was one…

Poker News – Legalized online poker is slowly, but surely, coming to the United States. Right now, three states — Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware — have online poker up and running in their respective borders. More are expected in the near future (maybe none in 2014, though). While the poker boom, which started around a decade ago, has ended, the U.S. online poker market could be set for a comeback. Card Player had the chance to speak with Dr. Kahlil Philander of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, who has done research on the size of the U.S. online…

Card Player – On Wednesday, the Poker Players Alliance announced that the federal government and Garden City Group — the firm it hired to process all the Full Tilt Poker claims — are just “weeks away” from finally putting the money into the hands of victims. According to reports, at least some of the money will be made through ACH deposit. “I spoke with [Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section/Department of Justice] staff today and they informed me that they have approved approximately 30,000 undisputed player claims,” John Pappas, PPA’s executive director, said in a statement Wednesday. “Garden City should…

Press of Atlantic City – Gambling mogul Steve Wynn has run the gamut of approaches in Atlantic City, getting his start in the seaside resort and later labeling it as “the enemy” last year in front of Pennsylvania regulators. Now, he wants back in. Wynn Interactive LLC appears to be approaching ever closer to tapping into New Jersey’s online gambling market. Wynn is part of an application to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement for a waiver needed to begin Internet gambling operations. The application filed Jan. 10 is a joint application with AAPN, also known as the All…