Bloomberg – The Josh Harris-controlled Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils signed a multiyear marketing agreement with partypoker, becoming the first major U.S.-based professional sports teams to align themselves with online gambling. The agreement with the unit of Gibraltar-based Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment Plc (BPTY), the teams and Prudential Center, home to the Devils, comes about a year after New Jersey legalized online gambling, which is expected to be a $7.4 billion business in the U.S. by 2017, according to the research firm H2 Gambling Capital. Nevada and Delaware are the only other states to allow online gambling. “This is our…

iGaming Business – Online gaming operator bwin.party’s share price fell on Tuesday after broker Morgan Stanley said that the relaunch of online poker service PartyPoker had failed to make a significant impact so far, according to the Financial Times newspaper. Morgan Stanley cited industry data that suggested that the company’s online poker service, PartyPoker, had continued to lose market share over the past four months, with no great uplift in traffic. PartyPoker relaunched in September shortly after the company issued a warning that its efforts to streamline the business were likely to impact sales. Bwin’s share price on the London…

PRNewswire – Joint statement by: Michael K. Fagan, career federal prosecutor and post-911 anti-terrorism coordinator active in investigating and prosecuting illegal offshore online commercial gambling enterprises; Earl L. Grinols, distinguished professor of economics at Baylor University, former senior economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers; Jim Thackston, software engineer with a background in the aerospace, manufacturing and energy industries; John Kindt, Professor of Business and Legal Policy,University of Illinois, Senior Editor, U.S. International Gaming Report. The FBI recently wrote Congress for the second time expressing the Agency’s concern that online gambling – including Internet poker – is vulnerable to…

Poker News – The U.S. federal government is once again intervening in online poker. According to The Oklahoman, last month the U.S. Department of the Interior stopped the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, owners of the Lucky Star Casino in Concho, Okla., from offering online poker to international players through its website pokertribes.com, something the state agreed to in a gaming compact. As a result the tribe filed a lawsuit against Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn in Oklahoma City last week. The tribe hopes a federal judge will prevent interference and allow…

Online Poker Report – 888 Poker’s New Jersey-facing online poker platform has been hampered by what appear to be widespread disconnections since the site went live on November 26. The issues do not seem to be with one application in particular as I have personally been disconnected on Windows, iPhone and iPad. Of course, I am not alone. Below, I’ll detail some of the problems being chronicled by New Jersey players attempting to access – and stay connected to – 888 Poker. During a recent tournament that I played in, I chatted with a few other players who all expressed their frustration with…

Poker Fuse – The website for the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League (WPTAPL) has been hacked according to a report by CyberWarNews. An online hacker using the Twitter account @smitt3nz posted 175,333 email addresses and plain text passwords to a web site on Friday. The site does not offer real money online gaming and no funds are thought to be at risk; however, users are encouraged to change their passwords on that site and any other site they may have used the same password. The leak includes unverified login details with a variety of government email suffixes including dhs.gov…