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As is perfectly understandable, online poker traffic across the United States nearly disappeared totally on New Year’s Eve, as revelers celebrated the arrival of 2014. And while the end of 2013 saw New Jersey continue to dominate the online poker traffic picture in the United States, the new year has seen a significant uptick in…

The end of one year and the beginning of the next always delivers plenty of Top 10 lists that look back over the notable achievements and news of the previous 365.25 days. Concerning Las Vegas online poker, currently being offered by both WSOP and Ultimate Poker with more sites probably launching in 2014, 2013 was…

Nevada’s Las Vegas-based online poker can thank the month of December for its very existence. On December 23, 2011, the US Justice Department decided to reinterpret its opinion of the 1961 Wire Act. It was late that Friday just a couple of days before Christmas that the DOJ flip-flopped its view regarding some forms of…

After the 2011 gambling-friendly decision by the US Justice Department to allow individual states to decide their own Internet casino and poker destinies, Nevada quickly said, “We are all in!” As was to be expected, it took some time to build an infrastructure, have online gaming facilities tested and approved, and actually deliver the historical…

The WSOP.com Nevada online poker room recently passed its state-sponsored rival Ultimate Poker in real money cash game peak traffic, and has been steadily showing improvements since it launched as the second website to deliver Internet poker legally in Nevada. The Silver State was the first in the US to quickly legalize Internet poker after…