The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board announced the release of a joint final rule to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The Act prohibits gambling businesses from knowingly accepting payments in connection with unlawful Internet gambling, including payments made through credit cards, electronic funds transfers, and checks. The [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Games of Skill'
Idiocy Prevails, Reason Nowhere to be Found
November 13th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Barney Frank · Bill Frist · HR 4411 · Jim Leach · uigea · Wichterman
GameDuell: US Legal Games of Skill
November 3rd, 2008 No Comments
GameDuell.comis one of the world’s largest skill gaming communities, which offers some of the most popular casual games like Pool, Darts, Solitaire, FreeCell, and many more. GameDuell is one-of-a-kind because users can play against real opponents and can win real prizes, even cash. Since all games GameDuell offers are skill based games, it is not [...]
Tags: Games of Skill
Video Gamers to Compete for Cash and Prizes at H3GameLine.com
July 30th, 2008 No Comments
H3 Enterprises, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HTRE), has formed joint venture with GamerSaloon.com to create the world’s largest pay-to-play video gaming site coined H3GameLine.com. The new service, set to launch in late August 2008, will offer video gamers the ability to win prizes and cash daily by playing in video game tournaments and instant matchups. Priority customer [...]
Tags: gamersaloon · skill gaming · video game tournaments · video games
Wimbledon 2008 on High Alert for Gamblers
June 24th, 2008 No Comments
We really can’t wait for someone to turn around and use this as proof of while online gambling is bad for the world: The high alert is aimed at big-time gamblers and the tennis pros who they are increasingly trying – sometimes successfully – to corrupt. Coincident with opening day for the grass-court extravaganza, there [...]
PurePlay: US Legal Internet Poker Club Raises Funding
May 6th, 2008 No Comments
According to VentureBeat, PurePlay, a poker and proto-gambling site that today announced $15 million in funding from various venture capital firms and other investment sources. PurePlay is an online gambling site where everyone, including US residents can play for, and win, money in online poker games. There is only one other popular online poker website [...]
Tags: game of skill · internet poker · pureplay
