After much industry speculation Party Gaming and BWIN officially announced today that they will merge. In what is being described as a reverse takeover Party Gaming shareholders will hold 48.4% of the new company and BWIN shareholders will hold 51.6% of the new company. The company will continue to be traded on the London Stock Exchange. If approved by regulators and shareholders the combined company would become the largest online gaming company in the world. Both BWIN and Party Gaming shares ...

On July 28th 2010 the House Finance Committee approved a bill that would legalize and regulate online poker in the U.S. by a vote of 41-22. While this is just a small step in a lengthy process it is a huge moral victory for online poker in the United States. First it shows that the federal government is finally willing to accept that the UIGEA was a complete failure. The banks have always wanted the UIGEA repealed as it was passed hastily and is a burden on already heavily regulated banks. Second ...

In recent months there has been a lot of news and attention focused on Merge Gaming's growth after adding Sportsbook.com and PlayersOnly to their network. While this helped them grow almost instantly there is another U.S. friendly network that has had an even bigger percentage gain this year. That network is Everleaf Gaming.Everleaf Gaming started out as Poker4ever. They sold skins, lots of them. That model wasn't helping them grow very fast but then they merged their player base with the Universal ...

For the first time since joining PAS in March 2008 I was able to leave most of the work behind and go to Las Vegas. I've taken trips before but they were always working vacation. This time I worked less than an hour a day which was a real treat. To me that is a vacation.My plane landed at 1:05pm and somehow I made it to The Orleans for their $340 HORSE at 2pm. Although I made it to day 2 I failed to cash. I busted just in time for the $340 Omaha8 but ran into a couple of bad beats and found ...

It has been exactly one month since PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com moved to Merge Gaming. There were a couple of servers issues at first but for the most part it was a smooth transition. Looking back over the last month it is safe to say this was a successful move for both Merge Gaming and Jazette, parent company of PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com.Using the traffic figures from Poker Scout Merge Gaming traffic nearly tripled overnight. On April 14th the traffic peaked at 381. The next ...