PokerStars5/18/2013
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Atlantic Club Free to Back Out of Sale Agreement to PokerStars
(Atlantic City) -- The Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars, lost its bid to keep its purchase agreement of the Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic City alive today.
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Judge: PokerStars can't buy Atlantic Club casino
(New Jersey) -- PokerStars was denied its request to keep alive a $15 million offer to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Online Poker Company Loses Court Battle over Right to Purchase Atlantic Club Casino
(Atlantic City) -- Rational Group gambled and lost as much as $11 million over the botched deal to purchase Atlantic Club (AC) casino for their online poker brand...
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Poker Stars Loses Claim on Atlantic City Casino
(New Jersey) -- An Atlantic County Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that Poker Stars cannot keep its claim on the Atlantic City Casino hotel and resort which it is...
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PokerStars Dealt Setback in Bid to Enter U.S. Market
(Atlantic City) -- The online poker giant PokerStars was dealt a setback in its quest to enter the U.S.'s burgeoning regulated online gambling markets, when a New...
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The Atlantic Club Lawsuit: Pokerstars Risks More than Monopoly Money
(Atlantic City) -- An expert on the American gaming scene, Maurice “Mac” VerStandig is well-versed in casino management from common issues of fraud and theft...
5/17/2013
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Indicted PokerStars founder involved in Atlantic Club casino deal, court papers say
(Atlantic City) -- The indicted founder of an online poker company was involved in negotiations to buy a New Jersey casino despite promises to federal authorities he...
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Judge rules Atlantic Club casino can end contract with PokerStars and seek new buyer
(Atlantic City) -- After paying an $11 million advance to a struggling Atlantic City casino it intended to buy, the parent company of the world’s largest online...
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Judge says Atlantic Club can reject PokerStars offer
(Atlantic City) -- Judge Raymond Batten has ruled Atlantic Club can walk away from its deal with Pokerstars. He is hearing arguments from Atlantic Club Casino Hotel and...
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Judge: Atlantic Club casino can seek new buyer
(Atlantic City) -- A struggling Atlantic City casino is free to seek a new buyer after a judge ruled that it can scrap a deal to sell itself to the world's largest...
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PokerStars loses bid to keep deal to buy The Atlantic Club in place
(Atlantic City) -- An Atlantic County judge on Friday ruled that The Atlantic Club was within its rights to walk away from a preliminary deal for sale of the casino to...
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PokerStars Loses Its Court Bid to Buy Atlantic Club Casino Hotel
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars was denied its request to keep alive a $15 million offer to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
5/16/2013
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Atlantic Club Owners Aim to Sell Casino to Other Online Gambling Operators before November 2013
(Atlantic City) -- Colony Capital LLC, parent company of Resorts International Holdings (RIH), continues to thwart Rational Group’s bid to buy Atlantic Club casino...
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Judge to hear PokerStars-casino dispute Friday
(Atlantic City) -- A New Jersey judge on Friday will hear an increasingly bitter dispute between the world's largest online poker web site and the Atlantic City...
5/15/2013
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Atlantic Club brings out big guns in defending one fine point of the PokerStars lawsuit
(Atlantic City) -- The other documents filed by Colony Capital, Atlantic Club, et al on Monday in the Atlantic County Courthouse consisted of five experts who addressed...
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PokerStars responds to Atlantic Club’s bid for end to order preventing negotiations with other bidders
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars has filed a brief on Wednesday “in further support of a preliminary injunction” that would maintain the prevention of The...
5/14/2013
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Atlantic Club casino owners ask court to allow negotiations with other buyers
(New Jersey) -- Owners of The Atlantic Club casino have asked an Atlantic County court for an immediate cancellation of a temporary injunction that prevents the owners...
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Atlantic Club executive tells what they knew and when they knew it, in terms of PokerStars deal collapse
(New Jersey) -- Much of the feedback I’ve gotten, since I reviewed last night The Atlantic Club’s response to PokerStars’ obtaining of a temporary...
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PokerStars-Atlantic Club Dispute Deepens [sub req'd]
(New Jersey) -- Seeking to overturn a temporary court order that prevents the sale of its property to any company other than PokerStars, the Atlantic Club casino...
5/13/2013
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BRENNAN: Excerpts from The Atlantic Club’s retort to PokerStars’ lawsuit
(Atlantic City) -- Defendants Colony Capital and The Atlantic Club struck back hard Monday in Atlantic County Court Monday against the lawsuit brought last week by would...
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PokerStars’ canceled deal with The Atlantic Club continues to intrigue
(Atlantic City) -- The recent lawsuit filed by PokerStars against The Atlantic Club and its current owners, Colony Capital, over a voided preliminary sale of the...
5/12/2013
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STUTZ: Atlantic Club awaits its future
(Las Vegas) -- On a seasonably pleasant Friday afternoon in late April, Atlantic Club Chief Operating Officer Michael Frawley and PokerStars spokesman Eric Hollreiser...
5/11/2013
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Online Poker Company Files Lawsuit
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars’ parent company, The Rational Group filed a lawsuit against Resorts International Holdings (RIH) and other defendants, last Monday in...
5/8/2013
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Caesars CEO Calls For Strict Scrutiny Of PokerStars In New Jersey [sub req'd]
(Mississippi) -- Joking that even his dog has been fingerprinted by New Jersey gaming authorities, Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman on Wednesday said he hopes...
5/7/2013
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PokerStars Returns Fire, Sues Atlantic Club (COMPLAINT ATTACHED)
(New Jersey) -- Another twist in the ongoing saga of PokerStars’ attempt to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino today, as PokerStars filed suit against the ACC in a...
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PokerStars’ parent company sues to complete purchase of Atlantic Club in Atlantic City
(New Jersey) -- The parent company of online global gambling giant PokerStars went to court Monday to try to salvage its purchase of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel...
5/6/2013
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Deal Breaker: PokerStars Loses Out on Atlantic City Casino
(New Jersey) -- The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City has terminated its agreement with the online operator PokerStars to purchase the casino.
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Judge issues order to continue Atlantic Club casino sale to PokerStars’ parent company
(New Jersey) -- A New Jersey judge issued a court order Monday to continue the sale of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel to the parent company of online global gambling...
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Judge Orders Colony to Proceed With Casino Sale
(New Jersey) -- A New Jersey judge has ordered Santa Monica firm Colony Capital LLC to proceed with the sale of an Atlantic City hotel and casino to the operator of an...
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N.J. judge orders sale of Atlantic Club to PokerStars to proceed — for now
(New Jersey) -- A judge today issued a restraining order to prevent the Atlantic Club casino from being sold to any firm other than PokerStars, the global online...
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PokerStars Files Suit Against Atlantic Club, Cites “Bad Faith” and Requests TRO
(New Jersey) -- This morning in a New Jersey courthouse, Rational Group (PokerStars) filed a lawsuit against Resorts International Holdings, RIH Propco, Eric Matejevich...
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PokerStars says NJ judge grants temporary injunction to prevent quick sale of Atlantic Club
(New Jersey) -- The parent company for online poker site PokerStars was granted a temporary restraining order Monday preventing anyone from buying the Atlantic Club...
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PokerStars seeks court order to buy Atlantic Club casino
(New Jersey) -- The behind-the-scenes battle between an Internet poker giant and the struggling Atlantic City casino it wants to buy burst into the open Monday, with a...
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PokerStars Wins Court Ruling Keeping Casino Purchase Alive
(New Jersey) -- PokerStars, seeking to buy the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in New Jersey, won a temporary court order barring owner Colony Capital LLC from ending their...
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PokerStars’ lawsuit against Colony and The Atlantic Club summarized
(New Jersey) -- Ok, here’s my “close reading” of the PokerStars lawsuit filed today against The Atlantic Club, Colony Capital, et al.
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Statement regarding Atlantic Club action
(New Jersey) -- The Rational Group (d/b/a PokerStars) today filed a lawsuit in New Jersey Superior Court seeking to restrain the sellers of the Atlantic Club Casino and...
5/4/2013
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PokerStars bid to buy AC casino scrapped
(Atlantic City) -- A bid by the world's largest online poker website to buy an Atlantic City casino has gone bust. The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel announced Wednesday...
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PokerStars Hasn’t Given Up on Atlantic City Casino Dream
(Atlantic City) -- Earlier this week, the Atlantic City Casino put out a brief statement, saying that the conditional deal it had signed with online poker group, Poker...
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PokerStars still wants to buy casino
(Atlantic City) -- The British parent company of the PokerStars website says it still wants to buy an Atlantic City casino, even though a deal to obtain it fell through...
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Pokerstars’ Future in US Online Gambling Market
(Atlantic City) -- It seems that Rational Group gambled on a deal to purchase Atlantic Club (AC) casino from its owner Colony Capital LLC, as the contract came with a...
5/3/2013
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Internet gaming co still wants AC casino
(Atlantic City) -- One day after calling off its planned purchase of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel, the Rational Group has had a change of heart. The British parent...
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Online giant: Atlantic Club deal still on
(Atlantic City) -- The parent company of online global gambling giant PokerStars said it hopes to salvage its faltering deal to buy the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel.
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Rational Group “Entirely Committed” to Resolving New Jersey Situation
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars parent company Rational Group has asserted its continued commitment to the New Jersey gaming market, following the apparent collapse of its...
5/2/2013
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Atlantic Club Casino sale to online gambling giant PokerStars is off
(Atlantic City) -- Atlantic Club Casino Hotel’s much-criticized sale to the parent company of online global gambling giant PokerStars has been scrapped.
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BRENNAN: Governor Christie’s take on the collapse of the PokerStars deal to take over The Atlantic Club casino
(Atlantic City) -- Wondering what Governor Christie thinks of the collapse of the preliminary deal for PokerStars to take over The Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic City?
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New Jersey purchase off for Rational Group
(Atlantic City) -- The proposed deal that would have seen Rational Group US Holdings purchase the Atlantic Club Casino and Hotel has been terminated only two weeks after...
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PokerStars 'committed' to joining N.J. market despite Atlantic Club rejection
(Atlantic City) -- A day after the Atlantic Club casino said an agreement to sell the resort to an online gambling company had been terminated, the would-be buyer...
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PokerStars parent still wants to buy Atlantic Club
(Atlantic City) -- The parent company of online global gambling giant PokerStars said it hopes to salvage the faltering deal to buy the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in...
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PokerStars, the aftermath – after deal to buy Atlantic Club is voided, what next?
(Atlantic City) -- Don’t believe anyone who claims to know exactly what will happen next with PokerStars’ interest in U.S. casino ownership – because I...
5/1/2013
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Atlantic Club rejects purchase offer from PokerStars
(Atlantic City) -- The Atlantic Club casino has rejected a buying offer from online-gambling giant PokerStars after months of negotiations, the casino announced today,...
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Casino's deal with online firm falls through
(Atlantic City) -- The deal that could have made Atlantic City's smallest casino the first U.S. brick-and-mortar gambling hall owned by an online-gambling company is...
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PokerStars bid to buy AC casino scrapped
(Atlantic City) -- A bid by the world's largest online poker website to buy an Atlantic City casino has gone bust.
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PokerStars Deal to Purchase New Jersey Casino Abandoned
(Atlantic City) -- A December 2012 deal by PokerStars’ parent company Rational Group to buy an Atlantic City, New Jersey casino has been scrapped after initial...
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PokerStars U.S. Casino Deal Stalls
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars attempt to re-enter the U.S. gambling market by buying the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in New Jersey appear to have stalled for now.
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PokerStars-Atlantic Club Deal Dead [sub req'd]
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars’ controversial bid to acquire Atlantic City’s Atlantic Club casino is over, the Atlantic Club confirmed Wednesday.
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Sale of Atlantic Club casino to online gambling giant PokerStars is off, company says
(Atlantic City) -- Atlantic Club Casino Hotel’s sale to the parent company of online global gambling giant PokerStars has been scrapped.
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Time ‘runs out’ for PokerStars’ Atlantic Club deal
(Atlantic City) -- The proposed deal for PokerStars to buy the Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has expired without a new contract in place, reports...
4/30/2013
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PokerStars missed its window to buy Atlantic Club casino, report says
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars, the online-gambling giant with its sights set on buying the Atlantic Club casino, has apparently missed its deadline to complete the deal...
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PokerStars still in the NJ casino hunt?
(Atlantic City) -- As the Wall Street Journal is reporting, the deal between Colony Capital and PokerStars’ parent company, The Rational Group, to sell The...
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PokerStars' Atlantic City Deal Expires
(Atlantic City) -- A deal that would have given online poker giant PokerStars its first toehold into regulated online gambling in the U.S. has expired without a new...
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STRADBROOKE: PokerStars Deal To Acquire Atlantic Club In Jeopardy?
(Atlantic City) -- There appears to be a hitch in the plans by PokerStars’ parent company to acquire the struggling Atlantic Club Casino Hotel. In December, the...
4/29/2013
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Gambling firm PokerStars is not the answer for Atlantic City: Editorial
(New Jersey) -- When New Jersey first decided to allow casinos in the late 1970s, it was part of a grand bargain. Yes, there would be legal gambling, but only on one...
4/25/2013
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Lesniak: PokerStars License in Hands of New Jersey Gaming Officials, Not Legislature
(Atlantic City) -- The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has until July 9 to decide whether PokerStars' parent company should receive a temporary license to...
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PokerStars Poised to Save Atlantic City
(Atlantic City) -- Last December PokerStars reached an agreement to by the struggling Atlantic Club Casino Hotel, just two months later New Jersey legalised online...
4/23/2013
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Troubled online gambling firm PokerStars betting it can transform Atlantic City
(Atlantic City) -- The timing couldn’t have been better. In late December, lawyers for several companies that own PokerStars — an online gambling business...
4/18/2013
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PokerStars to see its final card in Atlantic City in August
(Atlantic City) -- The controversial bid by the parent company of online poker giant PokerStars to take over The Atlantic Club in Atlantic City finally has its timetable.
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PokerStars’ Application for Casino License Being Processed
(New Jersey) -- PokerStars had been asked to provide complete information so that its application for an interim casino license for the acquisition of the Atlantic City...
4/17/2013
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PokerStars’ Bid to Buy NJ Casino Progresses
(New Jersey) -- The timetable on a decision on whether PokerStars will be allowed to acquire an Atlantic City casino is now in place following completion of its...
4/7/2013
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Online PokerStars Signs Brazilian Super Star Ronaldo
(UK) -- Brazil has a young and computer savvy demographic that likes to gamble on sports and play poker. The 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, are...
4/3/2013
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PokerStars’ Deal Delayed in Atlantic City
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars' bid to buy the troubled Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City has been delayed, according to a recent report by NorthJersey.com.
3/29/2013
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Digging deep
(UK) -- There are many reasons I'm proud to call the people of PokerStars my friends. This is one of them. A window popped up on my computer screen Wednesday. It was...
3/27/2013
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American Gaming Association Continues to Poke PokerStars
(Atlantic City) -- The battle for supremacy in the emerging online poker market, stateside, is in full swing with a series of gambits by the American Gaming Association...
3/21/2013
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PokerStars’ bid to buy Atlantic Club moving in slow motion
(New Jersey) -- The saga of PokerStars’ parent company and its bid to purchase the Atlantic Club casino may go on for quite a while longer.
3/16/2013
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PokerStars Opens Card Rooms Around the World
(UK) -- In order to promote its brand PokerStars is opening card rooms in casinos around the world. Earlier this month the company opened a card room at London’s...
3/15/2013
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Online’s PokerStars opens card rooms as US license fight looms
(USA) -- PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, is opening card rooms in casinos to promote its brand, even as land-based operators in the U.S. try to...
3/14/2013
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American Gaming Association v. Poker Stars Or Caesars v. Poker Stars
(Atlantic City) -- Unlikely collaborations as well as predictable conflicts have marked the relationship between Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Harrahs) and...
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Battle Bettween PokerStars and AGA Turns Nasty
(Atlantic City) -- A nasty battle has arisen between PokerStars and the American Gaming Association (AGA) over plans to buy The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic...
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Online’s PokerStars Opens Card Rooms as U.S. Fight Looms
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, is opening card rooms in casinos to promote its brand, even as land-based operators in the U....
3/13/2013
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Caesars Takes Aim at PokerStars
(Atlantic City) -- The legalization of online gaming in New Jersey two weeks ago has ignited a war between Caesars Entertainment and the Rational Group, the owners of...
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Casino Control Commission postpones vote on trade group's opposition to PokerStars - Atlantic Club sale
(Atlantic City) -- A regulatory showdown between the casino industry's national lobbying group and online global gambling giant PokerStars will have to wait for...
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PokerStars Wants Representative from New Jersey at Next Player Meeting
(Atlantic City) -- With a deal to purchase an Atlantic City casino in the works, PokerStars is inviting a New Jersey resident to a series of meetings with 2+2 users next...
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PokerStars-AGA showdown in Atlantic City postponed
(Atlantic City) -- The New Jersey Casino Control Commission postponed a vote Wednesday that could allow the American Gaming Association to participate in the licensing...
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Web-Based PokerStars’ Bid to Set up Online Casinos in New Jersey Still Hangs On a Balance
(Atlantic City) -- The state of New Jersey considers online casinos as legal, only if any of the land-based casinos located within NJ State operates the Internet-based...
3/12/2013
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PokerStars Asking for Rejection of AGA’s Formal Protest
(Atlantic City) -- Just a few days ago, the American Gaming Association started a formal protest against online poker group PokerStars parent company, The Rational Group.
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PokerStars attorneys ridicule AGA move
(Atlantic City) -- Attorneys for online gaming giant PokerStars said an attempt by the American Gaming Association to block the company from buying a failing Atlantic...
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PokerStars Responds to AGA Protest
(Atlantic City) -- Less than a week after the American Gaming Association (AGA) filed a brief with the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and Division of Gaming...
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Pokerstars' Bid to Buy Casino Could Signal Gambling Gold Rush
(Atlantic City) -- A move by the online gaming giant Pokerstars to buy an Atlantic City casino could signal a gold rush for the gambling industry, according to industry...
3/11/2013
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Lawyers For PokerStars Fire Back: 'AGA's Sole Interest Here Is Economic Warfare'
(Atlantic City) -- The mudslinging continues in the battle for access to the extremely lucrative American real-money online gaming market.
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PokerStars AC bid sparks brawl with older casinos
(Atlantic City) -- A bid by the world's largest online poker website to buy an Atlantic City casino is touching off a battle with brick-and-mortar casinos. The...
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PokerStars asks NJ to reject intervention of AGA in review of sale of bid for The Atlantic Club
(Atlantic City) -- The Rational Group, PokerStars’ parent company, wrote a letter today to the Division of Gaming Enforcement asking DGE to reject the American...
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PokerStars Attorneys Attack Legitimacy of AGA Claims in New Jersey Counter-Brief
(Atlantic City) -- Attorneys representing PokerStars parent Rational Group have filed a brief in New Jersey with the Division of Gaming Enforcement opposing a previous...
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PokerStars says detractors waging "economic warfare" in bid to stop takeover of Atlantic City casino
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars is fighting opposition to its takeover of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel by accusing its detractors of launching a thinly veiled anti-...
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PokerStars, AGA Square Off In New Jersey Regulatory Row [sub req'd]
(Atlantic City) -- The U.S. commercial casino industry and PokerStars are trading jabs in New Jersey, where the multinational poker giant’s bid to acquire a...
3/9/2013
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On AGA vs. PokerStars
(Wall Street) -- At the end of the day, it's a game. It's business. It has nothing to do with "right" or "wrong," and everything to do with...
3/7/2013
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Why a Casino Group Stepped in on an Online Gambling Case
(New Jersey) -- In an unusual move, the American Gaming Association, which has traditionally supported online gambling, spoke out against an online poker company’s...
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Did Caesars Entertainment and PokerStars Have Serious Discussions of WSOP Sale?
(Las Vegas) -- The American Gaming Association (AGA) filed a brief this week to protest the potential licensing of the Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars, in...
3/6/2013
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American Gaming Association Opposes PokerStars' Purchase of New Jersey Casino
(New Jersey) -- On Monday, the American Gaming Association (AGA), the nation’s leading casino trade association, filed a brief with the New Jersey Division of...
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Casino trade group attacks bid by PokerStars to play in U.S.
(California) -- The trade group for the U.S. casino industry has asked New Jersey regulators to bar a British-Isles-based online gambling company from returning to the U...
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PokerStars’ bid to take over Atlantic Club casino may not be decided until mid-summer
(New Jersey) -- It’s time to “spring forward” your clocks in most of the U.S. this weekend. But for insiders in the gambling industry, I have to tell...
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Inside Gaming: PokerStars on a Hot Streak / But will new law keep them out of Nevada?
(Las Vegas) -- Online gaming giant PokerStars folded its hand last summer after a 15-month legal battle with the U.S. Department of Justice. Since that time the company...
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EDITORIAL: Caesars vs. PokerStars / High-stakes battle
(New Jersey) -- "I'm fed up with these guys and their 'holier than thou' crap." on Caesars Entertainment Corp. Jim Whelan does not get angry often...
3/5/2013
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Casino trade group attacks bid by PokerStars to play in U.S.
(New Jersey) -- In an unprecedented intervention in a state licensing case, the trade group for the U.S. casino industry has asked New Jersey regulators to bar a well-...
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Group tells New Jersey regulators to reject PokerStars application
(New Jersey) -- The American Gaming Association said online gaming giant PokerStars had been a "criminal enterprise for many years" and New Jersey gaming...
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PokerStars Fires Back at AGA
(New Jersey) -- PokerStars has responded to a a legal brief filed by the American Gaming Association that seeks to prevent the global online poker leader from obtaining...
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The Battle For Online Poker Between PokerStars And Caesars Entertainment Goes To New Jersey
(New Jersey) -- In February, a senior executive of Caesars Entertainment Corp. contacted a high-level PokerStars executive and proposed a potential deal, putting Caesars...
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U.S. Casino Lobby Ferociously Trying To Block PokerStars Entry Into New Jersey
(New Jersey) -- As American web poker players have to endure the wait for their pastime to return, the fight for online poker supremacy in the U.S. between gaming...
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BRENNAN: Excerpts from the AGA protest of PokerStars’ bid to buy the Atlantic Club casino
(New Jersey) -- The American Gaming Association has come out swinging in its brief filed to New Jersey regulators asking them to deny the bid of PokerStars’ parent...
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Opinion: PokerStars Should not Receive a New Jersey Gaming License
(New Jersey) -- I know this is a controversial opinion so I want to at least stipulate that I have the utmost respect for PokerStars. I played there almost exclusively...
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PokerStars says Caesars offered to sell Rio, World Series of Poker
(Las Vegas) -- Caesars Entertainment Corp. reportedly offered to sell the off-Strip Rio and the World Series of Poker to PokerStars, a spokesman for the owner of the...
3/4/2013
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AGA Vows to Fight PokerStars New Jersey Licensing Attempts
(New Jersey) -- The American Gaming Association (AGA), the United States’ largest lobbying and policy organization representing American casino interests, has...
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AGA: Rational Group takeover of Atlantic Club would 'gravely compromise' industry
(New Jersey) -- The nation's largest gaming industry trade group is formally objecting to an online poker company's attempt to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino...
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American Gaming Association opposes PokerStars' purchase of Atlantic Club
(New Jersey) -- PokerStars’ alleged use of deceit, trickery and other illegal tactics should bar the online poker company from operating in Atlantic City, the...
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National casino trade association opposes PokerStars purchase of Atlantic Club
(New Jersey) -- The nation’s casino trade association is opposing the sale of The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel to the parent company of PokerStars, saying the...
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PokerStars responds to AGA protest of bid to buy Atlantic Club casino
(New Jersey) -- The bid by Rational Group, the parent company of the PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker online gaming brands, to buy the Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic...
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The American Gaming Association Opposes PokerStars' Bid for New Jersey License
(New Jersey) -- The largest U.S. casino trade group is opposing an effort by PokerStars, the biggest Internet gambling company, to buy an Atlantic City property as New...
3/1/2013
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Online Gaming Giant to Buy Atlantic City Casino
(Atlantic City) -- After being drummed out of the U.S. two years ago, the parent company of several of the internet's biggest online gaming sites is looking to...
2/28/2013
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Online Gaming Giant to Buy Atlantic City Casino
(Atlantic City) -- After being drummed out of the U.S. two years ago, the parent company of several of the internet's biggest online gaming sites is looking to...
2/23/2013
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PokerStars opens room at City of Dreams
(Macau) -- PokerStars announced yesterday that it will launch a branded live poker room at Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd’s City of Dreams.
2/20/2013
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PokerStars Plans New Home In Macau’s City Of Dreams [sub req'd]
(Macau) -- PokerStars will open its new permanent poker room in Macau at Melco Crown’s City of Dreams — its third home in five years in the Chinese gambling...
2/19/2013
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Will Internet Poker Make a Comeback by Going Brick-and-Mortar?
(Atlantic City) -- It's the most modern lament in retail: Brick-and-mortar shopping has gone the way of the dodo as everyone buys their junk online. But for the once...
2/18/2013
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BRENNAN: PokerStars’ bid to buy Atlantic Club in the spotlight
(Atlantic City) -- We’re just past the halfway point in the bid by the parent company of PokerStars to buy the Atlantic Club in Atlantic City, and coincidentally...
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Online gambling company PokerStars moves to buy struggling Atlantic City casino
(Atlantic City) -- Leading online poker site PokerStars has made an offer to buy a physical casino in New Jersey's Atlantic City, a collision of worlds that would...
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PokerStars' purchase of Atlantic Club Casino Hotel to face tough licensing scrutiny
(Atlantic City) -- Online global gambling giant PokerStars will face intense regulatory scrutiny when its parent company seeks approval to buy the struggling Atlantic...
2/17/2013
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Online gambling to meet real world in Atlantic City
(Atlantic City) -- Online global gambling giant PokerStars will face intense regulatory scrutiny when its parent company seeks approval to buy the struggling Atlantic...
1/30/2013
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PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker Owner in Process of Buying Atlantic Club Casino
(Atlantic City) -- Rational Group, US Holdings, which is the parent company of two of the world’s biggest Internet gambling sites — PokerStars and Full Tilt...
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PokerStars Files to Buy Atlantic City Casino
(Atlantic City) -- Online gaming giant the Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars and FullTilt Poker, has agreed to buy the Atlantic Club for an undisclosed amount...
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Rational Group to Buy Atlantic City Casino
(Atlantic City) -- Rational Group to Buy Atlantic City CasinoWhile New Jersey awaits the acceptance or veto of the online gambling bill, Rational Group is in the process...
1/29/2013
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There Might Soon Be A PokerStars-Brand Casino In Atlantic City
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars doesn't give up easily. In 2006, when Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, making online gambling illegal,...
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Atlantic City casino files layoff notice
(Atlantic City) -- Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City has filed notice that 1,729 employees may lose their jobs. The company says the layoff notice is a...
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Atlantic City Casino Layoff Notice a “Formality” in PokerStars Sale
(Atlantic City) -- The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel has filed notice of mass layoffs at the casino, but called the move “simply a legal formality” in...
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BRENNAN: Atlantic Club files layoff warning – a formality, but what lies beneath?
(Atlantic City) -- The Atlantic Club Casino in Atlantic City attracted attention this week by filing a notice with the state that 1,729 employees – most of the...
1/21/2013
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PokerStars Files to Buy Atlantic City Casino
(Atlantic City) -- A new player has entered the Atlantic City casino market, one that would save the failing Atlantic Club Casino Hotel and possibly open up new avenues...
1/19/2013
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State Sen. Lesniak Says PokerStars-Atlantic Club Deal Is Good for New Jersey
(Atlantic City) -- New Jersey State Sen. Raymond Lesniak doesn't think Rational Group, the parent company of PokerStars, should have any trouble gaining the state...
1/16/2013
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Atlantic Club close to being purchased by online gambling company
(Atlantic City) -- The parent company behind PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker is poised to make its first brick-and-mortar investment in Atlantic City, The Press of...
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Internet poker giant set to join AyCee game
(Atlantic City) -- That the world’s largest Internet poker company is buying a seat at Atlantic City’s table is one of the more interesting boardroom...
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STUTZ: Wall Street likes PokerStars deal to buy Atlantic Club, but what will New Jersey say?
(Atlantic City) -- Wall Street is sold on the parent company of online gaming giant PokerStars taking ownership of a downtrodden casino in Atlantic City. The question...
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BRENNAN: PokerStars parent company going Full Tilt after Atlantic Club casino
(New Jersey) -- By now you should have heard, per The Press of Atlantic City, about Rational Group’s tentative purchase of the Atlantic Club, formerly the Atlantic...
1/15/2013
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Online gambling giant moves to purchase Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic City
(Atlantic City) -- The parent company of online gambling giant PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker has agreed to buy the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in a deal that would help...
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Online gambling site wants to buy A.C. casino
(Atlantic City) -- An Internet gambling company wants to buy Atlantic City, N.J.'s Atlantic Club casino and says it's ready to pump money into it to help prop up...
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PokerStars Agrees to Buy Atlantic City Casino [sub req'd]
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars has agreed to acquire the money-losing Atlantic Club Casino in Atlantic City, in a deal that depends on it receiving interim casino...
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PokerStars Agrees to Purchase New Jersey Casino
(Atlantic City) -- Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars, has officially announced an agreement to purchase of The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel located on the...
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Press of Atlantic City: PokerStars moving forward to purchase Atlantic Club Casino
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars is moving forward with a purchase of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel, the Press of Atlantic City reported late Tuesday afternoon.
12/25/2012
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PokerStars Eyes Back Door In New Jersey
(New Jersey) -- As the congressional impasse over a federal bill to legalize online poker deepens, individual states are stepping up to legalize intrastate online gaming...
12/24/2012
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Casino Gran Madrid to Build PokerStars-Branded Poker Room
(Spain) -- PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, announced late last week that it has entered into a partnership with Casino Gran Madrid to build a...
12/20/2012
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PokerStars Confirms Casino Gran Madrid Deal
(Spain) -- PokerStars confirmed last week’s report that it was partnering with the Casino Gran Madrid to build a PokerStars-branded poker room in the casino. The...
12/19/2012
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New Jersey Internet gambling bill could spur sale of Atlantic Club casino
(New Jersey) -- An Internet gambling bill being voted on by the state Senate today includes a provision that makes the sale of The Atlantic Club to PokerStars or similar...
12/17/2012
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PokerStars Issues Apology Following “Three Days of Darkness” Spam
(UK) -- A PokerStars employee apparently gripped by pseudo-religious, end of the world beliefs managed to spam an undetermined number of the site’s customers on...
12/15/2012
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PokerStars Seeks to Acquire Atlantic Club Hotel Casino
(Atlantic City) -- If PokerStars were to start legally operating in the US market, Steve Wynn might have a major role to play in it. Early in 2011, PokerStars...
12/13/2012
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United States: PokerStars prepares its comeback
(USA) -- Absent on the U.S. market of online poker for two years, PokerStars is about to make a comeback. In fact, the website iGamingBusiness and Wall Street Journal...
12/12/2012
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PokerStars' New U.S. Life Might Still Have Wynn Tie
(Atlantic City) -- In a sense, PokerStars legally operating in the U.S. might still have a connection to Steve Wynn. In early 2011, the firm had a tentative partnership...
12/8/2012
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Online PokerStars Wants a Piece of US Gambling Pie
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars seems to have an agenda that is unlike all other online gambling operators. The recent news that the giant internet wagering poker company...
12/7/2012
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GROVE: Three Takeaways From PokerStars’ Plan to Buy A New Jersey Casino
(Atlantic City) -- DiamondFlush was first to report that PokerStars is in talks to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino, a property located in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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PokerStars gains a key ally in potential purchase of the Atlantic Club casino
(Atlantic City) -- Given the crossed swords between the federal government and PokerStars, and the fact that New Jersey is known for having among the most stringent...
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PokerStars in “Advanced Talks” to Buy New Jersey Casino
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars is negotiating the purchase of The Atlantic Club Casino on the Atlantic City boardwalk in New Jersey. The price tag on the deal is under $...
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STUTZ: PokerStars potential purchase of Atlantic City casino offers many questions
(Atlantic City) -- The idea that online gaming giant PokerStars would buy the struggling Atlantic Club Hotel-Casino in Atlantic City brings additional intrigue into the...
12/6/2012
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PokerStars Could Buy Atlantic City Casino: WSJ
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars, the world’s most-played poker site, is looking to buy a casino in beleaguered Atlantic City, The Wall Street Journal reported late...
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PokerStars In Surprise Bid For Atlantic City Casino [sub req'd]
(Atlantic City) -- Multinational poker giant PokerStars is in advanced talks to acquire the Atlantic Club Casino in Atlantic City, according to sources close to the...
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PokerStars Is Coming Back To America
(Atlantic City) -- PokerTracker 3 includes a HUD overlay as seen ...Twenty months ago, PokerStars, the biggest online poker company in the world, essentially got kicked...
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PokerStars Is in Talks to Buy Casino
(Atlantic City) -- Four months after PokerStars spent $731 million to settle a Justice Department lawsuit, it's in advanced talks to buy a casino in the hope that...
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