We have a huge week of online poker news, with three more states talking about forming online poker compacts across state borders! There is also the option of joining the existing poker agreement that’s between Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware. As good as that news was, it wasn’t all great for poker news as Caesars has reached a sad decision about their Planet Hollywood poker room in Las Vegas. Hello friends! And welcome to This Week in Gambling, where we’re following online poker news from sea to shining sea! And some land-based poker news as well! Both are this week’s…

From iGaming Business The drop in cash game poker stakes in France’s iGaming market continued during the first half of 2013 as licensed operators’ turnover fell by 14 percent year-on-year to €2.7 billion ($3.4 billion). The figures were revealed to Agence France Presse on Thursday during a meeting of German, Spanish, French, British, Italian and Portuguese gambling regulators taking place in Lisbon. French online poker’s travails are in marked contrast to the regulated online sportsbetting sector, which saw turnover rise by eleven percent year-on-year to €402 million ($515.7 million) and gross gaming revenues improve by 11.5 percent when compared with…

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Sometimes karma can bite you in the butt. World Series of Poker Executive Director Ty Stewart just experienced that pain. Recently, Stewart made light of early troubles that befell Ultimate Poker, the first legal pay-to-play online gambling website in the U.S., which launched April 30. First, Ultimate was caught using an unlicensed and much maligned service provider to identify new players. Then, a glitch in the website caused two 9 of spades to appear on the flop in a game of hold’em. “I think the market is ready for a first-class product,” Stewart told Case Keefer of the Las Vegas…