From Business Insider Editor’s note: Nicholas Kisberg is CEO of CardsChat.com, an online poker forum.    Dear Mr. Adelson, We in the online poker community would like to really thank you for your recent statements in which you refer to Internet gambling as “…a toxin that all good people should resist.” Why? Because you wrote that article using scare-mongering tactics, and backed up your arguments with ridiculous claims, allowing even the most naïve reader to plainly see your ulterior motives. And we appreciate that. We really do. It saves us a lot of trouble and makes writing this letter easier….

From Technorati Caesars Interactive Entertainment, a subsidiary of the world’s largest gaming company, has acquired the rights and ownership of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) mobile application, according to a press release issued by the company this week. According to Caesars, buying the WSOP mobile app enables it to “expand its presence in free-to-play social and mobile gaming.” The poker app is being developed by a group of 19 Canada-based game developers.  The company’s Playtika division will operate the mobile venture as a free-to-play social game. The WSOP application is available on the Facebook platform, Amazon Kindle, Android, and…

From Poker Player The packed Schedule in London allowed me the chance to visit two of the capital’s newest poker hotspots. Neither the Hippodrome or Aspers disappointed. The contrast of the two venues is quite stark. The Hippodrome has carved a casino out of a building very much still identifiable as an old theatre. The maze-like layout has gaming spaces hidden around every corner and a poker room nestled away on the very top floor. The poker room here is PokerStars’ first venture into a permanent live venue in the UK . While you may expect something akin to the…

Many card players say time flies during the annual World Series of Poker. The world’s best poker minds wait all year for the 62-event, 48-day series only to feel like it ends right after the first “shuffle up and deal” command. This summer’s WSOP is no different, running as fast as an electronic shuffle machine through three-and-a-half weeks. More than half of the championship bracelets have already been handed out, and today marks the official midway point with 24 sessions officially completed. Three-and-a-half short weeks from now, a new Main Event final table of nine players will be the talk…

From Card Player It’s been nearly a year since PokerStars swooped in to purchase Full Tilt Poker, cleaned house and then repaid the players. All of the players except for U.S. customers, that is. In their purchasing agreement, PokerStars set aside approximately $184 million in a segregated bank account for the U.S. Department of Justice to distribute to upwards of 1.3 million players. The DOJ then took eight months to hire Garden City Group to act as a claims administrator. During that stretch, the site reopened to non-U.S. players, the former site owners settled with the government and Full Tilt…

From Casinos Online Barely a year after achieving licensing in the then nascent Spanish legal online gambling market, Amaya Gaming subsidiary Ongame poker network has announced its intention to withdraw. Back in June last year proponents of the Spanish liberalisation were promoting the new market as having great potential, boasting 5.7 percent of the total gambling market in Spain (said to be the third largest offline market in Europe) compared to the European average of 11.2 percent. With expected gross revenues of Euro 82 million during 2012 online poker made up 19 percent of the e-gaming market in Spain �EUR‛…