The PokerStars Kentucky battle has been raging for years! With roots in the UIGEA from 2006, and the Black Friday seizures of 2011! But things really heated up in 2015 when the state sued the poker operator for hundreds of millions of dollars! But now, the battle is over, just short of making an appearance […]
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Long Running PokerStars Kentucky Battle Ends
In a dispute with root tied to Black Friday, the long and bitter PokerStars Kentucky fight has finally come to an end. This battle has been slowly simmering for a decade, beginning after the passage of the UIGEA, and escalating with the events of April, 2011, when the US Department of Justice seized the domains […]
PokerStars Lawsuit Nets Kentucky Over $1 Billion
In a different primes case of great ol’ boy politics in the 21st Century, the PokerStars lawsuit issued with the Bluegrass friends of Kentucky will reportedly cost PokerStars more than $1 billion. Initially, Kentucky registered the suit as a consequence of the poker operator accepting bets out of the country post-UIGEA. The judgment in the […]