APCW Hall of Fame: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
Gov. Christie signed an online gaming bill that allows any game offered in Atlantic City's casinos to be offered online to players in New Jersey.
Topic: U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg
The PokerStars founder appears to have flouted DOJ restrictions on his managerial role when he got involved in PokerStars's attempt to buy the Atlantic Club Casino.
Topics: Poker | U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: Caesars Entertainment
Caesars has come out swinging against PokerStars's application to buy the Atlantic Club Casino -- but also tried to sell the online poker company the Rio.
Topic: U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: PokerStars
PokerStars may have bailed out Full Tilt's players and its own non-U.S. players, but it did so for its own reasons--and it's decided to leave Full Tilt's affiliates hanging in the process.
APCW Hall of Fame: Judge Jack Weinstein
The federal judge ruled poker to be a game of skill more than a game of chance, and reprimanded the DOJ for improperly vetting its expert witness.
Topics: Poker | U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: Groupe Bernard Tapie
Groupe Bernard Tapie wasted a lot of people's time planning to buy Full Tilt Poker, only to back out when it realized it would, of course, have to pay Full Tilt's players the money owed them.
Topics: Poker | U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Ray Bitar
The public faces of Full Tilt Poker give a masterclass in how not to handle a PR problem... or a business.
Topics: Poker | U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson
"Noted curmudgeon" Sheldon Adelson refuses to come around on online gaming -- nearly the only brick-and-mortar casino exec to oppose it.
Topic: U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: The Washington Post
The WaPo's outrage over the political nature of online gambling bills sounds more like false naivete than principle.
Topic: U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: Bet24
Bet24 reports that its customer information was hacked... a whopping 19 months ago.
Topic: Security
APCW Wall of Shame: Daniel Tzvetkoff
The former payment processing entrepreneur was the key informant in the DOJ's case to take down Full Tilt and PokerStars -- two companies he was in legal hot water for stealing from.
Topics: Poker | U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: Washington State Senator Margarita Prentice
Margarita Prentice isn't morally opposed to online gambling, but she introduced a law to make it a felony anyway. And she was snotty about it.
Topic: U.S. Regulation
APCW Hall of Fame: U.S. Representative John Campbell
The California Republican has bucked the party line and changed his mind on the UIGEA, supporting Rep. Barney Frank's bill to legalize and regulate online gaming.
Topic: U.S. Regulation
Allan Leonard has passed away from heart failure following several personal tragedies.
APCW Wall of Shame: The National Football League
The NFL has led the professional sports leagues' crusade against online sportsbooks, and now, it's succeeded in blocking Delaware from allowing single-game wagering on sports.
Topics: Sportsbook | U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: U.S. Senator Jon Kyl
When the Obama administration delayed the implementation of the UIGEA, the Arizona Republican decided to voice his displeasure with a political version of holding his breath and stamping his feet like a five-year-old.
Topic: U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: Australian MP Nick Xenophon
Xenophon believes that Australian players who play at "illegal online gambling sites" should have the "right" to ask their bank to void their financial transactions.
Topic: Other
APCW Wall of Shame: Southern District of New York
One of the biggest thorns in the side of the online gambling industry finds its proper place on the APCW's Wall of Shame.
Topics: Payment Processing | U.S. Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: Australian Senator Stephen Conroy and Professor John Kindt
Conroy is responsible for assembling a blacklist of sites to be blocked by Australian ISPs, while Kindt truly believes that gambling will destroy the world.
Topic: Other
APCW Wall of Shame: Christel Schaldemose, Church of England
The Danish member of the European Parliament and the Anglican Church have both come out against online gaming for reasons that seem to have more to do with protecting their own ability to profit off the land-based kind than anything else.
Topic: European Regulation
APCW Wall of Shame: Grand Prive Casino Group, Russ Hamilton, Steve Beshear and Spencer Bachus
These four parties have recently attacked the online gambling industry from within and without.
Topic: U.S. Regulation
The APCW's "Perspectives Weekly" videos are viewed on average more than 20,000 times a month.
Topic: Social Media
