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Global Poker announces December 30 exit date from California
Golden State players have nine more days of access to the GW-owned online poker site
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Global Poker parent VGW begins pullout from Tennessee
What's the over/under on VGW's withdrawal in its entirety from the United States market?
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Jordan Cristos sentenced to prison term in cyberstalking cases
Well-known poker pro will spend between 14 and 48 months behind bars after plea deals in cases involving threats against family-court judge and WPT CEO…
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Dozens indicted in Illegal Poker/Sports Betting Cases
It's time for a Haley Special - a deeper dive into the linked poker-cheating and insider-info sports-betting cases where 33 people have been charged…
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Jordan Cristos and Antagonism's Diminishing Returns
Cristos will be sentenced next week after filing an Alford plea in a case involving the sending of threats to the WPT's CEO, Adam Pliska.
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Newsom signs California online-sweeps ban into law
Unless a last-gasp legal ploy is mounted by the sweeps industry, California's new anti-sweeps law goes into effect at the start of 2026.
 • Haley
Newsom ponders signing California sweeps-ban bill
The governor must announce and sign a veto by October 12 or Assembly Bill 831 will become law.
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