The Santa Ysabel Indians of California have been proclaiming their desire to offer online poker in spite of whatever the wishes of state legislators may be. At the same time Russia has passed a bill that clearly makes playing online poker illegal in the country.

The Canadian online poker market is considered by many to be a “grey market”. Canadians wonder if PokerStars will pull out of the market like some operator already did.

Amaya concludes acquisition of the parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt. With the transition of company ownership in place, Amaya can now look to see if they can obtain a license in the US.

Online poker has been banned in Russia for 5 years now, but the government’s hard line stance seems to be softening. Amaya Gaming announced their attention to pursue a secondary listing.

New Jersey is now looking at granting a license to the new ownership, to finally allow PokerStars to come to America officially. Full Tilt is also looking to expand and they have just applied for a license to operate on the Italian market.

Amaya Gaming bought the company that owns both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. One of the offshoots of the deal is the potential for the world’s largest poker site to expand into casino and sports betting.

Canadian online gaming company Amaya Gaming has just agreed to pay the massive sum of $4.9 billion to purchase Rational Group, the Isle of Man company that owns Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker.

The worldwide poker market erased their losses of 3% last week by posting an identical gain of 3% this week, in spite of 8 out of the top 10 online poker sites seeing a decline. The boost was mostly driven by a nice increase by Poker Stars.