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PokerStars And Amaya Notes

Updated We read the operator paperwork

This address collected the running notes on one story: PokerStars entering the regulated New Jersey market, and the company that owned it then. Within weeks of the launch the room had gone past WSOP.com and 888 in cash game traffic, and the notes asked what that had cost to buy.

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Others covered the insider-trading charges around the Amaya purchase and what they might mean for the group’s American licences, a streaming milestone that put online poker in front of a different audience, and the budget bill that briefly carried online poker regulation in New York.

The notes are not held in this archive. The room and the market they were about are.

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