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With billionaires and casino companies rushing to get ready for the potential of regulated online gambling in America, MGM Resorts on Monday announced an online poker alliance with Bwin.party digital entertainment, which owns PartyPoker, the second-biggest online poker service in the world, and the World Poker Tour.

The MGM deal, which is contingent on a regulatory regime being established for online poker on either the federal or state level, helps define the competitive landscape as casino companies get ready to enter the online gambling business in the U.S. Boyd Gaming also announced on Monday that it has entered into an online poker alliance with Bwin.party.

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According to Jim Ryan, co-chief executive of Bwin.party, the two announcements are related and have been in the works for nearly 18 months. Bwin.party will form a joint venture with MGM and Boyd to offer online poker in regulated U.S. jurisdictions. Bwin.party is slated to own 65% of the proposed joint venture, while MGM will own 25% and Boyd will own 10%. In addition, the deals call for Bwin.party to license its technology to both MGM and Boyd, which also plan to offer online poker under their brands.

Bwin is one of the biggest poker sites in the world, offering a huge range of action across all the major poker formats including a very active cash game scene and a strong schedule of poker tournaments. Read on to find out more about their poker room in our Bwin poker review.

Thanks to being part of the Partypoker network, Bwin can boast a massive array of cash games running at all stakes, one of the best MTT schedules in the world, as well as industry-leading levels of rakeback.

You can really go to town with multi-tabling on Bwin, with Fast Forward poker also available to multi-table in unheard-of numbers at once, up to a crazy nine tables! Be warned this is not advisable in practice for most humans as every decision must be made in seconds. Most players find a more moderate pace of action optimal.

Bwin no longer permits use of a HUD, which has on the plus side made the poker ecosystem that much friendlier. For those who wish to review their own play, there is the option to download batches of past hands played and import those into a replayer within traditional HUD software like Pokertracker 4 or Holdem Manager 3.

The option to restrict HUDs from the whole Partypoker network has been argued in the regular community as both a good and a bad thing. While we do mention it as a "con" above, there is a case to be made that it keeps the games softer and that a good observant, note-taking player can still prosper there as a result. It is certainly a welcoming environment for new players as a consequence, which is surely a good thing for the whole ecosystem.

bwin Poker has been operating since the dawn of online poker, after opening in 1999. bwin is truly one of the veterans of online poker and it shows in their software and large player base. This room also does an excellent job of catering to people all over the globe: bwin Poker is available in 22 languages.

bwin Poker has recently joined the PartyPoker network which does not accept U.S. players. bwin holds a remote gambling license issued in Gibraltar under the continuous official supervision of the Gibraltar government and the Gibraltar Gambling Commission.

In addition to the downloadable game client for PC and Mac users, instant play is available for PC, Mac and Linux users without a download making bwin one of the most versatile gaming clients in the world.

On the go, bwin has an app for that. A mobile version of the poker client is available for your iPhone or Android powered mobile device for poker players wanting to grind a few hands on the fly.

Affected players were notified via email earlier this month, and the move has been corroborated by a partypoker representative on its official Discord room. The spokesperson confirmed that, as of August 28, the room will end its operations in the country. Players will still be able to log in and request withdrawals.

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New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware are the first states to offer online casino-style wagering. All began taking bets last year, with New Jersey officially starting Nov. 26. Nevada limits online betting to poker, while New Jersey and Delaware permit betting on a variety of games. All three states limit betting to people physically within the state borders.

"We anticipate that the process will take approximately 12 to 18 months to complete. As we've said previously, the broader U.S. market is an opportunity that's further out on the horizon based on legislative developments, but we are preparing for a regulated market. We've also recently partnered with bwin.party to bring the highest quality real money gaming experiences to our UK players in the first half of 2013," Zynga chief revenue officer Barry Cottle said in a statement.

This year, Nevada began offering licenses to companies to allow online gambling for players in-state. MGM Resorts International holds one license and is also teaming with Bwin.party, while Caesars Entertainment Corporation received preliminary approval for its online poker license on Wednesday.

Gaming attorney Mark Clayton told TechCrunch that offering online poker in Nevada generally requires an operator to be or be in partnership with a casino. It's possible that Zynga still needs to clear that hurdle in order to bring its plans to fruition.

By Joseph Menn (Reuters) - The state of New Jersey granted its first online gambling licenses to several big international gaming companies on Friday, dramatically speeding their re-entry to the lucrative U.S. market. New Jersey joins Nevada and Delaware in permitting online poker and it is more populous than those states. New Jersey also will allow its residents to play electronic versions of other casino games. Bills to legalize online gambling are pending in California, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and more states are likely to follow, eventually letting residents of those states gamble against people in other regulated states. New Jersey's action also is a landmark for the issue of suitability, in which regulators weigh the conduct of the online gaming companies before allowing them into an industry with historic corruption. State gaming authorities gave "transactional waivers," which do not preclude additional regulatory scrutiny, to companies including the parent of PartyPoker, which dominated online cash card games in the United States for years. PartyPoker pulled out of the U.S. market in 2006, when Congress strengthened federal gambling. It later paid $105 million in a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Justice Department and admitted violating wire fraud and other statutes before the 2006 law took effect. Other recipients of waivers on Friday were 888 Holdings, and the online affiliate of Las Vegas' Caesars' Entertainment Corp. Two controversial PartyPoker co-founders are divesting their stakes in order to get their company back into the United States. New Jersey did not approve PokerStars, a company that kept going in the United States after Congress' 2006 law on internet gambling. PokerStars spokesman Eric Hollreiser said the company's New Jersey application "remains under review" and that "we remain committed to working with them to complete the process." Both PokerStars and PartyPoker's parent, Bwin.party Digital Entertainment, had focused their licensing efforts on New Jersey. "We're excited to see the launch of internet gaming in New Jersey," said American Gaming Association Chief Executive Geoff Freeman. "New Jersey will send a strong message to all states." Even with online casinos outlawed, Americans contribute an estimated $3 billion to a roughly $33 billion world market, Freeman said. Combined with recent actions in other states, the New Jersey decision suggests it could be hard for PokerStars to reach the American market. Last year, the Isle-of-Man-based company forfeited $731 million to settle U.S. government fraud claims and acquire rival Full Tilt poker, which shut down after a similar lawsuit. U.S. authorities also filed criminal charges against the founders of both companies. Even PartyPoker's re-entry was more difficult than many in the industry had expected. Parent Bwin.party pulled out of many of what it called "gray markets" with uncertain laws and jettisoned several PartyPoker executives, filling its top ranks from the other side of a merger with Bwin. The most dramatic concession was the agreement by PartyPoker co-founders Ruth Parasol and Russ DeLeon to divest their shares, which combined for 14.3 percent of Bwin.party. As reported last week, they will put their stakes into funds that will sell off the stock to others during the next three years. Even as the two co-founders leave the stage, they will benefit from any share-price gains from the U.S. return. Parasol, an American and former phone-sex and Web-porn investor, became a billionaire when Bwin.party predecessor PartyGaming sold stock to the public in London. Advisers said she left her home country long ago to avoid U.S. legal scrutiny. Bwin.party said it would launch poker and casino games under the land-based casino license of its partner in New Jersey, Borgata Casino, owned by Boyd Gaming Corp's and MGM Resorts, using both Borgata's and its own brands, including www.partypoker.com, beginning November 26. PokerStars could still be approved but it is very unlikely without at least the same sort of divestiture that Bwin.party agreed to, according to a consultant who spoke on condition he not be named because he works with New Jersey applicants. "PokerStars will not simply coast into the New Jersey internet gambling market," the consultant said. He said PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg, who remains a criminal defendant in a U.S. case, would have to divest, and even then the role of his son, the current chief executive, could be a factor. CEO Mark Scheinberg personally forfeited $50 million to end a Justice Department inquiry in June, although he did not admit wrongdoing. (This story has been refiled to delete extraneous words at start of story) (Reporting by Joseph Menn in San Francisco; Additional reporting by Paul Sandle in London; Editing by David Goodman and Bill Trott) 17dc91bb1f