Kahnawake Agrees To Force Bovada and Other Online Gaming Licencees Out of the U.S.

Just days before the sale of the biggest unregulated U.S.-facing online poker site is finalized, a deal has been struck that will likely keep both Bovada and the new Ignition Casino poker offering out of the U.S.

Bovada announced in August it would discontinue its poker offering as of September 30 and sell that part of its business to a company called Ignition Casino. Although poker would no longer be available through Bovada, the company said its customers would still have access to Bovada’s sportsbook, casino and racebook products. Poker clients were asked to migrate their accounts Ignition Casino, which uses the same poker platform as Bovada, and promised to feature the same anonymous tables, Zone poker, mobile poker and guaranteed tournaments, including a weekly $100K, that Bovada had previously.

Now, it appears a deal struck between Ignition and Bovada licensor Kahnawake Gaming Commission and the The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement that will keep both entities from accepting U.S. customers as of September 30.

“The Kahnawake Gaming Commission has directed that an applicant or existing licensee that accepts players from a U.S. State without being authorized by the U.S. State to do so, is engaged in an activity that adversely affects Kahnawake’s jurisdictional integrity or reputation,” reads a press release from the Kahnawake Gaming Commission issued September 26. “An application from an operator that engages in …

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