# News & Speculation
Spanish tax schemes, legalizing Australians, Grippo's SCOOP savvy, S&G mania, and top marks for PokerStars.
A wise person once said, “money is very important in poker.” That was me. I said that. You might have thought, with your steam-powered brain, that this nugget concerned only towers of plastic chips being shuffled around in a million simultaneous cash games. Simpleton! Even away from the felt, fiscal forces buffet the poker industry, as [...]
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In 2005, veteran poker blogger and author of “Lost Vegas: The Redneck Riviera, Existentialist Conversations with Strippers, and the World Series of Poker“ put together his “Top Ten Survival Tips on Surviving Las Vegas.” Dr. Pauly’s sage advice, which ranges from hydrating to the proper tip for a stripper, stands the test of time. For [...]
The sounds of botching a Bellagio robbery, Jersey casinos un-resurrected, scholarly gaming pursuits @UNLV + hardcore legalese w Disco Stu
So many new podcasts. At least the voices in our heads are staying fresh … and there really is more news and analysis related to poker and gaming and casinos and gambling than you can read all over the internet. Some shows I recently found and/or enjoyed … you may want to give a listen, [...]
The last DD Radio before the 2012 WSOP! DD NewsGirl Saramar schools us on the latest poker news. We give away another 10 BTC away in our SealsWithClubs online bitcoin poker tournament freeroll, and Pokerati Dan joins us to tell us that filthy Chris…
WSOP Bracelets, Deeb Again, and The Micros
Another weekend with little activity in the poker world except for the WPT Championship, the WPT Championship’s low turnout, Shaun Deeb acting a greedy player by winning again, and players whining about expired Diamond Cards. I’ll take the slow times this week as next weekend brings about a daily overload of WSOP events and before [...]
New poker ideas, Bulgarian tax cuts, Belgium hosts online poker, Bwin.Party see poker drop, and new poker ideas.
Today I would like to debut a new profession: Zournalism. If you’ve ever tried journalism before, then you will recognize a few similarities. For example, all of its constituent parts, practices, and disciplines are the same. Anyone who reads or undertakes journalism should be able to transition to Zournalism without noticing any difference, other than [...]
Court Intends to Consider an Upward Departure
An order has hit the docket in the Black Friday prosecutions in New York. In it, Judge Lewis Kaplan indicates that the court will consider an upward adjustment in Mr. Beckley’s sentence on the ground of “an aggravating circumstance.” What does this mean? In Mr. Beckley’s plea agreement, the government and he agreed that his U.S. Sentencing [...]
A few Las Vegas poker rooms offer cash consolations
This is not a bad beat story, though it starts with one. This is a story about bad beat jackpots, and the lack thereof. Playing a 1-3NL game the other day, I raised to $12 in late position with JhJd. An older man — here’s him as a younger man, seriously — called on the [...]
Shaun Deeb, World Poker Tour, and World Records
Hi, my name is Al. You may know me on twitter as @AlCantHang, or not. Doesn’t much matter. I recently found myself with a lot of time on my hands when the latest job to support my nomadic lifestyle ended up in the bankruptcy courts. I suppose that is a little better than my other [...]
Here it is — the poker game that has caught more attention worldwide than the latest from Isildur1 or Shaun Deeb or whoever it is who keeps winning all the poker these days: FWIW, this video confirms my belief that the NYT and other mainstream media probably miscalculated the stakes … you tell me, are [...]
Special guest Brandon Cantu joins us and discusses his young child, wife, and pokerings both past and future. Bobby G from the new Cantor Poker Room at the Palms comes on the show to pimp his awesome new room, DonkDown NewsGirl Saramar gets us caught…
Update from the Poker Players Alliance
I have some exciting news to share. PPA is kicking off the PPA Town Hall meeting tour this month. PPA Director of Grassroots and External Affairs Drew Lesofski and I will be traveling to various cities across the country to meet with the poker community, to hear your concerns and answer your questions in person, [...]
Though there hasn’t been any official announcement yet, nor do we have any insider knowledge … Pokerati’s exclusive screengrab journalism (and an iPhone that seemed to be buzzing moreso than usual this weekend) can confirm that the world’s largest online poker operation — and the only one with enough cash to buy up Full Tilt [...]
I know I shouldn’t celebrate yet another poker related scandal, but with minimal information, this one is definitely a favorite … six Buddhist monks have resigned over a scandalous video showing some high priests playing high-stakes poker (and drinking and smoking) when they were supposed to be honoring a dead leader. Awesome. Supposedly it was [...]
Join us on a fun filled adventure on DonkDown Radio’s “The Cold Call Show” – today we meet Sarah The DonkDown NewsGirl and she reads donkdown some poker news. Pokerati Dan is posted up at a Bachi Burger with Chef Mike, and SrslySirius drops the new S…
