# News & Speculation
The Memorandum for the Department of Justice’s Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, on (the poetically-named) ‘Whether Proposals by Illinois and New York to Use the Internet and Out-of-State Transaction Processors to Sell Lottery Tickets to In-State Adults Violates the Wire Act’ is available here.
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On this amazing episode of DonkDown Radio’s “The Cold Call Show” Karina Jett joins us for the second half of the show while Neverheeb kicks us off with his tale of two Craigslist hookups, both at one point willing to “dome him up.” Brandon and I te…
Two helpings of danish, a departing Aussie, and PokerStars' latest series
Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Seriously, it’s getting pretty close. I don’t think your mother is going to appreciate that pack of novelty playing cards you found in some old jeans or a clay poker chip stolen from the Pokerati game. Now that I’ve worked you up into a lather, your brain should [...]
Brent Beckley pled guilty in US federal court in Manhattan yesterday to two counts contained in the criminal indictment unveiled in April of this year (United States v. Scheinberg et al). The first count was conspiracy to engage in unlawful Internet gambling, contrary to 18 U.S.C. § 371—this is a general conspiracy provision applied to [...]
Online poker has been a conspiracy to fool US government, Beckley admits
My bad: Brent Beckley, guilty of online poker. DOJ prosecutors keep moving up their ladder of bad guys in the unlawful internet gambling case against Isai Scheinberg et al. Brent Beckley, the 31-year-old father of two and a co-owner of Absolute Poker, told a Manhattan judge he did indeed lead a company that deceived US [...]
Irish want gold, nanonoko wants Guinness, French slip up, some people plan madness
I’d like to start this week’s column by congratulating my fellow countryman James Dempsey on his victory at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. To celebrate, here is a patriotic picture. British people are required to carry similar images on their person at all times. It’s why we’re such a cynical and self-deprecative nation. [...]
What do you do when Drexel returns? You host a show with him and Karina Jett, and call Sam Grizzle about his partner that got shot while you pretend to be drunk and allude to an extramarital affair. Then you call an 11 year old Jewish kid for foo…
FYI from the PPA
Have you been thinking about buying an iPad? Do you want to help the PPA in its mission to restore your Internet poker freedoms? Well, now is your chance to kill two birds with one stone, by taking this new poker survey. Working with U.S. Gaming Survey, the PPA has created a poker specific survey [...]
Poker Law, Politics, Business, and Crime
We spend so much time reading about poker legal developments here at Pokerati that we sometimes forget to share the relevant news before the cycle turns to something else … and then I complain that our readers here aren’t as smart anymore as they used to be? It doesn’t take a JD to see the [...]
On This fun-filled episode of DonkDown radio I am joined by Hollywood Dave Stan to host a fun-filled hour and a half. We touch on the giagantic UB data leak that dropped this week, where 3.something million user accounts and their personal data was…
Winning is outlawed, Blighty puts in all on black, and the watchmen are watched
The icy tendrils of winter are tightening their grip on the northern hemisphere and my sugar intake has increased 4000%. It’s December! Which, for the poker world, means not much at all. The felt is green all year round and money tastes as sweet as ever. Unless you play on Bodog or Everleaf, but we’ll [...]
WASHINGTON DC — About 110 people or so are in DC for the Digital Gaming and Lottery Policy summit … essentially a two-day crash course on gaming regulation. The DGLP confab is addressing everything from technology to legal quandaries to very detailed proposals on taxation breakdowns … like by the percent! We all know online gambling can [...]
DGLP Summit in DC and Beyond the Table flashback episode
Badge of Dishonor? Once upon a time the idea of Russ Hamilton wearing the scarlet triangle of Full Tilt Poker seemed laughable. There seems to be a big gaming conference somewhere in the world every other week. iGaming, iPoker, internet gambling, eGaming … whatever you call it, lots of people seem to want to know [...]
Pokerati Interviews: Lo Toney, Zynga Poker Boss
POKER CON? Lo Toney plays his cards close to the vest when questioned about Zynga’s entrée into casinoville and supposed disinterest in the future of real-money online play. Wall Street is buzzing about a coming Zynga IPO — set for December 15, according to the Huffington Post — and what it may or may not [...]
Ivey’s new home game, German PokerStadia, and exciting news for UK Facebook gamblers.
This week we’re heading back to Macau – the Las Vegas of the Orient – to discover why Phil Ivey was really hanging out at the APPT. Here’s a clue: It has to do with playing poker for stupid amounts of money. Plus, a social media development that will surely plunge my homeland into an [...]
