# News & Speculation
Are you (and I) good enough to shuffle at the Series?
The 2012 WSOP is looking for a few good dealers, or perhaps I should say a few hundred, and Caesars Entertainment still has a couple of 3-week boot camps to prep the troops. You won’t get paid while attending the academy, but as far as I can tell you don’t have to pay either. Caesars [...]
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Today on DonkDown Radio’s “The Cold Call Show” We first discuss with Dutch Boyd a recent summary judgement against him issued by a Nevada court in favor of Mason Malmuth’s Two Plus Two Interactive for over $50k for the twoplustwopoker.com cybersquattin…
Are poker affiliates next in DOJ sights?
When Calvin Ayre got indicted this past week, some were wondering what took so long … because if the DOJ couldn’t nab the brashest of online gambling kingpins (Bodog did sports-betting for chrissakes!) then there had to be a formula — a legal-enough way to run an online gambling empire while steering clear of America’s [...]
Casino News of the Weird
Investors received the latest financial news from the world’s largest casino companies last week. And while Dan was thinking standard SEC filings from Caesars were signs of impending online poker happiness, it was the unexpected word from MGM and Wynn that really had tongues wagging. MGM: Documents Shredded and Shares Dumped Back in the day, gambling establishments [...]
5 web happenings you might not know about but should
Every week I open tab after tab and occasionally star a website intent on sharing it with you in some sorta blog capacity … hopefully before my browser crashes. So in an attempt to keep tabs on the poker-industry, here’s a grab-bag of relatively new (to me at least) and noteworthy sites to visit because [...]
Online poker legalization picking up heat from non-pokery world?
Maybe it was just the mid-day glare … but LOL I thought they were talking about eccentric British billionaire Richard Branson, who has quite an interest in the future of money related to online gaming, not the non-knighted digital gaming wonk Richard Bronson: But still cool they’re talking online poker legalization on TechCrunch. And Bronson [...]
888 how rude, Chili + Bally = gaming love, WSOP-Southern hemisphere, Wisdom of Ryan, and the elderly grind
After quite rightly ruffling a few feathers earlier this week, I’m retreating into my castle of news. Drawbridge raised, I shall load the catapult with facts and pelt all onlookers with interesting tit-bits from the wider world of poker. Prepare the boiling oil! Sexy 888 If there’s one thing that inspires people to get into [...]
This fun-filled episode begins with Hollywood Dave Stann joining Bryan Micon for the first episode of DD Radio from the studio. Epic Poker’s epic fail was discussed. Special guest Scott Fischman joins the conversation and tells us some awesome old …
I expect that more will be said about the indictment of Bodog Entertainment, Calvin Ayre, and 3 others in the coming days and months, but for now, a copy of the indictment itself is here. A copy of the seizure warrant and underlying materials is here. What’s interesting to me after a very brief read is [...]
Winning, Sponsoring, Ladies, and Sundays
You are reading the column of a fashionable man. I shouldn’t really be seen with rabble like you. What with your baseball caps and un-ironic beards. Such sartorial ignorance. When you’ve been to a fashion show, like me, you’ll understand what it means to dress in a higher strata. I give up. Trying to be [...]
Today on DonkDown Radio we have on Dutch Boyd as a special guest, and we discuss bitcoins and other things. Annie LePaige comes on and says some things that sound better when a French Canadian says them, then Mike Matusow tells us what he thinks abou…
Poker has long fought association with cross words
Stumbled across this New York Times crossword puzzle from 2008, revealing a perception of shadiness that persisted well into the heyday of WSOP, Full Tilt, and PokerStars on TV: They did, of course, use a question mark disclaimer in the clue, but it probably wouldn’t have made sense without it.
No expectation of Congressional quid pro quo in an election year
Online poker may be a difficult issue to either defend or fight in an election year. At least one hedge fund manager and one analyst are betting Congress will fail to act on online poker this year. Rumors reached fever pitch last week that a bill to legalize and regulate online poker in the U.S. would be tacked on [...]
There’s a corporate rush like something that hasn’t been seen for a while in the casino industry — to secure and develop poker-related assets. After the Department of Justice’s quiet reinterpretation of the 1961 Wire Act, and subsequent political buzz it created , corporate gaming partners jumped into bed together faster than you can change a relationship status on [...]
PokerStars' inventions, volatile Spaniards, and surly Serbs.
Wow, what a week it’s been. All of those events that happened! Do you remember the one with the things? What about the person who was doing all that behaviour? Oh, the stories we will tell our grandchildren. That’s the kind of introduction I’d love to have written, but in reality it’s been a humble [...]
