I\’ve been receiving a number of calls, emails, and tweets about this situation with the \”shutdown\” of the top three American poker brands. Rather than write a traditional \”post\”, I wanted to present a FAQ tonight for poker players. Poker […]
Poker 4/15: An FAQ Cliff notes on the shakeup and shakedown of the poker industry
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The arrest warrant in rem in the parallel civil forfeiture case (11 Civ. 2564) involving PokerStars, FullTilt, and UB is out. This is the instrumentality through which the domain names were redirected by the FBI to the notices up on
April 15th. Its already a day that most Americans dread because their taxes are due, but now there is a whole new reason for US poker players to not like the date. The US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment
PPA Comments on Federal Action Against Online Poker Companies WASHINGTON, DC. (April 15, 2011) – Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, Chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, issued
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Rabbit Hunt: The Rabbit Hunt crew return after taking a week off to catch everyone up on the latest poker news. After discussing the recent legislation passed in Washington D.C. and Zynga Poker the host move on to discuss the
Merchdawg’s Podcast Roundup Rants Alive, SuperStar Showdown, & Kagome Kagome
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Fans of low-stakes PLO in Las Vegas rejoice. The Pokerati Game looks to get back into regular action, kicking off tomorrow, Thursday, 7pm, at The Palms poker room. We had a good run at the Hard Rock … convincing a
Is it too early to call her the Dwyte Pilgrim of 2011? We were just telling you how well La Sengphet was playing … when boyfriend David Clark gave me a buzz to let me know, yo dude, don\’t hate
With so many high profile events on the verge of wrapping up (see WPT Hollywood, NAPT Mohegan Sun ME & Bounty Shootout, WSPOC St. Louis), you might think there isn\’t much action to recap for this week. Nonsense! A major
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It\’s PLO week on Poker after Dark, and thus the first new televised poker I\’ve been excited to watch (on first run) in forever. Though I\’m sure someone had to play a 4-card hand on ESPN in 2004, I can\’t
PLOker after Dark Short-handed pot-limit Omaha brings variance to televised cash games
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Today I\’m blogging about a Notice of Civil Claim against Cake Poker. The claim was filed last week with the Supreme Court of British Columbia in New Westminster (a suburb of Vancouver). I\’ll make full disclosure up front: I have
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