The usual crew talked a little (new era) poker on TV this week — 2M2MM + PokerStars Million-Dollar Challenge — and then BJ number-geeked out on Daniel Negreanu\’s breakdown of WPT performance stats … and a Calling the Clock segment […]
Numbers GameThe Poker Beat
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With a scheduled vote for tomorrow from Peerless Media from their offer for the World Poker tour, comes word of a proposal from Mandalay Media on Tuesday, offering $35 million or $1.69 per share for the company. Mandalay Media is
WPT Enterprises Recieves a Last Minute Offer $36.5m proposal from Entertainment Company
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ESPN had a little tele-press conference about the upcoming coverage of the WSOP November Nine. ESPN\’s chief Flack George McNeilly moderated the call, and on it taking questions were Norman Chad, Lon McEachorn and Doug White, ESPN\’s Senior Director of
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I kinda thought interest in pushing through the Barney Frank bill (in 2009 at least) had waned … but the Wall Street Journal has an article on the tens of billions available to US coffers by lifting the perceived (if
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Use of Sally Anne Boyer\’s image is what\’s in dispute. Sally Anne Boyer, 2007 WSOP Ladies\’ World Champion, filed a suit Monday against Harrah\’s and the WSOP Academy, claiming they\’ve used her name and likeness without authorization, and falsely claiming
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James McDaniel gets sentenced today. McDaniel, of course, is the smooth-talking, purple-suit-wearing rogue Dallas underground-poker-room-operator/drug-dealer convicted in June for contributing to the overdose death of SMU coed Meaghan Bosch. Good money says he will go to prison for the rest
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In an interview Sunday on Mediocre Poker Radio from WJFK in Washington DC, AJ Benza said Kara Scott will be his replacement when taping resumes in November. Kara is best known in the US from her cashes in the past
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Short jokes aside, \”the little corporal\” of poker is on a Napoleonic quest to dominate the poker world … or at least the WPT. The WPT Festa al Lago final table gets underway this afternoon/eve (4pm PT). After all the
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A presumably friendly game outside of Pittsburgh got robbed last week … From the Associated Press: Police Chief Vernon Barkley says the game was held at the Heidelberg volunteer fire hall and was breaking up about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. That\’s
Heidelberg Heist, Harrisburg Holdup The fight(s) for Pennsylvania poker room profits
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People may not realize this … because we have gotten along just fine even with the UIGEA for more than three years now … but December 1st is something of a D-Day for online poker. If no bill or procedural
