The official word on the long-term partnership between ESPN and the WSOP is out. They\’re not trying to pull a fast one on us, are they? You know, like how Harrah\’s spun losing their title sponsor last year into a […]
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Phil Gordon has had his ups and downs playing poker in recent years, but he was able to finally win in court. Courthousenews.com reports that Tony DeRosa-Grund, lost an appeal to pay $600,000 to Gordon for lining up fellow pros
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It was dinner break on Day 7 of the main event — and hoping to finalize our patch deal with the really big money (and camera time) getting nearer, I joined Tom Schneider, along with Julie and Robert Goldfarb, at
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From PokerNews: ESPN Signs a New Seven-Year Contract with the World Series of Poker That puts the two in bed together through 2018. While not forever, I think in TV terms that really is a remarkably long deal. And yet
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Even more semi-pokery TV … Shaquille O\’Neal is in town, doing some filming at Planet Hollywood for his new Shaq Vs. program, which debuts tomorrow at 9pm ET/PT on ABC. The concept is that Shaq takes on the best in
More of the court documents that were heavily redacted now have a bit less of a black line through them, to show Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars mentioned in the case of Douglas Rennick and the freezing of nearly $40m
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Oops, I might have been a bit premature when I said the Hard Rock\’s August deep-stack tourney was off to a decent start. Despite 100ish players for the first event ($340), and 50ish for the first $550 … event #3
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George Will and I rarely see eye to eye on anything (understatement), which is why I would never have seen this column had @TheEngineer2008 pointed it out on Twitter. But in his latest Washington Post column, Will stumps for the
Interesting op-ed in the New York Times today about the WTO and China, particularly pointing out the need for China to not just stop pirating American music and movies, but also to respect WTO rulings outright: China has also increasingly
Lawrence Burns, 65, was found guilty of gambling yesterday, despite arguments the real-money tournaments he organized were not gambling because poker is a game of skill. After 2 1/2 days of testimony, the Westmoreland jury took less than 2 1/2
