The entities over at Wicked Chops have posted their opinions about the November Nine and their potential impact on poker. I think they make pretty good points about the players and their respective personalities, but have to question them on […]
Had a brief little run-in with Ivan Neville (of the Neville Brothers, and now Dumpstaphunk), who\’s a low-stakes poker regular at Harrah\’s New Orleans, any casino town he plays music in, and online. Not only did he sing the National
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We all know how difficult and complicated poker-related legislation can get/be in the United States … and we often look at Europe as providing a model of how things could and should be. However, things can actually get pretty complicated
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I just busted out of the wild-n-crazy USO/PPA charity tourney benefitting wounded vets. Jordan Morgan clearly doesn\’t respect my play … how else could he, with monster stack, call my M=3 all-in UTG with only A-9? Crap … though I
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Howard Stern wasn\’t the only one to join the PPA this week (aka \”National Poker Week\”). Caught up in the poker-politicky whirlwinds emanating from Washington DC, Russ Hamilton also became a member. Says Hamilton, according to sources plausibly fabricated out
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Congressional staffers hold the keys to Representative doorways, and one of the first steps this week was educating these gatekeepers on WTF we\’re talking about. Not the issues at hand per se — yay personal freedom and taxation! — but
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Big news out of the Russian Federation, as the global (and inevitable) poker shakedown continues … According to this PokerListings article translated via Google, the Ministry of Sport, Tourism, and Youth Policy have revoked poker\’s status as a sport —
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National Poker Week kicked off with Al D\’Amato on Howard Stern yesterday, and Howard Stern joining, on-air, the Poker Players Alliance. While I couldn\’t help but wonder if anyone listens to Howard Stern anymore — or is he kinda like
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Kinda-sorta. Zynga\’s Texas Hold\’em was the most popular game on all of Facebook — more popular than its sister games Mafia Wars, Yoville, and that farming game — which was all fine and dandy until people started hocking play-money chips
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Sometimes I think they\’re important to have. Other times, um, lol? From Facebook: J ***** sent you a message. Subject: WSOP \”You still in the main event? In the money yet?\” Hey, so if all you could play along …
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