From the flaks at ESPN: POKER’S PREMIERE EVENT ENJOYS SIGNIFICANT AUDIENCE INCREASE ON ESPN As Denmark’s Peter Eastgate became the youngest champion ever in front of a packed house in Las Vegas, nearly 2.4 million viewers were tuned into ESPN’s […]
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Despite the admirable efforts of Rep. Barney Frank and others over the past year to stop this from happening, UIGEA regulations have been finalized and set to take effect one day before President-elect Obama takes office. However, compliance of financial
The 2008 WSOP has come to an end, and with crews tearing down the set … Pauly and I give our after-the-fact analysis of heads-up play and The November Nine Experiment.
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Of particular interest to me in this series of Tokwiro-sponsored videos was Leggett\’s confirmation that no one was or will be legally prosecuted in the Absolute Poker scandal. When the perpetrator was discovered in the AP insider cheating scandal, he
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The rules have been known for less than 24 hours, but opinions on said regulations are already coming in. Gambling law expert I. Nelson Rose opines that nothing has changed. Some on 2+2 mention that the UIGEA allows you to
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You can\’t\’ tell from the groovin\’ tunes in the background, but Pauly y yo are in the PT Theater as the heads-up battle is just one hand from completion — and I\’m suffering from severe WSOP separation anxiety tech tilt
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It\’s not quite 60 Minutes … in fact, it\’s closer to 73 minutes. Absolute Poker/Ultimate Bet honcho Paul Leggett speaks with the CBC\’s (Canadian Broadcast Company) Susan Reisler for an extremely detailed and stoic Q&A. I can tell you I\’m
Pauly and I discuss what goes into becoming a WSOP final-final table dealer, his crazy series of prop bets with Otis, Lou the Dealer\’s up-close observations about the heads-up action (both were nervous, and Peter Eastgate kept messing up his
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Hmm, I spent some comment time below advocating for more-live poker … but upon reading this story in the New York Times about the end of the poker boom (by J-school classmate Steve Freiss), I learned something new that kinda
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I\’m curious what y\’all thought about the big-hype show last night. I enjoyed the hands we did see — because really, this final table probably featured some of the best pure poker of any main event sit-n-go I\’ve seen since
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