Hollywood Juice
Living and working in Los Angeles, just a few miles of nightmarish traffic away from Hollywood, it’s not difficult to keep up with tabloid journalism news of the rich and famous. And as they make poker news, this reporter is […]
Geico Poker
Tom loves nothing more, I am sure, than getting a call from me late at night to relay a bad beat story. One of the things he\’s been on my case about lately is the concept of running it twice
Online Poker Kinda-Sorta in the News
The non-poker press is catching on to online gambling issues [Fort Worth Star-Telegram] — still learning what they really are about, and feeling out whether or not they have enough relevance and traction to merit follow-up stories throughout the upcoming
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Kill Skill?
Ray in Chicago writes in with some relevant, outside-the-poker-box thoughts about why it might be a losing battle to argue poker as a game of skill: Hi Dan, I wanted to comment on the bust and on the updates that
Extreme Poker Takes the Over (Down) Under
Extreme Poker is in the process of finding six Australian poker players, via an online promotion, to play in its Australian Extreme Poker Tournament. The craziness will happen on Thursday, October 4th in Sydney. Six random people are being chosen
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RE: Poker Pros Busted in Carolina Underground (2)
For those interested in the details of the Carolina poker raid, information is continuing to flow via Otis and G-Rob (including specifics about the tournament itself, which should give you a little better sense about what sort of poker operation
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RE: Poker Pros Busted in Carolina Underground
As expected, the non-poker, non-local media has caught wind of the poker raid in Raleigh — the one in which WPT champion and accomplished pro Michael Gracz was nabbed. [Forbes.] This sort of coverage always reminds us how unfamiliar the
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Poker Political Strategy
A telephone interview with John Pappas, new Executive Director of the PPA. OK, so he\’s moved into a new office in Washington DC … as poker-minded political efforts move from infancy to toddlerhood, now what?
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“I may or may not be the greatest!”
Will we ever see an undisputed heavyweight high-stakes live-action champion of the world? Who\’s the best tournament player in the world? That\’s hard to say. For a long time, the CardPlayer Player of the Year has been the standard —
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Instapoker
Some stuff I meant to write about until I got distracted from poker by pictures of Vanessa Hudgens nude. I didn\’t even know who this Hudgens girl was … but now I do! (She\’s the star of Disney\’s \”High School
