Over at The Agitator, they\’ve got a firsthand account from someone mis-arrested during the June Aces raid. If you recall, that was the poker room busted in cahoots with the A&E network … only to have the tapes from that […]
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Happy 4/20 to all of you. On this day, three years ago, Pokerati was born. (Ouch, my back hurts.) The World Poker Tour is celebrating by hosting a big $25,000 buy-in tournament in Las Vegas this weekend. The WPT Championsomething.
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Is there any doubt that these guys are clearly the two best writers in poker? Sorry McManus — you\’re still great and all, but that was like so 2004. The above stories (about life in the poker underground) are totally
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OK, seriously, I can\’t believe how much time I have wasted today clicking around on Myspace … and there\’s not even any nudity! Nope, it\’s just been stumbling across old friends and colleagues, new friends, family members … seeing new
Julian in Dallas writes in with some official information about this past weekend\’s poker busts, and … perhaps like a player intentionally showing his hole cards? … informs Dallas pokerers about what the police plan to do next. (Austin poker
Dallas Police to Poker Players:
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We\’re hearing sources with unknown reliability that Absolute Poker has \”dumped\’ all their pros. That would include Michael Mizrachi, David Williams\’ mother Shirley, and Lacey Jones, and Mark Seif. UPDATE: Falstaff sends along official word that may have been relegated
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Those of you who have been \’round these parts for a while already know him well. The rest of you should know him … or maybe not, but all I know is that my life would be significantly less fortunate
Or not … our beloved little HB 3186 still has a ways to go. But we are \”this much closer\” to legal-better poker in Texas … at a minimum, people in the law business are becoming more and more familiar
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The news keeps trickling in … and still no arrests reported from either of the four recent poker \”raids\” — at DC\’s, Top Shelf, the Island Club, or the VFW. (Can we really call them raids if there\’s no semblance
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Below is the audio from an impromptu, late-night interview with the Dallas police official who seemed to be in charge of the post-raid cleanup at the Audie Murphy VFW. He provides some basic facts about this latest police incursion and
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