The Poker PROducers showing they can feed the poker die-hards: This week, and next, Poker After Dark is forgoing its usual $20,000 short-handed sit-n-go (yawn) for a Full Tilty high-stakes cash game with a $100k min and $250k max buy-in. […]
Special Poker After Dark This Week High-stakes Durrr vs. Ivey + Everyone Else cash games
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Hank Gilbert could become the most poker-friendly agricultural commissioner Texas has seen this century. I gotta say, I was kinda tickled when Hank Gilbert, a Democratic candidate for Texas Governor, chose Pokerati as the place to first publish his op-ed
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Check it out … the New York Times Book Review, as part of a holiday gift guide, have put out their \”100 Notable Books of 2009\” … and making the list is Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by Jim
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The first thing that caught my eye when I saw the cover of the new issue of National Journal was the hand: Obama already has Jacks-or-better, but could also be drawing to an inside straight. Great artistic display of poker
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Finally, someone asked President Barack Obama semi-directly about gambling legalization. The college-student questioner didn\’t specify online gambling, and he lumped us in with drugs, prostitution, and other non-violent crime with revenue generating potential. But it does give a little insight
Barack Obama on Online Gambling (Sorta) Not good job creation strategy, President says
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I may or may not be talking about this morning\’s House Financial Services Committee hearing on today\’s episode of The Poker Beat … so that\’s why I\’m up listening/watching/clicking. It\’s kinda a big deal, I think … we got our
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The robbers were almost definitely amateur thieves, allegedly. Their names: Chaz White and Travis Thomas, ages 18 and 19. One of these fellas supposedly had played in the game recently while the other watched. They have been charged with aggravated
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It\’s been conventional wisdom around LV for nearly two years that as goes the fate of CityCenter, so goes the fate of Las Vegas. The multibillion-dollar project and biggest construction endeavor since the Pyramids (and maybe the Great Wall of
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Details still coming it … but so far it sounds like the feel-good poker robbery of the year: Last night two masked, pistol-wielding youngins reportedly ganked about $7,000 from a NL Hold\’em game of mostly retired old-school Texas rounders (ages
NeverwinPoker.com, the filthiest, most offensive poker site on the internet — filled with racist, sexist, drug-addled degeneracy and perverse nudity that provided a voice for a notably vile, socially maladjusted segment of the poker world — is no longer, or
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