More talk in the non-poker world about the $41 or $52 billion available via regulated online gambling. From the National Journal: Gambling Regs Could Fill Gov\’t Coffers Maybe it is time to press the issue … not just for poker, […]
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The new World Series site just went live, just in time for the November Nine … check it out at either WSOP.com or WorldSeriesofPoker.com. For the past couple years, Bluff has been running the WSOP website — they actually paid
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Freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) fears online gambling, but hopes his TV show does as well as 2 Months 2 Million. I\’m not sure how much we\’re supposed to be sayin\’ about this … it seems like a major change
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The usual crew talked a little (new era) poker on TV this week — 2M2MM + PokerStars Million-Dollar Challenge — and then BJ number-geeked out on Daniel Negreanu\’s breakdown of WPT performance stats … and a Calling the Clock segment
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ESPN had a little tele-press conference about the upcoming coverage of the WSOP November Nine. ESPN\’s chief Flack George McNeilly moderated the call, and on it taking questions were Norman Chad, Lon McEachorn and Doug White, ESPN\’s Senior Director of
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I kinda thought interest in pushing through the Barney Frank bill (in 2009 at least) had waned … but the Wall Street Journal has an article on the tens of billions available to US coffers by lifting the perceived (if
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James McDaniel gets sentenced today. McDaniel, of course, is the smooth-talking, purple-suit-wearing rogue Dallas underground-poker-room-operator/drug-dealer convicted in June for contributing to the overdose death of SMU coed Meaghan Bosch. Good money says he will go to prison for the rest
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Short jokes aside, \”the little corporal\” of poker is on a Napoleonic quest to dominate the poker world … or at least the WPT. The WPT Festa al Lago final table gets underway this afternoon/eve (4pm PT). After all the
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A presumably friendly game outside of Pittsburgh got robbed last week … From the Associated Press: Police Chief Vernon Barkley says the game was held at the Heidelberg volunteer fire hall and was breaking up about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. That\’s
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People may not realize this … because we have gotten along just fine even with the UIGEA for more than three years now … but December 1st is something of a D-Day for online poker. If no bill or procedural
