Jon Katkin OP-ED Spend enough time around the professional poker circuit and you\’ll quickly realize that it\’s a very small and incestuous group. Players and media members spend hours, days and sometimes weeks together in casinos and card rooms around […]
OP-ED Glitz. Glamor. Excitement. So far, the 2011 WSOP has had none of these things, and honestly, I\’m finding the whole thing kind of sad. It\’s not the World Series of Poker we all know and love… it\’s more like
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Jon Katkin OP-ED The DOJ dropped an A-bomb on the online poker industry Friday, and, as you\’d expect, the impact was devastating. Within hours of the DOJ\’s indictments, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker had shut down real money gaming in
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Jon Katkin The Poker Economy A lot of things have changed in the poker world since the Zynga PokerCon ended here in Las Vegas last Saturday. Partnerships have been approved (Caesars/888), announced (PokerStars/Wynn) and speculated upon (Full Tilt/Station Casinos). Legislation
Jon Katkin OP-ED We\’re a month into 2011 and already, the poker season has revved itself into high gear. Since January 1, we\’ve seen major multi-tournament events in the Bahamas, Melbourne, and now LA. If that\’s not enough poker for
Jon Katkin The Poker Economy OP-ED For 99.99987 percent of the players in this year\’s events, the 2010 WSOP has come to a close. Some were winners and many more were losers. And, for nine lucky combatants, there\’s still one
Jon Katkin The Poker Economy OP-ED Brand names serve an important purpose in our society. For consumers, they offer a simple shorthand that let\’s you know about a product\’s quality – or lack thereof – while at the same time
Finding Value Outside the Rio Alt-WSOP tourneys may be better bet for low-stakes players
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Jon Katkin The Poker Economy OP-ED We\’re just two weeks into the 2010 WSOP and the Amazon Room is already filled with people walking around like zombies. Don\’t believe me? Just take a good look at the players, the floor
Too Much of a Good Thing? Believe it or not, less could be more at the WSOP
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The poker economy isn\’t what it used to be. Players who wouldn\’t have thought twice about dropping $50K two years ago are now looking at the cost of entry the same way many of us look at $1,500, $2,500 or $5,000 events.
It seems like Beanie from Bluff (the website, not the magazine) isn\’t the only one with data mining on his mind these days. Joining Paul in expressing their dismay over this increasingly common trend are the folks over at 2+2
RE: What can be done about prohibited data mining?Full Tilt suspends Townsend
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