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There could be 1,000 players or more gathered in South Dallas this Sunday, just a few blocks from Dallas Police Headquarters btw, competing for a WSOP main event seat in what\’s being advertised as the biggest \”True Freeroll Texas Hold\’em […]
A report from CTV in Canada is reporting that Loto Quebec has received approval from the province\’s Cabinet to allow online gambling, including poker. The Quebec site, expected to launch in fall 2010, would be restricted to residents of Quebec,
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In light of what happened over a year ago at Ultimate Bet, where Phil Hellmuth won a pot he wasn\’t entitled to, a similar issue popped up on Cake Poker earlier this afternoon. Per usual, a post came to the
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Though Isildur1 player names have popped up on the microstakes tables at PokerStars, Absolute, and PartyPoker … there\’s one new player over at Betfair — Omlphalotus — that looks possibly to be the real Isildur attempting to work on his
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Here\’s a quick rundown of what\’s going on in one of the hungriest industries out there, and, game of skill or not, the parent biz of our beloved little poker world: ALABAMA — A small little gambling fight is going
Gambling Biz Today Instapoker
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So little gets me excited about poker these days … unless, of course, it includes Pot-Limit Omaha or somebody getting sued/arrested. (C\’mon HSP, can we just get one episode of PLO? Just to hear Gabe Kaplan talking about it. Promise
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It really is amazing, when you think about it, that 10s of millions of people worldwide are competing in games (whether they be sports or shoot-em-ups) on XBox Live, and they\’re doing it for no money! But with Sega opening
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Here\’s some interesting perspective on where poker stands on the pop-culture radar … the season finale of Jersey Shore (on MTV) drew 4.8 million viewers. That\’s more than double than the 2.1 million who tuned in to ESPN\’s coverage of
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Legendary chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov is in the New York Review of Books saying (via the NY Times ideasblog) it\’s time for computer programmers who make chess-related AI to learn a thing or two from the people (bots?) playing programmable
I swear we\’re not going gay(er than usual) here at Pokerati … but that song we told you about a long time ago, Poker Face by Lady Gaga, has now been turned into a male figure skating routine. In preparation
Poker on IceTriple-Axeling the Shark?
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