The Duke of Fremont, that colorful, uniquely Vegassy character who likes to buy in to 1/2 games with no max and sit behind stacks of $100k in bills (which he carries around downtown in a violin case) returns to the […]
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The big news this week is PPA’s meeting with the Department of Justice regarding player funds locked up on Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, and Ultimate Bet. Needless to say, this is at the forefront of the concerns of the
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Jesse May OP-ED It didnt\’t really bother me when Poker Spot folded, because that guy had history. And I laughed about the money Aces Poker stole, because anyone who trusted them couldn’t ever spot a cheat. The Ultimate Bet scandal
If you are out real American dollars in the Full Tilt Poker collapse, the US government is apparently your friend. That\’s the message of Preet Bharara and the Department of Justice, who put out a statement to get those dumfugkers
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The big news this week was, of course, the amending of the Department of Justice’s online poker civil suit claiming that Full Tilt Poker was engaged in a \”Ponzi scheme\” that defrauded its players. Needless to say, this was a
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A sign seen in the new Aviator Casino, in Delano, California, reminding me of a difference between casinos regulated in lands we know well and virtual establishments based out of places that may or may not exist beyond our poker
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WSOP-eBay Gold is currently selling for $1,390 an ounce, just short of what Eskimo would need for his next WSOP buy-in. I’m back in action because I thought I was going to be up this morning spending my Pokerati paycheck
What looks to have been a rookie armed robbery of a min-stakes poker game in Michigan caught on video … just like EPT Berlin … you know, if PokerStars ran live events in the $30 to $40 buy-in range that
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No charges have been filed, despite yellow tape identifying this site of a deadly poker game as a crime scene. This time it was player-on-player violence … leaving one man dead and another injured after a gunfight broke out early
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A relatively routine raid of a low-stakes poker game in Greenville, South Carolina turned bloody yesterday night — as police tried to gain entry to a poker house. The game host, now known to be Aaron Awtry, 72, shot through
