For whatever reason, don\’t ask me to explain, I\’ve started looking back through some of the 300-or-so unpublished posts in Pokerati\’s drafts folder. LOL. I found the one pasted below, from early \’07 as I got caught up in the […]
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By letter to federal Attorney General Eric Holder dated July 14th of this year, US Senators Jon Kyl and Harry Reid have made known their views on Internet gaming. Or rather: they\’ve let the AG know what they want the
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He said it on Twitter so it\’s gotta be true … @TexDolly No main event for me.maybe the DOJ will stake me. 1:10 AM Jul 4th via Twitter for iPhone Less than a half hour earlier Brunson tweeted: @TexDolly Busted… Total
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The attorney who filed the suit, David Chesnoff, is kinda a big deal. He’s the former law partner of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, has been an ABC Legal News analyst, and recently secured walks for Bruno Mars and Paris
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Back in the early poker-boom days, it became well-known around higher stakes circles in Dallas that a few of the Mavericks liked to play Texas Hold\’em. Thus it was no surprise, back in \’06, when Mark Cuban and the Mavs
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We talk about the 2nd round of DOJ indictments, this time with Doyle\’s Room, Bookmaker, and True Poker being the victims. Neverheeb calls us to tell us of his car-jacking and pistol-whipping, an event covered by a Bay Area newspaper! We prank cal…
Sanford Millar OP-ED There are two actions pending against online poker companies in the Southern District of New York — an indictment of individual defendants, and a civil forfeiture complaint against the companies. The civil forfeiture complaint seeks forfeiture of
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Not everyone is unhappy about the elimination of PokerStars and Full Tilt from the American online poker marketplace. Shares of Bwin/Party soared today on the London Stock Exchange, closing up nearly 35 percent on rather high trading volume. And while
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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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A few interesting things have taken place since the implosion of online poker we\’ve been warning you about here at Pokerati for about nine months became a reality. We\’ll save the 9/11 comparisons for later — because no one has
