In just a few short hours, the 41st World Series of Poker will get underway at 12 noon at the Rio in Las Vegas with the first bracelet event, the $500 Casino Employees event. This will be followed at 5pm […]
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Check it out … from Forbes magazine: Online Poker War Heats Up The Department of Justice bags a Canadian payment processor in its fight against online poker. Are the big online firms next? Interesting … these biz-media guys may not
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It\’s no secret I\’ve been nosing around in Full Tilt\’s business lately. They are the ones who, after all, practically built the poker world as we currently know it — and helped create an industry that so many of us
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Poker was exploding. On April 20, 2004 (420, dooood!) Pokerati.com went live. WTF was I thinking? Happy birthday to us. The concept was simple, and reflected in our subtitle: \”Are you thinking about poker?\” I was. A lot. And so
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Daniel Tzvetkoff, first accused UIGEA criminal: Whoever said being a douchebag was a crime? Dude … it\’s gettin\’ hot here in the US … specifically in Las Vegas. Yesterday federal authorities arrested Daniel Tzvetkoff, a 27-year-old Australian national \”on charges
A month-and-a-half ago Barney Frank (D-MA) was prepping us for life with the real UIGEA in fully enforced effect — at a time, no less, when Federal law enforcement was saying \”we know who you are Full Tilt, and you
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Boycotting may be too strong a word … \”avoiding\” could work, as could \”snubbing\”, as could \”pissing off its own players by telling them they can\’t go.\” Supposedly, highly reliable sources are saying, Full Tilt brass in Ireland are telling
More than Rumorati: Full Tilt Boycotting NAPT? Branding Wars escalate
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Woke up this morning talking a little Full Tilt with The Poker Beat crew … and looking back through some old archives … I remember hearing about this \”new site\” from Clonie way back before they even existed (and the
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The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling earlier this month that American plaintiffs are not entitled to get their day in American courts for discrepancies with offshore online poker sites. This case specifically addressed two players in
US Appeals Court Says Online Poker Lawsuits Are Un-American PartyPoker FTW!
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A cover story in the latest issue of Forbes magazine (the main story asking if Al Qaeda is bankrupt) features an article discussing the US government\’s possible crackdown on online poker with the impending June 1 deadline for the UIGEA
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