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 […]
You gotta love the Hardcore Poker Show on Sirius 98 (moving to channel 158 tomorrow) … as they seem to know how to get the right guests at the right time to throw out a few doozies. On yesterday\’s show
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You may or may not have seen the report Barclay\’s put out assessing the impact of American DOJ actions vs. Online Poker on the European online gambling sector. Now Moody\’s, the venerable global credit rater, has put out their own
All have heard by now about the constantly streaming broadcast by the Quadjacks crew … but before they existed, and perhaps giving them credibility from the get-go, the crew at Donkdown were the originators of raw poker radio. We used
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Most of you have heard about the Radio Free Poker discussion going on over at QuadJacks/UStream. But if you get a chance, step away to listen to this week\’s 2+2 PokerCast. (Sorry Marco for redirecting listeners … but don\’t worry,
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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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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
The first visible indicator that we will be able to see after Friday\’s indictments might be coming up in just a few hours. The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is the first new show to air in this new online-pokerless environment
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The Feds\’ allegations tell a rather compelling narrative of illegal gambling, bank fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to circumvent US law — that if proven calls for the forfeiture of not just domain names, but also: $1.5 billion from PokerStars
