Feel My Pain
Warning: What follows is a bad beat story. If you have an aversion to such tales (like I do), please skip this post. I was playing very well on PokerStars this eve, so I decided to try my new-and-improving tournament […]
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Phil Hellmuth Speaks (in 2004) on Online Cheating
I was shoring up on some fundamentals just last night, re-watching Phil Hellmuth\’s Million Dollar Online Poker Secrets. This whole video series is pretty funny now, because it was recorded in 2004, in the early days of the poker boom
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Perspectives Weekly: The Kentucky Verdict Is In
Plus the Bodog audit and poker players for John McCain
Well, to be truthful, it coulda been a lot worse! On first glance, it may look like Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has won this court case… but not so fast. While it\’s true that the court upheld the state\’s right
RE: Kentucky Wins, Online Poker Domains in Jeopardy
The PPA\’s public response to the courtroom loss: PPA Disappointed in Ruling in KY Domain Name Seizure Case WASHINGTON, DC. (October 16, 2008) The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members
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New Matrix Tourneys on Full Tilt
We\’re not usually big pimpers of online poker action here at Pokerati, but something came to me via Full Tilt email the other day that really caught my eye, and that was followed up by a MySpace endorsement from DealerZach
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Dutch Boyd Goes to War With PokerHost.com
\”Idiot thieves\” he calls them. It seems that Dutch Boyd might be peeved. The gist of the story, as I understand it, is that Dutch purchased PokerHost.net in 2004 when he considered developing it. When someone from PokerHost.com approached him
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Duplicate Poker Defunct
Duplicate Poker, the site that offered a different take on traditional online poker, is no longer a working site. Whether it was successful in its operations is questionable, but since its launch in 2006 and media blitz in 2007, Duplicate
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Kentucky Domain-Grab Hearing Tuesday, Oct. 7th
PPA Helps Organize Emergency Summit on Monday, Oct. 6th
Governor Steve Beshear\’s attempt to seize 141 gaming-related domain names is certainly not over in Kentucky. The Franklin County Circuit Court will hold its next hearing on the case on Tuesday, so the PPA is working with other organizations to
Ellen Degeneres Wants You to (Register to) Vote
Seriously … she addresses online poker players specifically about 3 minutes in: (Matt Damon and Tobey Maguire also make appearances, indirectly repping the WSOP). I don\’t want Tom to vote, however. Or people who think like him. Country Second! I\’ve
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Kahnawake Gaming Commission Releases Initial UB Findings
Russ Hamilton Named as Main Person Responsible
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) has released its initial findings in the UltimateBet scandal. There are some jaw-dropping facts in the statement, like the $6.1 million figure that the KGC states has been reimbursed to cheated UB players, which does
