*THIS PODCAST ABRUPTLY CUTS OFF AT 2:20 MARK. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THIS. 80 MINUTES ARE MISSING* We cover the many big and small stories of the week: UB collapsing, cheating in the LockPoker/BLUFF Challenge, the new WSOP almost-live coverage, Bel…
A Full Tilt-supported televised poker game in Cardiff, UK — The Poker Lounge — was canceled mid-event today, when the TV production company walked off the set after an expected wire-transfer from Ireland did not arrive, reliable sources say. Supposedly,
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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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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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It\’s PLO week on Poker after Dark, and thus the first new televised poker I\’ve been excited to watch (on first run) in forever. Though I\’m sure someone had to play a 4-card hand on ESPN in 2004, I can\’t
PLOker after Dark Short-handed pot-limit Omaha brings variance to televised cash games
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Joe Navarro in 2009 … Sam Chauhan in 2010 … every year, we see personalities who burst into poker seemingly outta nowhere generate major buzz without ever playing a televised hand. In 2011, I think it\’s safe to say after
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We love a good rumor here at Pokerati, especially when someone else publishes it first so we don\’t have to take a \”hit\” if a few little tibbits turn out to be less than 100 percent accurate. (Still stinging from
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This technology seems to be wow-level — with the potential to change the dynamic of the \”televised\” game. An Australian guy developed an RFID-enabled poker table that is now ready for market … allowing just about any game to be
RFID Tables a New Reality Poker futurism?
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Many of the intellectual property issues I address as a gaming attorney are in poker representation agreements. These are agreements for poker pros to play for, endorse, and advertise for various poker brands, both Internet and land-based. Substantially all of
Who Owns Your Poker? (Part II)Protecting IP in Poker Pro Representation Agreements
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I didn\’t think I cared too much about the forthcoming Season 7 of High Stakes Poker, kicking off later this month on GSN. I dunno, the show\’s still gonna be good, I\’m sure, technically, but it certainly hasn\’t been the
