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Best Poker Lawyers?

Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008

Big Chris the Commenter went to trial yesterday for his presence in the Aces bust in Dallas (June 2006), and he’s requesting an attorney recommendation. I’ve gone ahead and passed on the name and number of Brady Wyatt, in Dallas, mostly because my fellow high school alum is the one accomplished poker attorney — president-elect of [...]

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Pokerless in Italy

Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008

It turns out that poker is as hard to find in Italy as an eBay bidder for spots on the November Nine’s clothing. My much-needed vacation in Italy was relatively pokerless, though I tried to find some casinos to check out the scene in the country that has been progressive in legalizing online poker. But casinos [...]

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Doyle’s Room to Block 13 States

Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008

Affected by the IP ban: Illinois Indiana Louisiana Michigan New Jersey New York Nevada Oregon South Dakota Utah Wisconsin Washington Kentucky Not sure how Nevada’s being included in this affects Doyle Brunson’s ability to play on his own site.

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Dallas Poker Underground Criminal Update“Black James” wins more bracelets in the World Series of Prison

Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008

Those of us who may or may not have taken pleasure in throwing a killer-turned-colluder-turned-killer-again under the bus can breathe a slight sigh of relief, knowing there’s one less person out there who might want to do us harm, with his release from prison now looking virtually impossible. James McDaniel (aka “Black James”) has had eight [...]

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Fleet Street Games closing on 10/31

Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2008

They made a great commercial, but the subscription site Fleet Street Games is closing on October 31, according to PokerNewsDaily.com. Their online poker training site, PokerSchoolOnline will continue to operate, and FSG players with less than $15 in their account will be converted to memberships there.

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Perspectives Weekly: Two-Year Anniversary Episode(s)

Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2008

Well, so much for all those jerks who said we’d never last six months! LOL! In Part 1 of this two-part special we not only have fun and celebrate our two- year anniversary, but also cover industry news from Kentucky, and what some Scientists and Psychologists think about our industry! From APCW.org: In Part 2 we [...]

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Michael Moore Endorses Good Poker

Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2008

The anti-old-rich-white-guy filmmaker appeared on Larry King today … and as we’re now just some two weeks away from the presidential election WSOP main event final table, he was busy educating the non-poker public on why the little guy doesn’t stand a chance against the big guy relative stack sizes and the importance of game [...]

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No Online Poker, This Week on 60 Minutes

Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2008

CBS has posted their sked for this weekend — and while adjusting story line-ups is standard operating procedure for any real journalistic operation, that rumored Oct. 26 date isn’t so. What is on the agenda for this next Sunday [from CBSNews.com]: Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008 CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS - Steve Kroft examines the complicated financial instruments known [...]

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Eli Elezra Semi-admits Multiaccounting on Full Tilt

Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2008

What starts out as background talk between Eli Elezra and Patrik Antonius during the Poker After Dark cash game last week ends up getting Howard Lederer’s panties in a severe wad … not just when Antonius extols the greatness of being able to play online anonymously, but even more uncomfortably when Elezra (wearing a Full [...]

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The Real Deal: McCain or ObamaPoker pros make their endorsements known

Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2008

I attended the grand opening/premiere/LV poker mixer for The Real Deal at the Venetian on Tuesday. I’m still processing what I witnessed — but I am pretty sure it was the official jumping of the shark for poker, as some 500 poker fans (including Tim Conway, Robert Wagner, Bob Newhart, multiple poker agents, WSOP officials, [...]

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The Draw of Video Poker

Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2008

For years poker buffs have flocked to casinos worldwide to enjoy the thrill and excitement of real life poker action. To get a chance to brush elbows with the who’s who of the poker world and tell their friends back home all the stories of the massive pots they won. However, the pressure and skill [...]

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Sorel Mizzi (Temporarily) booted from PokerStars

Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2008

Another issue of multi-accounting — not in a collusive way, but simply having multiple accounts and/or letting someone else play on it … initial suspension was for 6 months … but Imper1um appealed to the PokerStars judiciary and got his sentence reduced to 3 months.

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Who Knew I Was So Good at Point-Spreadless Football?

Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2008

Some of you may find this hard to believe, but I’ve never placed a sports bet in a casino. Horse racing, yes … but football, baseball, basketball, soccer … nope. Have come close a few times to betting on Wigan, but in the end decided to just “pretend bet” … and I went on to [...]

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Festa al Lago Underway With Phelps and Schneider out, there will be no Pokerati patch at the final table

Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2008

Early reports from the $15k main event of WPT Festa al Lago (at Bellagio) … Michael Phelps showed up to play … he’s out. And our favorite Donkey Bomber also just got bombed … he got it all-in with Aces only to have his opponent flop quad Queens. Yikes, when I said “Feel My Pain,” [...]

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