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PPA on Justice: This Bullcrap Won’t Fly

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

The PPA always seems to be doing something every day on our behalf — and now they’re looking to pull together some sort of class-actiony lawsuit against the UIGEA. I like it! Why not be the aggressor in the courts, instead of always playing defense? Here’s the word that just came over the D’amat-phone: Dear Dan, Yesterday, [...]

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ESPN Numbers InPaging Oliver Tse to Translate

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

From the flaks at ESPN: POKER’S PREMIERE EVENT ENJOYS SIGNIFICANT AUDIENCE INCREASE ON ESPN As Denmark’s Peter Eastgate became the youngest champion ever in front of a packed house in Las Vegas, nearly 2.4 million viewers were tuned into ESPN’s groundbreaking same-day coverage of the World Series of Poker, presented by Milwaukee’s Best Light on Tuesday, [...]

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PPA Wants Poker Peeps to Keep Hope AliveFinalization of UIGEA Regs Doesn’t Mean Game Over

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

Despite the admirable efforts of Rep. Barney Frank and others over the past year to stop this from happening, UIGEA regulations have been finalized and set to take effect one day before President-elect Obama takes office. However, compliance of financial institutions won’t be required for more than ten months after that January 19th date. There [...]

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Tao of Pokerati: That’s a Wrap

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

The 2008 WSOP has come to an end, and with crews tearing down the set … Pauly and I give our after-the-fact analysis of The November Nine Experiment. Book 4: WSOP Final Table Episode 4.14: That’s a Wrap 3:49

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RE: Paul Leggett Speaks (At Length) about Tokwiro, AP, UB, Kahnawake, Joe Norton

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

Of particular interest to me in this series of Tokwiro-sponsored videos was Leggett’s confirmation that no one was or will be legally prosecuted in the Absolute Poker scandal. When the perpetrator was discovered in the AP insider cheating scandal, he was given protection from prosecution in exchange for information about the crime. If he told Tokwiro [...]

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Re: UIGEA Rules Finalized

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

The rules have been known for less than 24 hours, but opinions on said regulations are already coming in. Gambling law expert I. Nelson Rose opines that nothing has changed. Some on 2+2 mention that the UIGEA allows you to cash out from online sites. Rick Alm of the Kansas City Star [...]

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Tao of Pokerati: Web Player Down!

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

You can’t’ tell from the groovin’ tunes in the background, but Pauly y yo are in the PT Theater as the heads-up battle is just one hand from completion — and I’m suffering from severe WSOP separation anxiety tech tilt as Pokerati goes offline at a fairly critical time, presumably at the hands of loyal [...]

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Paul Legget Speaks (at Length) about Tokwiro, AP, UB, Kahnawake, Joe Norton And Annie Duke Says: “I don’t think there’s anywhere safer to play.â

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

It’s not quite 60 Minutes … in fact, it’s closer to 73 minutes. Absolute Poker/Ultimate Bet honcho Paul Leggett speaks with the CBC’s (Canadian Broadcast Company) Susan Reisler for an extremely detailed and stoic Q&A. I can tell you I’m very suspicious. This looks like an infomercial to me. (The apparent title of the show [...]

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Tao of Pokerati: Dealer or No Dealer?

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

Pauly and I discuss what goes into becoming a WSOP final-final table dealer, his crazy series of prop bets with Otis, Lou the Dealer’s up-close observations about the heads-up action (both were nervous, and Peter Eastgate kept messing up his bets in early hands), and the Linda Tran vs. Jena Phillips controversy, both of us [...]

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RE: So Let’s Talk Poker TV

Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008

Hmm, I spent some comment time below advocating for more-live poker … but upon reading this story in the New York Times about the end of the poker boom (by J-school classmate Steve Freiss), I learned something new that kinda gets in the way of the vision I was pimping: ESPN plans to edit a two-hour [...]

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So Let’s Talk Poker TV

Date: Wed, Nov 12, 2008

I’m curious what y’all thought about the big-hype show last night. I enjoyed the hands we did see — because really, this final table probably featured some of the best pure poker of any main event sit-n-go I’ve seen since I started following poker five years ago. Not sure how well that came across. The [...]

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UIGEA Rules Finalized

Date: Wed, Nov 12, 2008

For those that want to read it, head over to the Federal Reserve website. The final rule goes into effect January 19, 2009 with compliance by December 1, 2009. Update: could a rule passed during the days of Newt Gingrich be the savior to the poker player?

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Who Wants to Lead the WPA?

Date: Wed, Nov 12, 2008

A message from WPA Founder Jesse Jones which floated into my email account (among others) earlier this week: WPA FOUNDER MESSAGE I founded the WPA in November 2005 with $100,000 of personal funds as a non-profit association. The mission was to represent tournament poker players worldwide and establish uniform tournament rules, procedures, structures, and payouts; and [...]

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Re: (Shhh, Don’t Tell Anyone)

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

A comment from the USAToday.com sports editor regarding commentors complaints about the “spoiler” of the WSOP Main Event winner in the headline: To our readers: We regret offending the handful of commenters who believe we should either not be reporting on the outcome of a news event like the World Series of Poker, or should have dumbed-down [...]

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