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Poker Players Prefer Obama to McCainSo Says Duplicate Poker Polling

Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008

(Am I the only one surprised that Duplicate Poker is still alive and kicking?) Evidently, Duplicate Poker has players. And 1,639 of them were willing to complete surveys about the upcoming presidential election and their intended votes. Obama took it by nearly a 2:1 margin – 1,043 votes for Obama, 596 votes for McCain. Other results of interest: Stronger [...]

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Olympian Michael Phelps Asks to Meet With Doyle BrunsonCan we talk, legend to legend?

Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008

Michael Phelps made history at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics by winning a record eight gold medals. And his comments to the press about wanting to play some poker in the future garnered much attention from the poker community, as in offers from the Asian Poker Tour and Betfair regarding the WSOP Europe. Neither offer [...]

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RE: ShuffleTech (2)

Date: Sun, Sep 7, 2008

ItsOverJonny wondered in comment below whether or not the new ShuffleTech noise machines auto-shufflers actually kept a count of the cards being riffled … I wasn’t sure (kinda assumed they did), so, because apparently this is what I like to do at 6:30 am on Saturday night/Sunday morn, I wrote to the folks at ShuffleTech [...]

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Table Scene More celebs checking out the Hard Rock

Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008

From another HRH-lovin’ tipster (the words … photo by me): Perhaps if the music thing doesn’t work out for Billy Bob, he can take up professional poker as his next gig. Billy Bob Thornton was spotted playing poker in the new Poker Lounge at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Thursday night. He was joined by [...]

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RE: ShuffleTech ShuffleTech Flush-Mounted Shuffler: Solid Base Hit

Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008

By Patrick T. Mulry Special Contributor to Pokerati.com I received one of the first production models of the new ShuffleTech shuffler a couple of weeks ago. I loaned them the use of one of our poker tables for the WSOP Gaming Life Expo, so that put me near the top of the list for production models. In [...]

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WCOOP Underway at PokerStars

Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008

The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) begins its seventh installment of the annual poker tournament series today on PokerStars. Event #1 of 33 total started at 2:30pm ET, and Event #2 gets going in a few minutes. The WCOOP will run through September 22nd. I mention this for two reasons: 1. The WCOOP is a [...]

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Colorful Character Jimmy Chagra Dead at 63

Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008

The story of Jimmy Chagra’s life is a colorful one, to say the least. His early years included a heavy investment in the drug business, high-stakes gambling, which included poker with the likes of Doyle Brunson and Chip Reese, and crime. It was the drug trade that seemed to make Jimmy’s word go ’round. By all [...]

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Currently Thinkin’bout … ShuffleTech

Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008

Don’t ask me why, but I am … some dude (at the Hard Rock, quasi-coincidentally) was talking just the other day about the new ShuffleTech machines — the in-table ShuffleMaster knock-off. I don’t know the details, but apparently ShuffleMaster has quite the grip on the automatic poker-table shuffler market. You’ve probably noticed these popping up [...]

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Perspectives Weekly

Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008

Why was Party Gaming named in a US Lawsuit this week? What’s the deal with Bodog? Where are we with Gambling Wages? All the answers and online gambling news from APCW.org.

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Table Scene

Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008

“Bessie May” in Vegas sends along this pic she got yesterday (afternoon?) of Montel Williams playing in the big game — 5/10 NL — at the new Hard Rock. Fascinating, I know.

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Italy Legalizes Online PokerViva Italia!

Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2008

Bravo! Online poker is now legal in Italy, licensed and regulated by the Italian government. Poker has been thriving in the country for quite some time, with nearly two million people logging on to the internet to play poker at least once prior to the game’s legalization. And a survey by the Consumers Defense and Orientation [...]

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Happy Birthday to …

Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2008

Gavin Smith turns 40 today. It only seems appropriate that we all drink one on his behalf.

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Another Poker Offer Extended to Olympic Athlete Michael Phelps

Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2008

Maybe one of these days he will accept an offer. Swimmer Michael Phelps came off an historic Olympics with eight gold medals. And in one of his numerous post-feat interviews, he mentioned that he might like to play in the World Series of Poker. Suddenly, offers were coming from poker tournament organizers like the Asian Poker [...]

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UPDATE: “Shmaustin Shmete”

Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2008

Though it apparently took a while to get their payout system back in acceptably working action, Full Tilt has paid Boston Pedro his $4.5k: Yes- i have received checks from them the last two weeks on about a ten day turn around from when requested. That is good. Indeed, that is excellent to hear. Nice to know [...]

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