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[Name Deleted] Proves NL 2-7 Single-Draw/WCOOP Prowess

Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2008

click to enlarge Well whaddya know … Pokerati fave [name deleted] still plays poker … and last night he (”luvgamble”) won WCOOP event #24: $530 NL 2-7 Single Draw. (Which really is the best psychology-based poker game of all.) 308 runners, 49 in the money. First Place paid a nice $42k … glad to see [name [...]

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RE: Poker Bill Passes Committee

Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008

Serious question — don’t claim to have a clue — but am curious to see whether or not overcoming an American political hurdle (but still not near the finish line) moves the market needle overseas. I wonder if we’ll see an impact on Party Gaming’s stock price. Trading in London closed today at 186.75 … [...]

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Poker Bill Passes Committee One step closer to undoing the UIGEA

Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008

Word from the PPA about Barney Frank’s second attempt to pass a bill through his own committee: (Sports betting looks to be out … but this could also be a pretty simple way to get poker back in …) Statement by PPA Chairman D’Amato on Passage of H.R. 6870 Washington, D.C. (September 16, 2008) – Former Senator Alfonse [...]

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Happy Birthday to …

Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008

Jennifer Tilly. One of poker’s most successful “two-sport athletes” — might she be the only one with an Oscar [nomination] and a Bracelet? — turns 50 today. 50? Really? Awesome. Wow.

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Good Call

Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2008

Just watching a little WPT on GSN (for the first time in forever?) and saw the promo spot for an upcoming poker schedule change: World Poker Tour and High Stakes Poker blocked together, Sunday eves, 7pm/6 central. Hmm. Seems like a smart move — grab all the poker dorks viewers at once, on a day [...]

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Big Tourney Weekend

Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

There’s a lot of action going on, now and into this weekend … First off, in the online world, the WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) is going on on PokerStars. You can rail it live as an observer on PokerStars itself, of course, or if you’ve got an offline life you can follow it semi-live [...]

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Political Prop Bets

Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

I offered “Shmom Schmeider” a sizable-to-me-but-big-blind-to-him wager on the outcome of the US presidential election. I even was willing to give up a few points on behalf of Obama, but he wanted to bet it straight up for “any amount” because he’s obviously a little bit of an Arizona homer with the hots for Sarah [...]

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Instapoker (the Return of?)

Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

Ahh, remember the good-ole-days when there were only like three stories at a time coming in on the Google News Alerts for “poker”, and only like three bloggers who had signed up for them? Me neither … it was never quite like that (but close) … and though I make no promises to keep this [...]

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RE: Murder in the Dallas Underground New York poker robber arraigned on murder charge this week

Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2008

If the New York justice system is anything like Texas’ (er …), we can expect it to take about a year before the people responsible for the killing of a low-stakes (but high-action) poker player in Arlington. Just this week, New York courts officially charged William Delvalle with the murder of Frank DeSena, who you [...]

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Robin Hood of Blackjack

Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2008

I just read this news story and I have to say, I am slightly creeped out. Not really sure why. Then I went to Robin Hood’s own site, and after seeing the circa 1988 (pure guess there) of Caesars Palace, I am now officially creeped out. He might be a lovely man. He might even be a [...]

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Murder in the Dallas Underground? Attempted robbery in Arlington went awry; shots fired, one killed

Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2008

Two masked men showed up at a poker game in a South Arlington apartment complex a week or so ago … they knocked on the door, one player got up to answer, and upon realizing that the game was about to be robbed, he struggled to shut the door. Commotion ensued as it became an [...]

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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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