Semi-related conversation from last week: Dan: I knew the Poker Bowl was in trouble when they hired me to be TV commentator without even having talked to me on the phone. Clonie: I knew the Poker Bowl was in trouble, too, when I heard they hired you.
The Team Poker concept isn’t going away just because its big introduction to Las Vegas a year ago turned out to be a near-criminal scam. (FWIW, everyone did eventually get paid from the PokerBowl, I’m pretty sure, except Karridy.) The LV room embracing it — team poker, not the rip-off attempts — is the Hard [...]
“Idiot thieves” he calls them. It seems that Dutch Boyd might be peeved. The gist of the story, as I understand it, is that Dutch purchased PokerHost.net in 2004 when he considered developing it. When someone from PokerHost.com approached him this summer at the WSOP, he said that he would consider selling it and tried to [...]
The final table of the World Series of Poker is less than a month away, and the pressure is on to find sponsors to make a little more money than the $900K and the potential of more than $9 million. Yeah, life is hard. Since the big name sponsors that they were hoping for aren’t beating [...]
Pure conspiracy theory … inspired by the winner’s pic of “Harold and” Vivek Rajkumar proudly displaying his WSOP WPT bracelet at the Borgata. Without even a rumor to base this on (just circumstantial observations and wild speculation) I called Pauly hoping we could start one. Pauly was in London after covering the entirety of the [...]
ClubWPT is the newest show to come out of the World Poker Tour family and the first to premiere on Fox Sports Net, and, well, I expected better. Let me start by saying that I’m a fan of the WPT and have been since I was employed in their accounting department. I always secretly pull for [...]
I don’t really get into poker fiction too much — the real-life stories are sordid/compelling enough. But I just stumbled across this novel by John Blowers — Life on Tilt: Confessions of a Poker Dad — and I gotta say, seems kinda intriguing. Also like the fact that it is available as a downloadable audio [...]
From APCW.org: Exposing John McCain! How deeply is he tied to the gambling industry? Does he want to criminalize online gambling? Why are Washington ethics groups calling for an investigation of his gambling activity? It’s certainly not our job to tell Americans whom to vote for this November, but it is our job to make sure [...]
If you squint your eyes and are watching on a super-hi-def-super-big-screen and using CIA-quality video enhancement technology you can see it … Team Pokerati player/lasts-longest winner Whit Blanton appears at the featured table during Day 4 of the 2008 WSOP main event, proudly displaying his Pokerati patch during Jean-Robert Bellande’s safe-seeming-flop runner-runner bustout hand (where [...]
Just got back on the grid and playing electronic catch-up … here are some of the things that are making good browser viewing, but not quite stimulating a full-fledged post: Jay Busbee (from Bluff) has a good State of the Poker Union address on ESPN.com, where he officially declares the poker boom dead. Also interesting to [...]
In the understatement of the year, I am no stock market expert. But this news doesn’t look promising. In an announcement on October 7th, Lakes Entertainment announced a stock dividend in all 12,480,000 shares in WPT Enterprises. That would be 61% of all outstanding common stock in WPTE. “The spin-off of WPTE shares to our shareholders [...]
In non-crazy-governor-attempts-to-take-over-online-gaming news, a poker player in the U.K. set an official world record, according to the World Records Academy. Dave Cain set the record by playing poker for 72 hours and 12 minutes in September of 2008. He played heads-up deep stack poker at the Library Bar in Lincolnshire, England, and beat the previous record [...]
The attorneys for all sides have rested their cases, and Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate hopes to have a decision by next week, October 15th to be exact. The Associated Press is following the story. Attorneys for Kentucky tried to make the case that the domain names of 141 gaming websites should be treated as [...]
Arguments are being heard today in the Franklin County Circuit Court in Kentucky regarding the attempted seizure of 141 gaming-related domain names. At the request of Governor Steve Beshear, the Commonwealth of Kentucky filed a civil action on September 18, 2008 to order sites like Full Tilt, PokerStars, and Doyles Room seized if they didn’t willingly [...]