05/24/2013
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Full Tilt Poker has just announced that they’ll be hosting a new poker series this summer. The Micro Turbo Online Poker Series (MTOPS) will run from June 9th 2013 – June 23rd 2013 and there are going to be a total of 75 events throughout the 15 days. The series has a guaranteed prize po ...... |
05/24/2013
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The competition for one of the three available brick & mortar casino licenses in Massachusetts is heating up, and Foxwoods Casino from Connecticut is right in the thick of it, as they start to reveal plans for their proposed resort-style casino in the somewhat sleepy suburb of Milford, Massachuse ...... |
05/22/2013
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A Player Meet hosted by PokerStars recently took place in an attempt to solve some of the more complex issues that are plaguing the online poker world, chief among these issues were the propensity for players to Rathole (to take winnings off the table) and bumhunt (to only play against really bad ...... |
05/20/2013
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If you thought the last couple weeks controversies were behind us, or would at least be put on hold during the WPT Championship and WSOP tournament series you obviously don’t know much about the poker world. Not only did we get a verbose statement from Annie Duke (complete with personal referen ...... |
05/17/2013
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In the opening days of the 2013 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP for short) tournament series it has been some of the biggest names in online poker who have been landing in the winner’s circle. With the series just days old, names like Sami Kelopuro, Paul Volpe, Ana Marquez ...... |
05/15/2013
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The Discovery Channel may have Shark Week but the poker world is firing back with Scandal Week, considering the past seven days or so have seen everything from Lock Poker being raked over the coals for shoddy withdrawal times and some retroactive policies, to the rekindling of the Ultimate Bet Su ...... |
05/13/2013
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Back in August of 2012 we learned that Phil Ivey was embroiled in a dispute with Crockfords Casino for some £7.8 million in winnings that occurred during a two day session of Punto Banco Baccarat. Last week we learned that Phil Ivey had filed a lawsuit against the casino back in March, claiming ...... |
05/10/2013
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While Lock Poker’s issues –problems that go well beyond their decision to change their P2P transfer policy-- have been drawing the most attention, the beleaguered collection of sites that make up the Revolution Gaming Network isn’t the only online poker network that is having issues with Pl ...... |
05/10/2013
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The US DOJ & PokerStars entered into a settlement agreement in 2012 which allowed PokerStars to settle all civil issues as well as allowing PokerStars to purchase assets of Full Tilt Poker. The terms of the settlement allowed PokerStars to forfeit $547 million to the US DOJ while also allow ...... |
05/08/2013
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On Monday I posted an article about a Twitter skirmish between David “The Maven” Chicotsky, former BLUFF Magazine head honcho Eric Morris, and former Victory Poker CEO Dan Fleyshman. At the time I saw the fight as more or less posturing, but it seems this isn’t just some e-flexing and the m ...... |
