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The Death of Poker Media?

January 31, 2012 Is Online Poker Legal?

I swung by Commerce last weekend to get in a little Omaha and, as is my habit, I picked up copies of CardPlayer and PokerPlayer magazines which are always available in the casino. It’s a habit that goes back for nearly as long as I’ve played live poker in the local Los Angeles poker rooms. [...]

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Zynga Ready for Real Money Gaming or Trying to Hide Failures?

January 20, 2012 Is Online Poker Legal?

Last September I wrote about why I didn’t think Zynga would be a major player in real money poker. I cited several reasons and among them was that they weren’t serious about real money gaming. They had not hired a single name out of the online poker industry. I left the door open though and [...]

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No Fight At All

January 13, 2012 Online Poker

I was reading a post on SpartanFox by Mark Gahagan which was pretty good but it had one big item that I disagree with. Gahagan discusses the war against better players that some sites are waging but I think he’s making a mistake including PokerStars into the bunch. First off, the other two rooms that [...]

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Stax Poker Lounge at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek

December 20, 2011 Poker

If you’re in the Coconut Creek area you might want to check out the new Stax Poker Lounge opening up on December 27th. The new poker room will have 30 tables of NL and high-stakes action in a newly-constructed area of the Seminole Casino. They’ll be kicking off the grand opening with a “limited capacity” [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2011-12-16

December 16, 2011 Poker News

Great article by SSS on Bodog: The Bravado of Bovada http://t.co/3HQaHm4Z # Interview with Patrik Selin: http://t.co/I9ZEcWPr What is a "sharp player"? Is he trying to revive a dead term? # RT @pokerfuse: Want a VIP invite to the beta release of @PokerTracker 4? To qualify just @pokerfuse with #PT4 and be a current PT3 [...]

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The Changing Business Model in Poker Media

November 16, 2011 Online Poker

Funny enough Hard Boiled Poker covered a topic I was pondering a blog post about.  I’ve written in the past about the poker media and how the fact that they derived a large percentage of their revenue from the very poker sites that they were covering tainted their motivation to dig too deep or ask [...]

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How Things Became So Screwed Up At Full Tilt Poker

October 4, 2011 Is Online Poker Legal?

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how things could have gone so horribly wrong at Full Tilt Poker. None of the people I know there are stupid. Nor are they malicious. It’s easy to go for the simple answer that Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar, Chris Ferguson, and Rafe Furst are greedy, thieving, conmen [...]

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What’s Next for Full Tilt Poker?

September 22, 2011 Is Online Poker Legal?

Last night on the QuadJacks Marco asked me what the next shoe to drop would be for Full Tilt. It’s one of the few times I’ve been completely at a loss. Every time I’ve thought things simply can’t get any worse for Full Tilt I open up my web browser and things have gotten much [...]

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Full Tilt Payout Problems Exposed

July 26, 2011 Is Online Poker Legal?

Last week Todd Brunson tweeted that he had run into Howard Lederer in Las Vegas and that after telling him how short he was of cash Howard offered to pay him what he had locked up on Full Tilt. He asked how much I had on tilt and I told him 150k.. He said come [...]

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