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- Phil Laak Killing For Hire Update
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I emailed tha man making these claims and I’ve included his responses below.
a) Did you make these comments on WPTFan.com back in 2005?
http://www.wptfan.com/article.php?story=20040603073517184
Yes I did post comments in 2005.
b) Are you the Tom Grant on 2+2?
Yes [...]
- Phillaakhomicidaments
Thanks to WickedChops for bringing this one to my attention.
I’m not sure where to start so let me give you the quick and dirty. Some guy has started a website which accusses Phil Laak of hiring a hitman to kill him back in the days when Phil was a backgammon hustler. I think [...]
- HellKat Poker
PartyPoker released a beta version of HellKat Poker last week. What is HellKat? It’s a time based SnG. Instead of playing until one player has all the chips (or until you bust out) the tournament lasts a specific time period (say 15 minutes). At the end of 15 minutes any active [...]
- When Bad Things Happen To Bad People
Ran across this little story the other day. Retired Baptist minister and Cabarrus County commissioner, Coy C. Privette, got caught with his hands in the honey pot when he got popped for several misdemeanors related to prostitution. Now, the whole politician/minister thing makes this funny enough alone but the article goes on to [...]
- Other Neteller Founder Pleads Guilty
Can’t say this comes as any great shock but John David Lefebvre joined his partner Stephen Lawrence in pleading guilty. As I previously posted Lawrence’s plea all but guaranteed that Lefebvre would need to plead guilty as well.
- WSEX Goes From No Rake to 25% Rake
WSEX, the site that promoted itself almost entirely on the fact that it was rake free (well, technically, 100% rakeback), is now only returning 75% to players. While that might still sound good it does draw attention to the fact that the rake free structure isn’t enough to draw in players. WSEX currently [...]
- Casino Gambling Web Hits Back
A couple of nice posts over at Casino Gambling Web that take on the Focus on the Family claims that I also took on in a previous post. Casino Gambling Web does some additional fact checking and makes some slightly different arguments than I did so it’s worth a read.
An Internet Gambling Education for [...]
- Poker Solves Crimes
Considering all the people getting tossed in jail for running home games and such I found this story of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, in partnership with Crime Stoppers, handing out poker chips and playing cards to inmates getting out of prison.
Inmates who are being booked out of jail will receive poker [...]
- Neteller Founder Pleads Guilty
The digital ink had barely dried from my last post about the good news for online poker overseas when news tickers started lighting up with word that Neteller founder Stephen Lawrence had copped a plea. I would have felt much better if he had been found guilty by trial because at least you know [...]
- Good News Overseas
Couple of cool things going on overseas. First the EU pimp slapped France and Sweden for protecting their own state run gaming monopolies. The government of Sweden runs its own poker room and France has alwyas had a poor record which was only made worse when the banned the Unibet-sponsored cycling team. [...]
