Filed in archive Poker Laws
by David Aydt on October 31, 2007
As many online poker players know there is a group from the Poker Players Alliance currently in Washington D.C. lobbying for our game to become legalized and regulated. As you'll see from the...
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The World Poker Tour seems to be suspicious of ghosts and goblins possibly looking up hole cards and causing misdeals as they take a day off the current tournament. Actually it's a rest day that...
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I keep sniffing for Oz, and come up with my daughter's newly soiled diaper instead. The Battle of the Bloggers Tournament series rolls on tonight with the Mookie at 10EST at Full Tilt.com password...
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While the world poker tour is tearing up Canada in the North American Poker Championship, across the pond the European Poker Tour continues to glow with success with its most recent stop. The EPT...
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Poker, eh? I am a resident of Minnesota and on my travels to the northern part of the state; you will find towns like Ely and Tower to have a Canadian "feel" to them. No, they don't...
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Donkeys, llamas, monkeys all names players who scroll down the various poker blogs and poker forums call "bad" players. Of course a "bad" play doesn't necessarily mean a bad...
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20 players to go, 18 pay, and I'm sitting on an average stack late in a small multi-table tournament. Dealt A8o on the button, a very aggressive player with an extreme short stack goes all-in for...
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Play chip poker brings back memories at Empire Poker and the simple push and pray with $100,000 in play chips on the line. Its funny that the same internet thugs who cursed your bad play on the real...
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The Battle of the Bloggers Part Deux series just finished up tournament number three last night at Full Tilt. Over one hundred players for a mid-week private blogger tourney? The Mookie is one of the...
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As reported here previously, the PokerBowl finale finished up yesterday. Team Cincinnati (also the home of the Poker Blogfather and UFC-junkie, Iggy) put away Team St. Louis heads up in the final as...
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Filed in archive Poker Laws
by David Aydt on October 23, 2007
An online gambling CEO NOT arrested in the United States but somewhere else? With a report coming in from Pokernews.com , Unibet's CEO Petter Nylander was detained in Holland while attempting to...
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Absolute Poker's attempts to regain the graces of the online poker community after disclosing a breach in security have started. As seen from Bill Rini's site, I'll have a handy...
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When is enough that's enough? If you're a poker player (or claim to play one on TV) you've felt those days when runner-runner full houses come in against your flopped nut flush. Then two...
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On your honor. Many things in poker are based on a person's word. A debt, to "play behind" while the action is going on at the table. A stake, to play off someone elses money to pay back...
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Doyle Brunson, a name known to just about anyone who has turned a gutshot straight or caught a whiff of the massive amounts of poker that have graced the television sets over the last few years. When...
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The Battle of the Bloggers Tournament was a smashing success for when over a 100 known and maybe even unknown internet Scribes got together during their normal weekly tournaments and played for...
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online poker cheating has a couple of faces that fan of the game don't want to readily acknowledge for the teetering of government approval is based on a safe, secure game. You can read the 2+2...
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The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP) ended with a sigh versus things and animals getting thrown across the room yesterday. Unfortunately, the one time I got myself all-in, I was...
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Its time. If you have a blog, if you write within a blog, and you play poker even if its that Saturday night nickel ante game with grandma you should be able PokerStars.com today. As I wrote...
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Filed in archive Poker Laws
by David Aydt on October 13, 2007
Former US Senator, current Poker Players Alliance Chairman Al D'Amato recently sent out a sort of "State of the Union" email to those who are part of the PPA and are wondering what this...
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A couple of months ago I wrote about a poker dealer school endorsed by none other then ten time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, Johnny Chan. The Gatlin Education Services "Casino Poker...
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Shall we Mookie? For those not in the know or are not avid poker blogger readers, The Mookie is a weekly small buy-in tourney ($10 + $1) at Full Tilt that many bloggers drop by more for the chat,...
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Bobby Crosby brings the funny into internet poker via his comics that are updated every Monday and Wednesday at plusev.net Of course my wife dresses like Corbin's wife and and begs to "do...
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