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by Creative Weblogging on March 4, 2010
For those of us embarking upon a foray into the world of online poker, it can be very handy to know what it is exactly we are getting ourselves into. We need to find the right place to start a plan of...
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by David Aydt on October 17, 2008
The November Nine.
Remember them?
Yes, the final nine players from the 2008 World Series of Poker's Main Event are coming soon to the televison screen near you to play out the remaining hands...
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by David Aydt on September 24, 2008
100 episodes of APCW weekly.
J. Todd comes out firing big with the straight talk about Bodog and more importantly The Passage of a very important Bill that will clarify what the Unlawful Internet ...
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by David Aydt on August 21, 2008
Bouncing around the web...
Wicked Chops Poker finds the Full Tilt Online Poker Series Main Event champ (who banked over $400,000 in his win) and give dubbeemin his due interview. From the sounds of t...
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by David Aydt on August 21, 2008
My first memories of live casino poker resided in the little poker room at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino. Playing 1-5 Stud with long time Vegas locals playing only premium hands, the drunk looking bo...
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by David Aydt on July 25, 2008
Poker shows on the strip are on the rise, and now many famous pros will be battling amongst themselves with a little twist from the audience. The Real Deal at the Venetian will prominently display sev...
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by David Aydt on July 3, 2008
Well known poker pro John Bonetti recently passed away at the age of 80. Its tough to come up with nice things to say about a person who was anything but to his fellow players, but even worst towards ...
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by David Aydt on May 22, 2008
The Asian Pacific Poker Tour, sponsored by PokerStars, introduced texas hold em' to many gamblers in the Asian gambling mecca of Macau with last year's APPT Macau tourney. The successful run o...
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by David Aydt on April 19, 2008
The poker drama surrounding one of its own has seemingly come to a conclusion. According to the boys over at WickedChopsPoker have reported that poker pro brandi Hawbaker is deceased via suicide.
Ho...
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by David Aydt on January 28, 2008
Politicians playing poker, seems as natural as a mother wanting to care for her young. After all they stand in front of audience on a daily basis trying to persuade the masses that their beliefs/mes...
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by David Aydt on December 30, 2007
Gambling companies are no different then any other business when it comes to profit margins and stockholders. Recently Harrah's Entertainment was taken over by two investment groups: Apollo Manage...
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by David Aydt on December 5, 2007
(Video found by Bill Rini)
David "Chip" Reese has been regarded as one of the best poker players ever for decades. Many recent or passive fans of poker may do a double take and say "...
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by David Aydt on November 6, 2007
Like the many stories of Johnny Hughes and Doyle Brunson concerning the "old school" brand of floating poker games, this one is scary. Gone are the days where the players were strapped while...
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by David Aydt on November 1, 2007
After reading the article below, I can hear the Gopher Rouser with a hats off to thee in the background as University of Minnesota college students fling cards at each other during pick up games acros...
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by David Aydt on August 27, 2007
The name Pokerwire to many online poker addicts meant getting up-to-date chip counts and live commentary from World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker events. Their radio show provided a little spar...
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by David Aydt on August 20, 2007
Not all poker tourneys and functions are cutthroat fights for greenbacks and green twenty five dollar chips. Sure most of the play on the felt is reserved for bludgeoning your opponent's chip stac...
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by David Aydt on August 13, 2007
Card Player is the renown poker magazine that insisted on reporting from the World Series of Poker last year as its exclusive chip count and live reporting online. The grades from many of the online b...
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by David Aydt on July 27, 2007
Dumb people find their way into news headlines daily. Watch any newscast and you're bound to find some would-be burglar that tried to enter a store thru a chimney and get stuck because he couldn&#...
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by David Aydt on July 27, 2007
While playing online poker, the discussions that the three seat or seven seat is nothing more than a programmed bot has spanned over several years. Technology and time has given cheaters more and more...
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by David Aydt on July 15, 2007
The due date has come and past. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act's 270 day period before setting regulations on all online gambling (except Horse Racing and interstate lotteries of c...
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by David Aydt on June 28, 2007
Open cast calls are usually reserved for broadway plays and volunteering to be dropped off with 19 other attention whores with a chance to win a million dollars. The possibility of winning that type o...
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by David Aydt on June 1, 2007
Poker Players Alliance is continuing to move on with its attempts to educate the Washington legislators on the game of poker. Per PokerNews.com they have hired the services of John Pappas to head up i...
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by David Aydt on May 31, 2007
Cardplayer's Allyn Jaffrey Shulman provides some insight into the pending UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) implementation as the 270 day time limit to prescribe regulation looms ...
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by David Aydt on May 1, 2007
I. Nelson Rose penned a great article recently about the troubles the United States is going through with the World Trade Organization's non-compliance battle with Antigua concerning online wageri...
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by David Aydt on May 1, 2007
Texas poker is currently making its pushes out of the backroom and into the forefront. For the past couple of years famous "SWAT raids" and other costly door bustings of several underground ...
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by David Aydt on April 27, 2007
Washington state, home of the Supersonics, Starbucks, and the toughest penalty in the United States for being caught multi-tabling $25 buy in Pot Limit Omaha tables at home.
As the law stands now, yo...
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by David Aydt on April 26, 2007
Sen. Barney Frank is not backing down from his stance on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement act. Many quotes have come from the U.S. Representative concerning his distain towards the UIGEA and...
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by David Aydt on April 23, 2007
The fast life of a professional poker player seems like a life of luxury to those who watch the triumphant winners on TV raising bricks of hundred dollar bills.
Those million, two million, or in the ...
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by David Aydt on April 21, 2007
Issac Haxton seems like the calmest poker player alive while giving this interview by Pokernews.com concerning the $800,000 he transfered to his Neteller account after placing 2nd in the Poker Stars C...
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by David Aydt on April 16, 2007
Many different opinions have been thrown around the internet about how one should go about getting the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act repealed for internet poker.
A carve-out for poker?
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