Introduction.
The WSOP 2009 Main Event got off to just the sort of start that the organizers would have wanted it to. News is just starting to filter through that the WSOP organizers have prevented some 500 poker players from entering this years Main Event. In an amazing turn of events some 500 players were refused [...]
It never ceases to amaze me some of the absolute nonsense that can still be considered to be worthy of high rankings by search engines or can find its way into a Google ‘Alerts’ list. I have a very simple Google Alerts query which just says “poker news and tips“. Straightforward and to the point [...]
In what would seem to be a classic case of the right arm not knowing what the left arm is doing – the Department of Justice (DoJ) has seized some $30 million worth of payouts to online poker players. Branches of four banks including Wells Fargo and Citibank have been told by the DoJ to [...]
In what must seem like a ‘rags-to-riches’ story, a British poker player has again proved that anyone who is a competent and confident poker player can make the move into the ranks of professional poker players – and make a living out of it.
A poker success story.
40 year old Richard Hemmington who lives on the [...]
n article doing the rounds at the moment refers to novice poker players as being ‘the fish at the table’. In an absolutely ground-breaking announcement this ‘fish at the table’ will be a recreational player with really basic and give-away tells! Now, there’s me been thinking all these years that any new poker player will [...]
Following our comment in the article “Legal poker online in the USA” and the perilous financial state of some Casinos and Poker Tournaments; comes more indications of a downturn in casino poker and potentially online poker.
Casino business takes a dive.
Nevada casinos have now confirmed that the downward trend in their business is now in its [...]
The Barney Frank Bill finally got its first hearing in front of his ‘US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee’, last week. Seen as the first step in dismantling the 2006 legislation banning online betting and internet gambling games in the US, the only people to have benefited so far seem to be the share-holders [...]