December 22, 2007Online search giants Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have agreed to settle with the United States Department of Justice over allegations that they “aided and abetted” illegal gambling companies and web sites by allowing them to advertise on their sites.
Although the “Big 3” have prohibited gambling advertisements since 2004, the D.O.J. was unrelenting in their pursuit [...]
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December 21, 2007The 2007 WPT Doyle Brunson Classic featured one of the largest prizepools in the history of tournament poker outside the WSOP Main Event and WPT Championship. In fact, after 664 contestants plunked down $15,000 to buy in to the event, the prize pool would exceed $9.6 million alone - all the whole generating a [...]
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December 6, 2007You may wonder why that affects you - well truth be told it may or may not be a big reason the UIGEA gets overturned someday down the road. Arizona Senator Jon Kyl (R) has been one of the strongest advocates to prohibit online gambling in America. His new title as minority [...]
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December 6, 2007In a story that may be just as surprising as it is tragic, poker great and inaugural $50K WSOP H.O.R.S.E. champion Chip Reese died in a Las Vegas hospital on December 4th, 2007. As reported by most major poker news outlets, Reese had checked himself into an area hospital where he was being treated for [...]
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November 24, 2007PokerStars recently announced that they will be showing ALL hole cards during the final table replay of their famed Sunday Million tournament. Before the announcement, Stars management gave the final 9 players the option to either show or withhold their actual hole cards when it came to the broadcast. This is a big story because [...]
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November 14, 2007I was looking through a lot of my old pictures I still have on my computer, and came across one of my favorites (shown below). It was when I was still apart of Team Protilt (now defunct and completely taken apart) and I made the trek to Las Vegas with some buddies of mine to [...]
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