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Ten days ago, a lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California numbered VC057998. The litigation pits poker players Eli Strickland and Edwin Pairavi against the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles over what the Plaintiffs claim is a “classic bait and switch.” The suit surrounds a $ [...]
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Poker Players Sue Bicycle Casino Claiming Bait and Switch
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Poker Community Aids in Arrest of Bellagio Thief
According to news reports, the alleged thief who knocked off the Bellagio in Las Vegas for $1.5 million was apprehended due to the help of the online poker community. Reports on several websites including Yahoo News and SportsInteraction.com detail the activities of the alleged “Bellagio Bandit. [...]
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Galen Hall Celebrates PCA Main Event Victory with Party Bus
How do you celebrate a $2.3 million cash windfall? Buy an island? Burn a couch? Dance a jig? For 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event winner Galen Hall, a party at a swank San Francisco hotel and a trip for 20 friends on a party bus were just what the doctor ordered, according to [.. [...]
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Bellagio Robbery Suspect Arrested in Las Vegas
The man who walked away with $1.5 million after an armed robbery of the Bellagio in Las Vegas was arrested on Wednesday night in Sin City, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. The mystery man is Anthony Michael Carleo, the 29 year old son of Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge George Assad. Accord [...]
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Poker Book Review: Don’t Listen to Phil Hellmuth by Dusty Schmidt
Dusty “Leatherass9” Schmidt is one of the real success stories of online poker. He’s the “Average Joe” who started playing micro-stakes games and eventually turned that into millions of dollars and a sponsorship deal with PokerStars. In his first book, “Treat Your Poker Like a Business [...]
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2010 Bluff Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards Announced
Yesterday, Bluff Magazine revealed the winners of its sixth annual Reader’s Choice Awards, a list that featured several repeat winners along with a bevy of new honorees. The nominees were announced in the first week of December and Bluff opened the voting to the poker community via the interne [...]
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Survivor: Redemption Island Cast Void of Poker Players
The cast for the 22nd cycle of the hit CBS reality series “Survivor” was announced on Monday and, to the surprise of some, was void of poker players. A thread on TwoPlusTwo before the announcement claimed that a poker player could be part of the upcoming season’s installment, but the rumors tu [...]
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Silly Bandz Creator Partners with DeepStacks Live
In one of the most intriguing business pairings in recent years, Robert Croak, the creator of Silly Bandz, a popular line of toy bracelets, will become the newest partner in DeepStacks Live. If you’re not familiar with Silly Bandz, Business Week called the product “the biggest success in modern [...]
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Phil Ivey Finishes 2010 Atop ESPN The Nuts Rankings for December
We might all be putting our new 2011 calendars on the refrigerator, but let’s not put 2010 in our rearview mirror just yet. ESPN.com’s “The Nuts” poker player rankings for December 2010 were released on New Year’s Eve and showed that the more things change, the more t [...]
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Sorel Mizzi Wins 2010 Bluff Player of the Year Title
Titan Poker pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi is the 2010 Bluff Magazine Player of the Year, officials announced on Friday. Mizzi entered the top spot in the Player of the Year rankings in March and never relinquished his lead. The 2010 CardPlayer Player of the Year, Tom Marchese, finished in second pl [...]
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Bellagio Removing $25,000 Denomination Chips Following Robbery
The thief who stole $1.5 million in casino chips from the Bellagio has been given a deadline to try to redeem the $25,000 denomination ones he took from a craps table on December 14th. MGM Resorts International, which owns the Bellagio, gave public notice that it will be discontinuing the large deno [...]
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Pro Poker Seminars Opens for Serious Players
Come the beginning of 2011, there will be another alternative for poker players beyond such offerings as the World Poker Tour (WPT) Boot Camp and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Academy. Billing itself as a school for “serious” poker players, Pro Poker Seminars will be stepping into the trainin [...]
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Time Magazine Tackles Poker in Florida
Ever since the Florida legislature adjusted the state’s poker laws earlier this year, people have been flooding the Sunshine State like never before. The influx of action has left a leading magazine to pose the question, “Is Florida the Next Las Vegas?” A recent article in Time Magazine posed [...]
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Tom Marchese Wins 2010 CardPlayer Player of the Year Title
In 2010, Tom Marchese claimed the CardPlayer Player of the Year honors, edging out Dwyte Pilgrim. At the time of writing, Marchese had garnered 6,738 Player of the Year Points and amassed more than $2 million in live tournament earnings during the 2010 calendar year. In 2009, UB.com pro Eric “base [...]
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No Suspects in PokerListings Murder One Year Later
Over a year has passed since the murder of the PokerListings founder Andreas Oscarsson, with no one charged for the killing and plenty of questions still unanswered. Poker News Daily reported on the story last year in which Oscarsson – with his young son beside him – was shot six times a [...]
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2011 London Affiliate Conference Schedule Set
Earlier this month, iGaming Business (iGB) announced the official schedule of events for the 2011 London Affiliate Conference. Like the installment, which drew over 2,200 people, the 2011 conference will be held at Old Billingsgate, located on the north bank of the Thames. Formerly called CAP Euro [...]
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New Zealanders Break Poker Endurance Record
A little over a year ago, on one of the world’s largest stages, Paul Zimbler played poker for over 72 consecutive hours, getting his name into the Guinness Book of World Records. This June, Phil “The Unabomber” Laak played $10/$20 Hold’em at the Bellagio for an amazing 115 st [...]
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Macau Poker Cash Games Wrap Up; Tom Dwan Wins Big
The high-stakes cash games in Macau that featured many of poker’s biggest names have apparently wrapped up for the time being, and now questions are swirling around the final results. While a handful of media members and staff did their best to report from inside the Starworld Casino, the high [...]
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Tom Dwan, Chau Giang, John Juanda Win Big in Macau Cash Games
The Asian Poker Tour (APT) Macau Festival wrapped up on Monday with 18 year old Zhang Dan Peng winning the Main Event for HKD $1.68 million (US $215,000). But the biggest story surrounding the series was the side action that developed after some of the big-name pros busted out of the tournament and [...]
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Entraction Posts Third Quarter Losses
Swedish online gaming operator Entraction Holding AB released its third quarter financial statements this week and showed a decline of 22.1% in net sales, including a massive drop in poker revenue. Poker room returns fell 33% to SEK (Swedish Krona) 46.9 million in the third quarter of 2010 from SEK [...]
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Gaming Revenue Totaled $80.5 Billion in 2009
A new report from consulting firm Richard K. Miller and Associates (RKMA) revealed that gross gaming revenue in the U.S. totaled $80.5 billion in 2009. The company’s “Casinos, Gaming, and Wagering 2010” report provided in-depth analysis regarding the amount of money retained by cas [...]
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Chris Wallace, Adam Stemple Release Fundamentals of No Limit Hold’em
Brand new to the world of poker literature is “No Limits: The Fundamentals of No Limit Hold’em” by Chris “Fox” Wallace and Adam Stemple. The 250-page book is broken down into 16 chapters, including lessons on knowing your opponents, bet sizing, the importance of position, common mistakes, [...]
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Scotty Nguyen Adds Heartland Poker Tour Stops to Schedule
As part of his fan tour around the United States, Scotty Nguyen has announced that he will be making stops at two Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) events in November. The “Prince of Poker” will take part in the festivities at the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel in Tama, Iowa from November 1st to 7 [...]
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New Zealand Group Gunning for Phil Laak’s Endurance Record
About a year ago, Britain’s Paul Zimbler played poker for over 72 consecutive hours at the World Series of Poker Europe, making his stamp on the Guinness Book of World Records. Then, this June, Phil “The Unabomber” Laak crushed Zimbler’s mark, playing $10/$20 Hold’em at [...]
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Bernard Lee Poker Show Holding WSOP November Nine Contest
The “Bernard Lee Poker Show,” which airs every Tuesday from 6:00pm ET to 7:00pm ET on 1120 AM in Boston, 970 AM in Worcester, and 1390 AM in Cape Cod, is dishing out $1,000 in cash and prizes. The occasion: celebrating the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine. The show is making it [. [...]
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