Handicapping the 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Field

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Selection Sunday is out of the way and the 68 teams that are going to play for the 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament championship have been determined. If you’re listening to the cacophony of voices from the talking heads on ESPN, then you’ve seen that they are choosing chalk. As seasoned viewers of college basketball,… Read more »

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Is Bruno Mars a Poker Degenerate?

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For many in the world of poker, it is possible to rack up a monster debt in a short amount of time (most people, however, don’t). This extends from those who scrape together a couple of buy-ins for a tournament to those who have massive bankrolls – or do they (this is the Tom Dwan… Read more »

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Handicapping the NFL Championship Games for Sunday

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On Sunday, the National Football League will determine the two teams that will take part in the “Big Game,” the 2024 Super Bowl. It’s been a long season for the four teams that will battle it out for the respective National and American Football Conferences, but this is the goal that they set out back… Read more »

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Feds Have a Forest of Evidence Against High Stakes Poker Player Gal Yifrach in Illegal Gambling, Money Laundering Case

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Just a little light reading High stakes poker player and 2018 World Series of Poker bracelet winner Gal Yifrach seems to be in quite a bit of trouble. In a case that dates back to 2022, the federal government has nearly 143,000 pages of evidence that Yifrach and four co-defendants operated an illegal gambling business… Read more »

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“American Idol” William Hung Admits to Gambling Addiction

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For many, he will be remembered for an ill-advised turn in front of the television cameras. But for William Hung, known for his audition for (then) one of the States of America’s most popular television programs, the limelight was fleeting. In an attempt to regain that adulation, Hung dived into the professional poker circuit. Now,… Read more »

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A Visit From St. Doyle

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With the passing of the legendary Doyle Brunson earlier this year, perhaps our yearly tradition takes on more poignancy… As has become tradition here on Poker News Daily (and it has been for this writer since he penned it back in 2005), it is time to celebrate the holiday season. With that in mind, we… Read more »

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2023 NFL Week 14: Weather Begins to Take Its Toll

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After taking the week off last week, it was time to get back on the horse. One of the things that occurs during a long NFL season is that you begin to get a bit burned out. You’re not making the right decisions (as witnessed by the 2-4 record for Week 11 and Week 12)… Read more »

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Former PokerTribe Software Fraudster Arrested in Murder-For-Hire Plot

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Lifelong fraudster Well here’s something weird. You probably don’t remember the saga of PokerTribe.com or PokerTribes.com, depending on the iteration of the site, and neither did I, really, so don’t worry about it. The short version is that several years ago, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma were trying to launch a poker site… Read more »

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Former EPT Prague Champ Wanted in Canada for Burglary Spree

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EPT Prague is coming up in a week, but if there was any sort of celebration of last year’s winner planned, it looks like those plans will have to be nixed. On Tuesday, the Halton (Ontario) Regional Police announced that 2022 EPT Prague Main Event champ Jordan Saccucci is one of four men wanted in… Read more »

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