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The coronavirus pandemic is a weird thing. We in the United States heard about it weeks, if not months, ago, but because it didn’t affect most of us, most people didn’t take it seriously. It was just in China. It was just up there in Washington. But then the NBA season was suspended and people… Read more »
Despite having one of the most popular You Tube pages in the poker world, despite the millions won, if you’re heart isn’t in it, it is time to go. Doug Polk, who has done a great deal of this in the poker world, has decided that it is time to “retire” officially from the world… Read more »
Citing “an abundance of caution,” officials with the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, FL, have postponed the remainder of their World Series of Poker Circuit stop as of today. This will cause the postponement of six of the 13 ring events being held by the casino, including the $1500 Main Event that would have begun… Read more »
On Friday evening, the crème of the poker world gathered together to honor those who made their mark on the game in 2019. The 2nd Annual Global Poker Awards, presented by the Global Poker Index, was the second gathering of what used to be the separate American and European Poker Awards. 25 members of the… Read more »
After several months of inaction on the case, partially because of the defendant’s inability to be served, the Mike Postle/Stones Gambling Hall cheating case looks to be moving forward in California. Part of this is because of actions by the attorneys for Stones, who have made a motion of dismissal as to the civil suit… Read more »
If you think you’ve heard the last of the Phil Ivey “edge sorting” scandal, get ready for the way Hollywood will look at it. According to reports from Collider writer Jeff Snider, the lawsuits that were battled out on both sides of the Atlantic involving one of poker’s all-time greats will be the subject of… Read more »
It has been said that, to become proficient in any endeavor, you have to have 10,000 hours of actual hands on experience in the said activity to become “world class.” Poker is one of those activities where 10,000 hours might not be enough, to be honest. But writer Ashley Adams has come up with a… Read more »
After shutting it down slightly more than a year earlier, the Dallas City Council has passed regulations that will allow for the first officially city sanctioned poker room to be opened in the home of the Cowboys, the Mavericks and the Stars. It will join a sister card room that is already in existence in… Read more »
It may seem to many that the allegations regarding disgraced poker player Mike Postle and the beleaguered Stones Gambling Hall have quietly gone by the wayside. It hasn’t been because there hasn’t been extensive action on the legal fronts, however. In fact, recent moves by attorneys involved in the case have forced Postle into having… Read more »
There are plenty of poker books out there that offer instruction on the game of poker in different manners. Some will take a distinctly academic approach to things, replete with charts and graphs to prove why you should float the turn when you have an open-ended straight draw. Then there are others that can present… Read more »
I hope Phil Galfond is attracting a lot of traffic to his online poker room, Run It Once, as the result of the Galfond Challenge, because he needs to generate a lot of rake for the beating he is taking so far. There is still a long way to go against VeniVidi1993 and several more… Read more »
I kind of feel bad for the Kansas City Chiefs. They won their first Super Bowl in 50 years and nobody is talking about them. The only thing from the Super Bowl anyone seems to want to discuss is the halftime show and OH THE OUTRAGE of two grown women choosing how they want to… Read more »
After an extensive vetting and nomination process, the Global Poker Index has announced the nominations for the 2020 Global Poker Awards. Now in its second year (and following the success of the American and European Poker Awards), the Global Poker Awards looks to honor achievements in the game by the organizations, players and industry personnel… Read more »
It is usually a sign that you’ve “made it” in a particular endeavor or activity. If anything has been around for a good length of time, it is likely that it has a Hall of Fame. Not only does poker have one (at least in theory, as it doesn’t have a physical location), individual countries… Read more »
For many in the poker world, their first introduction to the game, and perhaps even Texas Hold’em, was the movie Rounders. Released in 1998, the film was the spark that lit many fires in the poker community and, it appears, some people who you wouldn’t think of as Rounders fanatics. Just how fanatical are we… Read more »
Eyebrows were raised throughout the poker community over the weekend when BetMGM sent out an interesting e-mail to its customers. The e-mail, hyping a promotion that began Sunday, strongly implies that partypoker might be launching soon in Nevada. Though many people received the e-mail, poker media maven Kevin Mathers posted it on Twitter for those… Read more »
It is always a good time to take stock in the health of anything involved in your life. From your finances to your health to your future plans, individuals do a yearly review to try to improve their situations. Businesses do the same thing, with intricate reviews across all facets of their operations. Governments even… Read more »
Happy New Year, everybody! If you’re like me, you don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Instead, you enroll at Orangetheory Fitness and then “don’t have time” or “forget” or “aren’t feeling well enough” to go by January 17th. And I am sure glad I didn’t make any resolutions, as one of them would have been, “Write… Read more »
As is tradition here at Poker News Daily (and has been for this writer since I penned the homage 15 years ago), it is time for the annual posting of “A Visit From St. Doyle.” Although the names that populated this poem originally may not be as dominant as they once were, the poem has… Read more »
Simple scheme didn’t last long 32-year old ex-casino dealer Ming Zhang was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week for leading a cheating scheme that bilked Maryland’s MGM National Harbor out of more than $1 million. He was also hit with three months supervised release after he completes his prison term. Zhang was a… Read more »
A French court ruled against professional poker player Rick Salomon, who sued wealthy Saudi Arabian Raad al-Khereiji for $2.8 million in unpaid poker debt. The poker game in question took place at the Tiara Miramar Beach hotel in Théoule-sur-Mer, France in 2014. Gambling law goes back to start of Napoleon’s reign The court made its… Read more »
In an interesting and unfortunate case, former World Poker Tour L. A. Poker Classic champion Dennis Blieden has pled guilty to several charges of embezzlement of millions of dollars. While he hasn’t been sentenced yet, it is highly likely the poker champion will not see the outside world for some time. Charges Include Identity Theft,… Read more »
One of the toughest things to come up with when programming a network – whether it is terrestrial, cable or streaming – is adequate material to put on your channel. In the case of PokerGO, there’s only so many tournament poker replays that can be put on the air. With that in mind, the streaming… Read more »
It is arguable that the tournament poker scene has never been more popular than today. The World Series of Poker Championship Event reached numbers that haven’t been seen since the mid-Aughts, it seems that stops on the World Poker Tour are consistently breaking previous records and even lower scale events (daily tournaments) seem to be… Read more »
In sitting at the poker table, players will try to mix up their game lest their opposition gets locked in that they are taking an ABC approach to playing. One of the more popular ways to deviate from the norm but with still apparently strong holdings is to play paint cards. “Paint” cards – any… Read more »
