Gossip, twitter, etc.
One current and one former member of Team PokerStars are the targets of a lawsuit by Wynn Las Vegas, which is looking to recover $700,000 it says the two won at the casino by illegally cheating at craps. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Leo Fernandez, who is currently a member of Team PokerStars, and… Read more »
A series of articles in a top entertainment magazine trains the spotlight not on what some of the biggest players in the entertainment industry do in front of the cameras, but on what they do in their spare time with America’s original national pastime. The Hollywood Reporter offers several articles that expose the high stakes… Read more »
Late yesterday afternoon, rumors were heard that another online poker network may be in the crosshairs of the U. S. Department of Justice. The website Subject: Poker reported through “confidential sources” Thursday afternoon that the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland plans to seize the assets of payment processors who were the… Read more »
ESPN.com released its monthly “The Nuts” poker rankings, rankings which largely reflected the typically slow August. There was just one change to the list’s membership with little movement amongst those already in the rankings. It wasn’t complete lull after the World Series of Poker (WSOP), however, as the Epic Poker League started up and the… Read more »
It is rare that a person can be universally loved, and that type of person is perhaps even rarer in the cutthroat world of poker. Thuy Doan was one of those people. Lovely both inside and out, Thuy succumbed to cancer yesterday. She was just 25-years old. Born in Vietnam, Thuy moved to Virginia at… Read more »
With the online poker world in the United States crippled by the actions of “Black Friday,” Daniel Negreanu has apparently left his abode in Las Vegas and temporarily returned to his home country of Canada to be able to fulfill his sponsorship deal with PokerStars. In a blog post on his site, Full Contact Poker,… Read more »
The José “Girah” Macedo cheating scandal is just the gift that keeps on giving. For a while, it looked like it was just Macedo who had some explaining to do (which he did), but now the poker world has found out that one of Macedo’s friends, Daniel “Jungleman” Cates, is not completely innocent of any… Read more »
Every day of our lives, our well-being hinges on the trust we put in others. We trust that the pharmacist gave us the correct medication, we trust that our children’s pre-school teacher will keep them safe, we trust that the house cleaner isn’t pocketing our loose change, and we trust that online poker rooms will… Read more »
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is being investigated by Major League Baseball for his participation in a high-stakes poker game that included A-list celebrities such as Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Rodriguez, currently on the disabled list following knee surgery, could face a suspension if his participation in the… Read more »
The Twitterverse exploded this afternoon following the announcement that the U.S. Department of Justice had indicted the ownership behind such American-friendly online poker as PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, UB.com, and Absolute Poker. The DoJ has issued arrest warrants against 11 owners of these sites for several transgressions, including money laundering, bank fraud, and violations of… Read more »
While no official announcement has been made, it appears that PokerStars Team Pros Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis are preparing for a kickboxing match sometime before the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. Veldhuis confirmed rumors of the fight on his Twitter account Thursday, saying, “I’m fighting (kickboxing) Elky in Las… Read more »
Monday night’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game between the Connecticut Huskies and the Butler Bulldogs captured the attention of millions of sports fans as well as the crème of the poker world. Recent Wynn Classic champion Tim West perhaps put the battle for the title best when he Tweeted, “So excited for this game… let’s… Read more »
After a frantic first weekend of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, many poker players shared their thoughts on Twitter about the upcoming Sweet Sixteen, which starts tonight. “I don’t like it when people say they only like the NBA and not NCAA,” Tim “Tmay420” West noted before the NCAA tournament games began last week. “These… Read more »
UB.com pro Joe Sebok has issued an apology to Jon “FatalError” Aguiar and the poker community after sending a threatening Direct Message (DM) to Aguiar via Twitter last week. The DM came shortly after Aguiar verbally attacked UB.com pro Prahlad Friedman on Twitter after Friedman accused Isaac Haxton and Justin Bonomo of account sharing. Sebok’s… Read more »
Drama seems to follow Prahlad Friedman wherever he goes. Just months after his latest spectacle – signing a sponsorship with UB.com – Friedman called out two of the top players in the game for account sharing against him during several online sessions. Friedman brought the situation to light on Twitter late last week, accusing Isaac… Read more »
On Sunday, 68 teams were selected for the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Poker players were active on Twitter as the selections were revealed and let their Tweeps know how they felt about who was in and who was out. Poker pro John D’Agostino got the Tweetfest off to a start. He exclaimed, “Greatest time… Read more »
It is no coincidence that NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) takes place in March, the same month as the NCAA college basketball tournament. Collegiate March Madness is arguably the most famous bracket-style tournament in the world, so why not have poker’s version take place while sports fans are in the mood for some elimination… Read more »
In a recent interview conducted during the World Poker Tour’s L.A. Poker Classic Main Event, the industry’s most notable free agent, former UB.com front man Phil Hellmuth, filled the community in on his current activities. During play on Sunday, Matt Savage was able to corner the 11-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. In… Read more »
The poker world was stunned last week when Travis Makar, one of the people allegedly involved in the Ultimate Bet super user scandal, called into the DonkDown Radio show and revealed that he had a large number of documents regarding the site’s involvement in the scandal from years ago. Makar stated that he never worked… Read more »
A recent article in a major Hollywood trade magazine reports that the new professional poker league founded by Annie Duke and former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack will have televised coverage provided by CBS. On Tuesday, an article in Variety written by Stuart Levine credited unnamed sources saying that the Federated Sports… Read more »
2010 Bluff Magazine Player of the Year Sorel Mizzi was back in the news over the weekend. And to nobody’s surprise, it centered on yet another cheating scandal. Just days after Mizzi’s Full Tilt Poker account was reinstated after a two-and-a-half year ban, a thread popped up on TwoPlusTwo that accused him of cheating November… Read more »
For the first time, one of the major players in the Ultimate Bet Superuser Scandal has spoken out about the case on a poker radio broadcast. On Wednesday night, “The Cold Call Show” hosted by World Series of Poker bracelet winner Todd “DanDruff” Witteles and Bryan “The Icon” Micon on DonkDown Radio, featured an interview… Read more »
If the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Las Vegas bookmakers have their way, betting on non-sporting events will soon be coming to casinos around the state. An article on the website Covers.com, written by Case Keefer, tells the story of how the Nevada Gaming Commission recently amended regulations to allow for wagering on “event betting.”… Read more »
Whether with their significant others or spending the day alone, poker players took the time to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Monday. Passing out his Valentine’s Day wishes to his lady, Mike Matusow also was apparently looking for a ride to the airport. “Just woke up, need to pack,“ Matusow Tweeted to his followers. “Happy Valentines… Read more »
With the World Series of Poker (WSOP) only a little over three months away, rumors have once again begun to swirl regarding the sale of the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. According to noted Las Vegas journalist and gossip monger Robin Leach on the Law Vegas Weekly website, Caesars Entertainment is “about… Read more »
