Senate Hearing Presents Draft For Tribal Operation Of Online Poker

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Thursday’s meeting of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs discussed the issue of online gaming, in particular poker, and presented a new twist in the ongoing battle for federal action regarding the subject. During the meeting, committee Chairman and Hawaii Senator Daniel Akaka presented a draft of a bill that would allow the Indian gaming… Read more »

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Pinnacle Entertainment Announces Positive Earnings, Plans to Expand Heartland Poker Tour

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Pinnacle Entertainment, owner of the Heartland Poker Tour, reported positive second quarter financial results Wednesday, sparking a jump in the company’s stock price. Revenue increased $8.9 million to $298.3 million, a 3.1 percent lift from the second quarter of 2011. Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), was even more impressive, soaring… Read more »

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Zynga Fielding Bids from Potential Real Money Gaming Partners

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Gaming industry news site eGaming Review (EGR) reported Monday that social gaming firm Zynga has “opened a tender for a real money poker platform” with several online gaming developers. Amongst the possible partners are Playtech and Microgaming. An “open tender” is a process in which qualified bidders compete for business via sealed bidding. Those bids… Read more »

Online Poker

PartyPoker Eliminates High Stakes Cash Games

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Last week, PartyPoker surprised the online poker community by removing its highest stakes real money cash games. Gone are all No-Limit and Pot-Limit tables at stakes above $5/$10 and all Fixed-Limit tables above $30/$60. Some players received the following short message from PartyPoker via e-mail: We have removed some of our super high stake games,… Read more »

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2012 Tournament Poker Season To Resume In August

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As usual, the tournament poker world has entered its post-World Series of Poker slumber, allowing the players to recharge their batteries after the seven week grind in Las Vegas this summer. That will be changing soon, however, as several tournament circuits will get their new seasons underway in the month of August. The World Poker… Read more »

Poker Tournaments

PokerStars Releases 2012 WCOOP Schedule

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Now that the biggest live poker tournament series in the world is over (well, except for that small detail of the October Nine), it’s time to start getting geared up for the largest online poker tournament series in the world. PokerStars has released the schedule for the 2012 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), the… Read more »

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Controversial Hand in the WSOP Main Event

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I have never been a poker tournament director, but I would imagine one of the most difficult aspects of the job is making rulings on hands in which there are both confusion and disagreement at the table. Especially in a situation where there are potentially millions of dollars at stake. Such was the case this… Read more »

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Poker Players Sue Tennessee Club

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A group of more than 70 Tennessee poker players have filed a class action lawsuit against the Chattanooga Billiard Club (CBC) and its owner Phil Windham for allegedly cancelling an annual poker tournament for which the players qualified. In the Complaint, filed by attorney Hoyt Samples, the plaintiffs explain that the CBC hosted a free… Read more »

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