Online Legislation Getting Closer For followers of the cause of online poker in the United States, momentum appears to growing from several directions. Individual states are preparing
The Horseshoe Celebrates Its Sixtieth Birthday Benny Binion opened Binion’s Horseshoe on August 15th 1951 – in a few days it will be exactly sixty years old. It’s experienced several name changes
Most industry watchers and poker enthusiasts are quite familiar with the legal status of online gaming in the United States. They will also be familiar with Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a lobbying group with the interests of poker players at heart. Fronted by the always effective John Pappas, it has existed since 2005 but just failed to stop the bizarre... Read more
WSOP – The November Nine Rise To The Top For almost every single entrant in the 2011 World Series of Poker, this seven week gaming extravaganza has come to an end. Many of those players won some money, many more did not and a select few walked away with a coveted WSOP bracelet – the prize awarded to the winner of... Read more
WSOP Main Event Down To The Money Event #58 is well under way and on Saturday the original 6865 entrants were finally whittled down to the magic number of 693. 693 is the number of poker players who are guaranteed to leave this game in profit. The rest leave having waved goodbye to the $10,000 buy-in. This cut off point, commonly known... Read more
WSOP Main Event Under Way It’s a marathon and it’s still continuing – the 2011 World Series of Poker is approaching the end but the game we’ve been waiting for is now in session. The Main Event is Event #58 and it’s now underway. There were one or two doomsday predictions before the event, based on the number of potential entrants... Read more
Democrats & Republicans Introduce Poker Legalisation Bills Online poker players in the States have been absolutely hammered in the last five years. It’s almost as if the federal government randomly picked out an unassuming group and decided to single them out for especially cruel treatment. The problem for the government is that gamblers are going to carry on gambling and poker players... Read more
WSOP 2011 Updates When it’s all over we’ll bring you the comprehensive results list but this year has already been notable for several reasons. Firstly the young British players have been doing all the right things. As of Thursday 16th June, Jake Cody, Matt Perrins and Darren Woods had all walked off with bracelets and many of the final tables had British... Read more
Macau Marches On………….. The Chinese territory of Macau shows no sign of any slowdown in its monthly and yearly
Phil Ivey Sues Tiltware, Stays Away From WSOP For some time Phil Ivey has been inextricably inked with Full Tilt Poker and along with a raft of other poker pros has helped build the brand. Ivey has been especially important to Full Tilt because he is regarded by many as the best poker player in the world. However in a statement releases... Read more
