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
Network Traffic Reports Since Black Friday As various repercussions from the indictments of Black Friday continue to make themselves clear, the network traffic reports from assorted scrutineers give some clue as to how traffic to each of the sites involved had changed. The chart below shows how the biggest losers have been those sites connected to the Cereus Network - that is... Read more
Station Casinos and Full Tilt Poker the Latest to Announce Link-up Following the recent announcements by Caesar’s Entertainment/888 Holdings and Wynn Resorts/PokerStars, the latest deal to be announced, or at least to be mooted is that between Station Casinos and Full Tilt Poker. Station Casinos is owned by the Fertitti brothers, serial entrepreneurs and also current majority owners of the Ultimate Fighting... Read more
