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PokerStars, Tribes and Bad Actors and California
Recent rumors hint the PokerStars and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians are working together to ensure that California law contains no “bad actor” clauses.
- Rumors abound that PokerStars and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians in California are working together to oppose any new law which includes a “bad actor” clause that might exclude PokerStars from a state regulated market.
- California’s population of 38 million, make it potentially the largest single state market in the US. A “bad actor” clause in a future law could exclude PokerStars from this market.
Partypoker New Jersey Goes for Repeat of Sunday $100k Success
March 30 will see the second doubled Sunday Major from partypoker NJ.
- Four weeks after a one off doubling of its Sunday Major guarantee to $100k, partypoker New Jersey is doing it again.
- The March 30 tournament will attempt to repeat the success partypoker had on March 2 when it raised a prize pool of $145k easily surpassing the guarantee.
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Failla, Racener, Clements and Van Patten Gamble It Up On The Golf Course
World Poker Tour Thunder Valley finds off-the-felt action. It’s a well-known fact that poker players will take action wherever they can get it and one of the best off-the-felt places to get it is the golfing greens.
Liv Boeree Rubbing Cash On Her…
Micromillions promo offers something for everyone. Team PokerStars Pro Live Boeree dropped a little Bing Blang Blaow reference in her recent promo for the upcoming PokerStars Micromillions series.
Ivey, Chino, Grinder & Cassidy Recreate A Scene From Entourage
JRB snaps a pic as he hangs with “his boys.” Wasn’t it just a few days ago we saw Phil Ivey talk about being careful about who he hangs with? Well, here we have Ivey playing the part of Entourage’s Vinny Chase (Adrian Grenier) hanging with a rag-tag group of poker’s most wanted including Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, WSOP bracelet winner Joe Cassidy and David “Chino” Rheem.
Jonathan Little – Time Is Money
Poker author publicly books his WSOP free time. How much would you spend to have an hour with 2-time World Poker Tour Champion and tournament strategy author Jonathan Little? It would be private time where you can ask him anything you want about poker and he’ll give it to you straight?
Matt Savage – Just F***in’ With You Fools
Stars align for Savage to mess with his followers. The inagural World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder from the Thunder Valley Casino just outside of Sacramento is considered a success. With nearly 500 runners, the $3500 buy-in tournament is steamrolling to a final table and while there’s a few big names left in the field of 24 – including Michael Rocco, JC Tran and Ryan D’Angelo perhaps no name is bigger than that of Michael Crabtree.
Sky Poker Strategy – What To Do When The Poker Gods Give You Everything
Aces on the button. Sky Poker is offering more strategy 101 videos. In their previous offering, they showed how to play medium strength hands in a multi-way pot. Now, they show you how to take a strong hand and put the pedal to the metal and just go with it.
Full Tilt Poker Is Flipping Out Over Their New MTTs
Luck gets a bigger edge in new FTP tournaments. On Wednesday, those lucky enough to have the ability to play on Full Tilt Poker will have a new, quickfire way to make it into the money. Full Tilt will be debuting their new Flipout Tournaments where players will know, pretty much right away, if they are going to make a profit or hit the rail.
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier’s PokerStars Takeover
ElkY answers whatever you ask him. This is easily the most normal ElkY has ever looked, right? Anyway, on March 20 @ 12:00CET the World’s #1 French poker player, Bertrand Grospellier will be answering anything and everything by taking over the PokerStars twitter account.
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: PokerNews Podcast Episode #207: Juice Up feat. Ryan D’Angelo PokerNews Podcast
Before Day 3 of the World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder kicks off, Ryan “G0lfa” D’Angelo hops on the PokerNews Podcast to talk about the tournament, his girlfriend’s recent success, and juicing. The crew then breaks down all of the latest news, including the largest poker tournament held in Asia.
Training Video: Winter Sunday Live Sweat with bigdogpckt5s Tournament Poker Edge
The bigdog is back as he fires up the recorder for this winter Sunday live sweat. In this three part series he plays an early schedule over several tables and deals with some tough spots. Even for the top pros, not every sunday is a winning Sunday. Bigdog experiences variance of the worst kind but still finds a way to make it a learning experience
Training Video: Ghost: Anonymous 6M on Bovada – Episode 2 Deuces Cracked
Wilt picks up where he left off from the previous session, focusing on making quick reads and picking up on betsizing tells against unknown players while mixing 3 tables of 6MNL and one FRNL table.
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Poker In… Greece
Breaking down the poker landscape country-by-country and state-by-state in our exclusive regular column. Overview
Winamax Borrows St Patrick’s Day
With no holidays of its own to celebrate in France, Winamax has taken one from Ireland to use as the theme for its latest tournament promotion. There is a dearth of public holidays in France between New Year’s Day and Easter, so Winamax decided to celebrate the Irish St Patrick’s Day with a special tournament last night.
Sweden Seeks More Time for Gaming Legislation to Comply with EU Demands
Sweden has been told to introduce new gambling laws immediately, but has delayed doing so pending further research. Sweden has asked the EU Commission to hold infringement proceedings until it has time to develop new gaming legislation.
Revolution Gaming on the Recovery Road
Good performance since early February has seemingly halted the decline in Revolution Gaming’s fortunes. If Bodog—which has a dominant 50% of the market, based on traffic estimates—is ignored, then the battle in offshore US market is being fought closely by the next four network. And the best performer over the last 90 days has surprisingly been Revolution Gaming.
