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Switzerland Considers Online Gambling
Gambling winnings will be tax free, and small poker tournaments may be held outside casinos.
- The Swiss Federal Government has published the draft of a new gaming bill that will allow regulated online gambling for the first time.
- The bill also includes provisions to make all winnings from gambling tax free.
- The bill is now out for consultation until August 20.
Nevada’s Real Gaming “Performing Exactly as Expected”
Third online poker room heralds soft launch.
- Real Gaming became the third online poker operator to go live in the state.
- Originally they were tipped to be the first to market.
- “No one had run this type of business before,” Vaughan said.
Finnish Ray.FI €100k Tournament Fails to Finish
Technical problems plague scheduled 2-day event at Finland’s regulated online poker room.
- Ray.Fi, attempted a two day €100,000 guaranteed tournament at the weekend—and it ended in disaster.
- The tournament was supposed to break at the end of play on Saturday, to resume on Sunday, but the break never happened.
- The tournament organizers halted the event.
- The €100,000 was split into two halves, half being divided equally among the remaining players, and half being allocated according to the number of chips a player had in his stack when the tournament was stopped.
Picks from F5 Poker:
Poker Crime Logs – Man Allegedly Ratholes Chips That Aren’t His
Yet another cautionary tale about keeping your mind on your money and your money on your mind.
Tyler Morris & Chris Bowen – Texas Twosome Become WSOP National Champion Contenders
Everyone likes a good “local boys made good” story. Here’s a quick write up of a couple poker success stories hailing from the small town of Tyler, Texas. With a population of just around 100,000 Tyler, Texas has produced a couple of feel good felt stories that are worth checking out in the latest issue of their local news magazine, In Magazine.
Borgata Poker Wants You To Play For Mother’s Day
Don’t be selfish, win stuff for mom. When it comes to out of the box promotional ideas, the Motherly-minded folks at the (relatively – pun intented!) new BorgataPoker.com have an idea of how you can get your poker fix while not forgetting about mom. New Jersey residents, check out the Mother’s Day Giveaway. From the looks of it, it’s a super simple giveaway: log-in to your account, opt in and go to the promotions tab to register for the give away.
Shaun Deeb Has Daddy Issues
Fun loving poker pro welcomes first baby boy. Professional Las Vegas poker player and one of the sickest online grinders of all time, Shaun 'F—-ing’ Deeb, is all smiles this week as the one-time young Waffle Crushing prankster is now, officially, a father.
F5 Updates: Nigel “The Guru” Goldman & Jake Cody
Remember these? We noticed a couple of updates on some posts we shared with you earlier this year we thought you might be interested in keeping up to date with them. Check out the latest on the “ponzi schemer” and the new parent.
Bad Beat Diaries – Golden Nugget AC Pays Out $50k in First Ever Bad Beat Jackpot
Low limit grinders enjoy a hefty payday. Last week, the Golden Nugget AC poker room paid out $50,545 in their first ever Bad Beat Jackpot to a crew of old school grinders. The rugged lot were sitting at a 2-4-6 Limit Hold’em game, when according to comments on the Golden Nugget Facebook page (so take it with the appropriate grains of salt) a Royal Flush took out Quad Jacks for the win.
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AllVegasPoker to Merge with PokerAtlas
The directory and community website All Vegas Poker (AVP) will merge with sister site PokerAtlas, the website owners announced this week.
Everest Poker Provides Twisted May Madness
To popularize its new poker format, Everest is running a leaderboard promotion based on games played, not rake paid. Everest Poker, the first iPoker room to debut Twister Poker, is holding a “Twisted May Madness” promotion to popularize the game throughout May.
Two Georgian Poker Rooms in the Dot-Com Top 10
Europe-Bet and Adjarabet have an impressive customer base from their unlikely location in Tbilisi. The Republic of Georgia may not spring to mind immediately as a major online gambling center, but it now has two online poker rooms in the global dot-com top ten.
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: Episode 78: Daryl Jace Thinking Poker
Daryl Jace dropped out of school in the seventh grade but that didn’t stop him from becoming a successful MTT pro, a Tournament Poker Edge instructor, and a lover of learning. We discuss his unconventional route to the top, his decision to keep his family in the US after Black Friday, and more.
Podcast: The Bernard Lee Poker Show 05-06-14 with Guest Phil Hellmuth Bernard Lee Poker Show
Bernard celebrates the 7th Anniversary of the Bernard Lee Poker Show by talking with 4 WSOP Main Event Champions! This week, its the one and only Phil Hellmuth.
Training Video: Introduction to Omaha Hi By Scott MoreEV
Omaha poker is a unique and complex game that, once mastered, is one of the most exciting and pot-intensive poker games there is. Consisting of similar play to texas holdem, it mixes the game up in a couple simple ways that profoundly affect the overall strategies a player needs.
Training Video: High Roller Hand History Review with Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace Tournament Poker Edge
Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace returns with a hand history review from the Merge High Roller. It’s another classic series full of in-depth analysis. This is a three part series.
Training Video: Opponents that Tilt You: Loose Passive Part 3 Drag The Bar
Part 3, I realized that he was playing very differently in position vs. out of position, so I started changing my strategy to develop a unique approach to each of the positions. I also had a couple hands that I should have been more aggressive with, but the lines I took turned out for the best.
Training Video: Ghost: Anonymous 6M on Bovada – Episode 5 Deuces Cracked
Wilt continues his previous session 4-tabling Bovada, giving insight into his thought process as he’s playing against unknowns at Bovada’s anonymous midstakes tables. This episode features several detailed discussions of how Wilt constructs his range over multiple streets to take advantage of common opponents at the midstakes.
Training Video: Faarcyde: Exploiting A Static Opponent In Hypers Part IV HUSNG
Faarcyde's series of reviews of $35 hypers games against the same static and transparent opponent is continued today with the fourth installment. For those that have missed the first three vids, in this vid series Faarcyde plays the same opponent so that he can document for us the adjustments that he utilized to best exploit this opponent's tendencies. In this vid, which covers their sixth game against each other, Faarcyde's opponent does start to fight back with adjustments of his own, but Faarcyde is able to see through this and takes advantage.
