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Let’s Be Rational: PokerStars’ “T-Shirtgate” Decision is Pragmatic, and Good for the Game
Someone please think of the sponsors.
- It seems that opinions on the recent controversy over the T-shirts worn by Olivier Busquet and Daniel Coleman at the final table of the European Poker Tour Barcelona Super High Roller event depicting their political views on the situation in Israel have been mixed.
- The EPT is a business entity that has the right to determine how their product looks and feels to their audience.
- The decision is good for the game because it allows poker to be looked upon as a potential new area of sponsorship for advertisers who may otherwise not want their brands to be exposed alongside controversial political statements.
What Players Should Know About the Safety of Their Money on Online Poker Networks
MPN Head of Poker describes how his network takes fund protection seriously.
- Microgaming Head of Poker Alex Scott’s latest blog post tackles another issue of importance to players—player fund protection at the company’s MPN poker network.
- Scott points out that MPN does not itself ever hold player funds.
- MPN does play a role in player fund protection.
- I takes great care over which businesses it allows to establish skins on the network.and it requires player funds to be held in segregated accounts.
Bitcoin Poker Players Pay Less Rake
Betcoin’s latest rake reductions to 2.5% make the leading Bitcoin sites some of the cheapest places to play online poker.
- Betcoin has reduced its rake to bring it exactly into line with Bitcoin only competitor Seals with Clubs.
- The 2.5% rake makes Bitcoin sites some of the cheapest places to play poker online.
Picks from F5 Poker:
Global Poker Index Takes You To Fantasyland
GPI is upping their game with their new Fantasy Poker Manager programming. This fantasy poker stuff just got real.
Horrible Audio, Ridiculous Banter – Jeff And Mike Talk About Stuff 2
Almost no one listened to the first episode and even fewer should bother to check out this, the second installment of two guys – one from F5 and one from pokerfuse – talking in circles about stuff that happened in poker in the past 24-48 hours.
EPT Barcelona 2014 – Main Event Day 1B Live Stream
Daniel Negreanu Pleads, Yet Again, For Common Sense From Tournament Directors
Sure, Daniel Negreanu was recently issued a challenge by the online poker community but while he’s contemplating that offer – he’s taken to his blog to issue a challenge of his own, to tournament directors everywhere.
Poker Pals – When Daniel Met Olivier
PokerStars Bonus Cut tells the quick tale of how the two ballers met. The biggest bromance in nosebleed poker right now is that of One Drop winner Daniel Colman and his buddy, EPT Barcelona Super High Roller champ Olivier Busquet. Here is their origin story.
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QuickSpin Slots to Launch on Full Tilt
Rational Group inks another third party content agreement for its casino offerings. Game studio QuickSpin announced earlier this week an agreement with Rational Group to bring its game portfolio to the Full Tilt brand.
Traffic Watch
Pokerfuse PRO’s exclusive review of the online poker market across international, US and regulated European markets. With the major markets in the middle of the August holidays, little growth can be expected in global cash game traffic.
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: Druff & Friends – 08/21/2014 – Creative Collections Poker Fraud Alert
Pokerstars to offer sportsbetting and casino games within the coming year, but is that a good thing for poker players? Druff discusses his recent communications with Kim Shannon. Coinbase is cracking down on bitcoin gambling. Noah Boeken accuses Daniel “Jungleman” Cates of hiring a hitman to collect debts from an unknown player. Brandon “Drexel” Gerson affected by weird Giants/Cubs protest makeup game. Armored truck drops bag of $20,000 cash belonging to Revel onto street. Allen Kessler is unhappy about the new “Quantum Rebuy” format at WPT Legends of Poker. onestep announces he will be headed west for two weeks, and hits up Druff for food. Rawwolf calls in to tell a strange story about a Birmingham poker game where someone got shot. Brian from Chicago asks Druff’s opinion about adding to a stack in a capped NL game. Druff insists that writing letters to companies for customer service issues is the wrong way to go.
Podcast: PokerNews GPI Update Episode #22: Muking it Up PokerNews Podcast
On this week’s episode of the PokerNews GPI Update, Rich and Eric look at a stagnant Player of the Year race and welcome Mukul Pahuja back into the top 10 of the GPI 300. They also take a look and see if there is still a Mizrachi in the top 300!
Podcast: Episode 20 of “Ask Alex” with Alex “Assassinato” Fitzgerald One Outer
This is Episode 20 of “Ask Alex” on the Oneouter.com podcast. You know the script by now, myself and Alex chat away about life and gambling and answer all the questions that the listeners send in. In this episode we cover many topics and listeners questions including… Should you get staked?
Training Video: Sunday Special Hand History Review/Live Sweat with Matthew “theginger45″ Hunt Tournament Poker Edge
In this series theginger45 does a review of his deep run in the Sunday Special. Over the first three parts he digs up the hand history review and for the remainder of the series he recorded the action live for in game live sweat footage. This is a six-part series
Training Video: Ghost: DJ Sensei (#50) Bovada Action Continues Deuces Cracked
DJ Sensei continues his previous session – 4 tables of midstakes PLO on Bovada!
