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Lesniak Bill to Accept Foreign Wagers Reintroduced in New Jersey

Permits to offer internet gaming to interstate and international customers limited to New Jersey operators.

  • New Jersey State Senator Ray Lesniak has amended and reintroduced a bill to the State assembly that would allow the licensing of operators to provide internet wagering “to persons located outside of New Jersey or the United States.”
  • Under the new bill, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement will be authorized to issue foreign Internet wagering permits to allow for the offering of internet gaming to other US states and foreign jurisdictions.
  • Such activity will only be allowed by New Jersey casinos and their affiliated internet gaming partners.

iPoker Introduces Twister Poker, Jackpot Format Single Table Tournaments

New three-handed winner take all format tournaments include a randomly allocated prize pool.

  • January 20th sees the introduction of Twister, a new jackpot format sit and go on iPoker. Each Twister Sit and Go (SNG) is a three player single table tournament where the winner takes all the prize money.
  • The jackpot element is introduced by a random determination of what the prize pool will be for each SNG. A proportion of the buy in for each tournament is pooled to a jackpot prize fund.
  • A proportion of that fund is then randomly awarded to each SNG. The prize fund can be enhanced by up to 1,000 times the buy in with the minimum prize for the winner of each SNG being at least twice the buy in

CardPlayer Upgrades Tournament Data Interface to Provide 80,000 Leaderboards

The database leaderboards can be sorted by a large number of fields to suit all needs.

  • CardPlayer.com has created a “collection of tens of thousands of leaderboards that display top lifetime, geographic, and casino data for poker tournament wins.
  • The development improves another valuable information source for players fascinated by statistics on not just the top players, but all those who cash in live tournaments.

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Borgata Winter Open Cheating Suspected, Officials Find Fake Chips In The Mix

Play suspended 24-hours in 2mm guarantee. Play at the Borgara Winter Open $2 Million Guarantee has been halted overnight as tournament officials believe the tournament has been compromised by fake tournament chips. In fact, it looks like up to one million chips worth of bogus chips have masterfully been incorporated into the tournament.

Tom “Durrrr” Dwan’s $25 Million Dollar Score

Rumors swirl that the former “Professional” hit it big. Earlier today a report (or rumor, whichever you prefer) hit the internet that former Full Tilt Poker sponsored 'Professional’ Tom 'Durrrr’ Dwan took a Macau cash game for $25 million.

Team PokerStars Online Pro Freddy Torres Swims With Sharks…Literally.

Prop bet nets Torres 1k and a good story. Freddy ‘sirfreddy83’ Torres represents PokerStars Team Online and, as such, found himself at the PCA with a little time on his hands. Here, his buddies offer him $1k to jump into the shark tank, which is totally different than the Shark Cage. He calls their bluff, hopping the rail and plunging like a penguin into the shark infested waters.

Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:

Podcast: Mark Hoke Show on KLAV 1230 AM #16 – 1/15/14 The Mark Hoke Show

Guests include poker TV producer Mori Eskandani, Marco Valerio, Michelle “Sassy” Richey and Grindette Katie Stone!

Podcast: Rabbit Hunt: 177 Rabbit Hunt

New Jersey published 2013's online gambling revenues this week which led Chris and Mark to do a little accounting of what the numbers mean. Then the two discuss Adelson's lobbying group and what they are up to, as well as the controversy surrounding Jay Newnum and Foxwoods.

Training Video: December Live Sweat with Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace Tournament Poker Edge

Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace is back with a live sweat featuring multiple deep runs. He gets in-depth and very detailed with hand analysis, analyzing table dynamics and street-by-street hand reading. This is an 8 part series.

Training Video: Mattraq1: Narrowing Hand Ranges vs Turbo Regulars HUSNG


Matt really narrows down hand ranges in the third segment of his creative play video series. He talks about eliminating hands that don’t make sense during critical points of the hand and then basing your decision off the results of that analysis.

Training Video: Ghost: DJ Sensei (#40) – Bovada PLO Part 13 Deuces Cracked

DJ returns to focus on note-taking at the anonymous $200 PLO tables on Bovada, with a focus on color-coding and other techniques you can use to quickly label and remember the type of opponents you’re playing against.

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Traffic Watch

A weekly review of the online poker market: This week, PokerStars Italy, New Jersey and Spain. Last week’s good cheer failed to carry on for another week as the global market gave back just over 1% of its gains.

PokerStars Italy Pushes partypoker Out of the Top Five

The Rational Group now has three out of the top five sites worldwide. In September last year, pokerfuse reported that PokerStars Italy was set to overtake partypoker in the cash game traffic rankings to take a spot in the top five sites ranked globally—three months later they have done it.