So let's not wait any more, here are all the links:
- "Satellite poker takes you to Morocco" - [www.pokerblog.com]
- "As part of the companys strategy to give its poker site a broader appeal, Bodog has now launched a poker client that can be used on the Mac operating system" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]
- "Wyatt Earp: A Leader among Gambling Men, Part 1" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
- "There was a lot going on at the 2012 World Series of Poker" - [pokernewsboy.com]
- William Hill to Challenge "Illegal" UK Online Gambling Tax Plans - "William Hill is looking to legally challenge the UK's plan to switch to a "point of consumption" (POC) tax for all online gambling, which would require offshore operators to pay a tax on all bets taken from UK customers" - [pokerfuse.com]
- "PokerStars is expected to make a much-anticipated announcement sometime on Monday proclaiming that their purchase of Full Tilt Poker is complete, an announcement that would end a nearly 16-month nightmare for poker players" - [pokernewsboy.com]
- "The publication of my bulletin, Full Tilt Poker Stars Negotiations in the Can, Friday July 27th has been linked by more than one hundred thirty websites, and PPN (Poker Player Newspaper) has counted more than 10,000 visits in the past forty eight hours" - [www.pokerplayernewspaper.com]
The European Poker Tour stop in Barcelona is always a monster" - [
That's why we're pleased to see Team PokerStars Pro and journalist Victoria Coren get a chance to sit down with Nadal, our new member of Team PokerStars SportStars, for a wide-ranging interview about his life, his games, his new pursuit of poker skills, and his decision to pull out of the Olympics" - [
Prizes include: Xbox 260, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Ray-Ban Gold Aviator sunglasses, Kindle 3G, Nintendo 3DS and more" - [
Department of Justice to finalize a deal on purchasingFull Tilt Poker, that discussion has since faded into the background with no details forthcoming" - [
One of the things that lures over two million tourists to Queenstown, Maryland every year is the variety of adventure-packed activities that one can partake in. It is called the Epinephrine capital of the world for a reason" - [
At 11:58am, Marcel Luske's WSOP ammunition sits in a bag of orange and yellow chips" - [
A recently released Bwin.Party trading update focuses attention on PokerStars' Zoom Poker as the reason for a decline in revenue. The July 10 update from the parent company of PartyPoker alludes to "continued pressure" in the online poker marketplace as being the result of the launching of Zoom Poker, which has taken a huge chunk of the fast-fold Internet poker market" - [
While the chip counts are still a few hours from being confirmed, Daniel Negreanu, Eugene Katchalov and Vanessa Selbst showed them all who the pros were, each bagging up around 300,000, leading the liveried few" - [
Howard Lederer, Rafe Furst and Chris Ferguson each filed motions to dismiss the Black Friday charges against them. While Full Tilt CEO Ray Bitar was trying to gain his freedom on $2.5 million bond related to a superseding indictment unsealed last week, his colleagues on the board of directors were fighting the allegations in the original Black Friday indictment" - [
A record-breaking 3,418 players were on hand for Day 1C of the 2012 WSOP Main Event, taking the total field up to 6,598 runners, slightly down on last year but still impressive given the prevailing economic and regulatory conditions" - [
Britain's newest live poker tour heads to the Midlands this week as the LCI UK Poker Tour hits Nottingham" - [
I can confirm that Salvatore Bonavena does not speak English" - [
By now you may have heard of the new online poker site Skillbet.com, where players compete against one another in game of "Duplicate Poker" where each player is given the same two hold cards and the person who plays them the most skillfully (wins the most money or loses the least money) will be rewarded. According to a recent press release that landed in my inbox, Skillbet has been deemed legal under 28 different states' laws in the US -this was determined by legal experts ostensibly hired by Skillbet; the states in question have not deemed Skillbet, and Duplicate Poker to be legal at this time" - [
The newest poker champion shares a name with Georgy Zhukov, who is the most decorated military commander in Russian history" - [
New research prepared by the German research group Academicon for an Australian government review of online poker has revealed that Australians lead the world in online poker - albeit illegally! Online poker has been illegal in Australia since the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, yet the research indicates that almost 130,000 Aussies - out of a total population of 22 million - are logging into their online poker accounts on a regular basis" - [
Ray Bitar, CEO of Full Tilt Poker and one of the leading perpetrators in the biggest online poker scandals of all time, was yesterday arrested at New Yorks JFK airport as new charges were added to the existing "Black Friday" indictment accusing Bitar of operating an illegal gambling business in contravention of UIGEA, wire fraud and money laundering. Although Bitar and his lawyer, Jack Baumann, arrived in New York from Dublin with the intention of surrendering to FBI agents - and had advised the US District Court in advance of his arrival - neither man was prepared for the scene of agents boarding the plane and arresting Bitar before he had a chance to unpack his duty free" - [