Million Dollar Challenge Season 2 Airs on FOX - plus my links selection

Right, why don't we get going. All the links:

• Have poker news outlets letdown the community - "Poker news is really no different from mainstream news; each website has their own biases, gets their advertising money from specific sources, and is predicated on access -access to players, to press releases and information, and most importantly access to affiliate partnerships with online poker rooms. Recently we saw this made about as plain as plain can be when PokerStrategy.com released an announcement explaining how the site slants their news, and why they have had little compunction when it comes to slamming Full Tilt Poker in recent articles" - [pokernewsboy.com]
  
• Weight Loss Prop Bet at the WSOP - "Weight Loss Prop Bet at the WSOP Losing weight is a goal that most people have. Thirty pounds by the end of the month, week, etcetera, etcetera - we've heard them all" - [www.pokernewsteam.com]
  
• "Poker legend Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson announced Tuesday via Twitter that he has been diagnosed with cancer" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
  
  
  
• Million Dollar Challenge (poker) Season 2 Airs on FOX - "Million Dollar Challenge Season 2 Airs on FOX Season 1 of the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge was a huge success, so poker fans have been truly anticipating the return of the series for its second season" - [www.pokernewsteam.com]
  
• "HNR 11/7: U.S. Online Poker Looking Up After Election; Full Tilt Poker Update" - [www.parttimepoker.com]
  
• "Sun Poker Closes After a Decade of Poker" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
  

SunPoker Closes, Blames iPoker Split - plus my links selection

I have got lots of online poker related links to look through and various topics covering Bristol, Sun, Hollywood, Chad and Daniel Cates.


So let's not wait any more, here are all the links:

- "The Final Table of the UKIPT Online Main Event is the highlight on the first day of the UKIPT Bristol featuring Chris Moorman and over 250,000 in prize money. The sixth leg of the 2012/13 PokerStars sponsored United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour kicks of this afternoon at the Gala Casino in Bristol with the finale of the UKIPT Online Main Event - the first two days of which were played (online!) on 14-15 October" - [www.pokernewsreport.com]


- SunPoker Closes, Blames iPoker Split - "Venerable online poker room SunPoker has called it quits, officially ceasing operations on November 5 and orchestrating a transfer of its existing player base over to Omni Online Casino (omnicasino.com), the flagship entity of the SunPoker group" - [pokerfuse.com]

- "Penn National Gaming is making sure you have every opportunity to qualify for the big Hollywood Poker Open (HPO) Guaranteed $500,000 championship at the M resort Spa Casino in Las Vegas on June 28th- 30th" - [www.pokerplayernewspaper.com]


- "Black Friday Indictee Chad Elie Blasting on Twitter" - [wickedchopspoker.com]
- "Daniel Cates Win All-Star Showdown For $550,000" - [www.pokerchanneleurope.com]

Planning my EPT Barcelona trip - plus my links selection

Plenty of exciting stuff today, from people such as Daniel Negreanu and places like Colombia and Barcelona.


So let's not wait any more, here are all the links:

• "Hidden Headlines: Poker is Dead, Negreanu rant and more" - [pokernewsboy.com]
  
• Station Casinos Adds Mobile Sports Betting - "Screenshot of the new Sports Connection The long awaited mobile app for Android phones has been launched by Station Casinos" - [www.pokeraddict.net]
  
• "Full Tilt Poker Academy Review At the Full Tilt Poker Academy, Full Tilt Pro's share their wisdom and views on the game in order to help you improve your game" - [www.pokernewsteam.com]
  
  
  
• "If you've been following the @PokerStars or @PokerStarsBlog Twitter accounts of late you may have seen the #PS100K hashtag" - [www.pokerstarsblog.com]
  
  
  
• "WPT Parx Open Poker Classic Day 2: Money Bubble Bursts, Brent Roberts Takes Lead" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
  
• "Down in Medellin, Columbia the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) was hosting the Colombian National Poker Championship and the event attracted a fairly international field, including some big names poker players" - [pokernewsboy.com]
  
  
  
• "The ninth season of the European Poker Tour is kicking off in Barcelona, and I'm really excited about it because is probably within the top five of my favorite cities in the world" - [www.pokerstarsblog.com]
  
  
  

Nevada awards first online gambling licences - and my top collection of links

We're dealing with people (Roberto Romanello and Phil Ivey), places (Nevada) and the rest in between.


Alright, the links are:

- "Most poker players never manage to win a major live tournament but Roberto Romanello is not most poker players" - [www.pokerchanneleurope.com]


- Nevada awards first online gambling licences - "The Nevada Gaming Commission issued its first trio of online wagering licences yesterday to International Game Technology (IGT), Bally Technologies Incorporated and William Hill" - [www.bluffeurope.com]

- "Betfair WSOP Qualifier - Asger Juul aka undef5856." - [betting.betfair.com]
- "Without a Win, Phil Ivey Leads WSOP Player of Year Race" - [betting.betfair.com]
- "Avalinx previously released knockoff versions of games similar to Shuffle Master's licensed works, called "Let 'Em Ride Pro" and "3 Card Pro," intended for use on Apple's iPhone, iTouch and iPad devices, it is alleged. According to the action, Avalinx "misappropriated plaintiff's intellectual property for its own financial gain by misleading consumers into falsely believing that its mobile applications were sold by or licensed from plaintiff."" - [pokerfuse.com]


- "Ivey's WSOP Run Creates #realiveytweets Trend on Twitter" - [www.parttimepoker.com]
- "5050 Poker to Liquidate, Payouts Delayed "Due to Accounts Imbalance"" - [pokerfuse.com]
- "One of the top professional men's tennis players in the world, Rafael Nadal, has joined Team PokerStars, the online poker site has announced. The 26-year-old Spanish star has won 11 Grand Slam major tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in his career" - [www.parttimepoker.com]

WSOP Notebook: Lindgren cashes, Twitter heats-up and more - and top links

We have got a lot of Poker related links to run through and a number of topics covering Ylon Schwartz, ESPN, Twitter, Poker and Bankruptcy.


Right, let's get going. All the links:

• 2012 WSOP, Final Day Action: Ylon Schwartz Wins H.O.R.S.E., Timothy Adams Wins Four Handed Tournament - "After spending three days to get down to the final table, a fourth was required after Stephen Chidwick, David Chiu and Ylon Schwartz couldn't close the tournament out in its required time" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
  
• "The World Series Of Poker on ESPN Schedule" - [www.pokerplayernewspaper.com]
  
• "We have reached the official halfway mark of the 2012 World Series of poker and the tournaments are coming fast and furious, making it very hard to pick which stories demand the most attention" - [pokernewsboy.com]
  
  
  
• Rewind: Top Poker Videos of the Week (June 11-17) - "Hellmuth wins a bracelet, and poker-playing female pros check in from the WSOP. Check out the best poker videos of the week in Rewind" - [www.parttimepoker.com]
  
• Palms Parent Pinnacle Acquires Epic Assets in Bankruptcy Auction - "Bradcraig, Public Domain Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc., parent company of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, was declared the winning bidder on Thursday in a court-supervised bankruptcy auction for the assets of Federated Sports & Gaming, owner of the failed Epic Poker League" - [pokerfuse.com]
  

US online poker's new rivalry Revolution vs. Merge - and my top selection of links

Welcome all to yet another links summary. A mixed bag of links for you now. We've got a lot of Poker related links to run through and a variety of topics covering Twitter, Daniel Negreanu, bwin, Spain, Poker and New Jersey.

Ok, let's get started. All the links:

- WSOP Disgraceful Twitter Behavior - "Players have objected to this rule, and Twitter is full of unhappy players" - [www.pokeraddict.net]
- WSOP Daily: Negreanu misses out; Wiliams, Bloch and Greenstein head stud final table - "All eyes were on Daniel Negreanu as he aimed for his fifth WSOP bracelet in the $1.5k PL Hold'em" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
- Bwin.party Puts Up $50m to Get Into Social Gaming - "bwin.party is paying $23m to buy gaming contracts and engineering resources from two social gaming companies and plans to invest another $27m over the next two years to get a foothold in the social gaming market" - [feeds.pokerfuse.com]
- "Spain awards first eGaming licences" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
- "On May 31, 2012 Lock Poker officially left the Merge Gaming Network and returned to where they got their start, the Cake Poker Network" - [pokernewsboy.com]
- "Last year, Governor Christie vetoed a bill that would have legalized online gambling in New Jersey" - [feeds.pokerfuse.com]