ESPN Plans Live WSOP Broadcast
From July 14-19, ESPN will present the live broadcast, on a 30-minute delay, in HD on ESPN2 and ESPN3.com. This marks the first time ESPN will be offering daily coverage of the WSOP Main Event and the network plans to show every hand unedited with hole cards post-flop for players still in the hand
PokerStars, Full Tilt, Absolute Poker Founders Indicted
The founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and UB/Absolute Poker were all named in the indictment and the FBI subsequently seized domains for each site. Among the defendants named were Isai Scheinberg, Raymond Bitar, Scott Tom, Brent Beckly, Nelson Burtnick, Paul Tate, Bradley Franzen, Ira Rubin, Chad Elie and John Campos. The defendants are being indicted on charges of bank fraud, money laundering and bank fraud. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, had this to say in the indictment: “As charged, these defendants concocted an elaborate criminal fraud scheme, alternately tricking some U.S. banks and effectively bribing others to assure the continued flow of billions in illegal gambling profits,” he said.
Stars Heat Up L.A. Poker Classic Prelims
The series is approaching its 50th event and some rather big names are starting to emerge at the top of the leaderboards. Tuesday, Claremont, California’s Parviz Razavian took down the $2,575 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event, outlasting a field of 123.
On Whining About Bad Beats
Bad beat stories have been discussed to death on chat rooms and poker forums. A consensus has emerged: I
Cash Money: It’s a Good Thing
I love the feel of it with its slightly raised surfaces rich with ink, embossed with faces, slogans, monuments to greatness past and imagined. I love its smell; I love the texture of the stacked edges laid side by side.
Is Poker Gambling?
But, well, you know, it’s also one that really hasn’t received a proper analysis. It’s been written about endlessly of course, argued over angrily and debated till it has been roasted to a crisp and left to die in the desert sun. A lot of pros who make their living at the game say sage things like, “Well, if it were gambling I couldn’t be doing it professionally now, could I?” But others, notably Saint Doyle of Texas, is on record as saying (paraphrasing now), “Of course it’s gambling.