It came as no surprise that the Nevada Gaming Commission has unanimously approved the license for the turnover of Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel. After all, the license application was from Terry Caudill, owner of the Four Queens…
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As a tie-in to this spring’s upcoming poker movie, ‘The Grand,’ the Golden Nugget has announced its ‘The Grand Poker Series,’ which will run from June 6 – July 6, 2008. The series is one of several lower-buyin options available…
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The Locale: Heads-up in Monte Carlo for a million dollars, featuring Phil Ivey vs. Paul Jackson. The Blinds: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante. Chip counts: Jackson, roughly one million; Ivey, roughly four million…
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The big story of Sunday’s major online tourneys was a long heads-up duel to determine the winner of the Stars Sunday Million. ‘roosterbill’ and ‘SNo0oWMAN’ began their battle after the exit of third-place finisher ‘batoelrob’…
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Two days after Chip Reese won the WSOP’s first-ever $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event in 2006, I was in traffic at a red light at Flamingo and the Strip. As I looked up at the biggest electronic video billboard in Vegas, in front of Bally’s…
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A debate triggered by comments made by the director of the Copyright Law Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization at least temporarily raised the question of whether Antigua and Barbuda would be able to collect on its annual…
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Mohegan Sun has poker for the first time in over four years. But there still is no Mohegan Sun poker room. Mohegan Sun used to have a great poker room, but that room closed on Labor Day, 2004, with the announced reason that there wasn’t…
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It should come as no surprise that the European Union is not pleased with Germany’s newly enacted ban on online gambling. The news service Reuters has reported that the EU has decided to take legal action against Germany…
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Seven-card stud is a complicated game, significantly more so than hold’em. Successful stud and hold’em players both must attend to the betting actions of their opponents to figure out their likely holdings. Stud and hold’em players…
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What do former MLB World Series MVP Orel Hershiser and poker player Sam Grizzle have in common? They are both among the 60 players invited to participate in the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship. Last week the final list of invitees…
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