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It seems that ESPN poker commentator recently got into a little hot water after violating court rules while serving on a jury. In a case of Norman Chad simply being Norman Chad, the cynical, sarcastic, witty pundit decided to Tweet even though the jurors were expressly not told not to communicate during the trial.
The Tweets [...]

After a week of rumor and speculation that Chris “Jesus” Ferguson was singlehandedly holding up the potential sale of Full Tilt Poker to Groupe Bernard Tapie, the poker world let out a collective sigh of relief on Tuesday when it was announced that Full Tilt Poker and the Department of Justice had agreed to a [...]

It’s been a fairly successful start to the 2012 tournament schedule, with the PokerStars PCA and the Aussie Millions showing why both events are among the most prestigious tournaments in poker. The Aussie Millions featured dozens of tournaments spread across the two-week tournament series, with highlights like the $100k Challenge, the $250k Challenge, and of [...]

There is a lot of talk about the possibility of online poker legislation in the US after the Department of Justice reversed course on its interpretation of the 1961 Wire Act; there is also a number of states pursuing their own online poker legislation with everything from inter-state to intra-state online poker being discussed.
With players [...]

Every poker player may be an individual –with their own set of strengths, weaknesses, and quirks-but for the most part poker players fall under a certain category. Obviously there are winners and losers, but inside each of those categories are more subsets, and without getting too specific I’ve narrowed these sub-categories down to three for [...]

Every poker player may be an individual –with their own set of strengths, weaknesses, and quirks-but for the most part poker players fall under a certain category. Obviously there are winners and losers, but inside each of those categories are more subsets, and without getting too specific I’ve narrowed these sub-categories down to three for [...]

The $100k and up buy-in poker tournaments that have become all the rage over the past two years had, up until the recently concluded $100k Challenge tournament at the 2012 Aussie Millions, been dominated by poker’s biggest names as the elitist of the elites in the world of poker battled their peers for seven-figure paydays.
However, [...]

Eight of the biggest high-stakes online Poker Pros from the mid 2000’s have just filed a RICO lawsuit against Excapsa Software (the parent company of Ultimate Bet Poker) in the US District Court of Central California, claiming that during the Super-User scandal that took place from 2003-2008 the site stole roughly $20 million from players, [...]

Over the past five or so years a lot of theory and strategic thinking has gone into the most popular games like Pot Limit Omaha and of course No Limit Holdem. But there are of course a number of other poker formats (most of them played as LIMIT poker games) and it’s these games that [...]

Over the past five or so years a lot of theory and strategic thinking has gone into the most popular games like Pot Limit Omaha and of course No Limit Holdem. But there are of course a number of other poker formats (most of them played as LIMIT poker games) and it’s these games that [...]