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Mexico Online Poker Bill coming – Expect Negative Outcome
Mexico is moving closer to regulating online poker, and iGaming in general. A new bill will be introduced to the House of Representatives on September 9th and could be voted into law as early as Sept. 20th. The idea is to update Mexico’s archaic gaming laws, which are still based on legislation from 1947. The…
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Annette Obrestad relives “Blind” Online Tournament Win
From winning the 2007 WSOP Europe Main Event as an 18-year-old to starting her poker career through freerolls, Annette Obrestad has become one of poker’s living legends. But if there’s one act that truly defines Obrestad’s career more than anything else, it’s when she won an online tournament without looking at her cards. The Norwegian…
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Daniel Negreanu reveals why he chose PokerStars over FTP, UB and Party
It seems like Daniel Negreanu has been the face of PokerStars forever. So it’s hard to remember him representing a different online poker site at any point in time. However, going back to 2004, Kid Poker was actually involved in his own poker room called FullContactPoker. Some players today may recognize this site because it’s…
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Full Tilt Poker Auction – $3.5m Worth of Merchandise for Sale
Remember those old Full Tilt Poker hockey-style jerseys and baseball hats that you could trade rewards points in for prior to Black Friday? Well, Full Tilt never quite got rid of all this stuff before Ray Bitar, Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer drove the company into the ground. And now, there’s going to be a…
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WSOP Champ Naoya Kihara dreams of Japanese Poker Boom
The three most talked-about online poker markets these days are the U.S., China and India. And this is for good reason too given that these three countries together contain over 2.9 billion people. But if there’s one promising market that often gets left behind in these discussions, it is Japan. WSOP champion Naoya Kihara recently…
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888 Poker drops Biting Soccer Star Luis Suarez
Not long ago, Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez was on a high after scoring two goals against England in the 2014 World Cup. Unfortunately, he marred Uruguay’s run to the knockout round after biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini during his side’s 1-0 victory over Italy. Now Suarez is dealing with the fallout from his actions, which…
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Can Anybody catch George Danzer in 2014 WSOP POY Race?
George Danzer wasn’t exactly a nobody before the 2014 World Series of Poker began. In fact, the German had made six WSOP final tables entering the summer. But he also wasn’t on the same fame level as a Daniel Negreanu or even Jeff Lisandro. Perhaps all of that will change, though, since Danzer has picked…
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Will Amaya Gaming finally get PokerStars in the US?
The big poker news today – and it’s colossal – is that Amaya Gaming has made a deal with the Rational Group to buy PokerStars, Full Tilt and live tournament tour assets for $4.9 billion. For years people have speculated about the worth of PokerStars and now they know. One of the key points of…
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California still arguing about Online Poker “Bad Actors”
California’s 13 Indian tribes have come to an agreement on one thing: they all want online poker. However, the tribes are widely split on whether to involve “bad actors” like PokerStars in the market. A proposed online poker bill would exclude PokerStars and any other site that operated in the US legal market after the…
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Tom Breitling offers Reasons for Ultimate Poker Struggles
Ultimate Poker’s initial year in the US online gaming market didn’t exactly finish out in dream fashion. In Nevada, where they’ve been offering online poker since last April, Ultimate’s player base fell from 180-220 hourly-cash-game players last summer to its current low of 55 players. As for New Jersey, UP’s online poker revenue dropped from…