A couple of posts back, I wrote about how the new NBC show Face the Ace is struggling mightily in the ratings department. In fact, for the second straight week Face the Ace finished dead last in ratings among shows in the Saturday night, 9 pm - 10 pm time slot. But I still managed [...]
Continue Reading...At a time when many Americans are still worried about whether poker will ever be totally legal in the United States, Russians have to worry about whether they’ll even be eligible to play the game again. That’s because the Russian government voted to ban poker as a sport in the country which effectively means they [...]
Continue Reading...In a bit of very interesting news, the Poker Players Alliance announced that Howard Stern would be joining their ranks. This news comes after the PPA Chairman Alfonso D’Amato appeared on the show to kick off National Poker Week.
D’Amato later commented on Stern joining the PPA by saying, “I can’t think of a more fitting [...]
Goldman Sachs has been successfully advising the government, corporations, and rich people on how to invest their money since 1869. So when this company says that there is a huge billion dollar trend coming then many investors tend to listen.
If the United States does end up legalizing online poker, and even Internet gambling in general, [...]
With many of the earlier World Series of Poker tournaments setting records for attendance and prize money, it was a shock to see so few people enter the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament. Just 95 players shelled out the $50k buy-in and this meant that the overall prize pool was definitely down from last year as well. [...]
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