Is Facebook Poker breaking the Law?

Facebook has risen to the point where it is the world’s largest social networking site.  And since they are such a large entity, Facebook has branched out into other areas to keep people on their site as long as possible.  One of these areas in online gaming since Facebook offers its users lots of entertaining [...]

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Public can now vote for Poker Hall of Fame

Ever since being established in 1979, the Poker Hall of Fame has served as the governing body of who will be immortalized in poker history.  Unfortunately, the public has never had a choice as to who gets nominated and who doesn’t.  Seeing as how this is the case, most of the people who pay attention [...]

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Where will the durrrr Challenge leave him?

I thought the terms of the challenge that Tom “durrrr” Dwan made several months ago to the poker world was a little crazy when it was first announced.  Dwan was basically spotting whoever agreed to play him in heads-up action a 3-1 handicap since durrrr would only get $500k if he won while his opponent would earn $1.5 million for defeating him. 
I [...]

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Annie Duke Loses in Celebrity Apprentice Finals

Anybody who has been watching Celebrity Apprentice 2 is no doubt familiar with the rivalry between Joan Rivers and Annie Duke.  For those who haven’t been watching the show, let me sum up their beef against each other as quickly as possible.
Basically, Annie Duke has taken the lead on a number of projects and has [...]

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New York Times examines Online Poker Issue

While some optimists predicted that the UIGEA would be lifted by now and people everywhere would be free to play poker as the please by the middle of 2009, this has not happened yet.  In fact, there doesn’t seem to any major ground-breaking news on the issue as of late either which prompted the New [...]

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