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With the Gambling Act 2006 due to take effect on the first of September of this year, poker enthusiasts in the UK are coming together and getting up in arms to do take some action – possible court action, that is.  The UK Poker Clubs Association (UKPCA) is applying for a judicial review of the […]

I’m temporarily turning off comments because of the small handful of morons who persist in adding comment spam even though none of have yet to get through. Have you ever heard of the word “futility”? Do you think that I’m actually going to give up and let your spam through? Why not put in the […]

If you missed it, Pam Anderson and Kid Rock had a live chat last weekend on pamelapoker.com. John’s friend sent a snippet of the session (which I’ll post later), but the highlights apparently were about baby poop and that Cindy Crawford was baby-sitting for them. (Not sure but I think the baby’s name is “kid […]

What takes nearly 200 disrobing people from a dozen countries eight hours to complete? Um . . . perhaps, but we tend to focus on poker, here.
The idea of the largest strip poker tournament to date was initially to be an April Fool’s joke by Irish bookmaker, Paddy Power. These things tend to take […]

Back in the mid-1990s, I launched a monthly print magazine called Chaos Review (”visions of the fringe”). It had taken me 17 years from desire to publish to actual realization. I had a lot of great writers/ artists work for me for nothing, purely for the love of the creative process. One of those writers, […]

Online Gambling Bill Defeated - For Now
If you missed the news like I did, the US Senate bill to limit Internet gambling suffered a demise - but not for the reasons that you might think, such as politics. No, it’s apparently because of the way some online payment transactions areconducted, which leave no way for […]

Yes, the $12 million top prize of the 2006 37th WSOP Championship went to Jamie Gold, a Hollywood talent agent. He and most of the thousands of people who entered got their $10,000 entry fee from playing online poker, so they’re obviously against the pending legislation making Internet poker illegal.
Gold’s father suffers from Lou Gehrig’s […]

It’s interesting that half the poker podcasts I’ve listened to recently on my iPod Nano talked about either lingerie shows at night clubs or about sports. On the other hand, if a poker blog is about poker players and the lifestyle, I suppose there are other aspects that can be discussed, without annoying existing readers. […]

Canadian poker pro and writer Daniel Negreanu says that when the WSOP (World Series of Poker) started in the early 1970s, there were barely 50 players. In this year’s 37th Annual WSOP, which is currently in progress, over 8600 players were in the starting gates, each paying the $10,000 entry fee - which was present […]

Tight Poker is showing some support for US troops in Iraq and sending them a donation of poker chips. They’ve teamed up with Screaming Eagle Poker to distribute the donation. Screaming Eagle holds free weekly no-limit hold’em tourneys for the soldiers. [via Tight Poker]
In other philanthropic events, several poker pros have been donating money from […]