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The Difference Between Online Casinos and Fully Legal Land-based Gambling Halls

Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011

A sign seen in the new Aviator Casino, in Delano, California, reminding me of a difference between casinos regulated in lands we know well and virtual establishments based out of places that may or may not exist beyond our poker imaginations: This notice stood out to me as I was listening to Donkdown Radio live [...]

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This Week’s Big Winners – February 1st

Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011

With the biggest gambling holiday of the year just days away, it seems appropriate that the world has gone poker crazy. We have reached a crescendo to the post-PCA madness, as big events wrapped up in Australia, France, and down in Mississippi. We also have a report from India, as well as some action in [...]

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A Tipping Point Know how dealers make a living before deciding how much or little to leave

Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011

Chad Harberts OP-ED I recently set off a minor controversy when I mentioned to @Pokerati that a Red Rock Casino poker dealer complained that new Heartland Poker champion Rob Perelman (@veerob) didn’t leave a dealer tip at the conclusion of the tournament. First, I do not know Rob at all and was not making an [...]

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Winners, Losers, Coinflips (January 2011) Breaking down the month’s movers and shakers into bite-size chunks

Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2011

The format that seemed to work so well in describing the action at the 2010 WSOP November Nine is going to get the full treatment now (and because I think the daggers that Dan has been sending me with his eyes have finally worked and I need to write something.) A word about the “scoring [...]

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Who Owns Your Poker? (Part I)Why It’s Important to Protect Your Intellectual Property

Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2011

I have a friend in the poker industry. He’s a fantastic player, very smart, and a successful entrepreneur. On top of it, he’s a great guy. He has started up, managed, and hosted several top-rated poker television shows. He’s no slouch; he knows his stuff. A few months ago, he called me up and wanted [...]

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PokerStars SuperStar Showdown: Isildur1 vs Jungleman12

Date: Sun, Jan 30, 2011

Today, January 30th @5:30 ET Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom will take on Daniel “w00ki3z” Cates in the third installment of the SuperStar Showdown. Cates is better known by his Full Tilt Poker name of Jungleman12 where he came on, and dominated, the high stakes cash scene last year. Follow @merchdawg on Twitter for updates throughout the [...]

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Saturday Afternoon Singalong 2 More Five Card Stud

Date: Sat, Jan 29, 2011

While looking for the video featured last week for the 1968 poker-based western Five Card Stud, I discovered even more music wrapped around said game and gambler’s living … fun, semi-timeless lyrics both: 1970 – Five Card Stud by Lorne Greene (about collusion) 1989 – Five Card Stud by Ace Frehley (about drawing to a [...]

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Merchdawg’s Weekly Podcast Roundup

Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Sorry this is a bit late today, but a combination of the WPT Southern Poker Championship not finishing until 3:30am, a 6th or 7th trip to Waffle House, and a six hour drive today I just now found time to get things together. Hopefully this trip will not suffer the same fate as the last [...]

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Vegas Comes to the Channel IslandsAlderney & Nevada Regulators Sign Memorandum of Understanding

Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011

I was all set this morning to write a blog entry on the continuing dispute in Kennedy & Omotoy v. Full Tilt Poker et al. (The original post by Dan Michalski was back in 2009.) This litigation is fascinating; it has bounced from state court to federal court and back to state court in California, [...]

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More Payment Processor Seizures in Maryland

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

The Feds have made another grab at money in US banks that at some point passed through online gambling and/or poker sites — seizing three more accounts held by payment processors with claims that the undisclosed sums in them are “forfeitable”. This time it was the Maryland district going after accounts in California belonging to [...]

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WinStar Nation Closer to Owning Lone Star Park Poker-friendly Indians coming to Texas

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009

Oklahoma Indians have long fought against gambling in Texas, but one tribe might be willing to switch teams if they can have this piece of land for $27 million. Whether it’s a hedge on their part or a sign of things to come … Global Gaming became the “stalking horse bidder” for Lone Star Park yesterday [...]

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Annette_15 Ad Banned in UK British government squelches marketing of WSOP-Europe champ

Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2009

We know her, of course, as something between the Tracy Austin of Poker and Johnny Moss of WSOP-E. But that makes no difference … even in the UK, poker is still poker, and thus Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for Betfair featuring Annette Obrestad, after a complaint about her celebrated screen name, [...]

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Face the Ace $85 Million Lawsuit Was the worst show in poker a stolen idea?

Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2009

I’ve got a buddy named Adam who believes there’s no such thing as an original idea. Then you’ve got guys like Pauly, who, according to one of his closest friends and colleagues, “if you use the word ‘and’ in your writing he’ll think you took it from him.” (In Pauly’s defense, shady web ops around [...]

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Jason Newitt Sues Full Tilt, Lederer, et al.Another Ex-FTP Employee Suits Up

Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2009

The Full Tilt Poker legal team is busy. On the heels of the presumably still-unresolved Clonie Gowen $40 million lawsuit, another case was filed in the Nevada court system on September 11, 2009. This is the only information available thus far: Jason Newitt v. Tiltware; Full Tilt Poker; Pocket Kings Ltd.; Pocket Kings Consulting Ltd.; Raymond Bitar; Howard [...]

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