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Poker’s In and Out List: durrrr Speaks, Bharara Reeks
US Attorney Preet Bharara: Out The US Attorney in charge of the case against the big three online poker rooms, and the civil complaint that now includes Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Rafe Furst, has earned himself the number one spot on our Out List this week. That’s thanks to calling Full Tilt Poker a [...]
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Poker’s In and Out List: durrrr Speaks, Bharara Reeks
Tom “durrrr” Dwan and US Attorney Preet Bharara take the top and bottom spots on this week’s In and Out List. It was a particularly eventful week in poker, meaning come Monday chances are you’ll be standing around the office water cooler debating the similarities between Full Tilt Poker and a Ponzi scheme. We’re here [...]
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Poker Trading Cards Offer Real 2006 WSOP Bracelet
Leaf Playing Cards has announced the upcoming release of its 2011 set of poker player trading cards with a couple of new twists. While the set will have the usual big-name players like Daniel Negreanu and Phill Hellmuth, it will also include a subset of signed celebrity poker cards featuring Jose Canseco, Brad Garrett, Lou [...]
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Hastings Stings Opponents for $250k
Brian “$tinger 88” Hastings was nearly unbeatable last night as he amassed $250,688 in profit on PokerStars. Hastings, who is yet another of the U.S. poker refugees in Vancouver, has been on a serious tear over the last week and is now up nearly $400k in seven days. Last night the CardRunners instructor focused primarily [...]
Full Tilt Investors Waiting on AGCC Decision: Ifrah
Now going on 10 days since the resumption of Full Tilt Poker’s license hearing with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, poker players are still anxiously awaiting a statement regarding the outcome. Or, for that matter, even a statement indicating that the hearing has ended. Originally expected to be wrapped up within 72 hours, the hearing [...]
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!P0krparty¡ Has a $405k Party
Online upstart !P0krparty¡ came out of nowhere last night to hand out a serious beating to established pros Rafi Amit and Sauce123. Since bursting onto the online scene in mid-July, !P0krparty¡ has amassed nearly half a million in profit. Speculation is rampant on !P0krparty¡’s actual identity but outside of a few people guessing XBLINK or [...]
Breaking: DOJ Calls Full Tilt “Ponzi Scheme,” Claims Owners Defrauded Players
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara filed a motion this morning to amend its civil complaint against Full Tilt Poker, claiming the owners defrauded players out of more than $300 million and calling Full Tilt a “global Ponzi scheme.” Ferguson: Reportedly allocated $87 million and paid out at least $25 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, [...]
WCOOP Day 10: Boeken Books First Bracelet
Team PokerStars Pro Noah “Exclusive” Boeken’s first WCOOP win highlighted a star-studded day for the 2011 World Championship of Online Poker. Boeken wasn’t the only name pro posting big WCOOP results yesterday, however, as Canadian Mike “goleafsgoeh” Leah took down his first title, and Shaun Deeb and Kevin MacPhee both made final tables. WCOOP-26 – [...]
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Ilari FIN Adds Another $172k
It seems nothing can slow down Ilari Sahamies as the Finnish poker pro picked up another $172k in the high stakes games last night. Sahamies played 1,616 hands as Ilari FIN on PokerStars and despite the fact the games were slightly smaller then usual (only $50/$100) he still managed to walk away with a huge [...]
Hellmuth, Mercier Draw Crowd at Partouche Main Event
The World Series of Poker Europe doesn’t start in Cannes until next month but big time poker has already arrived with the start of the Partouche Poker Tour main event yesterday. With a €4 million guarantee, the Partouche Main Event is being billed as the “biggest tournament in Europe” and that’s being reflected in the [...]
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