Every week I do have obligations to various (read: two) media outlets for which I do media work about poker. It’s not much (compared to the people that do this for a living), but its enough to keep me informed of what’s going on in the poker industry while the Dark Ages of Poker (patent pending) persist in the United States. That said, here’s what we have for this week.
For writing I write for the Epic Poker League’s news site, and go over the week’s stories and distill them into a “Winners/Losers” format. Obviously there will be a heavy amount of bias, but that’s the point, its an op-ed as to what I would think people in the poker industry would consider the winners or losers in a particular news cycle. This week I took a look at various pros that were doing well at PCA and WSOP-C: Los Angeles, why some Nevada casino bosses need to shut up, and why I am glad some judges can deny bail.
Epic Poker - Winners and Losers: Tournaments Heat Up, Nevada Cools Down, Crime Doesn’t Pay
Cardrunners has been gracious enough to let me and my co-host Matt Kaufman rant for an hour a week about the latest poker news, and as the link below suggests, we’ve done over eighty of these things. This week we discussed how 2+2 was “fighting for the common poker player” after Pokerstars offered to fly people to the Isle of Man for discussions on how rake is generated for the site, and Joss Wood (username: xPeru), was kind enough to drop by to give us his take on the issue. He is one of the people that will be going to Pokerstars to address the issues, and it looks like they have a solid plan in place, we’ll just have to wait and see how it turns out. The second half is (admittedly) a bit of a rehash of my Winners/Losers column, but since I write on Monday and record on Tuesday, its not like there is much time for anything else to happen in the news, so it seems fair.
Cardrunners - Rabbit Hunt: 81