Claims Service: Off With His Head!
The other story to come out of the weekend was the inclusion of Ali Tekintamgac in the WPT Championship. For those that have forgotten, this is the guy that was removed from the Partouche Poker Tour final table because tournament [...]
Claims Service: FTP Anger Brewing
A couple stories bubbled over during the weekend and its look like poker players are at least getting back into the swing about complaining about everything that moves. (…what?!) The first of which has been going on for sometime: Claim [...]
New Rabbit Hunt (05/11/11)
There is a new Rabbit Hunt podcast out this week, and we actually recorded and submitted on time…only to forget that the WSOP conference call was today. Oh well, it not like we didn’t have plenty to talk about. Gary [...]
Cereusly?!: Recent AP Press Release Digested
My non-legal non-fully-knowledgable opinion of the AP/UB Press Release
Another day, another AP press release trying to assure people that all is well. After weeks of silence from the battered online site, the PR department (or what’s left of it) of AP/UB has been hard at work trying to [...]
Cereusly?!
Part 1: Pre-Indictment
UltimateBet UB has been the source of conspiracy theories into how online poker is rigged for many years now. Up to this point, a lot of it has been conjecture and circumstantial evidence, nothing directly to tie the “current” UB [...]
The Aftermath: April 20, 2011
Media starts advertising other US Sites, DoJ Strikes a deal with Stars/Tilt, Pocket Kings check bounces
Quite a few headlines and stories occurred today, but none of them warranted a single blog post on the subject. I guess to rip off a bunch of other news concepts, its like Pokernews’s The Nightly Turbo, Bluff’s A.M. Scramble, [...]
Pokerpocalypse 2011: So what can we do?
So now that people have had the weekend to digest the indictment and there are now reports that some of the defendants are pleading “not guilty”, there have been some pieces of advice floating around about what to do next. [...]
Claims Service: The DoJ Indictment (24 hours later)
There has been quite a bit of claims or statements floating around about the nature of the indictment and the state of poker over the past 24 hours. Some of it is legitimate, others not so much. Hyperbole is [...]
Some (Attempt at) Sober Analysis Regarding Pokerpocalypse 2011
Edit (5:15 PM PDT): A quick thank you to everyone that both RT’d and have read the blog thus far. We need to get through the mourning period and move on. Details are still coming in and I hope you [...]
Liveblog of DoJ Indictment (pulled from Pokerati for posterity)
In the first “OH CRAP!” moments of the unsealing of the criminal indictment against the owners of FTP, Stars, and UB, I was liveblogging the reaction as it happened. I’ve now converted the story into a proper article, but for [...]
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