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Flight Risk It has been a while since we last heard about Rubin, and that last story was about him getting arrested for his alledged involvement in frauding banks into processing illegal transactions for PokerStars and Full Tilt. Judge James Cott, from New York, said there were “unlimited reasons” as to why he should not [...]

Picking Sides About a week ago Phil Ivey announced that he would not be competing in the World Series of Poker this year and on top of that he is going to file a lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker. He claimed that he was doing these things to fight for the common poker player, most [...]

Different Than Expected Leading up to this year’s World Series of Poker a large amount of speculation was being circulated as to how this year’s attendance would stack up against year’s past, and more specifically against last year’s. And in all honesty many people, myself included, thought and predicted that the attendance would see a [...]

How It Works In an unprecedented, but definitely appreciated way, Party Poker announced yet another promotion in lue of the GSOP. There is a chance for 10 players to win a VIP trip to the Formula One German Grand Prix located in Nurburgring, Germany in July. The way you win is pretty simple, the more [...]

Grand Series of Poker Party Poker’s newest promotion gives you a shot to win a prize package worth about $3,600. But this is not just any prize package, it is a prize package to Manchester, England, and more specifically, soccer club Manchester United’s home field Old Trafford. You can qualify through daily freerolls or $1 [...]

Talk About Unfair When you think about the people who lost their regular lives when domain names were seized, even people who are not in the poker community shared their thoughts and kind words. But after about 2 months, the players that have lost a large amount of money in Maryland are waking up to [...]

Sticky Situations Jon Kyl is and has been a very major name against online poker in the government. Since 1998 he has made many efforts to get the game banned from the internet and saw the 2006 passing of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act as a victory for himself and other supporters. But back [...]

Unusual Claims As 2 months since “Black Friday” approaches most of the people who were indicted have kept their mouths shut and have talked little publicly about their situation. But David Parchomchuk claims that the charges brought against him by the Grand Jury of Maryland are not valid. What are these charges? Well he has [...]

Recently Absent Promotions that are not sign up bonuses have been few and far between lately. Granted the sites that usually offered the best promotions most frequently have not been allowed to offer US players their services for almost two months now. PokerStars, Full Tilt, Absolute, and Ultimate Bet were the 4 biggest names in [...]

Pulling Out of States With “Black Friday” and all that has come along with it, the actions of poker sites recently have left a lot of people confused. For instance, why is Merge Poker ulling out of states and further limiting the options of US poker players? For the mmost part it is because poker sites [...]