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posted on February 8th, 2012
With US presidential elections to be held later this year, of great interest to poker players is the stance of each presidential candidate with regards to the legalization of online poker. As Democrat Barack Obama vies for his re-election, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are in the race for the Republican [...]
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posted on January 20th, 2010
Chapter Two of the Clonie Gowen vs. Full Tilt saga could be even uglier than the first.
The online poker giant has launched a return volley straight for the heart of their former representative. Gowen, who filed suit in November of 2008 after she was released from her contract, claims that she was offered a 1% stake in the company. If this were true, she would be entitled to a return of approximately $40 million. Full Tilt has added a lawsuit of their own to the mix, requesting that Gowen make a statement in which she disavows her claim of owning any stake in the company.
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posted on January 14th, 2010
Party Poker, the former undisputed champion of online poker heavyweights, has recently signed Kara Scott as a member of Team Party. She joins 2009 Poker Hall of Fame inductee Mike Sexton, Steward Scott, Ian Frazier, Remy Biechel, Bodo Sbrzensy and Felipe Ramos on the team whose mission is to represent Party Poker in poker related [...]
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posted on July 28th, 2009
Absolute Poker has recently announced the signing of its newest poker pro, Lacey Jones. Lacy, who is also a model, joins another young poker star, Matt Vengrin, as the newest faces of the Absolute Poker brand. Lacey Jones began her poker career in 2005, when she was hired as a model to play in a [...]
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posted on March 18th, 2009
Sandra “Black Mamba” Naujoks makes history by becoming the second ever woman to win an EPT live event. And she did not walk an easy path. The German beauty walked home with about €917,000 in her pockets, after defeating everybody in a very very tough final table full of big names, which also included Team [...]
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posted on November 18th, 2008
Things are not very rosy around Cycalona “Clonie” Gowen these days. One of the few prominent female professional poker players, Gowen filed a lawsuit against her former employer Full Tilt Poker, one of the biggest online poker rooms. The suit was filed in Nevada District Court on November 14th, and demands total $40 million. The [...]
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posted on March 9th, 2008
According to her website, when Liz Lieu was 13 and began playing Chinese poker with her friends she began a long-term love affair with cards. Born in Vietnam in 1974, she was shortly moved to Colorado by her parents. When she was 18, she and a friend started their own hold’em and pai gow home [...]
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posted on March 2nd, 2008
Cards came naturally for Erin Ness who says that poker has been a lifetime pursuit. Growing up in New Jersey, she began learning the game when she was a young girl. In an interview for the PokerSource she said, “I come from a card-playing family…When my brother and I used to get punished when we [...]
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posted on February 24th, 2008
Evelyn “Evybabee” Ng is a hot, 32 year old professional poker player born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Like some other professional gamblers, she got her start playing pool for money when she was only 14. By the time she was 17, pokerlistings.com reports that she had already moved up to dealing blackjack and playing [...]
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posted on February 17th, 2008
There is a common theme among most hot women in the field of poker. Except for Jennifer Leigh, they would all be considered older women by the 20-somethings. One girl who falls outside of this categorization is Chantel McNulty; a 22 year old from Dallas, Texas who now makes her living playing poker. Chantel gets [...]
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posted on February 10th, 2008
Jennifer Leigh, aka “Jennicide”, is an almost too good to be true. For those computer nerds out there, according to Wikipedia, she is a World of Warcraft player with a knowledge of C++ and Linux programming. For the more domestically inclined, she loves spending time with her friends, family, and her Maltese puppy “Icey”. For [...]
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