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  • With the World Series of Poker set to start in mere days, PokerStars has announced that PokerStars Radio will again provide live coverage of this year’s WCOOP beginning at 20:00 BST on September 2 and continuing through September 23, 2012.  Coverage will resume at the same time every day as returning host, Joe Stapleton, and quipsters, [...]

  • Just yesterday, the five members of the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously agreed to give South Point Casino a license to legally operate a real-money, intrastate poker website.  The event is historic because it marks the first time that a license of this sort has ever been issued by any of America’s fifty states. After awarding [...]

  • posted on August 22nd, 2012

    A United States federal judge ruled yesterday that poker is indeed a game of skill with chance elements involved according to an article posted today by NBC’s Pete Williams. The article further details that, since the ruling was that poker is a game of skill, one of the main federal laws used to shut down [...]

  • The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently posted a notice on their website seeking a third party “Claims Administrator” to help with the Full Tilt Poker remission procedure. The DOJ estimates that there are many as 1.3 million “potential US victims” who had funds with Full Tilt Poker before they shut down. The estimated [...]

  • After a long absence, “FTPDoug” as known on the twoplustwo poker forums, has returned. He revealed that the “FTPDoug” account was actually a joint account that continued to be used years after the employee named Doug left the company. The account has been used for official responses from FullTilt Poker on the message board since [...]

  • PokerStars recently released an interesting short film about Team Online player, Greg “DaWarsaw” Mikielewicz, that is worth watching for its subtle humor as much as for what it reveals about this talented, humble online poker star. Near its start, the documentary describes how DaWarsaw put together a string of eight consecutive winning years playing online [...]

  • posted on August 3rd, 2012

    Recent confirmation of a deal between Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and the U.S. Department of Justice to allow the sale of Full Tilt and the repayment of their players may not be as rosy as it seems. There is some degree of doubt as to whether the U.S. government will fully refund players their winnings [...]

  • posted on August 1st, 2012

    Bovada.lv, our top US friendly poker room, has recently released a Mac client for their users. Mac users in the US were once shunned and had few choices to play online poker, but not anymore. All Mac users can play on the same software with top security and features as their PC friends. Mac users [...]

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