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Norway Finally legalizing Poker Tournaments
Norway has spawned several world-famous poker pros in Annette Obrestad, Johnny Lodden and Thor Hansen. This is quite amazing when you consider that these players can’t even enjoy a legal poker tournament on their home soil. Luckily, that’s set to change with Norway’s Culture Minister, Thorhild Widvey, calling for the legalization of poker tourneys. At…
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Should Poker really be covered like Winter Olympics?
It’s been about a week since Joe Hachem gave his interview on how WSOP Main Event champions need to step up their ambassadorship efforts. And the discussion hasn’t stopped, with Daniel Negreanu recently bringing up an interesting perspective on poker television coverage. Negreanu thinks that ESPN and 411 Productions could learn a thing or two…
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Tom Dwan to address Issues with Full Tilt Poker Soon
For over two years now, Tom Dwan has been taking heat for being uncooperative in finishing the Durrrr Challenge with Dan ‘Jungleman12’ Cates. But as it turns out, Full Tilt Poker may have a large role in why Dwan hasn’t continued playing the Challenge more recently. The famed high stakes player didn’t give out many…
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Haseeb Qureshi recounts $1m Running Bet with Ashton Griffin Again
One of the most famous prop bets of all-time definitely belongs to Ashton Griffin and Haseeb Qureshi. As some people will recall, these two booked a huge prop wager in 2011, whereby Griffin had to run 70 miles in 24 hours to win $285,000. And this bet is so interesting that it never hurts to…
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Is PokerStars moving to Zoom-Only?
It’s been a few weeks since PokerStars made the controversial decision to switch all of their regular high stakes games (50/100 NLHE, PLO and up) to Zoom Poker format. And Stars recently struck again by changing their $25/$50 PLO games to Zoom on February 1st. Given these huge changes, a poster on TwoPlusTwo raised a…
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Dan Cates describes going from Loner to Poker Star
These days, Dan “Jungleman12” Cates is known as one of the most successful No-Limit Hold’em players in the world. But there was once a time when Cates was an unknown, lonely high school student. Cates recently discussed his humble beginnings with iGaming.org, and here’s an excerpt from the interview: I didn’t get along with my…
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Will $82m in Full Tilt Repayments give Online Poker a Boost?
By now, much of the poker community has heard that the US Department of Justice has approved $82 million worth of Full Tilt Poker repayments. Over 30,000 players will be receiving money back that was previously locked up on Full Tilt. With the US DOJ’s approval now official, the Garden City Group can begin distributing…
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Will Zynga Poker’s Facebook Launch save their Stock?
Falling stock prices for Zynga are nothing new. The social gaming giant has struggled mightily ever since their initial public offering at the end of 2011. Zynga had hoped to give themselves a boost after partnering up with bwin.party and launching a real money poker client last year. Though only available to UK residents, the…