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Chad Brown Memorial Tournament
There are a few people who stand out in poker because they do things differently than most everyone else — in ways we all know we’d stand to benefit by emulating. Unfortunately, too often we don’t...
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Education of a Poker Player Responsible Gaming Service Provider
It’s Responsible Gaming Education Week, August 4-8, you probably know, or maybe not, because “responsible gaming” isn’t exactly something we celebrate in a culture that extols the virtue of being “All...
View Article2014 WSOP: Year of the Young Adult?
The latest incarnation of the November Nine gets underway in a few hours, and as per usual there’ll be talk of poker’s “young guns” dominating the big-money prize spots. The old man at the table this...
View ArticlePoker Justice: 7 years for killing a cheater
We should probably be sadder because someone died and poker had everything to do with it. But at the same time … man hosts poker game, catches brother cheating, shoots brother in the chest and kills...
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Apache Gold Casino is giving players up to $300 a day in free play.
A little casino east of Phoenix, Arizona called Apache Gold is running a fantastic casino promotion until the end of this month. They are doubling or tripling any other casino’s offer up to $300. For...
View ArticleCalifornia Dreamin’
So poker people are buzzing again about the promise of California for online poker. It’s true what RJ gaming reporter Howard Stutz says, that this market represents something of a holy grail for the...
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Tell Science
Can you spot the liar? The New York Times asked that question — recognizing right out the gate this is supposed to be a poker skill — and presented an interactive exercise featuring video clips of...
View ArticleCanadian Senate Reports on Digital Currencies
Lately, when many Canadians think of the Senate — our unelected upper house of Parliament — they think of the Senate expense scandal (or possibly other scandals) which may be an issue in the general...
View ArticleUK Gambling Mergers and US Gambling Politics
If you thought RAWA was dead, think again! Sheldon Adelson has some politicians in his pocket more than happy to sell their integrity to do his bidding. Also, mergers in the U.K. could spell more...
View Article(Anti-)Online Gambling Legislation Refiled and Reshuffled
Getting my gaming commentary game back on, with an appearance as a talking head-and-torso for a special Global Gaming Expo episode of APCW Perspectives, featuring venerable online gambling gadfly J....
View ArticleThe Best Way to Improve in Poker
Many players are debating over this. What is better, reading articles, watching videos or getting poker coaching? All of the above have pros and cons and to get the most out of any option, you need to...
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Doyle Brunson Dies
For years, “Doyle Brunson Dies” has been the default placeholder headline in poker media discussions about how you would handle a super-big story that every news outlet is gonna have, and every player...
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Drones Are the New Poker?
Call it lo-tech, but I bought an actual paper magazine on the way home from Christmas, Popular Science, which lured me with its cover story, “Predictions for 2014”. Semi-fascinating stuff regarding 3-D...
View ArticleFinTRAC continues bitcoin review
On February 11th, David George-Cosh broke the story of the release of an undated internal document produced by FinTRAC addressing the challenges of cryptocurrencies, primarily bitcoin. FinTRAC is...
View ArticleCanada increasing its bitcoin oversight
The Canadian finance minister, Jim Flaherty, presented the federal government’s 2014 budget plan to Parliament on February 11th. Cryptocurrencies played a small part in the budget, though still an...
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Poker’s 1% by Ed Miller
Ed Miller’s latest book, Poker’s 1% reveals the secret of poker’s most elite players. The book exposes this secret in one word: frequency. Ed states that the biggest winners in no-limit hold ’em know...
View ArticleNew Ontario class action against Mt Gox
On March 14th, lawyers for four plaintiffs filed suit in Toronto against Mt Gox, the bitcoin exchange embroiled in ongoing scandal. Defendants include several corporations in the Mt Gox Group of...
View ArticleHow Canada will regulate bitcoin
This past week, two sources of information became available indicating how the Canadian government will increase its regulation and oversight of virtual currencies, including bitcoin. Through a...
View ArticleVideo Gaming Economies
There’s a fair amount of research going on these days looking at that ever-fine line between gaming and gambling (Gainsbury, Russell, & Hing, 2014). This mini-documentary looks at the size and...
View ArticleOLG smackdown
In April of this year, Ontario’s Auditor General, Bonnie Lysyk, released her report on the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s Modernization Plan. The report was prepared and made public in...
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