With Stakeholders Still At Odds, California Legislature Running Out Of Time For Online Poker Thanks to a late push from a super-coalition of stakeholders, the California legislature continues to contemplate online poker legalization. However, with several issues still to be ironed out, and just a couple of weeks remaining on the legislative calendar, legislators are running…
A partisan attack on the DOJ’s opinion regarding the Wire Act, Caesars reaches deals with senior creditors, and legal US sports betting suffers another set-back. A right-wing political group, whose founder has ties to Sheldon Adelson, has been quietly mounting a challenge to the US Department of Justice’s most recent opinion on the Wire Act which…
Poker Strategy: How to Deal with Aggressive and Passive Players in Poker Games Poker players tend to be either passive or aggressive in their approach to the game, and understanding how to deal with those different approaches can take you a long way as far as profiting from your time at the table (even at…
Dirty Poker Tricks and How to Fight ‘Em Back When playing poker games, chances are that you will have to deal with some players that do things that are technically within the rules but are designed to prod opponents to take particular actions. Usually, there are easy ways to parry these attacks, but you have…
Online Poker Etiquette Tips A lot of online poker players believe that just because they’re sitting at a computer instead of at a table means that they can act however they please, and some of them use that feeling of freedom to act rudely. However, this is not true, and there are several things that…
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World Series of Poker Makes History with the “Colossus” The big news from this weekend’s play at the 2015 World Series of Poker has to be the record breaking achievements of Event #5, The Colossus, which recorded 22,374 entries. The previous record was set by the 2006 WSOP Main Event with 8,773 entries. The WSOP…
Improving Your Poker Game: Pre-Flop Hand Reading Understanding hand ranges helps you figure out what might be sitting in your opponent’s hand, and keeping track of hand combinations lets you calculate the various probabilities when playing poker games. Remember that you’re not playing against robots or computers like it sometimes happens when you’re in the…
The legalization of internet poker in the Empire State is once again on the table For the second straight year, New York State Senator John J. Bonacic (R-Mt. Hope) has introduced a bill that would legalize online poker in the state. Bill S 5302 closely resembles the bill (S 6913) that Bonacic introduced in 2014, and…
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