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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
The Utter Failure Known as the Kahnawake Gaming Commission
Monday, July 28th, 2008 by Phil
Somewhere in Canada there is a small ice fishing shack that serves as the home of the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. The KGC is responsible for regulating many of the internet’s largest poker rooms. A lot of people may have noticed the KGC logo on the homepage of their favorite poker rooms, but few people knew much about the KGC for a long time. This was the case until last year when they were forced to rise to the surface and deal with the cheating scandal at Absolute Poker.
In 2007, it came to light that there was some cheating going on at Absolute Poker. It was also evident that members of the upper level management team at Absolute were involved in the cheating. Since this blog entry is not meant to discuss the details of the Absolute Poker scandal, you can read about it through the following link if you are not familiar with what happened; http://www.absolutepokerscandal.com/
Here is a brief synopsis of the KGC investigation through my eyes; The KGC conducted a mediocre investigation that was headed by Joe Norton. Joe Norton is also a former Kahnawake chief who is known to have financial ties to Absolute Poker… this is sort of shady if you ask me.
Jump to present time…Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet are now under the same ownership and there is evidence of more cheating that was conducted by the owners of the poker network. This time the cheating is more widespread, and it appears as though the owners of UB/AP were more deeply involved than in the previous incidents.
The gaming commission seems to be acknowledging their own lack of real expertise. The KGJ has just announced that it is going to bring in an independent investigator to deal with the new scandal. If you are from the Atlantic City area, you may already know who Frank Catania is. Frank is the former director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. He has been brought in to lead the investigation into the most recent UB/AP scandal.
As a player who has already voiced my distrust for the KGC, I think that hiring Mr. Catania is a wise decision. At the same time, I think it’s a little bit pathetic for a gaming commission to have to bring in an outside consultant. This only adds to the second-rate image that the KGJ has recently developed.
