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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
60 Minutes to Air Story on Cheating Scandal
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 by Phil
It looks like the plot is starting to thicken in the scandal involving Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. It’s been known for a while now that 60 minutes has been preparing to air a segment about the UB/AP scandal.
I got an email back from the producers at CBS a few days ago. They declined to comment on when the story would be aired, and they basically gave me the run-around telling me to look on their website for news and updates… So I’m not sure that a date has been set for this story to air yet…but I know that they finished conducting the majority of their interviews a few months ago, so this should be shown on 60 minutes pretty soon.
If you haven’t been following this whole scandal and how things have played out, you can read about it in this recent MSNBC article www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26563848/
The independent commission that the Kahnawake Gaming Commission had assigned to deal with the scandal has finished their investigation. They named Russ Hamilton as one of the key figures involved in the cheating that occurred. Although Russ is a real person, he is somewhat of a ghost figure when it comes to the ownership of Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. There are people who have exhausted themselves over this issue, and they still cannot find out who owns some of these companies involved with UB and AP.
To be honest, it’s actually sort of impressive to see the lengths at which the owners of these companies have gone to in order to disguise who actually owns everything. It just makes things look even shadier in my opinion.
It’s hard to speculate as to the consequences that this story will have on the internet poker world. Up until this point, the majority of people that knew about the cheating that had occurred were frequent poker players. A lot of the new and incoming players which help to fuel the online poker economy either didn’t know about this, or they just didn’t care.
Now mainstream America is about to get a glimpse of what has been going on. Unfortunately, this will be a first impression for many of them, and I don’t think it’s going to look very favorable for poker players and the online poker world. The majority of Americans have no idea that you can sit down and play for millions of dollars on the internet, so I’m expecting a lot of people to have a reaction like; “Well, what did you expect would happen?”.
I’ll be sure to post here as soon as I find out when this story is going to hit the air. Feel free to leave some comments below. Do you think this story could lead to the downfall of online poker?
