Continuing on with the trend of advising against certain new poker products -- has anyone else unfortunately caught an episode of Hip-Hop Hold'em? All I can say is: Wow. And ... Read More

I was surfing through some blogs this morning, and it seems we have consensus on what the worst "poker" movie of all time is from Wicked Chops: High Roller: The ... Read More

Casino table games based on poker aren't anything new -- I lost my first $50 on Carribean Stud Poker in Tahoe, Nevada ten years ago, long before I'd even played ... Read More

So, it seems there will be one less place to play poker in Atlantic city -- the Sands Casino will close on November 11. It was the bottom of my ... Read More

I've been having some good fortune lately over at PokerStars (where U.S. players can still play poker online) in their hi-lo tournaments. I came in tenth out of 256 in ... Read More

One of the reasons I've always prefered playing poker with real people as opposed to online is because I feel I'm pretty good at picking up on basic poker tells, ... Read More

On Monday, the main event of the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago $10,000 no-limit Texas Hold'em main event began with 433 players at my favorite place to play poker ... Read More

So, last Friday Bush signed the Port Security Bill into law, which included of course, the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act of 2006. Almost immediately, Party Poker & others barred ... Read More

The recent crackdown on online gambling has made me remeber another series of crackdowns on poker in my life. Once, in New York City, where poker clubs have always been ... Read More

So, I got my first "Hey, thanks for the memories .. & your money -- but we have to kick you out now" e-mail this morning from Titan Poker, where ... Read More

Well, since all the doom and gloom over the probable loss of online poker to U.S. players (here's a particularly depressing & well-written post about it by Bill Rini), ... Read More

While doom & gloom surrounds the world of online poker, meanwhile, live poker goes on. Yesterday at the Trump Taj Mahal, the $10,000 no-limit Texas Hold'em main event of ... Read More

Yesterday, a lot of companies affected by the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act of 2006 came out with responses. Also, some of the most influential & knowledgable people in the ... Read More

So, I'm going to do a series of polls on the issue to see how the poker population is reacting, starting with... Poll:What Do You Think of the Bill Banning Internet ... Read More

The biggest news in poker is the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act of 2006 on Friday, and already the repercussions are huge. Stocks of many Internet poker ... Read More