It just gets weirder and weirder in the Lone Star State, where the battle over poker’s present and future currently rolls on across several battlefronts, none of which have much to do with the online game. Instead, it’s the social-club poker scene, the workaround to existing Texas gambling laws that poker-loving entrepreneurs have embraced, that …
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The transparency issue remains at WSOP.com
What’s one of the problems with trying to take a vaunted live-poker operation online? As the WSOP has discovered, it’s not so easy to set matters straight when improper behavior by players is discovered. Want to multi-table an online bracelet event? Recent history suggests that you’re likely to get away with it. You might get …
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Mike Postle cashes in Mississippi poker tourney, evades garnishment attempts
It’s been a few months since accused poker cheat and perennial headline generator Mike Postle has been in the news, though that changed recently when he reappeared on the poker scene… in Mississippi, deep in the money in the main event of the Beau Rivage’s “Million Dollar Heater” main event. Postle’s reappearance, as one would …
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The Ode to Billy Joe (‘Bildo’) Taylor
If you know you’re going to go to prison for a significant stretch after attempting to — and partly succeeding — in defrauding Medicare out of a nine-digit sum for services never requested by physicians or their patients, what’s a gambling person with plenty of money but not much “free” time supposed to do? If …
No evidence of cheating found as HCL releases Garrett Adelstein / Robbi Jade Lew findings
Ten weeks after announcing an investigation into the infamous “J-4” hand on “Hustler Casino Live” between Garrett Adelstein and Robbi Jade Lew, HC parent company High Stakes Poker Productions LLC [HSPP] has issued a complete report on the investigation’s findings, including that there was no evidence that Lew or any other player had cheated in …
Washington State poker player stabs four in unprovoked poker-room attack
As we hinted at in our previous post, maybe it’s the holiday-season craziness that’s bringing out the worst in everyone. From a poker-room robbery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast to a stabbing incident in a poker casino in southwest Washington State, not that far from Portland, Oregon, here we go again. And it’s another 40-something …
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North Carolina man jailed after attempted robbery of Biloxi’s Beau Rivage poker room
A not-so-ho-ho-ho affair played out on Friday at Biloxi, Mississippi’s Beau Rivage poker room, when Charlotte, NC resident Aime Joseph Gelinas was manhandled by other casino patrons and held for security after Gelinas successfully took care of the first part of an armed robbery of the poker room’s cashier cage. Or maybe it was; it’s …
The infamous Lew/Adelstein J-4 hand and the sprawling, never-ending controversy
It’s time we checked in on the controversy surrounding the bizarre “jack-four” hand during an episode of the “Hustler Casino Live” stream that resulted in one of the game’s players, Garrett Adelstein, making very public accusations of cheating against another player, Robbi Jade Lew. One of the weirdest poker stories in recent memory continues to …
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Signs of live-poker growth appearing in U.S.’s traditional South
As a lot of poker-playing residents of the United States’ traditional Old South are aware, it’s a region of the country with comparatively few live-poker options, especially of the casino-based or dedicated cardroom variety. That situation actually became a little worse a couple months back with the raid targeting the Little Kings and Queens club …
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The PIC era arrives, but will poker actually become a cleaner game?
(Opinions offered here are those of the author only and do not necessarily represent the opinions or viewpoints of the owners of Kick Ass Poker — hh.) Beginning on August 1, a new era in trying to oust chronic cheaters from both the online and live poker worlds is slated to begin its monitoring and …
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