Sacramento-area poker pro Mike Postle, the central figure in a high-profile, $10 million civil case including allegations of cheating during dozens of live-streamed poker sessions from California’s Stones Gambling Hall, has filed his initial legal response in the case. The filing, dated March 24, 2020, was first published on the RounderLife website already closely linked …
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It’s time to serve up a poker piece that doesn’t center on the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic currently causing global issues. Though this feature focuses on this summer’s World Series of Poker, it’s not a story about whether or not the 2020 WSOP will run as scheduled. Rather, it’s about what I believe to be a …
The increasingly global spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus poses an ever-larger threat of disruption to major poker events, including this summer’s World Series of Poker. While the odds remain long against the 2020 WSOP’s cancellation — speaking in terms of the live gathering in Las Vegas, and not the online bracelet events — developments in …
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An intriguing lawsuit filed by South African poker player Ronit Chamani cites reigning and soon-to-be two-time GPI Player of the Year Alex Foxen as playing a key recruiting role in a cryptocurrency venture now alleged to have conducted in negligent (if not fraudulent) activity, including the failure to return remaining investor funds once the crypto …
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There’s been a bit more movement in the high-profile civil lawsuit involving Sacramento-area poker player Mike Postle. Postle, who allegedly cheated during dozens of “Stones Live” live-streamed podcasts in 2018 and 2019, has officially acknowledged receiving service of the legal summons notifying him as being a defendant in the case. As part of a document …
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Last week’s voluntary surrender to United States authorities by PokerStars co-founder Isai Scheinberg marks the end of a saga stretching more than a decade, all centered on the April, 2011 “Black Friday” clampdown by the US Department of Justice targeting US-facing offshore poker sites. Scheinberg was among 11 individuals charged in the sweeping Black Friday …
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The most interest-drawing topic in the poker world in recent months, the outing of alleged cheating by Mike Postle during dozens of “Stones Live” podcasts and a $10 million lawsuit subsequently filed by a lengthy list of alleged victims, is back in the news after two months of only very minor developments. This time out, …
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By way of continuing to waste government resources in the names of Sheldon Adelson and crony capitalism, the US Department of Justice has been back in court in recent days in its “Wire Act” appellate case in the US’s Third Circuit. At stake, of course, is the immediate future of interstate online poker in the …
The Kickass Poker Blog returns today with a look at the scant recent developments into the allegations of cheating on over a year of web-streamed “Stones Live” poker games by Mike Postle, that has led to an ongoing lawsuit by dozens of players against Postle, alleged collaborator Justin Kuraitis, and Sacramento’s Stones Gambling Hall. Though …
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Yesterday’s victory by the talented Alex Foxen at the last major poker event of 2019, the World Tour Five Diamond Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, may cap major tourney play for the year, but it has also reignited debate in the poker world about whether unlimited re-entries are good for the game. …
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