After a news void of more than nine months, recent court filings show that the long-running court battle between Phil Ivey and New Jersey’s Borgata casino is finally nearing its conclusion. Last week, lawyers for the two sides jointly notified the US’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals that they had reached a preliminary agreement to …
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Online WSOP Series Reignites “Real Bracelet” Debate
This week, with pandemic-related “social distancing” rules continuing to significantly impact the live-poker world, the Caesars-owned World Series of Poker officially announced an 85-event Online 2020 WSOP to be held beginning July 1st. The electrons had barely been sent across the intertubes before poker players far and wide began offering their takes on the WSOP’s …
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Pandemic Shutdowns Ease, But Live Poker to Face New Struggle
Social-gathering protocols connected to the ongoing Covid-19 novel coronavirus pandemic have begun to ease across much of the United States, but it’s clear that live poker as we know it will face a new an ongoing challenge in presenting games that can be played amid ongoing restrictions on how poker players can congregate. Nowhere will …
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The WSOP ‘Mystery Bounty’ Mystery
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 …
Inside Daniel Negreanu’s WSOP POY Proposals
Welcome, readers, to the rebirth of the fabled Kick Ass Poker Blog, where we begin our second generation of chat about all things poker with a look inside the tale of Daniel Negreanu and his proposed changes to the World Series of Poker’s annual Player of the Year chase. The POY race has always been …
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