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(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 4 Evening Update

First, some advice from the Poker Shrink to those in the poker media during the WSOP. Day 1a of the $1,000 NL Holdem Stimulus Special drew a full field of entries today as the WSOP tournament staff...

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(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 7 Stimulus Special Conclusion, Day 2 $1,500 PLO...

Finishing up business from Monday night before moving on… The $1,000 NL Holdem Stimulus Special finished at 3am today with 50 players returning at 1pm to play down to a winner. The chip leader is...

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Super-Deep Stacks, Late RegistrationsWPT Festa al Lago $15k Main Event

We low-stakes players love the deep-stack events … but as Matt Savage pointed out this summer, and a concern that Andy Bloch has re-raised more recently, big-time pro tourneys don’t necessarily benefit...

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Darvin Moon vs. Joe Cada New Poll: How Long a Heads-up Battle?

photo: WSOP.com That’s what we wanna know … after Saturday/Sunday’s marathon 9->2 session … how long do you think the heads-up battle between Darvin Moon and Joe Cada will go? They’re currently in...

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Poker 2Nite – Episode 2

Here’s this week’s Poker 2Nite episode discussing Isildur1, a charity poker tournament hosted by Annie Duke, Brandon Cantu getting tased and an interview with Andy Bloch. Parts 2 and 3 appear on the...

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McDermott Bill Gets New Juice States, tribes, foster kids promised slices of...

HR 2268, now HR 4976, aka the McDermott Bill, aka the Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2009 2010, got re-introduced yesterday … it’s pretty similar to IGRTEA 2009, with two key...

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John Stossel Takes Up Poker / Online Gambling Fight Conservative media...

I’ve been a fan of John Stossel, and his willingness to call bullshit on conventional wisdom, since the days I started noticing the difference between good journalism and bad. He has since moved from...

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(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 3 Evening Edition

Here’s a recap of the Sunday afternoon activities, with issues regarding the 1k NL event coming to a head early Monday morning. Problems with Payouts? Day 1b of the $1,000 No-Limit Holdem event drew a...

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27th seat in WSOP TOC to be decided via SNG

Voting for the WSOP Tournament of Champions closes on June 15, and the final seat in the 27-player field will be determined in a nine-person tournament on June 10th. The nine players taking part in the...

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(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 16

Wrapping up Friday night’s action, with two bracelets awarded in the overnight hours: “Bakes” wins $10,000 2-7 NL Lowball David “Bakes” Baker earned up his first bracelet, along with $294,314, in...

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(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 21

An overview of the rest of Wednesday night’s action with two more bracelet winners Warga wins second bracelet, makes history The $1,500 Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better winner is David Warga, becoming the first...

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Annie Duke to Testify Before Congressional Committee

That’s the word Annie put out about 10:30 pm last night, via twitter: AnnieDuke Heading to DC tomorrow. Testifying Wednesday at 2pm in front of Chairman Frank’s Committee on his new legislation to...

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Bloch returns to Rio to defend Internet freedom

Andy Bloch played over 30 tournaments at the Rio during the WSOP this summer, but he’ll make one more visit to the Rio Thursday morning as part of Netroots Nation (formerly known as the YearlyKos...

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Re: Andy Bloch returns to Rio to defend Internet freedom It’s about more than...

Thursday morning at the Rio, Andy Bloch was part of a panel at Netroots Nation titled Internet Freedom: Protecting Rights in the Digital Realm. Many in the poker community have heard Bloch’s points...

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Welterweight Poker PunditryAndy Bloch on Face to Face with Jon Ralston

As December’s American political dialogue takes shape — lame-duck tax policy, North Korea, Wikileaks, don’t-ask-don’t-tell — online poker (and “poker only”) is registering a few blips on the national...

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Instapoker - Good Guy, Bad Guys

Andy Bloch Today’s WSOP Boxscore Aubin Cazals $480,563 – Event #6 $5,000 Mix-Max Andy Bloch $126,363 – Event #7 $1,500 7-Card Stud Herbert Tapscott $264,400 – Event #8 $1,500 Omaha/8 Ashkan Razavi...

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Instapoker - Down with ODB

David BakerPhoto: WSOP.com Today’s WSOP Bracelet Boxscore Craig McCorkell $368,593 – Event #36 $3,000 NLH Shootout David Baker $271,312 – Event #37 $2,500 8-Game Mix Dung Nguyen $607,200 – Event #38...

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‘Grinder’ Chews up Opponents to Win $50k Players Championship, Again - Yet...

Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi of Miami became the first two-time winner of the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship on Thursday night at the Rio in the World Series of Poker, dominating the field...

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Re: The Ultimate Who’s Who of Poker - Who'd be playing One Drop pre-Black...

We’ve gotta move on from all this talk of Black Friday, I know … it was nearly a year and a half ago, and we’ll be hearing about its cases moving forward in various capacities probably for another 2+...

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Instapoker - Matt Salsberg wins, Andy Bloch and Howard Lederer talk

Matt SalsbergPhoto: World Poker Tour Today’s Boxscore Matt Salsberg €380,000 – WPT Rendez-Vous à Paris Pratik Ghatge £71,700- UKIPT London Main Event Matthew Colvin $21,097 – WSOPC Bossier City Event...

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