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has anyone read this bill? how many established poker sites are going to be willing to do business with america?
i seriously hope pstars and FTP will still be open to U.S. customers.
xhttp://makepokerlegal.com/blog/2010/08/30/clearing-confusion-on-bill-hr-2267-internet-gambling-regulation/
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DQS80
wrote at 08-24-2010 - 02:56 PM :
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Gonna keep track of progress here. Watch me do it. Will post some hands and other random rants.
Started with $500 on juli 27th.
current BR $1200 something.
Game of choice: HU SNG
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xhttp://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/9560-poker-player-headed-to-jail-unless-he-turns-it-around-at-the-tables
Have you guys read this article yet? Its sick, really weird 
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Venice
wrote at 08-12-2010 - 03:48 PM :
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Following on from themes discussed in the Belguim online poker taxation thread the latest is that Ontario is looking to cash in on online gambling/poker. They are looking to get things up and running by 2012 whereby they can generate a lot of tax revenue from the industry.
Some sound bites:
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With online gambling, the government estimates it could rake in $100 million annually within five years.
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The United States, which is expected to lift its ban on Internet gambling this fall, "will be into it in no time,"
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Further reading:
-http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100810/100810_internet_gambling/20100810/?hub=CP24Home
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You may have noticed the enhancement of the note taking function after the recent Pokerstars software update. There are a few other things you may not have noticed. Here is the full list from the Pokerstars web site:
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Focus improvements
This update addresses some focus stealing issues. More notably:
'New Tournaments Take Focus' option has been added in Options>>Advanced Multi-Table Options. When unselected, new tournaments will not steal focus until it is your turn to act. The tournament table would still open automatically, but only in the background.
'You have been moved to another table' is now a message on the table and this event does not steal focus anymore.
The 'Seat Available' pop up that invites you to take your seat at a table after being on the waiting list is now modeless, so it will not force you to act on it before you can act on your current table.
Incremental Time Bank
We have developed the ability to have an incremental time bank in tournaments. Tournaments will slowly start having the new time bank format as we figure out what format players prefer most.
Notes
By default the notes icon is larger now and we have added a nice coloring of the player circle/rectangle that will match the color of the note. Both options can be controlled through Options>>Player Notes.
VPIP Column
The 'Plrs/Flop' column in the Lobby can now be replaced with 'VPIP' through Options>>Lobby Display Options>>Show VPIP instead of Players/Flop column.
Triple Stud
We will be introducing Triple Stud - a rotation of Stud Hi, Razz, and Stud Hi/Lo. Games will be showing up throughout August.
Other updates
Minor changes to the new Black and the Slick themes, mostly re-adjustment of visual elements to minimize overlap and create a more balanced layout.
The 'Free to check' dialog has been changed to include 'Cancel'.
The 'Tournament Tickets' window has been updated to display the tournaments that accept the tickets you have.
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News Item - Apr 2010 - Vanessa Selbst wins NAPT Mohegan Sun
1. Vanessa Selbst, $750,000
2. Mike Beasley, $428,000
3. Mike Woods, $240,000
4. Scott Seiver, $190,000
5. Alistar Melville, $150,000
6. Derek Raymond, $115,000
7. Cliff Josephy (JohnnyBax), $85,000
8. Jonathan Aguiar, $60,244
News Item - Mar 2010 - Annie Duke wins NBC Heads-up Championship
1 $ 500,000 Annie Duke
2 $ 250,000 Erik Seidel
3 $ 125,000 Scotty Nguyen
4 $ 125,000 Dennis Phillips
5 $ 75,000 Jerry Yang
6 $ 75,000 Doyle Brunson
7 $ 75,000 Jason Mercier
8 $ 75,000 Peter Eastgate
9 $ 25,000 Paul Wasicka
10 $ 25,000 Eli Elezra
11 $ 25,000 Annette Obrestad
12 $ 25,000 Barry Greenstein
13 $ 25,000 Gabe Kaplan
14 $ 25,000 Phil Laak
15 $ 25,000 Chris Moneymaker
16 $ 25,000 Jamie Gold
News Item - Feb 2010 - MrSmokey and Miami John go deep in NAPT Venetian
1 $ 827,648 Tom Marchese
2 $ 522,306 Sam Stein
3 $ 309,366 Daniel Clemente
4 $ 241,064 Yunus Jamal
5 $ 184,816 David Paredes
6 $ 144,639 Thomas Fuller
7 $ 104,461 John Cernuto
8 $ 60,266 Eric Blair
9 $ 44,195 Kyle Zartman
10 $ 44,195 Andrew Lichtenberger
11 $ 34,151 John Franciosi
12 $ 34,151 Steve Billirakis
News Item - Jan 2010 - Mizzi and Annette go close in Aussie Millions
Aussie Millions Main Event Result:
1 $2,000,000 AUD Tyron Krost
2 $1,100,000 AUD Frederik Jensen
3 $715,000 AUD Sorel Mizzi
4 $450,000 AUD Kosta Varoxis
5 $350,000 AUD Peter Jetten
6 $250,000 AUD Steve Friedlander
7 $175,000 AUD Annette Obrestad
8 $125,000 AUD Stephen Shelly
9 $125,000 AUD Kosmas Dratsas
News Item - Dec 2009 - UIGEA Compliance Deadline Delayed
In some good news for the online poker industry the 1st Dec Bank Compliance deadline for the UIGEA has been delayed by 6 months. Rumours of further delays (or better) have also been going around.
News Item - Nov 2009 - Joe Cada wins WSOP Main Event
The November Nine final table portion of the WSOP Main Event has concluded with Joe Cada emerging the winner in a heads-up battle with Darvin Moon. Phil Ivey had early been knocked out in 7th, suffering a bad beat with AK vs AQ.
Joe Cada collected $8.5 million and the bracelet and has become one of the PokerStars Pros
News Item - Oct 2009 - Mizarchi just misses at Aruba
Robert Mizrachi just missed out on the title in the Aruba Classic. He ended up finishing 2nd to Brandon Hall. Some other big names made the final table with both basebaldy and T Soprano doing well.
1 $ 753,330 Brandon Hall
2 $ 414,680 Robert Mizrachi
3 $ 218,860 Chase Steely
4 $ 126,710 Eric Baldwin (basebaldy)
5 $ 92,150 Jose Roberto Santos
6 $ 66,810 Brock Parker (T Soprano)
7 $ 41,470 Matt Ross
8 $ 41,470 Ryan Schmidt
9 $ 29,950 John Clancy
News Item - Sept 2009 - Negreanu and Lederer the nearly men of the WSOPE
Both Daniel Negreanu and Howard Lederer took 2nd places in the WSOPE in London. Lederer was second in the 5K PLO, and Negreanu was 2nd in the 10K Main Event. Negreanu ultimately lost out to Barry Shulman in a high class heads-up battle.
News Item - Sept 2009 - WCOOP
Long term Surfers Poker Hall of Fame member Jovial Gent took down the WCOOP Main Event on PokerStars. He picked up $1.7 million for his troubles. Player of the Series winner djk123 took 4th in the Main Event following 2 earlier bracelets in the series in Razz and HORSE
News Item - August 2009 - WCOOP
The World Championship of Online Poker is due to commence on PokerStars at the beginning of September. There are 45 Events, that run from 3rd Sept to 20th Sept 2009. Buy-ins are predominately $109, $215, $320 and $530, but there are also a few $1050s and high-roller events. Naturally all events have lots of satellites to them, so you can qualify for much cheaper.
The WCOOP is famous for being a very high quality online poker series, with deepstacks and long (usually 30 min) blind structure. This makes it great for any skillful player.
News Item - August 2009 - PokerStars Synchronized Breaks
PokerStars have now introduced synchronized breaks in tournaments at 55 mins past the hour, every hour
News Item - July 2009 - FTOPS XIII
FTOPS XIII is now approaching on Full Tilt Poker. It comprises of 25 events, and starts on 5th Aug 2009. More details: FTOPS XIII Details
News Item - June 2009 - WSOP
The 40th annual World Series of Poker is underway in Las Vegas, Nevada.
WSOP 2009 Schedule
WSOP 2009 Results and Reports
News Item - May 2009 - EPT Grand Final - Main Event
1 € 2,300,000 Pieter De Korver
2 € 1,300,000 Matthew Woodward
3 € 800,000 Mikhail Tulchinskiy
4 € 600,000 Dag Martin Mikkelsen
5 € 470,000 Eric Qu
6 € 350,000 Alem Shah
7 € 250,000 Daniel Zink
8 € 170,000 Peter Traply
9 € 125,000 Christopher Rossiter
10 € 125,000 Marc Naalden
News Item - May 2009 - EPT Grand Final - Highroller Event
1 € 720,000 Vanessa Rousso
2 € 434,000 Randy Dorfman
3 € 257,000 Tony G
4 € 188,000 Florian Langmann
5 € 138,000 David Eldar
6 € 99,000 William Thorson
7 € 79,000 Andrew Feldman
8 € 60,000 David Steicke
News Item - Apr 2009 - ECOOP IV Coming Soon
The forth European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) starts at the end of May. For more details see here: ECOOP 4
News Item - Apr 2009 - FTOPS coming soon
FTOPS XII starts on the 6th May 2009 on Full Tilt Poker. The series consists of 25 tournaments. There is over $18 million in guaranteed prizepools.
For players with a lower bankroll there is also the MiniFTOPS, starting on the same day, and again has 25 events. There is $2 million in guaranteed prizepools for that
News Item - Mar 2009 -Huck Seed wins Heads-up Championship
NBC National Heads-up Championship
1 $ 500,000 Huck Seed
2 $ 250,000 Vanessa Rousso
3 $ 125,000 Sam Farha
4 $ 125,000 Bertrand Grospellier (Elky)
5 $ 75,000 Daniel Negreanu
6 $ 75,000 Phil Hellmuth
7 $ 75,000 David Oppenheim
8 $ 75,000 David Williams
News Item - Feb 2009 - Ferguson Final Tables LA Poker Classic - Cimpan wins $1.6 million
LA Poker Classic
1 $ 1,686,260 Cornel Andrew Cimpan
2 $ 935,424 Binh Nguyen
3 $ 654,797 Mike Sowers
4 $ 430,963 Chris Karagulleyan
5 $ 310,694 Pat Walsh
6 $ 240,538 Chris Ferguson
7 $ 180,403 Blake Cahail
8 $ 133,632 Payman Arjang
9 $ 96,883 Mark Bryan
News Item - Feb 2009 - PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker
PokerStars, famed for their excellent WCOOP series, have finally introduced a second addition to their annual series calendar with the inaugral SCOOP, which starts on 2nd April and will contain 22 events, all played at 3 different buy-in tiers
News Item - Jan 2009 - Stewart Scott wins Aussie Millions Main Event
1 2,000,000 AUD Stewart Scott
2 1,000,000 AUD Peter Rho
3 700,000 AUD Elliot Smith
4 400,000 AUD Rajkumar Ramakrishnan
5 300,000 AUD Sam Capra
6 210,000 AUD Zach Gruneberg
7 150,000 AUD Richard Ashby
8 100,000 AUD Barny Boatman
9 100,000 AUD Zach Fellows
News Item - Dec 2008 - Salvatore Bonavena wins EPT Prague
1 € 774,000 Salvatore Bonavena
2 € 445,000 Massimo Di Cicco
3 € 257,000 Andrew Alan Chen
4 € 199,000 Alexiou Konstantinos
5 € 166,000 Francesco Cirianni
6 € 130,000 Fredrik Nygard
7 € 99,500 Nasr El Nasr
8 € 71,800 Raul Mestre
9 € 42,800 Sebastian Ruthenberg
News Item - Nov 2008 - Peter Eastgate wins November Nine
1 $ 9,152,416 Peter Eastgate
2 $ 5,809,595 Ivan Demidov
3 $ 4,517,773 Dennis Phillips
4 $ 3,774,974 Ylon Schwartz
5 $ 3,096,768 Scott Montgomery
6 $ 2,418,562 Darus Suharto
7 $ 1,772,650 David "Chino" Rheem
8 $ 1,288,217 Kelly Kim
9 $ 900,670 Craig Marquis
News Item - Oct 2008 - Michael Martin wins EPT London
1 £ 1,000,000 Michael Martin
2 £ 525,314 Michael Tureniec
3 £ 303,439 Marcin Horecki
4 £ 234,920 Eric Liu
5 £ 195,766 Philippe D'Auteuil
6 £ 153,351 Alan Smurfit
7 £ 120,723 Johannes Strassmann
8 £ 81,569 Antony Lellouche
9 £ 50,574 Erik Sjodin
News Item - Oct 2008 - John Juanda picks up the WSOPE Main Event title
1 £ 868,800 John Juanda
2 £ 533,950 Stanislav Alekhin
3 £ 334,850 Ivan Demidov
4 £ 271,500 Bengt Sonnert
5 £ 217,200 Daniel Negreanu
6 £ 171,950 Scott Fischman
7 £ 135,750 Robin Keston
8 £ 108,600 Toni Hiltunen
9 £ 81,450 Chris Elliott
News Item - Sept 2008 - Sebastian Ruthenberg wins EPT Barcelona
1 € 1,361,000 Sebastian Ruthenberg
2 € 792,000 Fintan Gavin
3 € 455,000 Davidi Kitai
4 € 351,000 Daniele Mazzia
5 € 292,000 Dren Ukella
6 € 227,000 Jason Mercier
7 € 178,000 Samuel Chartier
8 € 119,000 Martin Nielsen
9 € 74,400 Mikael Lundell
News Item - Aug 2008 - Chanpoker closes
Chanpoker Closes - The online poker site fronted by 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Johnny Chan has closed. It opened in 2006 but has come under pressure due to the loss of the American market as a consequence of the UIGEA legislation
News Item - Aug 2008 - Kravchenko joins PokerStars
WSOP Final Tablist Alex Kravchenko has joined Team PokerStars. He will play under the online ID 'Kravchenko'
News Item - July 2008 - WCOOP 2008 schedule released
The schedule for the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker has been released, comprising of 33 events. WCOOP 2008 Schedule
News Item - July 2008 - FTOPS IX Schedule released
The schedule for the 9th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) has been released. They do this series around 3-4 times a years, and this time it comprises of 25 events. FTOPS IX Schedule
News Item - July 2008 - WSOP Concludes
WSOP 2008 Bracelets
WSOP 2008 Main Event Report
The final table players, who will return in November:-
Dennis Phillips
Ivan Demidov
Scott Montgomery
Peter Eastgate
Ylon Schwartz
Darus Suharto
David 'Chino' Rheem
Craig Marquis
Kelly Kim
News Item - June 2008 - Scotty Nguyen wins $50K HORSE Event
Scotty Nguyen picked up a $1,989,120 paycheck for his win in the $50,000 Buy-in WSOP HORSE event
1 $ 1,989,120 Scotty Nguyen
2 $ 1,243,200 Michael DeMichele
3 $ 781,440 Erick Lindgren
4 $ 568,320 Matt Glantz
5 $ 444,000 Lyle Berman
6 $ 355,200 Barry Greenstein
7 $ 284,160 Huck Seed
8 $ 230,880 Patrick Bueno
News Item - June 2008 - First Bracelets for pros
Erick Lindgren, Kenny Tran, David Singer, Dario Mineiri, David Benjamine, and JC Tran have all won their first WSOP bracelet in this years series
News Item - May 2008 - European Championship of Online Poker
ECOOP II Starting End May
The ECOOP Schedule has been released. See here for for details : ECOOP Schedule
There is a $50K Freeroll at the end for the 100 best players of the series
News Item - May 2008 - Allen Cunningham wins WSOP Circuit Event at Caesars
1 $ 499,162 Allen Cunningham
2 $ 257,637 Ben Fineman
3 $ 128,816 Kelly Samson
4 $ 112,714 Motoyuki Mabuchi
5 $ 96,612 Justin Bonomo
6 $ 80,510 Blair Hinkle
7 $ 64,408 Thomas Hover
8 $ 48,306 Ralph Perry
9 $ 32,204 Doug Lee
News Item - April 2008 - Glen Chorny wins the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo
1 $ 3,198,500 Glen Chorny
2 $ 1,866,790 Denes Kalo
3 $ 1,132,107 Maxime Villemure
4 $ 932,692 Isaac Baron (WestmenloAA)
5 $ 666,606 Michael Martin
6 $ 533,601 Luca Pagano
7 $ 400,590 Valeriy Ilikyan
8 $ 266,004 Antonio Esfandiari
9 $ 199,533 Henrik Gwinner
News Item - April 2008 - Erik Seidel wins Foxwoods Classic
1 Erik Seidel - $992,890
2 Robert Richardson - $558,792
3 Andrew Barta - $281,011
4 Frank Cieri - $200,261
5 Adam Katz - $151,811
5 Ted Forrest - $103,360
News Item - Mar 2008 - RainKhan wins The Sunday Warm-up
PokerStars Pro Hevad Khan (RainKhan) won The Pokerstars Sunday Warm-up (basically the early-birds Sunday Million).
2504 Entrants, so no easy task
1st - RainKhan $97,856.32
2nd - ubon1 $49,579.20
3rd - MR FERG $33,002.72
4th - Qcity1 $26,542.40
5th - sami31 $21,033.60
News Item - Mar 2008 - Chris "Jesus" Ferguson wins the NBC National Heads-Up Championship
Most of the finest poker players on the planet made up the 64 entrants in the NBC National Heads-Up Championship. In the end it was Chris "Jesus" Ferguson who prevailed, beating Andy Bloch in the final heads-up encounter and winning himself a cool $500,000
News Item - Feb 2008 - mombasi wins the $2 million Turbo Takedown on PokerStars
A whopping 9600 players paid 10,000 FPPs to enter this one, and with 3000 starts chips, 10 minute blinds, and 4000 players paid, a very unique type of strategy was required.
42% of the field cashing is unusual to say the least, and a whole new dimension to bubble play was in affect. $180 was up for grabs just by outlasting not much more than half the field.
Once the bubble did finally burst, a staggering 1000 players busted out in around the next 10-15 mins!
In the end mombasi triumphed. Here is the result:
1. mombasi (Germany) $200,000.00
2. tobededope (Germany) $120,000.00
3. BleedBlue33 (United States) $80,000.00
4. TXSooner518 (United States) $65,000.00
5. qbgoose (Canada) $50,000.00
6. Karsten85 (Germany) $40,000.00
7. mmmy17 (Brazil) $30,000.00
8. D.Nowitzki (Germany) $20,000.00
9. oakblack (United Kingdom) $11,000.00
News Item - Jan 2008 - National Headsup Championship
The invitation list for the National Heads-Up Championship has been released. There are 60 poker players invited, and 4 places get filled by qualifiers. The buy-in is $20,000
Most of the big name pros have got an invite, and in amongst them are some interesting new additions
1. Alexander, Jason - 2. Antonius, Patrik - 3. Bellande, Jean-Robert
4. Benyamine, David - 5. Brown, Chad - 6. Brunson, Doyle
7. Brunson, Todd - 8. Chan, Johnny - 9. Cheadle, Don
10. Clements, Scott - 11. Cloutier, T.J. - 12. Cunningham, Allen
13. Deeb, Freddy - 14. Duke, Annie - 15. Dwan, Tom
16. Edler, Bill - 17. Elezra, Eli - 18. Elizabeth, Shannon
19. Esfandiari, Antonio - 20. Farha, Sam - 21. Ferguson, Chris
22. Fischman, Scott - 23. Forrest, Ted - 24. Garrett, Brad
25. Gold, Jamie - 26. Gowen, Clonie - 27. Greenstein, Barry
28. Grizzle, Sam - 29. Hachem, Joe - 30. Hansen, Gus
31. Harman, Jennifer - 32. Hellmuth, Phil - 33. Hershiser, Orel
34. Ivey, Phil - 35. Juanda, John - 36. Kaplan, Gabe
37. Laak, Phil - 38. Lederer, Howard - 39. Lindgren, Erick
40. Little, Jonathan - 41. Matusow, Mike - 42. Mizrachi, Michael
43. Negreanu, Daniel - 44. Nguyen, Scotty - 45. Pham, David
46. Raymer, Greg - 47. Rousso, Vanessa - 48. Schneider, Tom
49. Schreiber, Daniel - 50. Seed, Huck - 51. Seidel, Erik
52. Singer, David - 53. Smith, Gavin - 54. Tilly, Jennifer
55. Townsend, Brian - 56. Tran, J.C. - 57. Tran, Kenny
58. Wasicka, Paul - 59. Williams, David - 60. Yang, Jerry
News Item - Jan 2008 - Lederer wins the $100K buy-in
Howard Lederer has won the $100K buy-in event in the Aussie Millions. There were 25 entrants. Last years winner Erick Lindgren finished on the bubble in 6th.
1 $1,250,000 - Howard Lederer
2 $650,000 - Mark Teltscher
3 $350,000 - Michael Sampoerna
4 $150,000 - Jeff Lisandro
5 $100,000 - Nikolaus "KaiBuxxe" Jedlicka
All amount are Australian Dollars
News Item - Jan 2008 - Elky wins the 2008 PCA
ElKy wins the 2008 PCA (PokerStars Caribean Adventure), surviving a large field of 1135 entrants, and winning $2 million
Here are the final placings:
1st - $2,000,000 - Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier
2nd - $1,094,976 - Hafiz Khan
3rd - $800,000 - Kris Kuykendall
4th - $600,000 - David "Dragon" Pham
5th - $450,000 - Craig Hopkins
6th - $300,000 - Joseph Elpayaa
7th - $200,000 - Christian Harder
8th - $150,000 -- Ricky Fohrenbach
News Item - Jan 2008 - gobboboy Aussie Millions Win
Last years runner-up of the Aussie Million's main event, Jimmy "gobboboy" Fricke has won Event 3 of 2008 series. It was a 500 AUD buy-in, with 96 entrants.
1 16,800 AUD Jimmy "gobboboy" Fricke
2 9,600 AUD Graeme Putt
3 5,760 AUD Emmanuel Sideridis
4 4,800 AUD Jared Bottroff
5 3,840 AUD Rich Holmes
6 2,880 AUD Jethro Horowitz
7 2,400 AUD Trung Tran
8 1,920 AUD Sean McKenzie
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