2009 December 14 Poker News, Events and Happenings
It’s the start of the week and we’re back at it again. We’re searching the web so you don’t have to. Here are the top poker stories of the day. Read, impress your friends with your new-found knowledge about Sky Poker’s Total Player, an interesting…
A man who ran a high-stakes poker club that prosecutors said doubled as a sophisticated crime operation has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Internet gambling in the United States has been saved - at least for the next six months, anyway. U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has successfully convinced the Obama adminsitration to delay a federal crackdown on illegal Internet poker …
A man who ran a high-stakes Denver poker club whose customers included prominent athletes, media personalities, attorneys and doctors has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Forty-eight-year-old Jeffrey Castardi pleaded guilty in October to violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act. He was sentenced Monday. An indictment had accused him and his associates of running an illegal …
Party Gaming and Austria-based gambling group Bwin are allegedly involved in merger discussions, according to stories published in The Times and Sunday Times over the weekend. The move would potentially create a £2 billion online poker, casino, and sports betting company.
For the World Poker Tour (WPT), 2009 was a year of incredible highs, but the organization was also faced with issues away from the felt that had to be overcome for the company to remain viable in other arenas.
Poker once again returns to the Bellagio with the today’s start of the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. This yearly event draws some of poker’s biggest fields thanks to the hefty $15,000 buy-in and it appears as…
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