2010 May 17 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The Parisian stop of the World Poker Tour has come to an end with the WPT Grand Prix de Paris High Roller crowning its winner yesterday. Also, history has been made at the World Series of Poker Circuit in New Orleans. Why don’t you read up on…
If you’re playing online poker for real money, then you should be taking advantage of rakeback. Our family of Play Poker Network sites, which includes ThisIsTheNuts.com and PocketFives.com, offers 33% rakeback on Cake Poker. In April, one player made mincemeat of the site’s competition, Prescott “Ingenol” Murphy. The Pennsylvania poker player piled up a five-figure rakeback payout in April and took down an exclusive $60,000 rake race that’s only open to members of the Play Poker Network group. Check out his interview with PocketFives.com.
On today’s Daily Deal, the PPA speaks about the looming implementation of the UIGEA, we find out who won the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, former WPT stockholders go into a new branch of business and new celebrities confirm attendance to the After-school All Stars charity tournament.
Just last week, Steve Soffa opened his doors to PokerNews and allowed us to take a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process, as well as the manufacturing process, behind the creation of the 2010 World Series of Poker bracelets. Located in…
With an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, it’s pretty safe to say that Rafe Furst is one smart dude. He began his career as an artificial intelligence researcher. After a few years in the workforce, he left in 1996 to form his first company, Pick’em Sports, which he later sold for a profit in 1999.
Over the past few years, nobody has been more involved in the poker radio scene than Scott Huff. He initially got started as a tournament reporter for CardPlayer, a job that had him on the road following the tournament circuit with BJ Nemeth. Eventually, CardPlayer turned to Huff for their radio show idea, The Circuit, which he co-hosted with Mike Matusow for 40 episodes. The show had a strong following, but fizzled out when Matusow left and Huff was drawn back to L.A. by his personal life.
Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Oliver ‘Ali’ Nejad was a happy-go-lucky kid who never failed to entertain his family and friends with his personality and sense of humor. It seemed inevitable that he was destined for T.V. , but it wasn’t until his high school friends urged him to audition for a local youth program that he realized his own talent. He had no trouble getting the part and later, while enrolled at UC Berkeley, he started hosting two NBC affiliate shows: First Cut and Hypertek.
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