2010 August 06 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Topics: Rio Sale, Liv Boeree Contract, WCOOP 2010 and Full Tilt France.
We made it through another week. What are you going to talk about this weekend when you’re crushing your local home game? Well, rumor has it, Liv Boeree is no longer sporting the UB logo on her shirts. What’s not a rumor is the hospitalization of…
In the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale, Jr.(played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is a con man and counterfeiter on the run from the FBI. He is charismatic, and while entertainment value could be found in many of his exploits, he is a criminal, plain and simple. Even though he should have been put away for a long, long time after he got caught, he only spent a relatively short time in prison because FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) offered him a deal: work for the FBI uncovering fraud and counterfeiting schemes and become a free man. The bad guy used his criminal skills to make himself a legitimate success.
While vacationing this week, poker pro Phil “The Unabomber” Laak has been injured in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accident in Oregon.
No, it’s not a slang term for a night out at Chippendales. The Endowment Effect is a very real force currently twisting your mind and affecting your ability to play rational poker. Don’t believe me? Let’s take a look at two scenarios with our hypothetical hero, Bob.
On Thursday, Cake Poker, the flagship site of the Cake Poker Network, mended its security issues by adding SSL encryption to its old client and new beta software. PokerTableRatings.com, which first reported the security vulnerability back on July 26th, has confirmed that it has not been able to crack the new encryption.
PartyGaming, owner and operator of PartyPoker, announced its 2010 half-year performance results on Friday. The Gibraltar-based company, which recently reached an agreement to merge with Bwin, posted an overall profit of €19.7 million despite a drop of 9.6% in poker revenue.
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