2011 August 29 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The Nightly Turbo is bringing you the day’s top poker news stories including a look at comments from Full Tilt Poker lawyer Jeff Ifrah, Jamie Gold’s new online site, and more.

Televised poker has come a long way since Johnny Chan beat Erik Seidel for the WSOP title in 1988. It has improved because producers of televised poker came up with great ideas to make the product better.

August 29 - Nevada says that it will establish high standards to give local players confidence in the technologies that will eventually gain approval.

Justin Bonomo recently announced on his Facebook page that he will be relocating to Malta to play online poker. He recently sat down with PokerNews to discuss his decision.

Achieving respect and credibility as a media personality is no small accomplishment. I know that from experience; I’ve succeeded in two separate disciplines of journalism. In more than a decade, I’d never met anyone who was as dedicated enough, and perhaps crazy enough, to have done the same. Not until I was introduced to Kimberly Lansing. The anchor for the hugely successful World Poker Tour …

As the World Poker Tour’s 10th season kicked off Thursday in Los Angeles, WPT CEO Steve Heller promised that the benchmark run will be “unlike anything seen before in the poker world.” That’s a tall order. The WPT has been a mainstay on television since 2002. Along the way, it’s become the most recognizable brand in the poker world. There’s a subscription website (clubwpt.com), a magazine, a …

We sat down with Eric Baldwin to talk a little poker, the art to carving out a creepy mustache, and assembling the dream team of poker players in softball.