Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 10, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

On August 31st two very deserving women were inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame (WIPHOF) as Kathy Raymond and JJ Liu joined a number of their peers as members of the WIPHOF. Liu is best known as a tournament player, who has been one ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 04, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

At the time of writing the Ironman Podcast has been going strong for over 31 hours. After the first 24 hours of a planned 50-hour podcast the hosts of Filthy Limper Radio have set the bar very high for their second 48 hours, having interviewed such notable pokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 04, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There is news on several different fronts when it comes to the pending launch of online poker in the state of Nevada. Among the key pieces are the recent legal decisions on the federal level; information on how regulators in Nevada will audit the online sites; and theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 31, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The big story of the day was actually caused by an article I wrote for Examiner.com detailing a situation that occurred between a 2+2 moderator and someone trying to post at the site regarding a record-setting poker podcast where the proceeds will be going to charity. To summarizeRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 30, 2012 Posted in PR | No Comments »

When you finish with all the cookouts and festivities this Labor Day Weekend there will be a great way to unwind each night as www.VegasPokerRadio.com will be running a 50+ hour poker podcast beginning at Midnight Sunday, to raise money and awareness for the 22Q.org Foundation. The podcastRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 28, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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Yesterday I told you to keep a lookout for another Hidden Headlines column this week, but even I couldn’t have predicted that the column would need to go up on Tuesday to keep up with everything going on in the poker world! Sam Trickett joins Mike Mizrachi asRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 26, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The iPoker Network, the second largest online poker room(s) in online poker, is about to get even larger if the current rumors about them absorbing a fairly large independent online poker room, Everest Poker, are true. The move has not been made official at this point, and noRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 19, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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Overall it was a pretty slow in the world of poker, but there were still plenty of interesting side-stories unraveling. Here is a look at some of the bigger moments and more interesting stories over the past week or so. Isildur1 and PokerStars call it a day It’sRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 08, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Reports of Bodog pulling out of 20 Eastern European and Asian markets hit the Internet this week, and while some saw the move as a harbinger of trouble for the prominent online sportsbook and poker room, Bodog itself is calling these rumors “funny” according to an article thatRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 24, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There is more bad news surfacing in the US poker market as BetOnline Poker, considered one of the softest places to play online poker in recent memory and one of the few US-facing sites remaining, has reached full crisis mode in the minds of many of their pokerRead Full Article