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Online Poker Foe Adelson Investment in Gingrich SuperPAC Reshapes Primary Landscape
As the Florida primary landscape heats up, word comes from the Nevada desert of a matched pair of $5 million donations to a super PAC backing Newt Gingrich, and the money comes from an avowed opponent of online poker.
One of Gingrich’s stalwart friends in recent decades has been Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the …
Posted in Online Poker, Poker News, What's New Blog
Tagged donations, Las Vegas Sands, Newt Gingrich, online poker, PAC, Shedon Adelson, super PAC, Venetian
Thor Hansen Diagnosed with Cancer
Some sad news coming to us from across the pond, which I first learned about last night via a Tweet from Andreas Hoivold: Norwegian poker legend Thor Hansen has incurable cancer and is expected to live for no more than two years.
The dark news spread quickly across the pokerverse following recent surgery for Hansen and …
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Tagged cancer, Norway, Norwegian, poker, Thor Hansen
A Bit of Mainstream Press for UB/Excapsa Lawsuit
Checking in with an update on the lawsuit brought against old UltimateBet software-licensing holding company Excapsa by eight former high-stakes players. Michael Brunker, a Seattle-based reporter for MSNBC, has been keeping tabs on the online poker scandals since they became news in 2008, and has offered an update here. I talk with Mike …
Posted in Online Poker, Poker News, What's New Blog
Tagged Alan Engle, Excapsa, lawsuit, UB, UltimateBet
Black Friday’ Defendant Rubin Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
A very busy week of online poker news continues with yesterday’s announcement that “Black Friday” defendant Ira Rubin has pled guilty to conspiracy charges. Rubin, like co-defendant Chad Elie, was accused of being one of the shadowy payment processors who helped process deposits and withdrawals on behalf of PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute …
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Tagged Absolute Poker, Black Friday, DoJ, Full Tilt, guilty, Ira Rubin, online poker, pokerstars
Changes A-plenty Among PokerStars Brass
It’s a season of change at leading online site PokerStars, with four different prominent people associated with various of the company’s operations moving on in recent weeks. The highest-ranked of these is CEO Gabi Campos, whose pending departure was announced by industry veteran Wendeen Eolis in a piece over at Poker Player Newspaper.
Campos’s departure was …
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Tagged EPT, European Poker Tour, Gabi Campos, Isai Scheinberg, Jeffrey Haas, John Duthie, pokerstars, Thomas Kremser
Norwegian Tax Authorities to Seek (up to) $180 Million in Frozen Absolute Poker Money
From UB on to AP. Last we checked in on Absolute Poker in the official sense, official placeholder holding company Madeira Fjord, a Norwegian concern, had been forced into bankruptcy, this just after the “Black Friday” indictments and the Cereus Network’s fleeing from the US market had robbed the site of more than …
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Tagged Absolute Poker, Bjorn Blix, Cereus, Madeira Fjord, Norway, Scott Tom
UB Software Company Sued by Former Players in RICO Civil Suit
Alleging eight different causes of action including fraud, negligence, unfair business practices and violations of the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), eight former UltimateBet players have joined forces with a ninth, player/lawyer Alan “Bodog Ari” Engle, and filed suit against Excapsa Software successor 6356095 Canada, Inc., and John Does 1 through …
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Tagged Excapsa, Greg Pierson, Jon Karl, lawsuit, Mansour Matloubi, Russ Hamilton, UB, UltimateBet
More Ychhhh from Poker Diva Land: Tiffany Michelle to Appear on Two Bad TV Shows
Ever watch the Food Network? I have, though not willingly: It’s a favorite of my sister, who lives in another state, and many’s the night I’ve found myself alone in a house in the woods with naught to stare at but the raving, made-for-TV lunacies of Graham Ramsey.
Gah. Between “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Iron Chef,” …
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Tagged Annie Duke, Cereus, DeVanity, Food Network, Maria Ho, Tiffany Michelle, worst cooks
No Bail for Rojas-Latraverse and Conspirator in Duhamel Home Mugging
The Montreal Gazette checked in again today with the latest in the seedy tale of the home-invasion mugging of 2010 WSOP champ Jonathan Duhamel, with former Duhamel girlfriend Bianca Rojas-Latraverse and co-conspirator John Stephen Clark Lemay denied bail.
Lemay, who generally goes by the shortened handle “John Clark,” was one of the two men who …
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Tagged 2010, arrests, Bianca Rojas-Latraverse, bracelet, girlfriend, home invasion, jonathan duhamel, robbery, wsop
Duhamel Home Invasion Testimony Offers New Details
The Montreal Gazette checked in this week with more information on the home-invasion robbery of WSOP main event champ Jonathan Duhamel, who was pistolwhipped and relieved of tens of thousands in cash and a couple of valuable pieces of jewelry a couple of weeks back.
The two men who actually robbed Duhamel have now …
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Tagged 2010, arrests, Bianca Rojas-Latraverse, bracelet, girlfriend, home invasion, jonathan duhamel, robbery, wsop
