Thater's what I'm talking about...

Whoever runs the PokerStars Frequent Player Points store should know that the clock is ticking.

A man can only wait so long before 'The Most Beautiful Woman in Poker' (©Wagering War) poster goes on general release...







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My sense of outrage at discovering that Wagering War has not been censored in China knows no bounds.
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Land based slot machines are the famous casino games played worldwide. The slot machines reimburse more amount of money to the players as compared to the table games. Land based casinos also offers simple right of entry to slot machines. These casinos definitely provide flashier sounds and lights as compared to the online slot machines.

Land Based Casinos in Michigan

Kings Club Casino

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Land Based Casinos in Washington

Emerald Queen Casino

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ESPN bites the hands that feed it

Read this startling piece on the Poker Players' Alliance by ESPN's Mark Kreidler and then see if you come to the same conclusion as me.

Somewhere in his past, I suspect, Mr Kreidler has lost an awful lot of money at a poker game...

Daniel Negreanu's view on this sorry piece of journalism can be found here, while blogger Mean Gene gets a little more direct here.

When I call it sorry journalism, it's not Kreidler's critical stance to which I object but the factual errors on which he bases it, as summarised by Negreanu. The fact you're being an opinionated columnist rather than an objective reporter doesn't exempt you from the requirement to get your story straight.

And what does it tell us about ESPN's stance on poker? They embrace the WSOP, extend their website to include a poker page and then allow a wild pitch like Kreidler's to be fired at the game from behind their ramparts.

It tells you that the next time TV executives cut a deal with sport and gush about "partnerships" and "great fits", you're entitled to ask for a sick bag.

They take everything they possibly can and they give not one iota more than they have to.

Microgaming micro-management sees bland leading the bland

It was December of 2004 when I voiced my fear that the consolidation of online poker companies would see the Internet game's graphics embrace homogeneity and the blandness that so often goes with it.

The reality is now surely here, and, as forecast, Prima Poker - now known as Microgaming - holds the smoking gun. Click on all those rooms now locked in the Microgaming stable - many of them offer a sneak preview of what their tables look like. Temples of individuality they ain't.

At the other end of the imaginative scale, meanwhile, PKR goes from strength to strength, with 200,000 new members since Christmas. "PKR uses privately developed software and is not a part of any poker network," concludes the report.

Hold that thought.

Prohibition - As bad as it ever was?

It's heavy stuff but the stream of ironies should keep any American poker player going through this analysis of the 20th Century Prohibition and its myths.

"In later statements, [Pauline Sabin, who initially favoured Prohibition] elaborated further on her objections to prohibition. With settlement workers reporting increasing drunkenness, she worried, 'The young see the law broken at home and upon the street. Can we expect them to be lawful?
'...in pre-prohibition days, mothers had little fear in regard to the saloon as far as their children were concerned. A saloon-keeper's license was revoked if he were caught selling liquor to minors. Today in any speakeasy in the United States you can find boys and girls in their teens drinking liquor...' " - from Repealing National Prohibition by David Kyvig

"You will find that the workingmen of this country, 90 per cent of them, are either making wines, beer or whisky out of every known vegetable and fruit that exists. Everyone has his own special concoction. They even make wine out of parsnips and such stuff." - Testimony of William J. McSorley, Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 1926

That's what we need 90 years on. Parsnip Neteller.

UIGEA starts to bite

It was only a matter of time before the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act claimed its first headline casualty.

Isaac Haxton is currently $800,000 richer or poorer, depending on how you view those tournament winnings currently entombed in his frozen Neteller account. The interview referred to in the linked report can be seen here:



Remember the face. If Haxton's winnings turn out to be as vulnerable as they currently look, this is the game's biggest martyr since Wild Bill Hickok.
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PR par excellence from the Las Vegas Monorail Co. this week.

"Repeatedly and publicly hammered over falling ridership numbers in 2006, the Las Vegas Monorail apparently has decided that less news will be good news in 2007," reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
"Monorail officials on Thursday said that from now on they will release ridership reports once every three months, not monthly as the system has done since opening to the public in 2004.
"We're a private company," spokeswoman Angela Torres said. "Current management doesn't feel it's necessary to release the numbers monthly.""

Which rather begs the question as to why it's taken three years to reach this decision.

How often do we see companies insult our intelligence in this way? Instead of just tackling the problem, they tackle the way the problem is perceived and assume we won't notice the difference.

If I'm in Vegas from now on, I think I'll walk.
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I'd hoped Poker Alerts might be the ideal alternative for having to read umpteen weekly e-mail newsletters from umpteen online poker rooms.

It wasn't. Not so much alert as comatose. Give me chocolate poker chips any day.
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No matter what Jamie Gold says; no matter whether he's a man wronged or simply a wrong 'un, it is too late now to come to any conclusion other than poker can't crown its next world champion fast enough. It will be like opening the window in a musty room.
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"Police are seeking 10 men, including several tribal elders, accused of pressuring a Pakistani woman to hand over her teenage daughter as payment for a 16-year-old poker debt..." - azstarnet.com

So it seems not even Iran will be the end of it. Once Bush has brought freedom to Baghdad and order to Teheran, it will be the UIGEA to Islamabad...