Friday, September 4, 2009
The US Court of Appeals recently ruled that the state of Delaware must comply with a federal ban on legalized sports gambling. When the state announced that it wanted to offer single-game wagering to residents, the leaders of Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and the National Collegiate Athletic Administration all came out in opposition to the new law.
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Also tagged appeals, association, athletic, eric holder, gambling, leaders, legal, legality, national, nfl, sportsbetting, state, the-state
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Friday, September 4, 2009
According to a press release from the people behind the Sports Legend Challenge, the celebrity and poker pro-filled event will be moved to a new venue and it won’t take place until 2010. Set for this upcoming October, the Sports Legend Challenge has…
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Also tagged behind-the-sports, celebrity, financial, from-the-people, people, people-behind, poker news, press-release, pro-filled-event, read-the-financial, take-place, upcoming
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The participants at the final table of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event in Los Angeles will get their chance at the US$1,000,900 first prize.
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Also tagged final, kevin-schaffel, legends, online poker, Poker, world, world-series, wpt, wpt legends of poker, wsop
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Steven Begleiter didn’t even get a full sentence when we did our write-up on the WSOP Main Event’s final nine . In the same piece, we called him an “unknown,” and his Bluff player profile is still all zeros, but the players at the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker tournament certainly know who he is. read more
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Also tagged called-him, even-get, gambling, players, prahlad friedman, steven, the-same, world-series, write, wsop
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As a consequence of the recent ruling by Russian sports officials that poker should not be considered a “sport”, organizers for the European Poker Tour were forced to make arrangements to relocate the event. They found a welcome host site at the Palace of Sports in Kiev, Ukraine, more than four hundred and fifty miles away from their original site.
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Also tagged entertainment, european poker tour, european-poker, four-hundred, from-their, Gambling News, the-recent, ukraine, welcome-host, were-forced, world
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The four major North American professional sports leagues and the National Collegiate Athletic Association have joined in filing an injunction with a federal judge against plans by the state of Delaware to allow for sports betting. The commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League and the National Hockey League claim that Delaware’s plan to allow for single-game betting will erode spectators’ trust in the integrity of the results.
Proving that poker isn’t recession-proof, the World Poker Tour has really been suffering. Though the WPT is only three events into its eighth season so far the numbers have been grim.
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Also tagged 2009-the-wpt, alex gomes, european-poker, Gambling News, losses-since, numerous-card, online poker, poker-players, two-returning, wpt, wpt venice
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Australian poker pro Jeffrey Lisandro earned his third bracelet of this year’s World Series and the fourth of his career when he won the US$2,500 buy-in Seven Card Razz event. In addition to his wins at the US$1,500 buy-in Seven Card Stud Hi event and the US$10,000 buy-in World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo Eight or Better tournament, Lisandro has garnered titles in each of the major varieties of Seven Card Stud.
Professional poker player Phil Ivey has so far won two championship bracelets at this year’s World Series of Poker, bringing his number of career titles up to seven. His wins in the US$2,500 buy-in No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball tournament earned him just over US$96,000. Less than a week later, he earned another title in the US$2,500 buy-in Omaha Hi/Lo / 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo tournament, along with over US$220,000
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Also tagged career-titles, doyle-brunson, number, omaha, phil ivey, Poker, professional, week-later, world-series, wsop, wsop 2009, year
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