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Jonathan Duhamel Assault Update—Last week WSOP champion Jonathan Duhamel’s suffered a home invasion. His WSOP gold bracelet, a WSOP watch and a large sum of cash were taken. Duhamel suffered a physical attack during the break in. Authorities acted quickly and now PokerNews.com is reporting that four suspects are being held in custody. Calls to [...]

Absolute Poker in Court—In court this week Brent Beckley, the co founder of Absolute Poker website plead guilty to charges. Beckley admitted before the court that he knowingly filtered American player funds through cover companies so their payment could be processed by American banks. In American online gambling is illegal and most banks will automatically [...]

Bodog Back in American Market—Bodog Poker voluntarily withdrew from the American market in the summer due to fears of closure by the U.S. Department of Justice but it seems they are making a return. Bodog has returned to the U.S. Market offering cash money games through a new website Bovada.lv. The domain “lv” is reserved [...]

Influential Casino Owner Does NOT Support Online Gaming—Chairman of the Las Vegas Sands and campaign contributor, Adelson may hold up the passing of a national law. Adelson is a fixture of the Las Vegas gaming community and unlike many of his colleagues he does not see the positives of legalized online gaming outweighing the negatives. [...]

This week its all about the players. Here’s a quick look at this year’s Poker Hall of Fame inductees as well as whos on top in the GPI. 2011 Poker Hall of Fame Barry Greenstein—Born in Chicago in 1954 Brian Greenstein is the 42nd inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame. Greenstein is known as [...]

Update: Stasko goes all in against Heinz with A-8. Heinz has a pair of sixes. The fop is 8-5-8 in Staszko’s favor. Turn is a 4. The river is a queen and Stasko survives. We all thought this was it for Staszko and play for the day but we are still going. Heinz has lost [...]

Full Tilt Offers Another Press Release of Excuses—Forbes magazine shared with PokerNews.com the latest press release from Full Tilt this week. The online casino company is now claiming they had financial and legal issues for two years before Black Friday and it was only because of Black Friday and the U.S. Department of Justice that [...]

EPT Spain Main Event—Day one of the EPT PokerStars Barcelona main event came to an end with 179 players. There was an original 346 and it wasn’t only amateurs that didn’t make it to day two. Vanessa Selbst made herself known but the chip lead went to German player Martin Schleich. To date Schleich has [...]

Its fun to look back at old blogs and do the whole ‘what happened on this day four years ago’ thing. This time I had a look at last year and struggled to conceive just how much things have changed since last summer. I guess we will start calling it the pre-black Friday poker world. [...]

Well its been an exciting few weeks with lots to review and new players to talk about but right now its all about the November Nine. Yes the final players in event 58 of the 2011 WSOP main event has been decided. Here’s the line up for your review. 1. Matt Giannetti, Las Vegas, NV. [...]