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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. [...]

Full Tilt Hearing Prompts AGCC Independent Inquiry-–The Alderney Gaming Control Commission (AGCC) has begun its own independent investigation of their actions in regards to Full Tilt Poker. Because the Full Tilt Affair has been so public and because the company still owes its former customers somewhere in the region of $300 million, AGCC seems to [...]

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 [...]

Tapie Full Tilt Deal Reached—At the end of last week the U.S. Department of Justice gave French investor Groupe Bernard Tapie the right to buy the ill-fated and often mentioned Full Tilt Poker empire. Seems as though they have with a purchase price of $80 million. The U.S. government had confiscated the assets of Full [...]

After a long long night of poker play, we finally have a winner for this year’s 2011 WSOP Main Event. Pius Heinz fought hard for the title but somewhere around 2 in the morning he got it. Eight million in the bank, a gold bracelet and only 22 years old. It was a great battle [...]

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 [...]

2011 WSOP Main Event: Final Table Day One Basics Well if you want a blow by blow account of the first day of the WSOP final table, head over to my other blog at www.fullofpoker.com Here I’m just going to show you how we got from nine to four before the dinner break. As I [...]