Chris Vaughn Stripped of FTOPS Title in Scandal

November 30, 2007 - No Comments Chris "BluffMagCV" Vaughn has been stripped of his FTOPS title and his tournament winnings after Full Tilt Poker has uncovered that he sold his account to another player in the late stages of the tournament. In a practice that’s becoming increasingly more common, major online pros are offering big bucks to purchase the accounts of players that go deep in tournaments. One player who has requested to remain nameless has said....

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Vietnamese Official Hints at Future Casinos

November 30, 2007 - No Comments Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung was faced with questions from National Assembly deputies about whether the country should allow open casinos at the latest legislative session. Nguyen Sinh Hung said that casinos might be allowed at a suitable time later on a trial basis. However, he stressed that this would still need "thorough studies in order to avoid bad impacts on society." The Asian market is growing rapidly in the gambling....

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Caribbean Poker Classic Begins in St. Kitts

November 30, 2007 - No Comments The Caribbean Poker Classic has kicked off in gorgeous St. Kitts with a $6000 buy-in main event. Last year, 155 players ponied up the cash to enter, creating a prize pool just shy of $1,000,000. Last year’s event saw names like Phil Ivey, Jean-Robert Bellande, Kristy Gazes, Ram Vaswani and many others. Many players from around the world are in St. Kitts to play for the hundreds of thousands of dollars that are up for grabs. Read More

James Cornell Wins $1500NL At Bellagio

November 30, 2007 - No Comments James Cornell toppled a final table with Layne Flack, Court Harrington, Nick Binger, and others en route to his $162,000 win at the Bellagio a few days ago. Here are the official results: 1st - James Cornell - $162,070 2nd - Kelly Samson - $100,000 3rd - Jason Potter - $90,000 4th - Nick Binger - $90,000 5th - Courtney Harrington - $26,450 6th - Layne Flack - $18,515 7th - Mike Epstein - $13,225 8th - Jacob Amburgey - $10,580 9th - Eric Baldwin -....

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USC and UCLA Face Off On The Felt

November 29, 2007 - No Comments The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) will continue its schedule of inter-school matches this weekend with a team poker competition between USC and UCLA as part of the run up to a national inter-school poker tournament in March 2008. The USC-UCLA match will take place on Friday, November 30, at 1 pm, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles and will coincide with the weekend’s annual football game between the two southern California rival....

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Trump Eyes Massachusetts For Casino

November 29, 2007 - No Comments As reported by the Boston Globe: "Business mogul Donald Trump is scouring waterfronts, depressed mill towns, and vacant rural tracts across Massachusetts, searching for locations suitable for a lavish resort casino that he could develop under Governor Deval Patrick’s proposal to legalize casino gambling. "His list of as many as a dozen sites includes undisclosed locations in the Boston area, the region that an industry source....

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Deval Patrick Confident About MA Casinos

November 29, 2007 - No Comments Gov. Deval Patrick has declared his casino gambling proposal has enough votes to pass the Legislature and predicted yesterday that further vetting would yield still more votes for an initiative whose prospects on Beacon Hill are still cloudy. “I think we could win. I think we have good sense on our side. I think it’s not a slam dunk by any means,” Patrick told the News Service yesterday. “But, I think as the issue works its way through the....

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Celeb Poker Searches for Team Members

November 28, 2007 - No Comments Since its humble beginning on the banks of the Mississippi, the popularity of poker has grown in leaps and bounds. Increasingly, poker players are seeking new, exciting challenges to win them hard cash and elevate them into the lofty world of poker showbiz. With that in mind, CelebPoker have extended the search for new Team CelebPoker members and are confident that this will provide online poker players with a fast-track ticket super-stardom. Team....

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Bodog Fights for New Law in Washington

November 28, 2007 - No Comments In order to have BODOG trademark-bearing domain names returned from seizure, lawyers for defendant Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A. in the ongoing litigation against 1st Technology, LLC (1st Technology, LLC v. Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A ., Superior Court for State of Washington, County of King, Case No. 07-2-25305-0 SEA) are trying to make a new law in the state of Washington. On Nov. 13, Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A. (which is NOT the operator....

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Tropicana CFO Calls it Quits

November 28, 2007 - No Comments The embattled parent company of the Tropicana on the Strip took another blow with the resignation of the company’s chief financial officer after only 120 days in the position. John Jacob, senior vice president and CFO of Tropicana Casinos and Resorts, resigned effective Friday, leaving the company to fill its top financial executive position for the second time in five months. The resignation comes while the company is undergoing a contentious....

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