September 30th, 2008 by Roger S
What a screwed up day yesterday was on Wallstreet. I wonder how many people offed themselves.
It seems like every week they say, it was the worst week since 9/11. Anyways here is the randomness that I’ve been up to.
After building what I felt to be a successful website, this one (ranked top 25 [...]
September 29th, 2008 by Tom L
Poker magazines can vie for newsstand space with fashion magazines and get the better of them.
The ladies of the world of poker can stand shoulder to shoulder with the best of the super models and take the honors.
This is not idle talk. Lacey Jones let the cat out of the bag when she revealed that [...]
September 29th, 2008 by Roger S
The Benyamine (pictured to right) versus Rosenkrantz saga was played out last week with online poker fans following every move.
Round 1 began on September 25 when David Benyamine and Jay “pr1nnyraid” Rosenkrantz had set up a $300/$600 game online.
But for some reason Benyamine simply walked away to play $500/$1,000 high stakes poker with durrrr at [...]
September 23rd, 2008 by Roger S
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has long been an American affair. Last year it launched the WSOP Europe (WSOPE) and held its inaugural tournament in London.
For the poker world the result was electrifying because for the first time in the history of WSOP a woman won the Main Event.
WSOPE 2008 is already underway and [...]
September 23rd, 2008 by Tom L
‘Studs of Poker’ is a new column being written by Michele Lewis.
On her web page Michele Lewis is described as ‘mother, wife, volunteer, writer & poker player’.
Whereas mother, wife and volunteer are in her private domain and she has limitations as a poker player, as a writer Michele is brilliant. Especially when she is writing [...]
September 23rd, 2008 by Renee K
Dave Cain broke the poker endurance record and entered the Guinness Book of World Records.
The previous record of 72 hours and 2 minutes was established in 2004 by Larry Olmsted of the United States.
The procedure allows for a 15 minute break in eight hours so that the player can brush his teeth and change his [...]
September 17th, 2008 by Maria T
On Tuesday the Bill HR 6870 introduced by Chairman Barney Frank and known as “Payment Systems Protection Act of 2008” passed the Financial Services Committee with 30 voting in favor of the Bill and 19 against. The Bill now heads to the House of Representatives for a vote.
Incidentally this is the second version of the [...]
September 17th, 2008 by Tom L
Hunter Biden was a registered lobbyist for nine organizations, through his firm Oldaker, Biden and Belair. One of the organizations he represented was PartyGaming.
Strictly speaking Biden represented Russ DeLeon, one of the founders of PartyGaming. In June 2008 Biden got the contract to promote DeLeon’s interests in Washington and was even paid $50,000 for the [...]
