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• Harvard Medical School Affiliate and bwin to Continue Research into Online Gaming

  December 18, 2008,

  The Austrian-based online gaming company bwin Interactive Entertainment AG and the Division on Addictions at the Cambridge Health Alliance have announced a five-year agreement to continue researching online gaming...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Poker Headliners

  December 18, 2008,

  Joanne Monteavaro of Bronx, NY was the last woman standing at the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Harrah's Atlantic City. Ending Day 1 with a strong chip count, Monteavaro carried her chips to an impressive 11th-place...

   

• Poker News Briefs: December 14th, 2008

  December 14, 2008,

  A Norwegian bill attempting to block payments to online gambling sites, modeled after the United States' controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, was passed into law earlier this week. The passage occurred...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Mindy Trinidad (1960-2008)

  December 11, 2008,

  Every now and then the poker world notices someone who lights up a poker room with personality and a contagious love of the game. Such was the case of Mindy Trinidad, who recently lost her short battle against acute myelogenous...

   

• Poker Book Review: Anthony Holden's 'Holden on Hold'em'

  December 09, 2008,

  Anthony Holden, the British journalist and author of books on the royal family, classical music, and Shakespeare, earned a special place in poker literary history with his terrific 1990 autobiographical narrative...

   

• Poker News Bytes: December 8th, 2008

  December 08, 2008,

  The American Gaming Association's transition toward a public stance favoring online gambling received public confirmation this past week with the announcement that the lobbying firm spent up to $400,000 in the fiscal third quarter...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Battling Nervous Poker

  November 27, 2008,

  Here's the scenario: You are about to play in your first live poker tournament. There are several hundred men and women milling around the tournament area, chatting, looking for their assigned seats and looking so confident it seems...

   

• Poker Book Review: Daniel Negreanu's 'More Hold'em Wisdom for All Players'

  November 25, 2008,

  Since 2005, Daniel Negreanu has penned a weekly poker column, 'Playing Poker with Daniel Negreanu,' that has been syndicated in newspapers around the U.S. and Canada. The column has additionally appeared in other places online...

   

• Poker News Bytes: November 14, 2008

  November 14, 2008,

  Rules governing the planned legalization of online gambling within South Africa have now been released. Up for public comment after being released by South Africa's Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, is the Interactive Gambling Tax...

   

• Poker Book Review: 'Winning Poker Tournaments, Vol. 1' by Eric Lynch, Jon Van Fleet, and Jon Turner

  November 11, 2008,

  This new collaboration, 'Winning Poker Tournaments: One Hand at a Time, Volume 1,' marks a notable contribution to strategy discussions of no-limit hold'em tournament play, combining a host of useful ideas and concepts that have...

   

• Antigua Approved for UK Online Gambling Whitelist

  November 07, 2008,

  The island nation of Antigua & Barbuda, for years a nexus for companies offering online-gambling services, has been approved as a member of the United Kingdom's 'whitelist' of approved jurisdictions. The addition of Antigua...

   

• Poker Hall of Fame 2008 Inductees Announced

  November 01, 2008,

  The Poker Hall of Fame has announced its 2008 inductees, with Duane 'Dewey' Tomko and Henry Orenstein to be the hall's 36th and 37th inductees. The pair will be honored in a special ceremony on November 9th in the Penn & Teller...

   

• Poker Book Review: 'Harrington on Cash Games, Volume II'

  October 27, 2008,

  The first two volumes of Harrington on Hold'em, Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie's groundbreaking books on no-limit hold'em tournament strategy, though certainly complementary, are in many ways distinct works.

   

• Poker News Bytes, October 23, 2008

  October 23, 2008,

  PartyPoker has now officially announced three of the twelve invitees to the third edition of the PartyPoker Premier League, an elite series of poker matchups. JC Tran and Juha Helppi are the most recent invitees to be named...

   

• Poker World Awaits '60 Minutes' Look at Online Gambling Scandals

  October 22, 2008,

  Rumors have begun circulating that the much anticipated '60 Minutes' piece offering a look at the Absolute Poker and UltimateBet online cheating scandals will not air this Sunday, as widely reported. Instead, this highly anticipated

   

• WSOP November Nine's Dennis Phillips Battles MS Through eBay Auction

  October 19, 2008,

  On his way to becoming chip leader entering the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event final table, Dennis Phillips has let both his poker play and his care for others define him. With an auction currently underway on eBay, Phillips...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Poker and Intuition

  October 16, 2008,

  Poker, it seems, is becoming more dynamic and much less structured than it has been known in the past. More than ever, practical decision making and rapid responses are essential. I see more and more players, especially women...

   

• Poker Book Review: Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie's 'Harrington on Cash Games, Volume I'

  October 14, 2008,

  To say that Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie's hugely successful 'Harrington on Hold'em' series changed the way tournament poker is discussed and played would be an obvious understatement. The first two volumes...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Back to Basics

  October 02, 2008,

  Women have come a long way in poker. There is no doubt that we are strong in numbers behind the scenes and online but the number of women playing live is nowhere close to what it could be. I ask women who I know to be strong...

   

• Poker News Bytes, September 30th, 2008

  September 30, 2008,

  While the small-stakes games offered in Colorado casinos have served as a training ground for many players – Kathy Liebert, among others, honed her skills there – economic pressure has grown on the state to offer pricier games. Amendment...

   

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