Republican Congressman from Texas Joe Barton announced Tuesday that he will introduce legislation to legalize and regulate online poker in the United States. Barton revealed that the bill is currently undergoing final changes and should be introduced in the near future. According to The Hill, “He hopes the measure can pass both chambers of Congress [...]
Hard poker Truth: You can play a hand perfectly and lose. That’s one of the toughest psychological lessons for amateurs because they tend to be results-oriented. The top players, meanwhile, focus on having the favored hand when all the money gets in because they can’t control the deck, as former champion Greg Raymer painfully discovered [...]
2004 WSOP Main Event champion Greg Raymer made quite a few headlines when he decided not to sign with PokerStars again. The rumor was that PokerStars was offering a lot of their old signees less money for a contract extention, so many of them – including Raymer – walked. Just a little over a month [...]
What do Brett Farve and Peter Eastgate have in common? We’ll give you a hint – we don’t think Eastgate is passing out naked pictures of himself like candy. Nope, their commonality is a far less pervy one: Both have walked away from walking away. Eastgate became the latest member of the “just kiddin’” club [...]
It’s unlikely any player had a better year in 2004 than Greg Raymer; he electrified the poker industry by winning the World Series of Poker, along with the $5 million dollar purse the event carried. Raymer, a patent attorney from Connecticut, qualified on Pokerstars.com (of Chris Moneymaker fame) and shocked the world by defeating a [...]
Over the last five years Marcel Luske has been something like the Kevin Bacon is to the film world, the guy who’s been at the final table with most of the poker best players in the world. Like Bacon, he’s also known for his affinity for music, though it’s much more intimidating to have Marcel [...]
