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While the article doesn’t mention poker specifically, it’s not much of a stretch to imagine that the air-traffic controllers based in Ronkonkoma, New York and now charged with a litany of work-related bad-behavior were bemoaning bad beats as 747′s taxied for takeoff. From the DailyMail: Allegations of widespread misconduct by air-traffic controllers in the Ronkonkoma, New York air tower [...]

Two Plus Two is back online. You will need to reset your password to log in. You can use this forum to do so. Not much more to say about it than that.  Oh, if you no longer have access to the email associated with your 2p2 account, you’re pretty much out of luck – [...]

With the news the Lock Poker is ditching Merge and taking over the Cake Network, interest in Lock is at an all-time high (which is to say somewhere around moderate). For a quick refresher check out this infographic via OnlinePokerSiteReviews.org (click to enlage): View the original here. Related Posts:Confirmed: Lock Poker Buys the Cake NetworkLOCKOPS [...]

As if Zoom Poker wasn’t already fast becoming the single most popular online poker format in the industry, PokerStars has pumped it with just a bit more juice:  Players can now have even more tables of Zoom running simultaneously. That’s according to PokerUpdate.com: Fast-acting multi-tablers can now seat themselves at eight Zoom cash tables simultaneously. [...]

Stars was a bit late to the mobile party, but they’re making up for lost time in a hurry. In addition to the expanded rollout of their mobile client across the EU last week, Stars apparently has a firm timeline for bringing Zoom Poker to the mobile client (including Apple and Android devices) – this [...]

Shuffle Master has been making some moves in 2012. Not only did the company reach a deal with bwin.Party to purchase Ongame, but it’s also at the front of the line for one of the highly-sought-after Nevada online poker licenses. As you might expect from such a company, they’re bullish on poker in the US. [...]

Couple of online poker notes from Politico today – nothing really new or unexpected, but still possibly of interest to some. The first: Black Friday has shrunk the PPA. No surprise there: Fundraising and spending by the Poker Players Alliance PAC declined by more than half in the year since the DOJ shuttered three of [...]

They don’t come along often, but they usually do occur around major tournament series: Stars is offering a reload bonus to coincide with the Spring Championship of Online Poker. Make a deposit with the bonus code ‘MAX250’ before the end of May 3, and you’ll be rewarded with a 50% bonus up to $250! It’s [...]

More from PokerQ4 today; after a week of dishing potential spoilers on Full Tilt Poker’s relaunch, the site has now turned from operator to affiliates with a blistering piece on PokerStrategy.com. Regarded by many as one of the largest, if not the largest, online poker affiliate in the world, PokerStrategy is no stranger to controversy. [...]

Whoever Zypherin is, they’ve got some deep pockets or a hell of a credit line with Stars. The account, rumored to belong to Cirque founder Guy Laliberté, is down over $450k more for 2012 after a nasty week at the nosebleed stakes. From PokerNews: One who didn’t do too well for himself this week, or [...]

When news broke a few weeks ago that a judge had rejected the plea deal struck between prosecutors and Black Friday defendant John Campos, it seemed as if there might be a jury trial for online poker after all. Not so fast, now says the judge. Apparently whatever prosecutors provided in response to US District [...]

More and more casinos are turning their eyes to the Internet as land-based gambling becomes increasingly competitive. The latest: Foxwoods, whose chief mused about the possibility this week. From CBS Connecticut: The chief executive of Foxwoods Resort Casino says rising competition is forcing the Indian-run casino in eastern Connecticut to consider online gambling and other [...]

In an exclusive interview with PokerNews, longtime online poker advocate Barney Frank expressed an opinion that’s not likely to sit well with US online poker players: He doesn’t see regulation happening in 2012. From the interview: Frank said that two of the biggest problems standing in the way of online poker legislation at the moment [...]

PokerQ4 is reporting that a big part of FTP’s relaunch strategy will be “multi-time” tournaments, events that will spread over a couple of days but have the unique twist of letting people cash out at the end of a day rather than continuing on to the next day. Old FTP has just rolled out cashout [...]

Reports are suggesting that Bodog is laying off dozens of UK employees after failing to win approval for a key UK license. Original report via Twitter: #Bodog lays off up to 70 staff in #UK: ‘Restructure’ follows failure to secure UK development licence, sources t… bit.ly/JaC0ll — iGaming Europe (@iGamingEurope) April 17, 2012 The tweet [...]

Some movement on a proposal to regulate online gambling in Delaware. From Channel 10 WSLS: Finance director Tom Cook was to meet with casino representatives Tuesday at a meeting of Delaware’s Video Lottery Advisory Council at Dover Downs hotel and casino. Markell administration officials last month proposed authorizing online gambling and allowing more onsite venues [...]

Measuring real-money online poker traffic is a tricky exercise, but no matter how you slice it the latest traffic report from PokerScout makes it clear the Bleack Friday has more or less cut the legs out from under online poker in the US. From PocketFives: According to the watchdog site PokerScout, U.S. online poker cash [...]

… assuming you’re an Amazon Prime member and don’t have to pay sales tax. That’s one way of expressing Galfond’s $301k in losses last evening at PokerStars. More from PokerListings: The Maryland-native played 2,175 hands of high stakes PLO on PokerStars against usual suspects like Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, LuckyGump and Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky. Galfond simply [...]

In what may be only the first of a tidal wave of related events, PokerStars announced today that they’ve initiated legal action against leading online poker datamining site PokerTableRatings.com. From PokerFuse: The poker room has sent Cease and Desist letters, and—stating this was not just an “idle threat”—has “assembled a team of lawyers in multiple [...]

The real tragedy of Black Friday is turning out to be all these rap songs it keeps inspiring online poker players to make. Source: QuadJacks Youtube Related Posts:PokerStars Purchase of Full Tilt Confirmed By Multiple SourcesPokerStars Buys Full Tilt Poker … Say What?Daniel Tzvetkoff Spotted in NYC, Maybe Pals With Preet?80% Of US Online Poker [...]

Some sources are reporting that True Poker (and the rest of the Winning Poker Network) has changed all of their tournaments to rebuys; that’s not quite right. What WPN has done is make all tournaments re-entry, meaning that players can buy in again for a second starting stack if they bust within the rentry period. [...]

Only days after launching Fast Poker, Unibet is back with another major announcement: The company has reached an agreement to acquire Bet24. Unibet explained the decision as such: “We have had quite a strong position in Denmark, and over the last year we’ve been building up this position, so we were one of the top [...]

No, they’re not encouraging LAG play, or even loose-passive. The PPA wants players from the US to contact their reps in government. Again. As the PPA explains: What is the campaign? The Players Will Never Fold brings the community together with united voices to correct the injustices of the past year. The actions outlined below [...]

Rush Poker lovers scorned by Full Tilt Poker’s (temporary?) demise have a little balm for their wounds: Microgaming room Unibet leaked word this week of a Rush Poker-style client for their platform, cleverly named … Fast Poker! Fast Poker!  Sounds pretty fast. Expect player pools to be an issue, but otherwise this looks like a [...]

Could you soon be sporting a HUD for live poker? Google is reportedly planning to sell glasses with embedded display technology – essentially “smart” glasses that will display a data overlay visible to their wearer. Fromt NYTimes.com: People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have [...]

…but the reasons for it aren’t exactly good. From EW.com: The actress and poker expert will make a cameo appearance in an episode as herself, popping up in an instructional DVD that Lisa watches to brush up on her card skills. (It turns out that Homer doesn’t trust banks and has stashed Lisa’s college fund [...]

Bad news for Mississippi poker players; a bill introduced to legalize online gaming was killed in committee this week. From PokerNews: Moak’s proposed measure aimed to legalize and regulate online gambling, including poker, within Mississippi state lines, and would have allowed gaming operators already holding licenses in the state to offer Internet wagering. However, the [...]

The SuperStar Showdown on PokerStars is coming back with a vengence on Sunday, as Isildur1 takes on his nemesis, Issac “philivey2694″ Haxton for round 2. From the PokerStars Blog: This Sunday at 12pm ET, Blom and Haxton will face off again for a high-stakes match on PokerStars. The four-table match will last for as long [...]

You read that right: this Sunday’s PokerStars Sunday Million will be a little bigger than usual. From the PokerStars Blog: The Sunday Million is getting $6 million. Yes, you read that right. The PokerStars big cheeses have just told us that the Sunday Million celebrates its sixth anniversary on March 11 with a $6 million [...]

tl;dr: PokerStrategy lobs three softball style questions at Bitar, Bitar somehow whiffs three times and strikes out, enraging poker community even further somehow. FTP CEO Ray Bitar finally broke his silence to the poker world via three questions posed by PokerStrategy. The questions: why have you been silent, what’s happened post Black Friday, and what [...]

A New Jersey senator told PokerNews today that New Jersey still seeks to be the first state to have online poker up and running, and their plan has it up sooner than you’d expect. From PokerNews: State Sen. Raymond Lesniak told PokerNews in an exclusive interview that he expects legislation to allow for Internet gambling [...]

tl;dr: Kid Poker doesn’t like what Erick Lindgren is doing, is going to piss him off next week with a vlog entry. A tweet by Tony Dunst of WPT fame linked us to a intriguing post by Daniel Negreanu on the Erick Lindgren bet dodging debate. @RealKidPoker‘s post is 726: forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-… — Tony Dunst (@Bond_18) [...]

Bally Technologies is gearing up big time for the eventually legalization of online poker, partnering up with Aristocrat Technologies in an effort to boost their poker product. From PokerNews: Under the strategic alliance, the two will secure arrangements with leading poker providers that will then be integrated into Bally’s and Aristocrat’s iGaming platforms — Bally [...]

Players looking for a turbo tournament with a good guarantee will be thrilled by PokerStars and their latest creation; the Hot Turbo weekly tournaments. From PokerStars: Today PokerStars launched the Hot Turbos, a daily series of turbo tournaments that all have guaranteed prize pools. Starting with 55-cent buy-ins and going all the way up to [...]

A poster having difficulty collecting a debt from Erick Lindgren revealed some pretty interesting details about former FTP Pro that may have some insight into where a large chunk of the FTP money ended up disappearing off to. From 2+2: Also similar to Ivey, Lindgren was getting by thanks to his high monthly distribution from [...]

The Bluff Magazine “Power 20″ came out this week, and a staggering 15 out of the 20 names on the list have strong ties to the online poker world. Some of the more recognizable names include: #13 Bernard Tapie #11 Tony G #9 Daniel Negreanu #3 Sen. Harry Reid #1 Isai Scheinberg (Founder, PokerStars) Last [...]