Black Friday was a washout. All hype and no substance. If there were bargains it was very hard to find and so it is now onto the other capitalistic saints day…Cyber Monday! Now apparently it is on this day that you will get great deals online. But as with everything you know it will collapse […]
Black Friday
Black Friday Sucks
Black Friday, like chewing gum, country and western music, pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast, and herpes started in the US and went on to dominate time and space for a while until there demise helped the world become a much better place. The reason why I place Black Friday alongside herpes is that it […]
Nevada Has Broken The Breach
Well at least it is a start! Nevada has a online poker site which will legitimately allow online poker players to be allowed to live in the US and deposit money to play. This sound weird since US players have been playing for a long time. The problem was the FBI and other bodies didn’t […]
Money Flying Around
With money flying around over ‘Black Friday’ (when the FBI shut down 3 major online poker rooms in May 2011), and money laundering charges are being settled ($731m has been agreed so far between the US Justice department and Pokerstars and Full Tilt), it is finally good to see that the US is getting the […]
Villan Takes Down The Magical Tipster
New kid on the block made a move on a reluctant Magical Tipster and took the old man down. Villan a renegade sports trader goaded The Magical Tipster into another tipster challenge. At first The Magical Tipster was not entirely au fait with the challenge because preparation was not down and being the fag end […]
What Happens Now?
The trial involving the people who are accused of facilitating payments to PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker in their online poker business has begun. John Campos and Chad Elie are up before the beak with Chad Elie now requesting a plea bargain to help reduce his sentence. Chad Elie will now get between 6 and 12 […]
Bodog Under Pressure
The US authorities have seized Calvin Ayres legendary brand Bodog.com in another one of those dramatic legal grabbing that first started with ‘Black Friday’ last May. In a move which will be familiar to those US citizens and others who had their accounts frozen, a notice was posted online by the Homeland Security announcing that […]