Read MoreSteve Lipscomb was honored recently with a special “Lifetime Achievement Award.” The honor was presented at the 2015 American Poker Awards, held last Friday evening at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. Those in attendance included about 250 poker luminaries, including 14 other honorees. I was lucky enough to be in the audience.
Read MoreThe inaugural American Poker Awards was held Friday night at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. The awards ceremony and a preceding all-day conference were created and organized by Alexandre Dreyfus, CEO of the Global Poker Index and the Hendon Mob. Call this poker’s equivalent of the Oscars, which was intended to recognize the game’s most accomplished players over the previous year, as well as honor those who work the elevate and grow the game behind the scenes. Here are some of my personal experiences and observations on what turned out to be quite a memorable day and evening:
Why are fortune tellers, psychic hotlines, and other cons on quackery legal anywhere in the United States? We impose laws regulating liquor, gambling, smoking, and 0ther activities, so why are charlatans allowed to steal and ruin lives?
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Read MoreHere’s a look at the best and worst moments from last night’s 2015 Oscar telecast:
Read MoreShort films grab you. They make you think. They take you to interesting places. They introduce you to people you haven’t met before. And sometimes, long after leaving the theater, you will find yourself pondering what you saw and the deeper meaning of the film, which are sometimes remarkably complex and even wonderful.
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It’s Oscar time! The 87th annual Academy Awards will be shown on ABC Sunday night. I haven’t missed an Oscar presentation since 1991. So, this will keep my current streak alive at 24 straight years — and 43 shows out of the last 45 years. I’m not really that old, but I can still recall my very first Academy Award memory — which was John Wayne winning Best Actor in 1970 for “True Grit.”
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Next time the American Gaming Association (AGA) appears at a trade show, I suggest they provide some kind of giveaway. Appropriate swag might be a yo-yo, a flapjack spatula, or perhaps a pair of flip-flops. Given the AGA has taken three different positions, each a contradiction, within just the past ten years on the big question of legalizing and regulating online gambling/poker in the United States, can anyone take their policy statements seriously?
Read MoreGo back and read the poker forums sometime. The evidence is all there in black and white.
Read MoreTwo recent news stories highlight a serious cause for concern for the proponents of legalized online poker in the United States.
Read More“I’ve never read anything so badly written that got published. It made Twilight look like War and Peace.”
— Salman Rushdie
Marieta Dalla
Don Rieck
E.Dieter Martin
Dutch Boyd
Rich Korbin
Tiger123
Anonymous Eccentric
Kevin Un
Melissa Hayden
Todd Anderson
Stevan Goldman
Charlie Ciresi
Eric Schneller
Tanya Devenport
Peter Secor
Roger Rodd
Scott Wilson
Gareth Edwards
Shawn Rice
Billy the Greek
Linda Keenan
Sue Schneider
Tom Oldcroft
