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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 12, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, World Series of Poker | 3 comments

Poker: Past, Present, and Future

Poker may well be on the verge of another golden age.

It’s possible.

I’ll tell you more about why I think this is so in an upcoming announcement, which I think will excite a lot of people.

Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 12, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, World Series of Poker | 2 comments

Jack McClelland — A Man With Heart

There’s a bitter irony to the news Jack McClelland needs a heart transplant.

As poker’s grand inquisitor for the past 30 years, Jack has been the very heart of the game for as long as I can remember.

Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 4, 2014 in Blog, General Poker | 2 comments

A New Era for Poker Journalism

Call me biased.

When I first came into poker as a writer, the year was 1993. Live poker had just been legalized in Atlantic City. That’s when I started writing for Card Player magazine, which was pretty much the only publication covering the game at the time.

Well, we’ve certainly come a long way in the last two decades.

Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 2, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Las Vegas | 1 comment

Wynn-Lose: Steve Wynn Flip-Flops Again on Online Gambling

Let’s make one thing clear.

Steve Wynn was in favor of online gambling long before he opposed it. Big time. As in so enthusiastically in favor of online gambling (and poker specifically) that he once signed up for a strategic business partnership with PokerStars.com. You remember PokerStars, don’t you? The world’s largest online poker site based over on the Isle of Man?

Now it appears Wynn has changed his mind. Again.

Posted by Nolan Dalla on Feb 1, 2014 in Blog, General Poker | 2 comments

Here’s What Happens After Sheldon Adelson’s Arguments Get Body Slammed

Sheldon Adelson is one of the world’s richest people. He’s the majority owner of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns and operates The Venetian. He’s become online poker’s most outspoken opponent, launching what amounts to a smear campaign of lies and gross misrepresentations against online gaming, and poker players. Adelson has even gone as far as to claim poker is not a game of skill. “Just a bunch of baloney,” he says.