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Top-10 observations from covering my first poker tournament

28 April 2014
Last weekend I covered the final two days of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XII World Championship at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City. It was the first major poker tournament I had ever been to, much less covered as a journalist. And it was unlike anything I had experienced before. ... (read more)
 

Keven Stammen wins WPT World Championship

27 April 2014
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Keven Stammen only briefly relinquished his day-long chip lead en route to winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XII World Championship at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa on Saturday night. Stammen bested a field of 328 players in the $15,400 buy-in, six-day event to take home the title and the $1.35 million first-place prize. ... (read more)
 

Top-10 bets for the 2014 MLB season

31 March 2014
The 2014 Major League Baseball season kicked off last week when the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks met for a pair of games in Sydney, Australia. But aside from that series, and the Dodgers-Padres game that took place Sunday night, the majority of teams begin their season today. Last year the ... (read more)
 

Comcast VP: Comcast is not blocking Bovada

31 March 2014
Several Bovada players in the U.S. reported over the weekend that they had trouble accessing the online casino. According to tweets made by Bovada Casino on Friday, many of the players in question appear to utilize Comcast as their Internet service provider. We are aware that some of our players using particular ISPs, such as Comcast, are unable to access our site. ... (read more)
 

March 2014 Featured Game report

27 March 2014
As I wrote at the beginning of the year, I've decided to "spice up" my Featured Game responsibilities for Casino City. I am now keeping track of my results for each week, and will provide monthly, quarterly and a final annual report at the end of the year. As noted in my introductory story, my plan is to ... (read more)
 

Poker Player Tweets of the Week: Green Friday edition

28 February 2014
The day has finally arrived. On Friday, nearly three years after Black Friday, when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) shut down Full Tilt and seized players' bankrolls from the website, several players finally got back their money. It's a day that will go down in poker history, and many in the ... (read more)
 

February 2014 Featured Game report

27 February 2014
As I wrote at the beginning of the year, I've decided to "spice up" my Featured Game responsibilities for Casino City. I am now keeping track of my results for each week, and will provide monthly, quarterly and a final annual report at the end of the year. As noted in my introductory story, my plan is to ... (read more)
 

Full Tilt players to begin receiving their bankrolls

25 February 2014
Several former Full Tilt Poker players have recently received some very good news. Nearly three years after Black Friday, when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) shut down Full Tilt and seized players' bankrolls from the website, players will begin to collect back their money. The Garden City Group (GCG) ... (read more)
 

Poker Player Tweets of the Week: Make love, not war edition

14 February 2014
It's Valentine's Day, which means love is in the air -- even for the degenerate poker players of the world! This week has seen some pretty good discussions pertaining to serious issues in the poker world, but, as usual, Twitter is about more than being serious. Let's see what our favorite cast of characters had to offer on the Twittersphere this week. ... (read more)
 

Poker Player Tweets of the Week: Working on your game

31 January 2014
The poker community is still reeling from the "counterfeit chip" scandal at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa Winter Open $2 million guarantee event. In short, the massive tournament was suspended with 27 players left when a slew of fake chips were found in play. The final 27 players have still yet to receive word on how they will be reimbursed. ... (read more)

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Dan Podheiser
Dan Podheiser has covered the gambling industry since 2013, but he has been an avid poker player for more than a decade, starting when he was just 14 years old. When he turned 18, he played online poker regularly on U.S.-friendly sites until Black Friday in April 2011.

Since graduating from Emerson College with a degree in journalism in 2010, Dan has worked as the sports editor for a chain of newspapers in Northwest Connecticut and served a year as an Americorps*VISTA, writing and researching grant proposals for a Boston-based charity.

Originally from South Jersey, where he still visits occasionally to see his family (and play on the state's regulated online poker sites), Dan lives in Brighton, Mass. with his wife and dog.
Dan Podheiser
Dan Podheiser has covered the gambling industry since 2013, but he has been an avid poker player for more than a decade, starting when he was just 14 years old. When he turned 18, he played online poker regularly on U.S.-friendly sites until Black Friday in April 2011.

Since graduating from Emerson College with a degree in journalism in 2010, Dan has worked as the sports editor for a chain of newspapers in Northwest Connecticut and served a year as an Americorps*VISTA, writing and researching grant proposals for a Boston-based charity.

Originally from South Jersey, where he still visits occasionally to see his family (and play on the state's regulated online poker sites), Dan lives in Brighton, Mass. with his wife and dog.