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Ryan McLane Gaming Guru - Page 13  Column: Hooked on Poker After Dark16 February 2007
I admit it. When I heard another poker show was joining the already flooded cable market, I cringed. I'd already suffered through The Poker Dome, Boston vs. New York and Celebrity Poker Showdown -- television owes me several dozen hours of my life back – and I wasn't prepared to try another one.
So when ... (read more)
Sunday tournament numbers starting to stabilize13 February 2007
Sunday tournament numbers have seemingly stabilized one month after the NETeller arrests and the NFL playoffs took a large toll on player participation.
PokerStars and Full Tilt (running their Full Tilt Online Poker Series - FTOPS) easily met their guarantees Sunday with no televised-football and new e-wallets allowing American players to stay in the game. ... (read more)
Tonygpoker.com no longer accepting U.S. play12 February 2007
Tonygpoker.com is no longer accepting real-money play from U.S. customers because none of their e-wallet services will process U.S. transactions, according statement on its Web site Monday.
"It's a very, very sad day for Tony G," Tony Guoga wrote in his blog. "There are no options for me to keep the room open to U.S. ... (read more)
NETeller explains U.S. withdrawal delay8 February 2007
NETeller is unable to pay U.S. customer withdrawals because American banks have refused to do business with one or more of the e-wallet's U.S. based automatic clearinghouses, according to a NETeller press release issued Thursday morning.
The NETeller release also said that the U.S. Attorney's Office for ... (read more)
ePassporte a viable, but slow e-wallet option8 February 2007
Signing up for a new ePassporte account and gaining access to deposited funds takes approximately three weeks, according to a Casino City test.
A Casino City reporter began the sign-up process on January 17, the day NETeller officially stopped accepting U.S. player transactions. Deposited money became available for use exactly 21 days later. ... (read more)
Gold settles WSOP lawsuit7 February 2007
Jamie Gold has agreed to settle a dispute over the World Series of Poker Main Event $12 million prize, according to the Associated Press.
Gold and television executive Crispin Leyser agreed to settle the matter "without litigation," according to a statement released to the AP on Tuesday.
Specific details were not released. ... (read more)
Lengthy wait-times for new ePassporte customers7 February 2007
ePassporte, one of the few remaining e-wallets choices for U.S. online gamblers, is experiencing longer-than-usual waits times due to the volume of new customer sign-ups.
New customers can expect to wait more than three weeks for their new accounts to be active.
A Casino City reporter began the sign-up process on Jan. ... (read more)
NETeller withdrawals on hold for U.S. customer1 February 2007
NETeller's American customers are out of withdrawal options and are being asked to wait patiently while the company tries to determine how to move money to the U.S.
The embattled e-wallet is getting so many phone calls about withdrawals - the first message that customers hear when they call the ... (read more)
Lightning Poker officially signs with Shuffle Master30 January 2007
Casino industry giant Shuffle Master agreed last week to distribute Lightning Poker's e-tables.
The tables are a cross between online gaming and live poker play. Players sit around a table, but look at their cards and chip stacks on a video screen. Hands and bets are made electronically -- eliminating the need for a dealer. ... (read more)
Player Profile - Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi29 January 2007
It's reasonable to think winning $2.3 million and topping most of the media's 2006 player of the year lists would be Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi's favorite accomplishments of 2006, but they didn't even come close.
Mizrachi is a family man - the birth of his daughter on Feb. 2 was a runaway winner. ... (read more)
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