Archive for 2010-01-06
January 6, 2010
As part of the Victor Chandler family of websites, including one that has given customers decades of sports betting options, VC Poker came with a reputation of supporting its players and being a trustworthy site. But a recent e-mail to its players restricting cash game play to low stakes has customers contemplating a new online poker site for their accounts.Information already came to the fore in the European poker community that sites on the iPoker software network were incurring fines resulting from a high number of “winning player” accounts which are prone to player withdrawals.
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January 6, 2010
I got back to Las Vegas late Sunday and slept half the day away on Monday before meeting a friend for dinner at The Steakhouse at Circus Circus. A few years ago, a friend of mine who had lived in Las Vegas for nearly a decade but had moved to Chicago, flew into town while I was covering the World Series of Poker. He owed me a steak dinner and he told me he was going to take me to the best steak place in Vegas. Imagine my surprise when he called me and told me to meet him at Circus Circus. “The place with the evil clowns,” I laughed. “Just trust me,” he said.
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January 6, 2010
When the eighth season of the World Poker Tour began in July of 2009, the previous season of the WPT was still airing on Fox Sports Net. Now that the new year of 2010 has begun and Season 8 is more than halfway finished, Fox is prepared to air the most current shows and will premiere its first one on January 24, 2010, at 11pm ET.For the second season in a row, Fox Sports Net has agreed to air the shows, which again will be sponsored by FullTiltPoker.net.
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