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Isai Scheinberg: His Company, His Legacy, and How Black Friday Impacted Both
It’s mid-December 2020 and a tennis court just north of San Jose, Costa Rica is home to one of the most hotly-contested tennis matches of the year. This isn’t...
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Five True-Life Poker Stories Primed To Be Hollywood Blockbusters
For every fantastic poker movie of the past 25 years (Rounders, Mississippi Grind), there’s been another which missed the mark. But the poker world (for better and for worse)...
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PokerStars Founder Isai Scheinberg Pleads Guilty to Black Friday Charges
Updated March 26, 10:30 AM ET Nearly nine years after the United States Government Department of Justice charged the owners of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker with operating...
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PokerStars Founder Isai Scheinberg Surrenders to U.S. Government
Nearly nine years after the United States federal government charged him with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling, PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg has surrendered to U.S. authorities. According to...
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Chris Ferguson Posts Apology Video, Firing Up Poker Community
Seven years after Black Friday shut down Full Tilt Poker, Chris Ferguson wants you to now he's sorry. In a 42-second video posted by Ferguson to Vimeo on late...
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Poker World Reacts To Chris Ferguson Winning WSOP Bracelet #6
Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson won his sixth World Series of Poker bracelet on Wednesday when he took down WSOPE Event #7 (€1,650 Pot Limit Omaha 8 or Better) for €39,289....
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Danielle Andersen Reflects on Summer Meeting with Howard Lederer
Day 1 of the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event was sailing along for Danielle Andersen when she went from one side of the emotional spectrum to the...
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From PlanetPoker to PokerStarsNJ, "ActionBob" is Still Winning
The general assessment of most New Jersey online poker players is they are of a younger age and started playing a few years on either side of Black Friday....
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WSOP: Ian O’Hara Represents the New Era of American Young Guns
It all started with a tweet from PocketFives Community Manager Kevin Mathers in early May asking who the best American player under the age of 25 was. Of those...
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DOJ Begins AbsolutePoker and UB Claims Remission Process
Just five days before what will be the sixth anniversary of Black Friday, online poker players affected by the shutdown of AbsolutePoker.com and UB.com have gotten good news from...