Frank Kassela’s hot run in the WSOP puts him in the running for POY.

As expected, the World Series of Poker drastically reshuffled the 2010 BLUFF Player of the Year rankings. Though you’ll find the usual suspects - Sorel Mizzi, Thomas Marchese and Carlos Mortensen - at the top of the rankings, the rest of the [...]

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Barney Frank is the chief author of HR 2267

While last week’s hearing on Rep. Barney Frank’s (D-MA) HR 2267 was all talk, this week the legislation saw some action as it was marked up and passed in the House Financial Services Committee by a margin of 41-22-1. The legislation, which is designed to implement [...]

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The WSOP has launched a new Facebook poker game.

The World Series of Poker has launched a new era of online poker. It’s not the long rumored site that Harrah’s officials have been working on since last year - it’s a freeplay Facebook application. The WSOP looks to challenge Zynga, the current leader in Facebook games, [...]

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Mercier’s held on to the top spot all of 2010

The last time we checked in on the BLUFF/ESPN Power Rankings, Jason Mercier was the man to beat, Player of the Year frontrunner Sorel Mizzi was gaining ground, and Eric Baldwin was quietly posting enough big scores to maintain a spot in the top three.
Some things [...]

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The World Series of Poker premieres on ESPN tonight at 8 p.m. (ET)

The all new season of the World Series of Poker begins Tuesday night at 8 p.m. (ET) with two hours featuring the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. ESPN’s poker night begins its march to the November Nine tonight, only two short weeks after the [...]

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The back-to-school season is still a month away, but it certainly felt like summer was over and done with at the online poker tables this Sunday as players stormed back to the virtual felts and made their presence known as all but one major tournament more than met its guarantee.
The PokerStars Sunday Million netted more [...]

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Mr. Baldwin, Sebok set the standard for the epic mustache.

Each week we spend hours scouring over Twitter finding the best 140 character-or-less thoughts from all your favorite poker personalities. Some might be horrifying, some state the obvious and some make us want to hang out with Joe Sebok. You can follow all the pros on [...]

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Duke testified during Wednesday’s hearing

After a summer with little movement, Rep Barney Frank’s (D-MA) HR 2267 finally appears to be making some headway in Washington DC. The bill, known as the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, was debated in a House hearing on Wednesday and is scheduled to be marked up [...]

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The 2010 November Nine
It seems everybody has an opinion on just who will emerge from the November Nine to claim the title of World Champion and oddsmakers are hoping to cash in on that.
In the hours following  the elimination of Brandon Steven in 10th place online sportsbooks serving both sides of the Atlantic released odds giving [...]

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Jim Barbo

The Golden West Casino in Bakersfield, CA has a new man in charge and players in the Los Angeles area may recognize him.
Jim Barbo, former VP and General Counsel of the Commerce Casino in L.A., was named General Manager of the 15-year old property earlier this week. In his new role Barbo will be [...]

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The World Wide Leader is set to give the 2010 World Series of Poker broadcast schedule a special kick-off Tuesday night at 8 pm.
WSOP on ESPN co-hosts Norman Chad and Lon McEachern will host a one-hour special looking back at the 2009 WSOP highlights and previewing the 2010 WSOP.
As part of the Chad sat down [...]

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Welcome back online players to your regularly scheduled Sunday Major tournaments already in progress and running well this week.  The sites welcomed back their players from the nearly two month long World Series of Poker as many of the guaranteed tournaments made their marks this week.  Full Tilt had a week long experiment from Rush [...]

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We caught up to some of the members of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event’s November Nine immediately after Brandon Steven was eliminated in 10th place and the final table was set. Here’s what they had to say:
Michael Mizrachi
On how the table played 10-handed: Everybody was playing tight, if I had the chips, [...]

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Each day at the Rio we spend hours scouring over Twitter finding the best 140 character-or-less thoughts from all your favorite poker personalities. During the WSOP players take to Twitter for all the beats, brags and variance. You can follow all the pros on our special Poker Tweets section at BluffMagazine.com. Be sure to follow [...]

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Meet your November Nine

It looked as if we could reach the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event’s November Nine in short order Saturday night, as just a couple of hands into the unofficial final table of ten the shortest stack, Brandon Steven, was all-in for his tournament life. His top pair held against Michael [...]

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