Poker fans are waking up on Wednesday morning to discover they’re going to have to wait a whole week to get another episode of the 2011 WSOP Main Event on ESPN. They’re also waking up to find out that Chino Rheem played Huck Seed at chess and lost. There’s a few other things worth discovering and they’re in the mid-week AM SCRAMBLE.

Whatever You Get Karina Jett for her Birthday is Going to Suck

On Tuesday Karina Jett turned 37 years old. You might have thought about getting her something like a new George Foreman grill, or maybe some Dre Beats headphones or possibly you were thinking she’d really like this Gold Diamond Poker Hand Pendant on eBay. Whatever the case, don’t bother. Somebody else got her something better.

Amidst all of the birthday celebration Karina, wife of Chip Jett, gave birth to a beautiful little girl named Angelina Jett. Everybody here at BLUFF congratulates the Jett family on their newest addition.

New Service Launched for Poker Players Moving Abroad

The good guys behind PocketFives.com are pretty smart. When Black Friday came along and took a big chunk out of their business they could easily have gone to Hawaii for a month and hid.

Instead Adam Small and Cal Spears, founders of the site, decided to find ways to help their loyal player base. That’s how they came to launch “Poker Refugees”, a relocation service for American online poker pros who need to find a new country to live in. The service, which costs between $750 and $1,500 per player, is currently offering help in relocating players to Costa Rica, Canada and Panama. In an interview with ESPN’s Poker Insider Andrew Feldman, Spears indicated that if the demand is there, other countries can be added.

“If it’s successful, we’ll definitely start expanding the offering to having more details on the other places. If a user is really set on moving somewhere, not set on using the three countries, we’ll try to take care of them on a one-on-one basis,” Spears said.

In recent weeks a number of high profile online grinders have made the move to other countries to re-start their online poker playing days. Tom Marchese and Phil Galfond are two players who moved to Vancouver, BC and Olivier Busquet moved to Toronto, Ontario.

If you’re seriously considering making the move to another country to forget Black Friday ever happened, check out Poker Refugees.

BWin Might Become BWynn? Too Easy.

According to “vague speculation” from the other side of the Atlantic, Bwin.party might be in line for a purchase by Las Vegas gaming giant Wynn Resorts. The Bwin.party group could become the online face of the Steve Wynn-owned company as the U.S. market moves towards regulation.

The shares for Bwin.party bounced around a little bit based on the speculation. Keep in mind that at the end of 2010 Wynn entered into a partnership with PokerStars in what was expected to become a massive online poker force in the United States. Black Friday basically dissolved that relationship but with Wynn again looking for existing operators it could show signs that the company has strong feelings about legislation hitting the U.S. market sooner rather than later.

Source Independent.co.uk

Maybe This is Haseeb Qureshi’s “New Path”

The Huffington Post caught our attention with a story entitled “Why we must replace our diplomats with poker players“. Now based on the title alone, you’re going to assume it’s all about hiring smart people that are great at reading other people and making good decisions on limited information. It could have been about that but the article never actually references any of the skills great poker players possess. It actually never even references poker again.

Instead, it talks about lying, cheating and double-crossings. We’re going to assume that Haseeb Qureshi and Dan Cates read the same article and wondered where they could send a resume.

Poker Gets the Sport Science Treatment

The good folks at Sport Science decided to give poker tells a good look, in particular bluffing. So they had Ali Eslami and David Oppenheim play a little bit of heads-up No Limit Hold’em while strapped to a bunch of different machines. We’re not even going to begin to describe how they look. We’ll just let you watch the whole thing for yourself.

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