Kind of a weird story from Cake Poker — a site on which I do not play, although have thought about opening an account there. Apparently during a microstakes no-limit hold’em hand played yesterday afternoon, the pot was shipped to the wrong player

Hard-Boiled Poker 2009 Year in Review (3 of 3)

We are almost there. The last day of the year.

Hard-Boiled Poker 2009 Year in Review (2 of 3)

Continuing what we started yesterday … It was another summer in Las Vegas for yr humble gumshoe helping cover the world’s biggest annual poker circus, and so these middle months are largely taken up with the before, during, and after of the WSOP. May The rumble at the start of May was that new legislation was a-comin’ that might affect Americans and their online poker, and anticipating that I wrote a post called “The States of Online Poker ” that speculated some about that possibility. Then Rep.

Online poker site UB.com , announced this morning that 2009 Card Player’s Poker Poker of the Year and WSOP bracelet winner, Eric Baldwin has joined its exclusive team of professional poker players . “Eric Baldwin isn’t just a new UB pro, he is UB. Eric loves this game more than anything in the world, he plays to win, and he’s respected for his passion at the tables.

Back in September 2007 — several months after the UIGEA had become law and PartyPoker and other sites pulled out of the U.S. market — I thought I’d open up an account over on UltimateBet in order to give myself more options for places to play