FTP updates, new Vegas poker rooms and Isildur looking to get his cash back? Those stories and more in our daily wrap up of what’s happening in the pokerverse, the PTP News Hit and Run.
Works of reasonable interest from two of our favorite poker bloggers to get us started: Bill Rini wonders (satirically) if Full Tilt Poker should ban Phil Ivey from it’s tables, while Dr. Pauly muses on his 10 favorite (or, to be most precise, most influential) poker books. Pauly misses a few we think should be included on any list and adds a few that we think are kinda stinkers (Ace on the River?), but it’s hard to argue with a list based on personal preference, so we won’t. Well, not any more than we just did.
Legal news: Updates in the Kentucky domain seizure case – apparently, the Commonwealth is asking the courts to “add names of US citizens and companies to a lawsuit that seeks the forfeiture of 141 Internet domain names. Kentucky’s effort to seize those Web site names, all related to Internet gambling, had been blocked by a January 2009 decision from the Kentucky Court of Appeals,” according to a release from iMEGA.
There’s a new poker room in town. The town: Las Vegas. The room: The poker at Aria, part of the massive City Center complex that’s just now starting to open up to the (unfortunately dwindling number of) tourists staggering around Sin City. Photo:
Read more at pokerati here; photos at LasVegasVegas here.
Online poker news: Full Tilt Poker looks to be planning a massive end-of-year upgrade (that will actually probably see release around the end of January). The big changes, according to PND: rules that will make it tougher for short stacks to operate and possible alterations to FTP’s popular Iron Man program.
Also over at FTP: a thread over at 2+2 has people wondering if Isildur1 has a case for getting some sort of reimbursement after rumblings of collusion between Townsend, Hastings and South in the nosebleed games that picked over 2m from the unknown Swede’s pocket.
The latest edition of ESPN’s Inside Deal, embedded below. Joe Cada pops in as Feldman and Lee talk about the weeks since the WSOP:
Finally, Facebook is apparently going to cut out gambling ads, so you’ll have to find a system for mastering SNGs and making thousands a week somewhere else.
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