Gus Hansen’s downswing, Sonic the Hedgehog collecting rake instead of rings, and Jamie Gold hanging out with people cooler than he is. It’s all in today’s edition of the PTPN Hit and Run.
If you read PTP’s high-stakes report for Full Tilt Poker, you know Gus Hansen hasn’t been doing so well. How badly is he doing? He’s on a $6.6 million downswing according to pokerking.com. That was after an amazing start to 2009, when he was up $3 over the first few months of the year. Yikes.
Sonic the Hedgehog playing poker? It may be on the way, as the software maker has applied for an online gambling license in a jurisdiction off the coast of France.
Former World Series of Poker main event winner Jamie Gold apparently had a cameo on “The Hills” recently, according to this 2+2 thread. And here he is hanging out with Jayde Nicole, girlfriend of Hills actor Brody Jenner.
France beat the United States at something. A bill that would legalize, regulate and tax online poker has passed a key hurdle in the legislature. France has been pressured by the European Union to open up its market.
If you live near or in Pennsylvania, you’re apparently one step closer to being able to play table games there, including poker. Pennsylvania’s governor, Ed Rendell, signed the state budget that sets aside revenues from table games, even though the bill that authorized them has not been signed into law yet.
There’s an ESPN E:60 episode coming up on Phil Ivey, in which you get to go inside Ivey’s house. We’re guessing his house is awesome. The episode is airing Nov. 3, according to a 2+2 thread on the subject.
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