With most of the legal jeopardy and fallout from the Department of Justice indictments waning, there has been an uptick of information coming out regarding the goat rodeo that was Full Tilt Poker operations post-Black Friday....
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Thursday was a good day for Caesar Interactive CEO Mitch Garber.
With the poker world scrambling to make sense of the Nevada intrastate bill being signed into law, we spoke with Caesars Interactive CEO (and newly minted #2 on the BLUFF Poker 20) Mitch Garber today for some clarity.
It’s a quick one, but good perspective.
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Watch Interview With Former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack Part 1 on RawVegas.tv
So we headed to the new home of the WSOP (breaking news here), the Pavilion Center in the Rio, where Pollack, who has always been good to the so-called poker “media,” was cool enough to give us his only video interview. Part I (above) covers why he decided to leave and what role (if any) new boss Mitch Garber played in that decision.
Parts II & III (coming soon) cover accomplishments, disappointments, wtf he would’ve done had both Shulman’s captured the Main Event crowns, and of course, what he’s going to do with all of this free time on his hands.
UPDATE: WITH PART II
Watch Interview With Former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack Part 2 on RawVegas.tv
PART III
Watch Interview With Former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack Part 3 on RawVegas.tv
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Spanish model Marisa Jara is probably unfamiliar with Mitch Garber.
Read in between the lines on this one, but Harrah’s has hired ex-Party Poker CEO Mitch Garber to run it’s wsop.com website.
Reports the Times Online:
“HARRAH’s, the Las Vegas gaming group that owns Caesars Palace is to install Mitch Garber, a former chief executive of Party Gaming, as the head of a new company formed to house its internet operations and the popular World Series of Poker.
The gaming giant is spinning these businesses out into a newly-created [non-Wicked Chops] entity. The move is likely to fuel speculation over the possibility of Harrah’s making acquisitions in the online-gaming sector.”
So…the unfortunately named Anurag Dikshit
Interesting…VERY…interesting.
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After some technical difficulties,* Part I of the Wicked Chops & Gavin podcast is now up. We recorded this one at the Casa de Gavin, so it’s possible that you’ll hear some crying children in the background for the first 15 minutes. In related news, Gavin Smith is a father. In this one, we cover [...]
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Here’s Part 2 of the latest Wicked Chops & GavinTM podcast. What happened to Part 1? Some back-end technical difficulties that we’re blaming on Falcon Heene. Little fucker is at it again. Part 1 should be up later today. So Part 2 of the podcast was based on a brilliant Gavin Smith idea: the Awesome [...]
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