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Geraldine Neumann Brings You Today’s Poker News Link Dump

by Wicked Chops Entity on 8.28.2009 in Poker News | 4 comments

Life in Argentina is about to get a whole lot better, and not just because 79% of the female population are super-models...

Life in Argentina is about to get a whole lot better, and not just because 79% of the female population are super-models...

As most of you have heard, PartyGaming has outbid Gamynia (which would be the PERFECT name for a new African country if Africa decides to start one) to buy the World Poker Tour for $12.3 (read the WSJ’s write-up here). We haven’t made much of a big deal about this since nobody at the WPT is. Across the board we hear “business as usual” and we generally believe that. However, our quick take on it is: good for the WPT, keeps them around and viable, and gee we wonder if this means Party Poker is looking to get back in the U.S. market soon. They just bought their own version of the EPT and NBC Heads-Up/Poker After Dark. Not really complicated. Even an Argentinian super-model like Geraldine Neumann (more pics of her here) can understand that. Anyway…

:: Speaking of Argentina, Geraldine’s homeland is making moves to embrace online poker. [link]

:: Pauly has a video of a big ass burrito being chowed down at the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara in Vegas. Works for us. [link]

:: Hey look, the Durrrr Challenge is still going on. Durrrr saw his lead trimmed to around $344k in the last session. [link]

:: The APT Macau wrapped Day 2 with Kyle Cheong as chip leader. [link]

:: Jeff Shulman = Giant Douche. [link]

:: Now here’s a blog post that speaks our language: Top Five Hottest Girls at the WSOP. [link]

:: Cult of Personality Eric Buchman and Howard Lederer make an appearance on ESPN’s Inside Deal. [link]

:: And fellow N9′er Steven Begleiter joins Laura Lane on the Poker Edge. [link]

For some non-poker related stuff this weekend…get some UFC 102 gambling advice here. And check out the Champions League draw here.

Tagged as: Durrrr Challenge, Party Poker, World Poker Tour

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PartyGaming to Pay U.S. Government $105 Million

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.8.2009 in Poker News | no comments

Party-poker-logo PartyGaming Plc, the parent company to the much missed daily donkfest known as Party Poker, has agreed to pay the U.S. American government $105M "to settle charges that it illegally offered gambling to players in the United States," according to the Washington Post.

How PartyGaming the company got off with only having to pay $105M while one of its founders, the unfortunately named Anurag Dikshit, had to pay $300M, is beyond us. But this development does raise two important points: 1) with Dikshit having to pay $300M and with Anoop Desai's possibly elmination from American Idol either this week or one of the next two, it's maybe not the Year of the Indian after all, and 2) with the state of The EconomyTM today, we'll take a collective $405M any way we can get it.

The news sent online gaming stocks soaring internationally. Analysts believe PartyGaming's actions will lead to other settlements and industry consolidation (increasing profits for all). And the settlement could ease the way for Party Poker's reentry to the U.S. market when the murky laws sort of making online poker kind of illegal are eventually lifted.

Read the full Washington Post story here.

Tagged as: Party Poker, Poker News

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