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Andrei has some interesting thoughts on Paul Phillips’ laydown of QQ on the WPT against TJ Cloutier’s AJ where TJ had a pair of jacks. There’s no end of unintelligent TV poker analysis on rec.gambling. slot onlain and not enough intelligent analysis on poker blogs, in my opinion.

official loyola poker tourney gets 180

More evidence of the growth of poker: Loyola University held an official, university-sanctioned poker tournament with $20 entry and a $3,500 grand prize, and attracted over 180 entrants!

Unfortunately I don’t think any Texas universities will be running a tournament like this any time soon.

poker blog online tournament

Congrats to grubby over at Poker Grub for doing two of the best things I’ve seen in poker blogging: first, he’s coordinating a poker blogger online poker tournament! Sunday February 22. slot online I look forward to the blog-entry trash talk that will no doubt follow this inaugural event. (McGrupp over at Tao of Poker has already handicapped the event.)

Second, grubby has set up a challenge where he’s rewarding people for winning online pots after playing 72o (the hand he wants to officially become known as “The Hammer”)!

He’s got some other good stuff on his site, it’s worth checking out.

austin poker club trial date postponed

For those of you interested in the continuing saga of the Austin Poker Club, 9+ months have passed since it was shut down and they still have not gone to trial. There have been numerous delays and date resets.

The trial date had been set for February 17th, but I just heard from the APC owner that the court date has once again been postponed and they’re going to need to go through pre-trial motions before a new date is set.

I expect it will be at least another couple months before they make it to trial. You’ll hear it first here since the case seems to have dropped off most other people’s radars.

poker blog roundup

Ignatius over at pokersavvy.com has posted the best poker blog roundup I’ve seen, including a very flattering mention of loveandcasinowar.com! It’s highly recommended reading if you’re looking for more poker blogs. They’ve really been taking off recently and Ignatius has compiled the most complete review of them so far.

espn cancels ‘playmakers’

ESPN announced today that it has canceled ‘Playmakers’ after one season. ESPN had drawn a lot of heat from the NFL about ‘Playmakers’. Link

Oddly enough, though, one of the series in the running for a replacement to ‘Playmakers’ is a series called ‘The Fix’. The commissioned pilot is to be written by the writers of Rounders and is about gambling on college football. Link

I’d love to see a show about sports gambling, but I don’t see any way ESPN would go for and risk angering the NCAA after the heat the NFL gave them for ‘Playmakers’. The NCAA is vehemently anti-gambling and fights any links between its name and gambling.