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Smith edges Simpson again
Stephen Smith claimed another tight points decision over John Simpson to win the British featherweight title in another cracking contest.
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Online Poker Traffic Down 22% in Wake of Black Friday
According to the preeminent online poker traffic monitoring site PokerScout.com, player numbers have fallen a sizeable 22% worldwide in the wake of the actions of Black Friday.
Following the indictments of the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker by the U.S. Department of Justice, PokerScout has found that many players have decided to drop out of the online game, perhaps for good. In its analysis, PokerScout looked at the weekend of April 9th to 10th (the last weekend before Black Friday) and compared it to the weekend immediately following the announcement of the indictments as well as Easter weekend. The overall numbers presented by PokerScout show that the online poker industry has seen a 22% decline in cash game players since the Federal indictments were announced on April 15th. The statistics also show that, along with the loss of U.S. players, those rooms still accepting American action, and even foreign online poker operations that do not accept American players, have not brought in enough traffic to offset the “Big Three’s†losses. PokerStars, which retained its status as the largest online poker site in the industry, has experienced a 28% drop in cash game players. Immediately following Black Friday, PokerStars’ ring game traffic dropped by approximately 25%, but the site was able to regain some action by Easter weekend and was down only 3%. Full Tilt Poker felt the losses harder following the announcement of the indictments by the Department of Justice. The April 16th to 17th traffic for Full Tilt Poker was down 49%, but by Easter weekend, the site had been able to rebound. Still, PokerScout reports that overall traffic for Full Tilt Poker is down 35%. The hardest hit by the effects of Black Friday was the CEREUS Network. While sister sites Absolute Poker and UB.com continued to provide action to the United States for a short time following the indictments, the CEREUS Network plunged 40% the weekend following Black Friday and another 42% over Easter weekend. Overall, PokerScout shows the CEREUS Network having a 65% decline in cash game players over the past two weekends. While there are online sites that still accept American players, their numbers in no way offset the losses by the “Big Three.†The Merge Gaming Network has been the big winner in this race, increasing its action by 61% over the past two weekends. Bodog and the Cake Poker Network have shown similar increases in player numbers (32% and 30%, respectively), while the Everleaf Network has seen just a 1% boost. This may sound like good news for American players, but an examination of the actual numbers shows a painful revelation that many online players may be gone for good. According to PokerScout, the “Big Three†have lost 15,831 cash game players combined in the last two weekends, while the sites still facing the U S. have only accounted for a 950-player increase. Meanwhile, 888 has been the beneficiary of some non-U.S. players potentially leaving the “Big Three,†with its numbers increasing 4%, and PartyPoker is only up 3% over the two-week time span. Two other popular European gaming sites, the iPoker Network and the Ongame Network, have shown declines in cash game players of 2% and 9%, respectively. More... |
European Poker Tour San Remo Day 1a: Leonid Bilokur Dazzles the Sunshine and the Star
Day 1a of the PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo saw 438 players take their seats at the felt and at the end of the day, Leonid Bilokur has emerged as chip leader.
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WPT: Randy Dorfman, Nick Grippo On Top in Premiere FL Event
Grippo is one of a number of online pros in the Florida fieldIf you thought the field at the World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown would offer some more insight into how Black Friday will affect live poker in the United States, we have to be honest: The 406-player field really doesn’t tell [...]
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WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Exceeds Expectations
http://cdn.wickedchopspoker.com/wp-c...on-mercier.jpg While some Full Tilt pros showed up in their logos, PokerStars' Jason Mercier went patchless at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown.
Poker’s first major live event since 4/15 kicked off on Wednesday at the Seminole Hard Rock as the World Poker Tour held their first ever Florida tournament. Expectations within the industry were that the event would pull between 350-375 entrants. While not necessarily crushing expectations, at the end of Day 1 play, the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown brought a total of 406 players, which industry types hope is a harbinger of things to come post Black FridayTM. Randy Dorfman ended SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSDay 1 as chipleader, stacked at 160,000. He’s followed by Nick Grippo with 149,375. Interestingly, the Full Tilt pros who played did wear their patch, as did UB Team member Adam “Roothlus” Levy. However, no Full Tilt stake holders like Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, or Phil Gordon played, nor did poker A-listers like Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson or Daniel Negreanu. Get full chip countsSUCKINGHOBBITDICKShere. Related Posts
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World Series of Poker Circuit -- Pennsylvania Tournament Series Begins
Cards got into the air today at the World Series of Poker Circuit tournament series at the Harrah’s in Chester, Pennsylvania. This is the first time that the WSOP Circuit …
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Daily Pic # 1147, “Hide and Qâ€
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Searching for Paradise ::: Azim Zainudin
http://www.photoburst.net/photo_sect...m-zainudin.jpgSearching for Paradise ::: Azim Zainudin ::: Shot from a local air taxi from Male airport to one of the island resort. Maldives have about 1100 islands.
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Cottonmouth, North Carolina
While working as a field researcher for a biodiversity study on pine plantations in North Carolina, I found this Agkistrodon piscivorus in a drainage ditch. It's seen here displaying the classic defensive posture that gives it the common name "cottonmouth."(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Ilana Manolson
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Ilana on her work: I capture the unexpected vibrancy of hidden landscapes. I celebrate the weedy margins of swamp and woods – a world of unfurling fronds, floating leaves, elusive reflections, and the mysterious interplay of lightness and depth. My large-scale oil paintings arise from the patience and close observation I developed during my training as a naturalist; I contemplate minute details and allow them to reveal larger patterns in nature. In essence, I am looking at the small to make sense of larger truths. I build up the surfaces of my work with rich color and translucent layers, then selectively scratch and sand to create a dimensional experience of luminosity, line and texture. Through this process, I fuse elements of both painting and printmaking traditions to uncover the spirit of place beneath the merely visual, leaving hints of what came before. My paintings, both as object and as image become a metaphor for change, for the connection between seasonal transience and the mystical stillness at its center. http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/...svAl6Vm4g/0/di http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/...svAl6Vm4g/1/di http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...6Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...6Q:V_sGLiPBpWU http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...?d=qj6IDK7rITs http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...6Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Artis...~4/vNz441UnWu0 More... |
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