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Poker News :How Cute They’re Facebook Friends

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:00:49 +0000

More and more chatter has been going on within the industry regarding the legitimacy of Joseph Menn’s Financial Times article stating grand jury indictments may be coming down soon on people at Full Tilt.
A couple of weeks ago, Poker News Daily noted the following regarding

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Cryus Sanai likes this.
More and more chatter has been going on within the industry regarding the legitimacy of Joseph Menn’s Financial Times article stating grand jury indictments may be coming down soon on people at Full Tilt.
A couple of weeks ago, Poker News Daily noted the following regarding the allegedly-coming-soon-indictments:
[Cyrus] Sanai told Poker News Daily why Menn broke the grand jury story: “He’s the only one who is actually looking. It’s a ‘B’ story in the grand scheme of things. Joe has been writing about online gambling and his beat is cyber crime. No one else was really paying attention. No one has been assigned by an editor to do an original report.”
On April 6th, one day following the Financial Times article, Sanai filed a response in the bot case in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He explained, “Defendants desire to seal [Sanai's] ex parte motion for a continuance and early discovery. The grounds are that Plaintiffs’ motion discusses a grand jury investigating the Defendants. However, virtually simultaneously, the Financial Times ran an article disclosing the same information.”
According to Sanai, Full Tilt’s lawyers purportedly wanted to seal Sanai’s motion because it discussed the newly discovered grand jury investigation: “The grounds for a motion to seal are not only not met, the request is entirely frivolous and made in bad faith.” Sanai noted that the “the news [of the possible grand jury investigation] has spread like wildfire through the poker community” and even quotes a Poker News Daily story on the issue. However, the court denied the motion to seal.
While 1/3 of the Entities is an ex-lawyer, we’re no legal experts and have no idea if anything is about to pop. But for the most part, the Feds have been fairly consistent in going after payment processors as opposed to site operators.
Regardless, it’s pretty interesting (and thanks for pointing out in our comments section) that Cyrus Sanai, aka the lawyer representing Lary Kennedy (read about the bot suit here, and more about the awesomely-dastardly-named lawyer’s shenanigans here), is Facebook friends with Menn, and based on his comments, the two seem pretty chummy. Gee wonder who the source is for the FT.com stories?
More Facebook friend goodness here.
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Poker News :The Durrrr Full Tilt Commercial

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:33:32 +0000

Despite yet another legal hornet’s nest popping up, Full Tilt is plowing ahead, this time releasing a sneak peak of a commercial with their newest member, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan.
Looks good. Aaaand that’s about all we got. View it here.
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Tom Dwan’s girlfriend (still dating?) does not appear in his commercial.
Despite yet another legal hornet’s nest popping up, Full Tilt is plowing ahead, this time releasing a sneak peak of a commercial with their newest member, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan.
Looks good. Aaaand that’s about all we got. View it here.
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Poker News :Indictments Coming Soon to Full Tilt?

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:33:32 +0000

The Financial Times today published a story that founders of Full Tilt Poker may be facing grand jury indictments soon. Specifically, the grand jury is examining whether Tilt has broken any gambling and money-laundering laws. In our unscientific personal investigation, we have learned

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Typical girl, ruining the fun for everyone…
The Financial Times today published a story that founders of Full Tilt Poker may be facing grand jury indictments soon. Specifically, the grand jury is examining whether Tilt has broken any gambling and money-laundering laws. In our unscientific personal investigation, we have learned that they have not.
Anyway, copy+paste:
The probe is aimed at Full Tilt Poker and individuals including Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer, champion gamblers who are among those accused of controlling the company in a Los Angeles civil lawsuit filed last year…FBI agents or prosecutors have spoken to at least two people involved in disputes with Full Tilt, paying special attention to the possibility of money-laundering violations, those familiar with the inquiry say. Money-laundering charges might be attractive to the government as they would compel co-operation from authorities even in countries where gambling is legal.
In other words, way to go Clonie and JDN!
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Poker News and Tips :OMGClayAiken Wins $title.6M Off Isildur1

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:02:23 +0000

When we were railing isildur1 yesterday, we noticed OMGClayAiken was sitting and waiting at a few tables. So we figured he’d eventually step up and take-on the Swedish phenom.
Too bad we didn’t stick around to watch. OMGClayAiken apparently put on a clinic, winning over

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Until Megan Fox denies that she’s isildur1, we’ll keep posting pics.
When we were railing isildur1 yesterday, we noticed OMGClayAiken was sitting and waiting at a few tables. So we figured he’d eventually step up and take-on the Swedish phenom.
Too bad we didn’t stick around to watch. OMGClayAiken apparently put on a clinic, winning over .6M from isildur1.
In all, despite his huge wins over Cole South and Brian Hastings, isildur1 lost over .5M on Wednesday, which included a 0k drop to Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan.
Read more about it here.
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Online Poker News :Isildur1 Is Back at the Nosebleeds (UPDATE)

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:48:08 +0000

Watch Who Is ISILDUR1? on RawVegas.tvisildur1 has made his long-awaited return to high-stakes action on Full Tilt.
In around a 30-hour session, isildur1 logged 2,753 in earnings.
And again, a good chunk of those winnings came from durrrr. In fact, the only pro that made a dent

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Watch Who Is ISILDUR1? on RawVegas.tvisildur1 has made his long-awaited return to high-stakes action on Full Tilt.
In around a 30-hour session, isildur1 logged 2,753 in earnings.
And again, a good chunk of those winnings came from durrrr. In fact, the only pro that made a dent in isildur1’s bankroll during the session was Isaac Haxton, who posted a profit of around ,000 in NLH heads-up action. From there, isildur1 decimated Justin Bonomo’s bankroll for 7,515, and then took the aforementioned durrrr for around 2,000.
After getting in the positive against durrrr, isildur1 tried to switch games from PLO to NLH. This set off durrrr, who typed in the chat box:
ur too annoying to deal with / play for hours then the second u get up u want new game
Good stuff. Expect another flood of nosebleed action the next week until the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Read the full durrrr/isildur1 chat transcript and recap of isildur1’s session here.
UPDATE: Interestingly, the guy many think is isildur1, Viktor Blom, is playing the EPT Copenhagen event on Wednesday. While we’re not exactly detectives, we have watched enough Batman movies to know that if isildur1 logs a few hours of high-stakes action while Viktor Blom is playing the EPT Copenhagen event, that would probably put some rumors to rest. Follow Blom at the EPT Copenhagen event here.
UPDATE II: Looks like Blom has been eliminated (here).
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Poker Tips:More Isildur1 Full Tilt High Stakes Drama

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:01:14 +0000

Isildur1 (artist rendition above) probably wants to light himself on fire after his session with Brian Hastings.

We usually don’t care/follow too much what’s going on in high stakes online poker drama. At the end of the day there’s a couple of guys that consistently win all of the money and everybody else just pushes it around, being anywhere from broke to rich on a daily basis.

But this Isildur1 character and the nosebleed action going on at Full Tilt right now is fascinating.

After busting off M of Tom durrrr Dwan’s bankroll, Isuldur1 went bust himself. Then Isuldur1 built his stack back up, then yesterday lost .2M in one session to Brian Hastings, who we didn’t even know played mega-high stakes, and should pretty much cash out and move to some island without Internet access riiiiiight…now.

Just sick. Now Hastings is the big winner overall against Isildur, with Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, and Brian Townsend all up over a milli.

Read all about the latest bloodbath here.

UPDATE: Phil Gordon discusses isildur1 with Patrik Antonius here.

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