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Jakecodypoker-com, which initially features a blog from the Triple Crown winner. He will be writing about his life as one of the world's hottest poker talents, including trip reports and hand histories from some of the biggest poker tournaments across the world.

Cody will reveal insights into his offline and online poker experiences, along with the lowdown on his adventures away from the tables. His first blog entry discusses the difficulties of following up on his success over the last two years, and looks to the coming months for opportunities to provide blog fans with updates on his Irish Open exploits, fitness goals, his favourite poker bloggers and 'lots of pictures!'. In addition to his new website, Cody is also an active Facebook and Twitter user: Jake Cody on Facebook and Jake Cody on Twitter.

Read More: Team PKR Pro Jake Cody Turns Poker Blogger | SYS-CON MEDIA

After six years in business, one of the more popular, under-the-radar online poker rooms in the industry has decided to call it a day. Late last week, Poker Nordica let its customers know that it was shutting down its operations on April 1st, 2012. Unfortunately, this was no April Fool’s joke.

Poker Nordica customers had become very worried about the normally reliable company over the last couple months, as e-mails to customer support received no responses. In mid-March, one poster on the Two Plus Two poker forum said he sent e-mails to the Merge Poker Network (of which Poker Nordica was a member), posted on Poker Nordica’s Facebook page, sent messages to the poker room’s Twitter account, and even contacted his affiliate to try to get any sort of response. He eventually heard back from the network’s security department, which informed him that they had no record of any of his e-mails.

Read More: Poker Nordica Shuts Down

Every week, Bovada hosts thousands of online poker tournaments, ranging from single table events to their massive $100,000 guaranteed events, and that's on top of events like the Black Diamond Poker Open! There's really no way we can cover all of them, but we do want to make sure you keep up with who won the biggest of the big games so you know how hot the action is there.

This week's $100,000 guaranteed tournament was put on pause so Bovada players could participate in the Black Diamond Poker Open finale, but will be back next week in its usual slot. That doesn't mean that there weren't a ton of tournament winners, though! Bovada players get to play in big-money guaranteed events every day of the week and he's a roundup of last week's champions.

• March 26 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: David S
• March 27 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Alec A
• March 28 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Jody D
• March 29 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: William T
• March 30 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Udaanjargal N
• March 31 — $10k Guaranteed Turbo Double-Stack: Robert C
• April 1 — $15k Guaranteed Turbo Double-Stack: Alan N
• April 1 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Ryan M
• April 1 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Bryan S

Bovada's guaranteed online poker tournaments mean that there's always a big cash pool and with more players getting in on the action every week, that means there's more to be won! Play poker online at Bovada and get your share today!

28-year-old Taylor Caby, a professional poker player who started playing poker at the age of 14, wants to make fantasy sports more like poker.

He co-founded a startup called DraftDay, which lets users create new fantasy sports teams every day and bet on their performance.

His company is backed by Lightbank, the venture capital firm founded by two co-founders of Groupon, Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell.

We caught up with him recently.

Business Insider: Why did you get into online fantasy business?

Read more: This 28-Year-Old Professional Poker Player Now Has A Fantasy Sports Startup - Business Insider

I’ve been playing profitable poker for years, and with more recent success, I may write and post more on poker. I’ve had to limit my poker coverage due to various commitments along with sports handicapping, but after playing in recent months some of the stories and follies from the felt may have to be brought forward. As you can image, there is often plenty of sports betting talk at the poker table, as poker player’s talk about the games and betting lines. Yet much of the poor reasoning and thought processes of the recreational sports bettor is also found in poor play and decisions at the poker table.

Read More: Fairway on the Felt: Poker in Las Vegas

It seems that the number of women playing poker online is on an increase. According to a study, the numbers of women playing online poker is higher than ever since online gambling first appeared. And as a result of this study, it’s no wonder that a lot of the professional players at high stakes poker rooms are women. It is no surprise, as male dominated jobs in the past are now performed by women with ease.
Vanessa Rousso, Kathy Liebert, Vanessa Selbst, Annette Obrestad.

Read More: Online Poker a Sport Dominated by Women : ADI News

An update on Full Tilt Poker, a stacked field for the EPT’s Super High Roller event, and online gaming progresses in New Jersey. It’s all in Wednesday’s edition of the PTP Hit and Run.

FTP update: After yesterday’s news that Full Tilt Poker was hiring staff, the online poker community was hopeful that the announcement of a deal for Groupe Bernard Tapie to buy the troubled online site was imminent. It may be, but it still hasn’t happened, yet. We will keep you posted. For right now, all we have is some job listings and a lot of speculation. You can get a recap of what we know here.


Read More: HNR 4/4: Full Tilt Poker Update; EPT Super High Roller Field

27-year-old Max Katz has a started playing online poker way back in 2004 and quickly established himself as a player to watch, even if he never took the top spot in any truly spectacular events. He soon started backing other poker pros once his bankroll had established itself and he and his team of investors got shares of prizes like Pius Heinz's WSOP Main Event win last year

Flush with the money from that win, Katz decided to stand as a candidate for the municipal council of one Moscot district after reading an appeal by the opposition party Yabloko for candidates for the municipal council elections. He told the press that he is not one of a "frustrated city dweller" and does not want to be labelled by the media as one of the protesters. "I’m actually quite satisfied," he added.

It turns out that Katz has always had a plan to join the government. "I want to become mayor in a small Russian town when I am 35, and test my urban development plans," Mr Katz told one Russian newspaper.

His campaign certainly was different from most. His campaign flyers read: "My name is Max Katz. I am 27 years old. The election for the Shchukino municipal council is being held on March 4. This body is completely useless. It possesses no power whatsoever."

"Everyone told me I should make the same promises other politicians were making, that I would vow to punish corrupt politicians, reduce the costs of gas and water, and so on. But I chose to be honest," he says.

That's a distinct change from the bluffing and deception that has made him such a name in the Russian poker scene.

Want to start funding your own campaign? Play online poker at Bovada! They offer tournaments for every player and the best player support in the business.

While the poker industries in countries like the US, United Kingdom and in other European nations are expanding and thriving, it would seem that this online gambling sector is also doing very well in Australia.


Read More: Australia?s Online Gambling Industry Grows Rapidly Because of Online Poker

There have been many reports about a possible legalization of online poker in California and it had been reported that both California and t5he state of Nevada may have been planning ion going into a sort of interstate partnership regarding online gambling. However, now it would seem that California may not be working with Nevada and will have to take its own online poker bill to the floor by itself.


Read More: Is California Next To Legalize Online Poker?

In a dramatic high-stakes poker game spanning three days, 21-year-old Viktor Blom from Dals-Ed won half a million dollars from seasoned American pro player Isaac Haxton.

Known in the online poker world as “Isildur1,” Blom is Sweden’s most famous high-stakes poker player.

He’s been known to win or lose millions of dollars in a single day and he’s been part of several of the biggest pots ever played online, including the biggest of all-time in November 2009 when he lost a $1.35 million pot to Patrik Antonius from Finland.

Since December 2010 Blom has had a sponsorship deal with the world’s largest poker site PokerStars. As part of the agreement the young Swede will take on any opponent who wants to challenge him in a special heads-up poker format called the SuperStar Showdown.

Read More: Swede Wins $500,000 in Spectacular Online Poker Duel - The Local

With so many young players dominating the recent headlines with major tournament wins, you might think that poker is becoming a game where being young means having an edge.

If you look closer, however, that might not be the case.

Many young players earn themselves a fortune in poker within a very short period of time only to quickly burn out.

In the last two years the poker world has seen a surprising amount of young players “retiring” prematurely.

Take Mike “Timex” McDonald as an extreme example. The Canadian player exploded on the live poker scene in 2008 when he won the EPT Dortmund and over €1 million euro at the age of 18.


Read More: Poker – Not Just a Game for Internet Nerds - The Local

PokerStars has finalized the schedule for the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). This year, 40 events will each offer three buy-in levels, meaning 120 SCOOP tournaments will take place from Sunday, May 6 and Sunday, May 20, culminating in a Main Event for each level:

Low: $109 Main Event
Medium: $1,050 Main Event
High: $10,300 Main Event

This year’s incarnation, which is guaranteeing $30,000,000, features six more events than last year, which hosted 114 events, and according to the PokerStars Blog, saw “403,378 buy-ins from 107,697 players in 156 countries.”

Here’s a look at this year’s schedule:


Read more: PokerStars Finalizes 2012 SCOOP Schedule | PokerNews

It's 9am in sunny Los Angeles. John O'Shea is off to bed for some well-deserved rest after 12 hours straight at the poker table. But the 27-year-old Dubliner sounds decidedly downbeat. He's had a bad run on the green baize over four or five days and has lost $150,000 (€112,000) -- about 25pc of his bankroll, or float.

For most ordinary punters, this would be unimaginable. But for O'Shea, it's just another day at the office.

That week's loss isn't exactly small change -- even by O'Shea's high standards -- but with estimated career profits of $2m (€1.5m), there's plenty more left in the kitty.

Read More: I've made over €2m from poker -- but don't tell me it's glamorous - Lifestyle - Independent.ie

A new online slot game has gone live at Bovada Casino titled Indiana Jane. This womankind's answer to Indiana Jones has been described as "a feisty archeologist with the brains and instinct to solve any riddle". Bovada Casino players are invited to join her and her trusted assistant in their quest to unravel the symbols that will reveal new secrets about the Mayan myth. The journey will traverse deep jungles and lead to the crossroads of Mayan legend and ancient treasure.

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Fast Poker is the latest craze to hit online poker. With Fast Poker there is no need to wait for the next hand to be dealt and everything speeds up so you are literally a second away from being involved in a new hand!

Using cash games as an example, a standard game would see you seated at a two, six, or nine-handed table against the same opponents until one of them left the table and was replaced by a new player. But in Fast Poker the focus is on player pools instead, so once a hand has been completed, you are instantly whisked away to a new table where a new hand is dealt against new opponents! You can even fold your hand before it is your turn to act, without your opponents knowing, and be dealt a fresh hand.


Read more: Unibet Launches Fast Poker | PokerNews

From the makers of NoteCaddy, a complimentary application to Holdem Manager, comes the Custom Definition Pack. This package, which is now available for online poker players worldwide, is aimed at giving the most thorough database students the best possible profit margin while competing at the virtual tables.


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PokerTableStats, an online poker program that provides real-time statistics across many sites, added hand ranges in the "Rank Calculation" area. This new PokerTableStats functionality allows online poker players to use PokerStove and Karlsson Sklansky hand range calculations instead of the "One vs. One All-In" default hand rank.

Read More: PokerTableStats Adds New Hand Ranges and PokerStars-eu Support

Whether you are planning a home poker game among friends and family or hosting a fundraiser for a local or national charity, you are going to need poker supplies. Playing poker does not require many items and the cost of poker supplies can vary tremendously. It depends on how much money you can spend as to what poker supplies you can buy. However, with the wide variety of poker supply companies in business, you are sure to find one to fit the needs of any size budget.


Read More: American Poker Supply Companies Part One - Yahoo! Sports

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