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If you're like me you are probably tired of hearing poker websites tauting their bonuses, strategy section, and information area. Only to visit the site and find an affiliate bonus code, a starting hand chart, and an "under construction" sign where their articles are supposed to be

There have been several crucial steps taken in the past few months that suggest online poker may be removed from the ‘banned for your own good’ list it currently resides on. With our poker friendly President, and with the PPA pounding the pavement around Washington, as well as continuing its grass roots campaigns across the country, legalized online poker may be a real possibility sooner than expected

Hopefully this six part series was eye-opening for you; while cheating is not rampant online, you definitely should be taking the appropriate measures to protect your money.
Part 1: To begin the series I quickly went over some of the safety features the sites implement to protect the integrity of their games: from the initial download of the software to the RNG used to determine the shuffle of the cards. Sites like PokerStars also make it very clear they do not use player deposits for operational expenses

It seems the poker world is abuzz with the selection of Joan Rivers over Annie Duke as the winner of the latest Celebrity Apprentice title.

The two built quite a feud over the course of the series, culminating in Rivers calling Duke, a professional poker player, a “Nazi” and labeling poker players as “white trash” after Rivers’ daughter Melissa was fired.

As we celebrate our nation’s mothers today, I sat down to reflect on what I learned from my own Mom. It turns out that everything I learned about poker, I learned from my mother.