A First Person Look at Gambling Expansion in Massachusetts
The town I grew up in and still live in, Milford, Massachusetts, will be voting on whether or not to allow Foxwoods to build a casino on the outskirts of town today. The entire process, [….]
Articles by Steve Ruddock
Could We See a Federal Online Poker Bill In 2014?
The short answer to this question is, NO! The problem I have with leaving it at a simple “no” is the short answer doesn’t make for much of an article, so if you want to [….]
How the Mighty Have Fallen in the Poker World
The Poker Boom made a lot of people very famous and very wealthy, but like the many horror stories you hear about lottery winners it seems that poker players are not immune to bankroll busting [….]
Tom McEvoy Deserves to Be In the Poker Hall of Fame
Originally you were going to read 800 words on why Tom McEvoy’s induction into the Poker Hall of Fame was a travesty. But a funny thing happened as I was writing it; I completely changed [….]
False Equivalencies in Poker: Live and Online; Chess and Checkers
Last week a dispute arose on Twitter, between Olivier Busquet and Daniel Negreanu after Busquet posted the following Tweet: Online poker is chess, live poker is checkers… The tweets betweenthe two quickly became a hot [….]
The Flawed WSOP Player of the Year System
Is a High-Roller tournament going to crown the WSOP POY? That’s what it looks like judging by this Bluff Magazine article. To me, this would be a tremendous miscarriage of justice. The debate begins It’s [….]