The purpose of this page is to provide daily updated links to poker news articles. This is not an indiscriminate list of headlines or links. The only poker news headlines I link to from this page are the ones I find particularly interesting or notable. So this is basically poker news filtered through Randy Ray's viewpoint.

Poker News - November 26, 2007

Absolute Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Reaches Six Figures
Less than 24 hours after paying out a $300,000 bad beat jackpot, Absolute Poker's bad beat jackpot tables reach $100,000 again.

Poker News - November 20, 2007

CNNMoney
The WSOP is the 11th most admired professional sports league according to a new survey.

Poker News - November 12, 2007

FullTilt.com for Sale
The domain name FullTilt.com is for sale. Learn more at our news article on the subject by clicking the above link.

Poker News - November 9, 2007

Kansas City Star
Arizona health regulators are issuing a warning about the amount of lead in poker chips.

Boston Business Journal
Harvard will be hosting the 1st ever academic conference on the game of poker.

Newsday
Police raid poker rooms on Long Island.

Poker News - November 6, 2007

Boston Globe
Law school professor Charles Nesson is using Texas holdem in class to teach thinking skills. Pretty interesting stuff.

New York Times
The poker room of the future has arrived. No cards, no dealer, no chips. Everything is handled with PokerPro software from PokerTek. Pretty interesting stuff, and I'm surprised this kind of thing hasn't caught on sooner.

Poker News - November 3, 2007

New York Times
A shooting at a poker club in NYC leaves a retired mathematician dead. I hate seeing news like this.

Poker News - November 2, 2007

Gambling 911
Claims that Absolute Poker could become the safest poker room online after this debacle. One of the sillier pieces they've published yet. Gambling 911 is almost a parody of a gambling news site. They've been called the National Enquirer of gambling, but they remind me more of the Weekly World News.

Cardplayer
High Stakes Poker sets another record. The November 5, 2007 episode will have $5 million on the table. Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Negreanu, Jamie Gold, Sammy Farha, David Benyamine, Barry Greenstein, Patrick Antonius, and Guy Laliberte will be playing.

Poker News - October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween! Here's the poker news today:

Associated Press
Harvard lawyer Charless Nesson forms the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society and wants the US government to overturn or amend the UIGEA law. Nesson is known for defending the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, and he was the subject of a movie called A Civil Action. There is also some interesting commentary in Reason magazine about how we shouldn't try to legalize vices by claiming that they're uplifting.

Poker News - October 30, 2007

Poker News
Barry Greenstein is predicting the full return of online poker. (Of course, Greenstein is just another poker player with an opinion, but we'll see. I hope he's right, anyway.)

All In
The Venetian has announced the 2008 Deep Stack Extravaganza. The Deep Stack Extravaganza consists of 2 tournaments a year at the Venetian poker room. The tournaments will be played in February and June.

The New York Times
As if Absolute Poker didn't have enough problems already, the New York Times reports a publicity company's complaint about Absolute Poker not paying their bills.