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Alec Gores revealed as poker foe who filed $26M income form on Thomas Goldstein
Miscellaneous income filing in 2016 likely sent into motion Goldstein's financial and legal woes
Jan 15
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December 2025
Global Poker announces December 30 exit date from California
Golden State players have nine more days of access to the GW-owned online poker site
Dec 21, 2025
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November 2025
Global Poker parent VGW begins pullout from Tennessee
What's the over/under on VGW's withdrawal in its entirety from the United States market?
Nov 26, 2025
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Jordan Cristos sentenced to prison term in cyberstalking cases
Well-known poker pro will spend between 14 and 48 months behind bars after plea deals in cases involving threats against family-court judge and WPT CEO…
Nov 7, 2025
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October 2025
Dozens indicted in Illegal Poker/Sports Betting Cases
It's time for a Haley Special - a deeper dive into the linked poker-cheating and insider-info sports-betting cases where 33 people have been charged…
Oct 25, 2025
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Jordan Cristos and Antagonism's Diminishing Returns
Cristos will be sentenced next week after filing an Alford plea in a case involving the sending of threats to the WPT's CEO, Adam Pliska.
Oct 23, 2025
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Newsom signs California online-sweeps ban into law
Unless a last-gasp legal ploy is mounted by the sweeps industry, California's new anti-sweeps law goes into effect at the start of 2026.
Oct 16, 2025
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September 2025
Newsom ponders signing California sweeps-ban bill
The governor must announce and sign a veto by October 12 or Assembly Bill 831 will become law.
Sep 27, 2025
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GGPoker's LOL-ive branch forgiveness program returns for a third time
The truth behind the site's third 'olive branch' program is that an ever-shrinking percentage of banned players actually have a reason to return.
Sep 25, 2025
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Killer of Susie Zhao denied in final appeal attempt
Brutal murderer and torturer Jeffery Bernard Morris will serve life in prison without parole after Michigan Supreme Court declines to hear case
Sep 15, 2025
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ClubWPT Gold exits Louisiana, will soon quit Connecticut as well
Quick departures add to complex situations for ClubWPT Gold and other US-facing sweeps sites
Sep 15, 2025
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Louisiana sues Global Poker parent VGW for over $30 million
Virtual Gaming Worlds is one of two offshore sweeps companies targeted by state's Department of Revenue over unpaid sales taxes
Sep 8, 2025
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