http://www.pokerkingblog.comPoker King Blog | Poker Rumors and GossipFri, 04 Sep 2009 09:28:06 +0000http://backend.userland.com/rss092en After "Black Friday" took place, US-based poker players such as Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond were forced to re-locate in order to keep playing on sites such as Pokerstars. Galfond was forced to leave his multi-million penthouse in New York City after choosing to make the move to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in order to resume his online poker career. Galfond has decided that there is no ...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2012/02/24/have-an-extra-4-million-burning-a-hole-in-your-pocket-phil-galfonds-nyc-penthouse-is-for-sale/According to TVA Nouvelles (link below), Jonathan Duhamel's World Series of Poker bracelet has been recovered. According to the publication, a street sweeper happened upon the valuable piece of poker history as he was cleaning the streets of Montreal. The bracelet, which was covered with mud when the street sweeper happened upon it, was reportedly found in a slightly damaged state after somebo...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2012/02/17/jonathan-duhamels-world-series-of-poker-bracelet-recovered/Following a successful launch in Italy, Pokerstars released their mobile app to players in the United Kingdom earlier today. As of today, players in Italy, England, Scotland and Wales will be able to play both real-money and play-money games on Pokerstars via their mobile devices. According to the site, other countries are expected to be added in the near future. Hold�em and Omaha games ar...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2012/02/14/pokerstars-mobile-comes-to-the-united-kingdom/In a blog posting that was released this weekend (link below), "Team Pokerstars Pro" Daniel Negreanu revealed that he recently lost $61,000 after his email and Pokerstars accounts were hacked. Shortly after leaving Melbourne, Australia, Negreanu sent out this Tweet: "Important: Do NOT send me any emails the account appears to have been hacked. Just landed in LA nice news." The hacker was...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2012/02/06/daniel-negreanu-loses-61000-after-his-pokerstars-account-is-hacked/When Alan Meltzer passed away in October of 2011, there was a real outpouring of sadness from the high stakes poker community. Alan, who was seen on the fifth season of High Stakes Poker, was a regular in some of the largest cash games in the world. The founder of Wind-up Entertainment was known for his kindness and generosity, which is why nobody was surprised to learn that Meltzer left t...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2012/01/30/alan-meltzer-one-final-act-of-generosity/According to Pokerati.com (link below), 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold is offering out his coaching services for a mere $1,000 per hour. Pokerati.com has kindly provided photo evidence of the "offer" - the sign, which you can view by clicking the link below, says: "Private lessons with Jamie Gold Pay at poker cage in poker room $1000 per hour 1 hour minimum" Accord...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2012/01/23/want-to-be-coached-by-jamie-gold-it-will-cost-you-a-mere-1000-per-hour/Pokerstars managed to keep their operation as solid as a rock last year despite some extreme turbulence in the industry. Despite having to shut its doors to the US market, Pokerstars seemingly didn�t miss a beat. On top of that, they were able to pay back their US players almost immediately, while Full Tilt Poker and UB/AP are still holding hundreds of millions of dollars hostage. Having said ...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2012/01/18/pokerstars-ceo-steps-down/Earlier today, Randy �nanonoko� Lew set the Guinness World Record for most hands played in an eight hour period while remaining profitable. The World Record was set at the PCA (Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure), with dozens and dozens of people watching. In the end, Lew ended up playing a total of 23,493 hands over the eight hour period. This works out to a total of 2,936.63 hands per hour, ...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2012/01/09/randy-nanonoko-lew-barely-enters-himself-into-the-guinness-book-of-world-records/It�s not a surprise that Phil Ivey was receiving a substantial amount of money each and every month from Tiltware LLC (Full Tilt Poker parent company), but recently released court documents reveal exactly how much the poker superstar was being paid. According to recent reports, Phil Ivey was forced to produce documents showing that his monthly payments from Tiltware LLC had ceased after �Black...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2011/12/31/court-documents-phil-ivey-was-receiving-920k-per-month-from-tiltware/Luciaetta Ivey filed a lawsuit earlier this week against her ex-husband Phil Ivey, Ivey�s lawyer David Chesnoff and her former lawyer John Spilotro, alleging that the three of them conspired against her to rob her of her equal share of the couple�s community property. Phil and Luciaetta Ivey divorced in late 2009. The divorce was sealed, meaning that the details of the divorce wouldn�t be shar...http://www.pokerkingblog.com/2011/12/22/luciaetta-ivey-sues-phil-ivey-lawyers/