September 15, 2016
Land casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson predictably ruffled a few feathers in the poker community last week when he claimed in a Yahoo interview that poker was not a game decided by skill and is therefore clearly gambling and exploitive (but not including his own land casino activities, apparently). US poker pro Brian Rast was among […]
April 6, 2015
The proposal by the Tournament Directors Association to hold its annual conference at Sheldon Adelson’s The Venetian resort in Las Vegas rightly met with a storm of protest from outraged online poker luminaries (see previous reports) but all is well now following an announcement over the weekend by the TDA Board that the venue has […]
June 6, 2014
PokerNews’ media coverage of a Mid-Stakes Poker Tour event it was partly sponsoring at Sheldon Adelson’s Venetian land casino and resort in Las Vegas had to be aborted this week when the publication was without explanation denied access. Reporting on the incident, which set poker forums across the internet buzzing, PokerNews revealed that the event […]
April 5, 2014
One of Sheldon Adelson’s allies in the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, and a well-known anti-online gambling activist, Florida software engineer Jim Thackston presented the latest op-ed supporting federal banning of online gambling Friday, attacking online poker in the Washington DC publication The Hill. In an op-ed piece clearly designed to influence federal lawmakers in […]