Lead – it’s not just for childrens’ toys anymore. The Phoenix, AZ-based ABC affiliate ABC15 has discovered that the casino chips most popularly used in Las Vegas (and many other places) contain seemingly eye-popping amounts of lead. They tested the “clay” casino chips used in major Strip casinos like Caesars Palace, The Mirage, Mandalay Bay, [...]
Tags: lead, lead toys, poker, poker chipsAccording to an IRS Bulletin, beginning March 4, 2008 the IRS will require tournament directors to withhold taxes from poker tournament winners who win in excess of $5,000. It requires this withholding at the third-lowest tax rate which is currently 25 percent. It’s not entirely clear whether this withholding applies to any prize greater than [...]
Tags: irs, poker, poker-tournaments, tax-witholding, taxes, world-series-of-poker, wsopThere’s some excellent software out there to help you with your poker game. Probably the most popular tool is PokerTracker, a full-featured database for your online poker hands. You probably already knew about PokerTracker. (If you didn’t, visit that link now!) Here are 5 must-have and mostly free poker tools you may not already know [...]
Tags: equity-calculators, flopturnriver, hand-converter, hand-database, Internet Poker, odds-calculators, online-poker, poker, poker-hand, poker-tracker, pokerace, pokerace-hud, pokerhand, pokerstove, pokertracker, sharkscope, sit-and-go, sit-n-go-power-tools, twodimesAt the risk of beating a dead horse, I just wanted to share a little of my morning paranoia. So I know that despite my protestations, a number of online poker players still don’t plan to report their play on their taxes. I frankly think that it’s an enormous risk to take, and I fully [...]
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