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Federated Sports and Gaming, the company responsible for the Epic Poker League, filed for bankruptcy on February 28th of this year. Around the time of the filing, it was reported that the company owed around $5 Million to creditors. However, now it appears that the company owes approximately $7.89 Million in liabilities.
FS+G owes »
In a move that surprised few, Federated Sports and Gaming announced on Wednesday that they had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. FS+G are the current owners of the Heartland Poker Tour and the owners of the Epic Poker League. The EPL is a professional poker league that was created by former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey »
Ten time WSOP bracelet winner and poker icon Doyle Brunson has won just about every award that there is to win in poker. He is a two-time WSOP Main Event champion, a World Poker Tour champion, and the author of the “poker bible” in Super System. Now, Doyle Brunson is the first player in poker »
The Epic Poker League announced on Wednesday that they have partnered with USA Today to publish the Global Poker Index standing weekly on USA TODAY and USAToday.com. The EPL is the professional league started by WSOP bracelet winner Annie Duke and former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack.
Duke will contribute a weekly blog on BigLeadSports.com.
Of the new »
With the November Nine just a month away, the WSOP announced on Tuesday the ten finalists for induction into the Poker Hall of Fame. The finalists are as follows:
Barry Greenstein is among the 10 finalists for induction in 2011 into the Poker Hall of Fame.
Barry Greenstein
Annie Duke
John Juanda
Huck Seed
Scotty Nguyen
Marcel Luske
Tom McEvoy
Jennifer Harman-Traniello
Linda Johnson
Jack McClelland
Harman, »
WSOP bracelet winner Annie Duke was a guest on Monday on the CBS talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The purpose of her visit was to hype her new book “Decide to Play Great Poker” as well as to talk about the Epic Poker League.
If not for one statement made, most »
There has been a lot going on in the last week in the poker world. The Epic Poker League crowned its first champion in Chino Rheem. This victory was partially overshadowed by both Chino’s tendency to be a welcher on bets and also by Daniel Negreanu’s negative comments about the league. Also, we learned of »
According to a story on Wicked Chops Poker, the Epic Poker League has entered a partnership with 441 Productions to handle the television development of the EPL. For those unfamiliar with 441 Productions, they are the company that produced the World Series of Poker on ESPN until this year. Poker PROductions took over the WSOP »
Federated Sports and Gaming earlier this week announced the roster for their first season of play, as well as the qualification criteria for the league. The FS+G Poker League is run by Commissioner and former WSOP bracelet winner Annie Duke as well as the WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. Pollack serves as the Chairman of the »
Jeffrey Pollack left the WSOP back in 2009 in order to take a job with the Professional Bull Riders Association. Back in January of this year, he became the Chairman of Federated Sports and Gaming and was to take an advisory position in helping Annie Duke to create a professional poker league. »
