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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.
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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 »
Last year, the Epic Poker League began play as the “PGA of professional poker.” The series of events, each capped with $20,000 rake-free Main Event, have been heralded by many and disdained by others. Now, it appears that the fledgling poker league may be in sale talks.
Epic Poker League could be sold within 60 days.
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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.
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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. »
Recently, Annie Duke ended her long time poker sponsorship deal with UB in order to pursue other “non-poker” related business ventures. It does not appear that the “non-poker” portion of this claim stuck as Duke was recently announced as the new commission of a new professional poker league that will begin play later this year.
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Jeffrey Pollack is out as the Commissioner of the WSOP. Pollack has officially resigned from his position and November 13th was his last day on the job. Pollack joined Harrah’s in 2005 as a VP of Marketing. In 2006 he was promoted to President and Commissioner of the WSOP.
Since joining the WSOP, »
The World Series of Poker Europe kicked off today with Day 1a of the £1,000 No Limit Hold’em event. A field of 295 players turned out for the first event of this four event series. Jeffrey Pollack opened the ceremonies and welcomed the players to the event.
This Day 1a started with a relatively »
