Yesterday, I told you guys about the new nominations for the Poker Hall of Fame. I saved my opinions until today so to give them their moment as that moment is definitely earned. Now that we all have had a day to process, I will give my reasons that the fact that Dan Harrington got into the Hall before Phil Ivey is utter BS. Reason #1.

*In Washington, playing online poker is a crime of the same order as accessing child pornography or repeated drunk driving. * Can you grind here?.

The Poker Hall of Fame announced it's new class today. Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington were both announced today to be the 2010 inductees to the Poker Hall of Fame. Dan Harrington is naturally deserving of enshrinement. He has two WSOP bracelets, including his 2005 Main Event win.

There appears to be yet ANOTHER accusation of cheating against UltimateBet, now known as UB. As you may know, there is a legal fight going on between Excapsa Software (UltimateBet's Original Owners pre name change to UB), Tokwire Enterprises (acquired UB from Excapsa via a company called Blast Off), and Blanca Games (the folks that actually had the balls to buy the Cereus Network. ) Blast Off quit paying Excapsa after the cheating scandal broke in 2007 and Excapsa thinks that Blast Off is having its assets transferred out so that they become unable to pay the remaining portion of the $120 Million due them. The following was discovered in legal documents: “The Tokwiro Group and its management recently alleged that they are the victims of a “newly discovered” cheating incident dating back to 2004 which caused former Chief Joe Norton to abandon the internet gaming business and has given rise to new alleged claims against Excapsa.

It looks like Scott Montgomery has become the victim of a mugging at the Bellagio. The following were his tweets regarding the incident: "Got mugged today at Bellagio. Black guy pulled a knife on me in the restroom. I gave him the $2k in my wallet and he left.

Doyle Brunson posted to his blog today his thoughts for the Poker Hall of Fame. You can go over and read his blog for yourself, but here are some of the highlights. 1. He thinks that Scotty Nguyen's behavior is going to keep him out the hall.

For those of you hiding under a rock, PokerStars announced earlier in the week that they are no longer serving Washington State residents for real money gaming. This came from the WA Supreme Court's decision that the law that bans online gambling was not unconstitutional. They upheld the law and PokerStars decided that it was time to get out. So many Washington players headed over to Full Tilt to chill out with Ivey and the boys.

In the sports world. having a great agent can mean the difference between getting what you are worth and getting taken advantage of by your team. In 2003, the concept of a poker agent did not exist. However, Brian Balsbaugh changed this when he created Poker Royalty.

The debate on whether a WSOP Europe bracelet is indeed a valid bracelet or not has reached a new level.   Matt Savage was recently quoted on This Week in Poker as saying the following about bracelets won outside of Vegas: "I don't like it.  I don't think it's like a real bracelet. "  And "The World Series was founded in Vegas, and that's kind of what it's about.

Recently, I wrote an article about Gus Hansen and whether it was time for him to retire. Well, I guess we can hold off the retirement plans for a while as Hansen just delivered a healthy helping of "Fuck you compncards" by winning the £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up at the World Series of Poker Europe. Hansen navigated his way through a field of 103 players to finally make it heads-up with Jim Collopy. The final match was tied up 1-1 when play was paused until today to allow for the players to play in the Main Event.